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Evening star., 1937-10-10

AN INTENSELY interesting and
very important underground pas
sage on Capitol Hill is that which con-
meets the Government Printing Office
and the City Post Office The writer
in this tour of Washington tunnels
traversed it from end to end, starting
out on the fourth floor of the old
building of the Printing Office and fol-
lowing through to emerge in a room
in the City Post Office, where several
astonished workmen stopped what they
we're doing to regard the unannounced
visitation with pained surprises
This particular tunnel may properly
be said to have its beginning on the
fourth floor of the printing Office in a
metal chute. above which wink one red
light and one blue light. At intervals.
designated by flash of the red light.
men were feeding into this chute bags
of mail. The red light flashed when
each bag had passed a certain point, in
order to avoid congestion and assure
proper spacing of the cargo. Between
100000 and 100000 pieces of mail are
fed regularly into this chute each week.
sometimes as many as $50, 900 a day
and $500 mail mags traverse the
route. Congressional Records. num-
bering about 40 900 day, are fed into
the same tunnel from another section
OF the building and are not included in
the figures given.
Beneath the chute runs a wide belt
on rollers that carries the mail bags
along to the floor beneath. From
the third floor the belt enters a huge
spiral metal tank that conveys the
bags to the basement and the tunnel
There are entrances into this metal
tank from the second floor, where
the Congressional Record is printed
and mailed, and belt system ties in
from this point to the basement.
At the entrance in the basement
one can see the sacks of mail drop
ping onto another belt that bears
them along into the underground re-
cess. This recess is lit by electric
light along the left side of it. ON a
raised stand, stretches the belt with
Aeo SoA 81 vi Od6o. oQI tilClG ID
room to move about in the tunnel. 1t
is about feet high, with an arched
roof of masonry and brick walls, and
is about S feet wide. Its floor, covered
for some distance with Stats, is of
cement. Branching into this tunnel
is one OF the subterranean passages
originating at the B street power
plant. The main tunnel takes several
curves and unexpected twists before
it leads one directly into a mailing
room. bright with sunlight and bustling
with activity, in the City Post Office.
A SYSTEM of underground pas
= sages rivaling the amazing net
work under Paris immortalized by Sue
and Victor Hugo. is that utilitarian
city that carries the light, the gas,
the heat and the waste of Washing
ton. If you have thought of little
lead pipe in connection with the word
sewer" heretofore. you will have to
readjust your concept to visualize a
sewer main % feet in diameter and 20
feet high, that would easily accom-
modate 10000 persons. There YOU
have one Washington main alone, and
there are 1,100 miles Of sewerage lines
buried IS feet deep below the surface
of the Capital. More than 80 miles
consist of vaulted canals, through
which flows more than 10000, ,O00. 900
gallons Of sewage each year.
This vast labyrinth of caverns is
(See UNDER WASHINGTON"
Page F-4)
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In the Vest Indian islands Dr.
Krieger has spent many months delv-
ing deeply into native lore, making
archaeological diggings and bringing to
light long-hidden facts dealing with
those who extended the hand of well
come to the explorer, and who were
soon to disappear from the face of the
earth, as the white man indulged his
Unsuitable lust for gold and pearls.
1t is DR.. Krieger who suggests that
the island of Andres may have
afforded sanctuary to the Lucayans
who fled before the fire stick" of the
Spaniards. Today, more than four
centuries after the coming of Colum-
bus to America, Andres is the last
remaining island of the West Indies
which is unexplored Although but a
few miles from Bimini-the rum run
ners' former paradise-and only 100
miles from the Florida coast, the in
terror of Andres never has been trod
by white men.
1T IS entirely possible" DR.. Krieger
= says, that deep in the heart Of
Andres there remain the descendants
of the Lucayans who opened their
arms to Columbus when he arrived in
the New World, and who fed to escape
death, slavery and transportation to
Spain, or cruel labor seeking gold,
pearls and precious stones.
Elsewhere this kindly, friendly
people we're completely destroyed. So
far as man knows, the race was wiped
out very soon after the Pinta, the
Nina and the Santa Marie started the
coming of white men to the shores of
the Western Hemisphere.
But what of Andres? Who knows
but that some few of the original
Lucayans may have escaped to this
island, out of the track of the Colum-
bian and subsequent explorations, and
within its inaccessible, trackless in
terror found q haven Of peace?
Some day the question may be
answered. Curiously enough, it has
not yet been. even though we know
much about these natives who beheld
the first men to cross the ocean sea-
and open up vast new world"
The present Negro natives of An
dros have an old tradition which, If
| 1t can be given czedence, bears out
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tomac Park. From this point, at 18th
and 18th streets and at c and D
streets, the underground passages
branch out like tentacles of service,
running down C street. crossing Four
teenth and spraying off through the
park
There is, besides, complete and
unused system of piping under the
earth'S surface in this area. 1t was
constructed during the war and was
intended to accommodate a heating
system designed to have its main sta
ton at Water street However, plans
for this project never went through.
although the tunnels were constructed
and much money was expended. The
present heating system follows the
general line of this old network
A very modern tunnel. indeed. and
also one of the most recent to be
lighted up for use in the Capital, is
that tiled corridor which connects the
old Interior Building with the new
and runs under the square that bounds
18th street between E and F. If one
enters this corridor from the new In
terror Building, the way leads down
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while men were busily at work in the
depths of the earth below. City water
mains have been lowered, to accom-
modate the tunnel, and are now being
run below the subterranean passage
to assure their placement below the
frost line. Telephone cables have
been raised and the city has taken
care, otherwise, of such utilities as are
conducted under the earth.
IN ADDITION to the tunnels men,
toned, there is a veritable net
work of subterranean corridors in this
section of the city. A stones throw
from the new Engraving Annex is
the Government heating plant that
supplies heat to the buildings strung
out through the Mall and across Po-
Evening star., 1937-10-10

(See UNDER WASHINGTON
Page F-4.)
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the plantations, and the same holds
true for all the other islands in the
West Indies, since the aborigines were
completely obliterated in the years
following Columbus discovery OF the
New World.
Andres, named after the English
Governor of the early English colonies
in New England and Virginia, now
has native Negro population OF about
1000, and less than a dozen white
persons, including the crown commits
sioner. 1t is strange land of vast,
shallow mud banks, of lush tropical
growth. of myriad brilliantly colored
birds and fish, OF caves and coral
reefs.
1t is, in short, precisely the kind of
a place that would lend itself to the
thing that a little band Of Indians
fleeing for their lives would want
security, and chance to be forgot
ten by the whole world.
Columbus himself was the first to
note his findings concerning the Lu-
cayans, doing so in his journal And
Dr. Krieger is the last. After de-
scribing his landfall of San Salvador,
Columbus writes of the natives:
"They afterward came to the ships
boats where We were, swimming and
bringing us parrots, cotton threads in
skeins, darts and many other things,
and we exchanged them for other
things that we gave them, such as
glass beads and small bells. In fine,
they took all, and gave what they had,
with good will. -" They go as
naked as when their mothers bore
them, and so do the women, although
I did not see more than one young
girl
They are very we'll made, with very
handsome bodies and very good count
enances. They paint themselves black
and they are the color of Canarians,
neither black nor white. : They
neither carry nor know anything Of
arms, for I showed them swords, and
they. took them by the blade aid cut
themselves through ignorance.
was attentive and took trouble to ascer-
tain if there was gold. I saw that
some of them had small piece fas-
tened in hole they have in the nose,
and by signs I was able to make out
that to the south. or going from the
island to the south, there was . king
Evening star., 1937-10-10
Public and Private Enterprises Have Contributed Through Years
of Washington Activities to Gigantic Net Existing
Below Region Of Daylight.

buildings in this locality. Their roofs
are arched. constructed of masonry
and their walls are of brick. The floors
are of cement and one can traverse
them quite as comfortably as if he we're
on the street above. But they are in
sufferably hot, and grow increasingly
uncomfortable the deeper one pene-
trates them.
This system links the Capitol the
Senate Office Building, the House
Once Buildings, the Printing Office,
the Post Office and the Botanic Gar
dens. 1t runs as far southeast as the
B street power plant. The tunnels are
lighted by electricity and patrolled at
regular intervals. A similar system is
said to link the old Post Office down.
town and the Patent Office.
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No White Man, 1t Is Declared, Has Seen Interior Of
This Island, Believed Key to Indians Who
Greeted Discoverer on Arrival.

who had great cups full, and who
possessed great quantity. ! tried to
get them to go there, but afterward 1
saw that they had no inclination. l.,
our Lord being pleased, will take hence,
at the time of my departure, sly natives
for your highneSses (Ferdinand and
Isabella), that they may learn to
speak"
WHAT Columbus did. of course. was
- to kidnap the natives referred to
in his journal, and with that bit of
Shaving began the systematic exploita-
ton and final extinction of the docile
native Americans.
Following the route of the Columbian
explorations, Dr. Krieger has unesrthed
numerous artifacts dealing with the
cultural life of the Lucayans.
Among these finds are 'celts" Of pol
ished greenStone-aXes or hammers
from which the handles long since
have disappeared. These are the prim-
tive weapons and tools seen by Co.
lumbus. The material of which they
dlc illdQC HlOsCo tho0 Why VA AA6iA
in Haiti and must have been brought
to the Bahamas either by the original
migrants or as articles of commerce.
The native Negro population of the
Bahamas, DR.. Krieger found, is very
superstitious concerning these celts.
They insist that they are thunderbolts
which fall from the sky, bury them
selves in the earth or the ocean floor
and come to the surface again afteG
seven years. They are highly priced
because they are held to be effective in
warding OF danger during urricanes.
The National Museum authority also
found seats of carved wood and thick
walled incised pottery. Similar pot
terry artifacts have been found in
Southern Florida and substantiate the
statement of the Indians to Columbus
that Indians from the West came to
the Bahamas to hunt pigeons which
are still found in great numbers.
However, the evidence is said to be
strong that the main cultural aSsocia-
tions Of me now vanished old Ba-
hamans was not with Florida, across
the Gulf Stream, but with the island
Arawaks, afterward encountered by
Columbus in Eastern Cuba and North
ern Hispaniola.
Two words, at least, Of the ancient
(See COLUMBUS Page F-3.)
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held to be significant that legend
of a lost people has persisted for CEN
turies on this particular island, and
science is not inclined to scott and
dismiss the tale simply as a flgment
of high-powered native Imagination.
THE present inhabitants of Andres
are the descendants of Negroes
brought there by the English to work
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ing and the Capitol This tunnel, well
lighted, airy and cheerful in its gleam-
ing white tiles, traces course from
the basement of the Senate Office
Building, curves sharply and lands
you practically at an elevator door in
the cellar of the Capitol. The Rep
resentatives enjoy no such conven-
fence, but must take the brisk walk
across the park, seh-propelled.
The senatorial subway, however. is
by no means the only tunnel on Capt.
tol Hill, though it is, by far. the best
known As a matter of fact, every
building on the Hill is linked by an
underground passage, feet high and
S feet wide. These tunnels contain
the steam pipes that run from the CEN
trail power plant to the Government
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DR.. Krieger's suggested hypothesis as
to the lost tribe of the Lucayans.
According to this tradition, In
which the Andres Negroes believe I'M
plicitly, the center of the island is in
habited by strange race of men who
have secreted themselves from all
prying eyes, and who hunt by night
with bow and arrow.
Whether this be true OK not, 1t Is
Evening star., 1937-10-10
By Lucy Salamanca.

IN HE city under city continues
to grow. 1t is utilitarian city
that honeycombs the earth's
Il depths beneath the Capital,
but it is one even more diverse than
that of New York, where one may
breakfast, lunch, dine or shop without
once rising to see the sun.
One cannot yet, it is true, dine or
shop under Washington. Nevertheless,
curiously interesting activities go on
daily beneath the Capital and those
activities are expanding as time goes
on. Soon they will include the speedy
transit of human beings from North
east to Northwest, the haulage of paper
out Of which a Nations currency will
ton; even as now they include the
transportation of sacks of mail and
the rapid conveyance of Senators to
and from their Offices and the Capitol
and once were the background for
such thrilling events as the flight of
1 lovely first lady and the meeting of
conspirators dArkly laying plans for
abduction of President.
Washington's tunnels and under
ground passages are peculiarly inter-
esting, playing an important part, as
they do, in the city's history, the gla-
mour and picturesqueness of its past,
and serving, on the other hand, the
very special modern needs of very
modern city.
In the last few years trOlleys have
been shunted underground in certain
sections, vast cavernS have been, dug
from the earth to accommodate, with
all modern convenienceS, the autOmO-
biles of our legislators, and we'll
lighted, tiled corridors have been run
under squares and parks to connect
Government buildings. More and
more Washington is developing its
underground resources and space to
preserve the surface beauty O. its
streets and to facilitate the myriad
activities of its Government business.
THE most recent addition to this
underground system is the large
tunnel that is now being dug under
lower Fourteenth street to connect the
old Bureau of Engraving and Printing
with the new annex, just across the
street.
Begun last July, there is still from
Ave to six weeks work on the tunnel
before it is completed 1t will then
serve as connecting passage for paper
trucks and those pedestrians who may
be engaged in the business of hauling
paper from one building to another.
This particular section of the tunnel
under Fourteenth street, is being dug
1S feet deep, and it will be lined with
concrete and its walls paved with tile
It will be heated apd lighted and
otherwise finished as any corridor in
an above-surface building might bt
finished.
The short span across Fourteenth
street, however, is in reality but the
last lap in an underground journey
Government paper trucks will make
In order to make it possible to convey
all Government paper which is to bt
used for money, underground, very
special excavations have been goine
on directly at the right of the present
tunnel, alongside the new annex ane
Immediately adjoining the Pennsyl
vania Railroad tracks at Fourteenth
and D streets.
Here the tracks have been run dowr
into the earth and subway station
platform built, so that all shipment
The Washington times., 1937-11-08
FIRE NEWSTIP
WINS AWARD

First information on the Alex
andria fire which claimed the life
of a three-year-old girl captured
first prize last week in The Wash
ington Times newstip contest.
Other awards were made for the
following tips: The dog which had
been locked up for three days in
a parked automobile; an automo-
bile-street car accident at Sixth
and F Streets Northwest; an auto
mobile crashing into plate glass
window at Eighth and E Streets
Northwest; an automobile acct
dent at Fort Belvoir, Va; the sue
ceSsful Canadian hunting trip of
w. H. Limerick, 5000 Benning Rd.
N. E.; an automobile accident on
BladenSburg Road Northeast; an
automobile accident at Queens
Chapel aHd BladenSburg Roads
Northeast; a shooting in Alex
andria; a street car-automobile
accident at Eighteenth Street and
Kalorama Road Northwest: a
train collision at Ivy City Yards,
and a fire at Benning race track.
The Washington times., 1937-11-08
Dc Kin Confident
Pair Safe in China

Optimistic over the safety of
her sister and niece who have
been reported missing in the
Chinese war zone, Mrs. Annie
Eckels, 701 Shepherd st. N. W.,
today declared they would turn
up soon."
Mrs. Eckels' sister is Mrs. Mary
Williams Hemingway, widow of
DR.. Will Hemingway, uncle to
Ernest Hemingway, the writer.
She has been carrying on his mis-
slonary work in the Orient since
his death five years ago. Mrs.
Hemingway's daughter, Isabel, is
head nurse at Taiku HOSPITAL.
The Washington times., 1937-11-08
new Sc CHURCH
lis DEDICATED

Colorful and impressive cere
monies attended the dedication OF
the new st. Francis Xavier Catho
lie Church, at $500 Pennsylvania
Ave. S. E., yesterday, at which the
Most Rev. Michael ]. Curley, DID,,
archbishop of Baltimore, was the
central figure.
The dedication of the $108,000
structure brought to reality the
goal set by the Rev. Joseph V.
Buckley, founder and pastor of the
church, IA years ago. Father Buck,
ley directed the mass of dedication
yesterday, assisted by the Rev
Peter P. RakowSki.
Approximately 1000 people at,
tended the ceremonies, at which
a procession of 300 parishioners,
carrying red and white pennants,
escorted Archbishop Curley to the
church. The Holy Comforter Boys
Band played, and 80 members of
the Fourth Degree, Knights of
Columbus, acted as a guard of
honor.
The Rev. Charles R. OHara, of
Holy Comforter Church, was cele-
brant; the Rev. Henry Graeben-
stein, of St. Cyprian's Church,
deason; the Rev. John K. Ryan,
Ph.D., of Catholic University, sub
deason; the Very Rev. Msgr. Harry
A. Quinn, of Baltimore, master of
ceremonies, and the Rev. Edward
P. McAdams, of st. Joseph's and
the Rev. Patrick A. Conroy, of st.
Anthony's, chaplains.
The Washington times., 1937-11-08

E'aSh Walsh McLe"h- with his maam and thelr 10
trunks going into the factories and prying into
the working mans life? 1 never noticed he Of
fered to give any of HIS INCOME to help the
poor man. No matter how charming he made
himself, what would he do when he finished
looking around?
GaUe Up Chance to Help
Remember Mr. Shaw he is NO KING NOW,
with Parliament to pass laws to help the work
ing man. AS said before he gave up any
chance for being real help to anyone when he
turned on his heel and walked out on his
Job cold
Then see Mr. Green now invites them over!
That is just like kind, good-natured Mr.. Green,
who cannot take stand and keep to it through
The Washington times., 1937-11-08
MONDAY, NOV. 8, 1887
By E0alw Walsh Mclean

thick and thin. 1t takes real courage for anyone
to stand up against criticism and fight for what
he thinks is right, regardless of what anyone
says
That is why I think Mr.. Lewis is the right man
for labor. RIGHT OR WRONG, he takes a
stand and sticks to it, regardless of the cry of
the pack, unless, or until, he is convinced he is
wrong.
DEAR, GENTLE MR.. GREEN is willing to be
weather vane, changing with the wind.
Only Private Citizens
The duke and his maam want to be con.
sidered private citizens now. Whoever asked
them to be anything else? With the world fight
ing for peace, why on earth can't this one man.
who has no say in anything and apparently has
never offered to give up any of his own personal
wishes, keep still and let poor struggling human
ity try to worry its way to peace?
I might suggest he would enjoy trip to Russia
and Stain could let him visit the poor, freezing
men and women in SIBERIA. I understand
there are over two million souls in that desperate,
destitute place, and perhaps with the dukes
charming personality and smile he can bring a
little sunshine into the frozen country if moth
ing else.
So, Mr. Shaw, instead Of criticizing Amer
leans for their stand, why not suggest to your
great friends to take 'ice long trip to the one
place where they might do some good?
The Washington times., 1937-11-08
Says BOake Carter

getiveness Of United States tea merchants are
being used to the queens taste to push piece
of merchandise on which the London tea barons
mop up handsomely on profits? United States
merchants must sell pile of extra tea to United
States consumers if they are to come anywhere
near netting the profit they did a couple of
years ago.
Source of Funds for Propaganda
wonder:
While talking of prices, If United States mer.
chants know that in that same period-these
last two years-prices of tea coming from India,
Ceylon, Java and Sumatra have ballooned S. 000-
900 to $e,O00,000 Consumer prices, however,
have not been raised. Who, then, is putting
up the dough for all the propaganda? Take
peek around London and New York and you
might find the answer.
wonder:
Still talking of prices, If United States tea
merchants are wise to the fact that tea shares
in London are having quite a boom, and are
paying not only ordinary dividends but extraordi-
nary melons?
Moreover, it is quite startling to discover that
tea packed at the gardens costs about one.
third of what it sells for in the wholesale mar
ket in New York
If you looked in on what is known as a tea
control board, formed by the London tea barons,
you would find a group of gentlemen cheer
fully manipulating the production of tea in
India, Ceylon, Java and Sumatra. If you looked
into their records you would find that quite
arbitrarily they decided to do some crop restrict
1ng-and limited normal tea production to
821a per cent for 1887. These monopolists did
that in December, 1896.
Copyright Ledger syndicate)
(Bodke Carriers opinions are his olUn and not
necessarily those of The Washington TimesJ
The Washington times., 1937-11-08
Francis Latham
MOOre's Chauffeur

In reporting an automobile &C.
cidental in which Assistant Seer.
rotary of State r. Walton Moore
was injured slightly Friday night,
The Times enormously stated his
machine was driven by a colored
chauffeur.
Mr.. Moore's chauffeur is Fran.
els Latham, who is of a prominent
Burke, tVaD family and who has
been employed for the past two
years.
The Washington times., 1937-11-08
ROake Carter

Ike Carfar
ers pay for their tea in the United States is
much higher average than in any other country.
A certain brand of tea, for example, sells at
q lower price in Canada, where there is duty
Of to cents a pound, than in the United
States, where there is no duty at all.
Monopoly Takes OOer Importers
I wonder:
If American tea merchants, not to mention
United States citizens who pay the price, realize
that one American importing house after another
has been gobbled up by the London tea monopoly
In the last 80 years? From Fortune, June 1884:
ITO garner this trade the London agencies have
acquired New York connections"
Three New York subsidiaries of London's tea
monopoly control the Tea Association of the
United States. Recently to establish a better.
looking, Understanding American front, they
elected as their president a tea buyer of one
of the largest distributing companies in Amer
lea. Thus did the London tea pool slyly grab
off one more American outlet.
What is happening that the brains and 60