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For her $50 month Miss Wild
had q three-room suite in the "com-
pany house." a Government-op-
Grated hotel, and all her meals
There was practically no expense
for clothes-"it was q good place
to wear out old clothes," she says
AS a result, she had enough money
to take q six-week tour Of the in
terror Of Alaska during one sum-
mer, pay on some old debts and
save more than $1,000.
Strange Native Habits.
Her most vivid memories, however
concern the strange habits Of the
native Aleuts. "A fundamental
part OF school life was having the
children brush their teeth and comb
their hair each morning and take
bath twice q week" she said, be
cause they never did these things
ut home.
I'VE started out having them
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beauty, will be the peer of any in
the world. Laid out on a scale in
keeping with the nearby Federal
areas and with its proximity to the
Capitol, the center will have all
the spaciousness of the greatest of
the Federal building groups. Wide
parks and avenues Of approach will
provide effective settings for build
ings which, in design and architec-
tural effectiveness, will rank with
the best of those in the nearby Mall
Triangle.
To Form Cross-Axis.
The District Building group Is to
have a mall of its own. forming a
cross-axis to the Federal Mall and
extending northward from Consti-
tuition and Pennsylvania avenues,
along the line of the present John
Marshall place to the south fronts
of the two symmetrically balanced
main municipal buildings on the
brow of the gentle slope up to Judi
ciary Square.
On the west side of this District
mall will stand the proposed new
building for the Central Library and
the Board of Education. On the
east is a site reserved for a future
building. One plan calls for the
construction there of a great civic
auditorium, although there is an
apparently growing feeling among
District people that such a structure
should be placed farther away from
the downtown area. with sentiment
generally favoring a site on East
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Capitol street, adjoining the site
for the National Guard Armory and
the proposed stadium and amphi-
theater.
The Districts new administration
building will be constructed as two
units, connected underground. This
underground connection, in line
with the John Marshall place mall,
will preserve view from Constitu-
tion and Pennsylvania avenues of
the southern facade of the District
Court Building at the south end of
Judiciary Square. This new vista is
expected In the future to be one of
the most effective of the kind in
Washington.
The eastern unit of the admins
tration building will be the first
completed, and its dedication and
occupation will be cne of the most
significant local events of the 1940-
1850 decade. Foundation work and
erection of the steel framework for
the first unit have been completed
and laying of the exterior stonework
is now in progress.
Auditorium Eliminated.
The Municipal Center project was
begun as part of an s18.150, 900 Pub
lie Works Administration program
for the District, which was approved
by Congress in June, 1898. Con-
gress, in approving the project, how
ever, knocked out a legislative au-
thorization for construction of the
proposed local auditorium In the
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Miss Wild and . young assistant
agent-the agent is the "boss'' Of
the island for the Bureau of Fish
eries-were the only unmarried
white people on the island, aside
from some Navy men assigned to
the radio station there.
1t was congenial group, though
the agent, the storekeeper, the
mechanic the doctor, the other
school teacher and their families
and Miss Wild became an expert
poker player, for the lack of some
thing better to do with a good part
Of her leisure time.
When not playing cards or "just
visiting" with the few neighbors,
there might be native dances to at
tend. And all holidays, such as
Thanksgiving, Christmas and the
like, were observed with banquets
that gathered all the white resi-
dents In their best clothes.
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These funds assured completion
of the administrative buildings and
construction of the second, or west
unit, is scheduled to follow closely
the rapidly rising east unit, under a
program which calls for commence
ment of construction at the north
east corner of the center, extending
westward as funds are made avail
able.
Metropolitan Police headquarters,
which are to move into the first
unit before the end of 1910, are
housed in an antiquated building
on Indiana avenue across from Dis
trict Court. 1t is entirely out of
keeping with the needs of a city
of Washington size and national
importance. The Department of
Vehicles and Traffic, also to go into
the new building, occupies the for
mer Ford Building, at Pennsylvania
avenue and John Marshall place
This building is to be razed to cleal
the way for construction Of the new
Central Library building. The Fire
Department has scant headquarter.
space In the basement of the Dis.
trict Building, with alarm headquAr.
tiers In q room on the nth floor
With more adequate headquarters
space in the new building, and with
an entirely new fire alarm head.
quarters in Mcmillan Park. the Fire
Department will be a decided bene-
ficiary Of the new building program
The Municipal Center plan Is
based on the theory that the gov
ernmental buildings of the District
should be architecturally fitting
companions for the Federal build
ings in the adjacent Mall Triangle
Limits Of cost for the project have
been scaled upward and downward
at different times. As now planned
the center probably will cost some
100000 to complete. Although
District officials had advocated
buildings less monumental than
those requested by Federal plan
ming authorities, the monumental
idea prevailed and Congress ad-
vanced $500, 900 to pay for drawing
up more elaborate set of plans
than had originally been prepared
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streets out of the congested area
having escaped such treatment. The
necessary cross-town street-widen-
ing program, which. during recent
years, has entirely remade K street
NV, is expected to continue into
the new decade. The Budget Bu-
reau has recommended funds for
beginning the similar widening of
street NV. during the coming fiscal
year.
Even more noticeable are such
changes as the construction of the
Thomas Circle underpass and the K
street grade separation project at
Rock Creek The new decade may
be expected to bring an increasing
number OF such projects, as a city
in the throes of growing pains at
tempts to adjust itself to new condi-
tions. Among the earliest of these
projects is the proposed Massachu-
sets avenue bridge over Rock Greek,
construction of which now Is be-
ginning.
The transfer of the District gov
ernment from Fourteenth street,
south of Pennsylvania avenue to the
area between Third and Sixth
streets NV, extending well north of
the avenue. is change which cannot
be made without a considerable
effect on future traffic movement
and other phases of oity develop
ment. A majority of District en-
ployes, in the future, may reach
their offices without entering the
present congested downtown area
at ALL whereas most of them now
must 60 through the heart of the
congested section.
Construction of the Municipal
Center should give Washington a
seat of local government which,
from the standpoints of dignity and
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By GarneH d. Horner

Miss Caroline Wild, young Gov
ernment clerk with a yen for travel
and adventure in far-off places, be-
came school teacher for Uncle Sam
in order to see something of the
world.
Before she settled down in Wash
ington again, she had Travelled more
than $1,000 miles and accumulated
an album of pictures, a tusk of ivory
and other souvenirs to stir her mem
ory of nearly two years of strange
living on remote island you prob
ably never heard of, an island
where
There were only twoscore white
people within 240 miles.
She received Christmas presents
in October February and June.
The wind blew so much nobody
ever tried to wear an ordinary hat.
Her pupils started to school know
ing how to say in English only
"hello" and about all the cuss words
there are.
The choice food was delicious
reindeer chops.
Her room and board cost only $50
a month, and she could save prac-
tically all the remainder of her
81 1,800-a-year salary because there
was hardly anything else to spend
money for.
Her Job was trying to teach the
three RS and such habits OF civil
ization as bathing, tooth-brushing
and hair-combing to "a little Aleuts
pronounced Alley -oots), Govern
ment wards on st. Paul, one Of the
two inhabited Pribilof Islands.
The Pribilofs, lying in, the Bering
Sea about 800 miles out from Alaska
and 240 miles north Of Dutch Harbor
In the Aleutian Islands, came with
Alaska when the United States
bought the Territory from Russia
in 1867. They are the center of the
Government-owned and operated
seal fur industry, which furnishes
about 80 per cent of the worlds sup
ply of seal furs and turns in a profit
to the Treasury each year.
Workers Transplanted.
The Aleuts-a 1887 census showed
1853 of them on st. Paul Island
came with the purchase, too. The
Russians had transplanted them
there as manual workers after they
discovered the islands as the breed
ing ground Of big seal herd in l7s6.
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Young Woman Teaching Islands

) Working for Uncle Sam now, the
Aleuts still do the manual labor in
volved in the islands sole industries
killing seals in summer and foxes
In winter. Technically, they are
wards of Uncle Sam. and besides
paying them for the work they do,
he supplies them with homes, food
and clothing-and schooling.
That's where Miss Wild comes in.
An attractive brunette just turned
81, she arrived in Washington from
her home in Avon Park, Fla, to seek
her fortune in 1888. She worked as
salesgirl in a department store,
then got a job in the General Ac-
counting Office.
In the spring Of 1885 she heard
her temporary job soon would end,
and she started looking for another.
A friend suggested some jobs might
be available on the Alaskan frontier.
Miss Wild liked the idea of going
somewhere far away, but didn't know
just where to apply for a job in
Alaska.
She went first to the Lighthouse
Service and the officials there sug-
gested that the Bureau of Fisheries
might have something. So she ap-
piled there, and before the summer
was over she had job as one Of two
school teachers on st. Paul Island.
It was q bit disquieting to hear
that her predecessors ma,n-had
become seasick and gone to bed with
his shoes on when the boat taking
him to the Pribilofs left Seattle and
had not been able to remove them
until the ship docked l3 days later.
But she was lucky and didn't get
seasick at all.
Living up there was lots Of fun
after got used to It," she said. "But
after nearly two years Of it, I was
ready to come back because I had
heard that people who stayed there
too long might get balmy. As mat
ter Of fact, for a long time after I
came back to the States, felt dizzy
in crowds and was frightened walk
ing across streets"
Desolate Place.
The island, about II miles long by
8 miles wide, was desolate place,
she found. 1t wasn't 50 terribly cold
the average year-around tempera-
ture was 81 degrees and the coldest
1t got while she was there was 6
degrees below zero, but there were
no trees, q strong wind blew all the
time and there were but 20 white
people Tor company.
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commissary. "Some of them were
so irresponsible they ate all their
weeks food the first day and lived
on tea the rest of the week." Miss
Wild recalled.
There was no Jail on the island.
On the rare occasion when a ma
tive would do something illegal
such as get drunk on bootleg ma
tive concoction (there is strict pro-
hibition in the Pribilofs) pun
ishment would be demotion in his
work. In their work of killing
seals they are divided into five
classes and paid according to their
ranking. A f1rst-class sealer can
earn as much as $500 a year, earn
ings decreasing about 500 per grade.
The big Alaska fur seal herd
which has grown from 10000 in
1911 to 1000, 900 in 1899 under re-
stricted killing arrangements-comes
ashore only at the Pribilof Islands.
The young bachelor seals conven-
iently group together away from the
breeding seals. Last year GOATS Of
them were killed and their skins
sent back to the States for process
ing in st. Louis plant before sale
at auction.
Funds for Treasury.
From the sales Of seal furs and
skins from blue and white foxes,
trapped on the islands during the
winter. total Of $1o5, ,222 was turned
into the Treasury during the last
fiscal year.
The white residents and natives
alike spend some Of their spare
time digging for walrus ivory tusks,
left from the time when walrus
frequented the island In the dim
past. Miss Wild has one Of those
tusks for q souvenir.
When she was at st. Paul, 1878
reindeer were counted running wild
on the island. About 30 Of them
are killed for food during year.
All Of this provides pleasant mem
ories for Miss Wild as an interest,"
ing experience to look back upon,
but she is not interested In re-
turning to the Pribilofs. TT was
fine when I was there, but I'm
afraid 1t would be too lonely now" I"
she says. She has got used to
crowds again on daily tricks be-
tween her apartment at 2Sls Forty
nth street NV. and the Commerce
Department Building, where she
works as Q clerk In the accounts
once Of the Bureau Of Fisheries.
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Oatne three times q week, but had
to cut 1t down to two because the
towels wouldn't dry quickly enough,
They would freeze If we hung them
outside to dry.
THE natives would initiate the
white people in nearly everything
Even the boys and men paint their
fingernails red because they have
seen the white women do it.
Il thought when I went up there
that silk hose would be impractical
and so stocked up on Isle ones. AS
soon as the next supply boat came
IN, all the native women were wear
ing Isle hose, the same shade as
mine.
THE natives have hardly any idea
OF the value Of money and spend
most Of what they make on mail
orders to the States. I remember
one young Aleut ordered a new
bicycle and soon after it came he
punctured tire. Instead of bother.
ing to fix It, he tossed it over q
:lin into the ocean and ordered
another bike.
THE Aleuts are so irresponsible
that the Government won't install
running water in their homes be-
cause none ever would turn it OF.
The islands electric power Is shut
on every night at midnight be-
cause . native never was known to
turn OF the lights In his house."
Boat Five Times . Year.
The 8. 8. Penguin, q supply boat
operated by the Bureau Of Fish
cries, on which Miss Wild travelled
to and from the Pribilofs, calls
there five times q year with mail
and supplies. During the summer
Coast Guard boats also visit the
islands.
But from October to late Feb
ruary there is no contact with
the outside world at all, except by
radio. So Miss Wild received on
the October boat some Christmas
presents from friends in the States
who had thought to mail early.
Those mailed for December de-
livery she received late in Feb
ruary. And some that were q bit
late in mailing she did not get
until the following summer. at
was nice to be getting things every
time the boat came in." she said.
The natives received their food
and clothing free from the Govern
ment. drawing their food supply
once week from the Government
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Large Area
TOBeRenade
In Progress
Municipal Center
Building Group
Has Own Mall

SirM OF series of articles on
plans TOR the development OF
Greater Washington during the
merit 10 years.
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Architects sketch OF the East
fright, dbous) and West Ad-
ministration Buildings of the
Municipal Center. The East
Building is no,D under con-
struction. In the center, be-
hind the tWo structures and
at the head of a mall leading
from Pennsylvania and Con-
stitution dvenues, is the south
facade OF the old District
Courts Building.
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Prep Wresilers
Vie for Cup
Studium. Lincoln
To Clash Tonight

Wrestlers from Stadium and
Lincoln viii meet this Wsdnes-
day night In the Lincoln gym In
the first OF two matches TO de-
termlne the winner Of the city
mat championship. Bell for the
opening bout viii ring at 7;so.
Unbeaten in ak starts. Coach
Neil Hickok's Abes are favored
In pre-tourney predictions. but II
is an established fact that any
thing can happen when the Tigers
and Abes get together In any
sport. so Tiger victory would
not be counted as an upset.
The Tigers. tutorcd by their
topfllght heavyweight. Fred
Adams. have Lost twice this
season to thu University
Fresh squad and 10 the Fife
Trnjans. The Fife matinee
have lost twice 10 the Abea.
Those who will face each other
tonight, with Stadium contestants
named first. are. Myron Donion
Va. Evan Richmond. % pounds:
8. Higuehi W. BY Richmond. i0o
pounds. Jerry Donion Va. fwao
Takasngi, lis pounds; Earl Moore
Va. Don Richmond. i25 pounds.
Arnie Hanson Va. Tom Cameron.
1876 pounds. Bill ofconneil ",
Hank Trllsler. i45 pounds. Lee
Merz w. Bob Cole. IDo pounds.
and Gene Paps Va. Don Smith, ie5
pounds.
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Where Death Once Sialked, New Life
Has Bloomed for Cardinal Catcher

of the 1898 season he was going
into a golden era But during the
season he became tired and slug
gish, and one day a doctor told
him that ne had pleurisy and that
one of his lungs had developed a
tuberculous infection.
Baseball said goodbye TO Bill
Delaney that day. and soon he
headed west for the warm, dry
air OF New Mexico. He was the
last one To think that he would
ever put on the mask and pro-
tector again. But there he stands
today IN the Cardinal training
camp. one foot on the dugoat
steps. and this Is what he says:
= got along pretty well out
west and when the time came that
they let me get at the wheel Of
nv car and take ride, l began
10 develop a bunch that ] would
be back up here. They had a ball
club al Albuquerque and they
were kind enough 10 make me
manager OF IL
AT first I didn't do any
thing but manage from the
bench. Then, - I got strong
er and more confident, would
20 out and pitch In batting
practice, but didn't attempt 10
play as \ regular. Now, they
tell me I'm all right and tbs
officials Of the ST. Louis club
were willing 10 give me .
chance. So here ] am
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla Only
five years ago he was a rising,
blazing star but time is quick to
dim the memory, so to only few
of you will the name Of Bill De
laneey mean a thing.
The story about him is that he
has come Blackjack along the
steep twisted roads that leads out
of the shadow of death-and that
once again he is crouched behind
the plate, barking encouragement
10 whoever Is pitching for the 81.
Louis Cardinals.
Delaney set his cap at
rocky angle on the left side of
his head In sun-drenehed Wat
erfront park today and talked
about the time death brushed
him with her wings at a stage
of his career when he seemed
about TO develop into one Of
the greatest catchers of base
ball.
Maybe you remember him In the
1884 world series when the Card
inals and the Detroit Tigers, each
boasting a great righthand pitch
er in Dizzy Dean and Scboolooy
Rowe, collided in battle that
went the full seven games De-
lancey caught every inning Of
game for the Cardinals in that
series. handled pitchers superbly,
hit hard and out-gsssed the entire
Gas House gang with his fighting
spirit II seemed that At the start
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Eight 7 cams Earn
Semi-Final Spots
Lurge Crowd Witnesses Bosket Comes
In Pierce County Tournament: Roy
Captures Thriller of Competition

Before one of the finest opening
crowds in the history Of the
Pierce county basketball tour y
eight teams earned semi-final
berths in three of the four di-
visions of play at Stadium Tues
day night.
The. thriller was the battle be-
tween the lanky and fast Roy
Rockets and the runty Y. NJ. c. A.
club coached by Art Linn. Roy
winning. 30 to 81.
In the battle for the Class
"B. semi-f final berth the Y
WAS off to an early ia lead
but In the third period the Roy
club caught them by n point,
then dropped two benin, with
two minutes to play.
Gordon Fielder dropped in a short
shot to tie the score at 20 all. The
Y took the first overtime period
edge on Joe Kori's free throw but
Fielder came back with Is seconds
to play to tie the score with a free
toss. Gene Jack sewed up the
game for Roy in the second over
time with basket, Snyder scored
a free throw and Walt Lyons add
ed field goal.
CENTRALS WIN
A short but game Central Luth-
eran team finally overhauled a tall
and superior Mineral Fireman ag-
gregation to gain B semi-final
berth with a fine 81 to ~ victory.
Epworth Methodist moved up a
notch in Class C in beating BNai
Birth. SIS to 20, as did Chillas
who dropped Peterman Manufac-
turing, n to IA.
Woodmen of the World on the
other hand had hard time in dis
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Vikings Knot
Up Puget Race
PuYollup Quintet
Defects Highline

PUYAILUP-A magnificent last
half drive featuring superior team
work with two players garnering
the bulk of ten points gave Puy-
allup Vikings a SLAP victory over
Highline Pirates here last night
and threw the Puget Sound con-
ference race into a three-way dead
lock between Enumclaw, Puyallup
adm Highline.
1t was a battle of offensive
power all the way with the
packed house bowling with
amazement as first Highline
and then Puyallup came
through with spectacular court
tricks.
Highline led 27-26 at halftime
but the Vikings moved out in
front the third period and held
their lead to the final whistle.
Gail Bruce scored 81 and Fred
Strankman garnered 10 for Puy-
allup while Saltmarsh and Tricky
Dick Marshall were tops for the
Pirates.
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posing of Archer's Confectionery
81 to b. In overtime play. Maynard
Carlson dropped in a basket in the
overtime and Herb Hite added
three points
Pusailup Christian church
toyed with the Eagles In Class
ID play. 50 TO IL. to gain .
semi-final berth with knapps
Business College, who ad-
vanced ON n bye.
In the other d games, First
Congregational and First Meth
odist High boys won.
The Congregationals beat out
Community House. 20 TO IS. while
the Methodists dropped in three
rapid baskets in the last three min
utes to beat Alder, "a to 10.
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Major Training Camps

Clark Griffith ~ the Wash
iaKton Senators uill come out
Of Is years Of retirement to-
morrow 10 manage the rockies
In their first game against
the regulars. Backy Harris
regulars viii try out their
new batting lineup. featuring
five right-handed batters-
AVALON. Calf Vine Chieags
Cubs were named today for the
Los Angeles ail-star game Bun
Gay. Players from the Cuts
White Sox, Pirates and Athletics
all play. Cubs selected were
Manager Cabby Hartnett, Billy
Herman, AnEis Caian. Bill Lee
Claude PaAsezu. Bob Collins
Dominic DallsaAandro. ZIP Rus
zell and JUNO BOnett
k1AYEs WORKING HARDER
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The Story of Seabiscuii

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Sieelhead Club

Tacoma steelhead club members
will wear salmon egg clusters on
their coat lapels Thursday night
when they dins at thu Union
University club at . 40 O'Clock.
That will provide natural on
the-Htvam atmosphere. which Will
be missing from their hands.