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2 ' WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Sighs of
| relief went up from every household in
\ (he country from which a young wo
| man "war worker" had gone to Wash
t ington, when it was announced that
< (ho national government had taken
i over the "housing problem” in the na
' tion's capital.
President Wilson has set aside $1,
000 a month from the emergency wrar
appropriation which he spends at his
discretion in carrying on the war, to
assist I ncle Same’s new employes to
find lodgings. This money is being
used by the District of Columbia
branch of the National Council of De
fense to form an organization which
iw111 make a survey of the rooming
and housing situation in Washington
This centralized bureau will be under
supervision of the National Council
of Defense. The action of the Presi
, dent, was due to the urgent solicita
tion of the civil service commission
which has been finding it difficult to
I get employes, owing to the idea gen
jerally accepted throughout the coun
try that rooms in Washington were
impossible to obtain and that prices
were practically prohibitive for gov
ernment employes. Bureau chiefs
who found their ablest employes re
signing because of inability to get com
fortable lodgings added their pleas
to those of the civil service that
"something” be done and the District
officials, realizing to the full that
Washington's great opportunity might
be jeopardized did she not succeed
in making the strangers comfortable,
have done yeoman service in attempt
ing to do away with a situation with
which they had no funds to cope.
Government officials thought the
city of Washington should cope with
the emergency which had increased
her population of 385,000 by 100,000 in
a few months.
Had the chamber of commerce of
the District of Columbia possessed
the funds available to the commercial
organizations of large Industrial cities
they could have managed without fed
eral aid, but Washington has never
been a manufacturing or commercial
center and her chamber of commerce
is comparatively poor.
A centralized rooming agency un
der federal control will, it is expected,
succeed In guiding the new comers to
a comfortable lodging and relieve the
anxiety of parents who wonder how
their young folks, especially yonng
yeomen, are faring in Washington. A
booth in charge of a trained welfare
worker has been placed in the Union
station and is available both day and
night to direct Uncle Sam’s prospec
tive workers to comfortable lodgings.
Business, religious, fraternal and
philanthropic organizations have tried
to solve the “rooming problem.’’ The
Young Women’s Christian Association
and the Young Men’s Christian Asso
ciation were the only recognized
agencies in Washington at the begin
ning of the w’ar which attempted to
find lodgings for newcomers.
The chamber of commerce also
tried to list rooms but found itself
unable to pay persons for this import
ant service.
The great need has been for a cen
tralized agency, which the President’s
appropriation will now provide. All
organizations which have been trying
in their own way to solve the “hous
ing problems” will be asked to co
operate and it is expected that their
united efforts of the first few weeks
will clear up the situation.
The increase of 100,000 persons in
the city’s population would have taxed
Washington’s resources in any event,
but the fact that the government itself
has not sufficient buildings for its
clerical force and that many large
apartments and dwellings were “com
mandeered” and their inhabitants add
ed to the swelling ranks of the home
less greatly complicated the situation.
, While many war workers assert
they have been “fleeced," residents of
the capital city indignantly deny that
they have indulged in “war profiteer
ing” at the expense of the thousands
of army and navy families and gov
ernment employes of the District
Council of Defense investigated com
plaints that apartment house owners
were asking unjustified advances, but
found that the increased cost of heat
ing the apartments had made it nec
essary for the owners to put up the
prices.
Reluctance of the new government
employes to go beyond walking dis
tance of their departments is respons
ible for much overcrowding and com
plaints of high prices because the de
partments are located In the heart of
the city where rents are naturally
higher than In the outlying portions.
Fifteen hundred clerks, the majority
of whom are young women, have been
placed in private homes. The wel
fare worker of the War RiskB Insur
ance Bureau, who succeed in per
i
suading the young women employe
in her charge to seek lodgings in t.h<
newer portions of the city largelj
populated by married couples who arc
buying homes, found that the rooms
in these sections were comfortable and
prices by no means high.
Few rooms in Washington are offer
ed with board, though many families
who take lodgers, especially those
whose homes are some distance from
the heart of the city, are willing to
furnish breakfast.
The notion that prices for living in
Washington would be comparable to
those in other cities of the same size
is dispelled by a knowledge of the
’elements of its population and its
unique position among American cities.
Skilled labor was cheap and plentiful,
but owing to the exodus of large num
bers of the negroes to the munitions
towns, it is now both scarce and high.
The fact that the city has always
had a floating population which is
very large In proportion to its actual
Inhabitants also complicates Its prob
lem. This transient population in
cluded not only the thousands of per
sons who were temporarily in the
city to transact business with con
gress, the department and the su
preme court, but armies of tourists
who taxed the hotels to their capaci
ties.
WRECK OF mm
RECALLED Iff SURVIVOR
Eight years ago tomorrow, says the
Seward Gateway of February 4, the
steamer Victoria came into the har
bor having the survivors of the
wrecked steamer Farallon aboard. For
thirty days the survivors of the wreck
had been camped on a rocky shelf
on the west coast of Kodiak island,
waiting for some steamer to pick them
up. During all this time, with the ex
ception of one day, the men had been
experiencing the most bitteT of
weather.
This morning John E. Thwaites was
found intently looking at a *arge pic
ture hanging over one of the doors
at Sexton & Thwaites’. The picture
was of the Farallon, incased in ice five
feet thick, resting on the rocky shore
where she struck, Mr. Thwaites was
the mail clerk on the Farallon and he
said:
“That was a fearful thirty-day pe
riod through which we passed. Our
shelter place was swept by gales con
tinually, and none of us left except
t osecure driftwood to keep us warm.
The snow fell so thickly that one
would have become lost lrad he strayed
thirty feet away from sight. Nothing
was more cheerful than the sight of
the Victoria, one of the three boats
sent out to locate us.’’
Captain Hunter, now on the North
western, was also on the Farallon
when the wreck occurred.
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C. M. Coulter of Sitka recently left
there for Seattle for the purpose of
purchasing a player-piano, dram and
bell attachments and a good supply
of roHer skates which he will have
north soon. There is a splendid hall
at Sitka and a big demand among the
natives for a roller rink as a means of
amusement.
s Nenana has the first citizenship
! night school to be established in the
territory A large sum of money was
| appropriated for that purpose by the
last legislature but the towns have
been slow to take advantage. Its
Initial membership was 17 and by the
last of December thirty-two had been
enrolled, the ages «f the students
ranging from 22 to 5-2 years. The na
tionalities represented aro Finland.
Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Russia,
Hungary, Austria, Italy, Greece, Bo
hemia, Czek, Germany, Switzerland,
Scotland, and Canada
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The Alaskan Engineering commis
sion at Anchorage recently held a
fire drill which startled the residents
of that town considerably as no one
knew where the fire was. Finally D.
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Bayles. of the firm of that name, tele
phoned the fire stationed to find out
where the blaze was and the firemen
who knew no more than they thought
.his place was in flames and set out.
Bayles ran out of his store and see
ing the firemen rushing into his place
ran back to investigate. When the
firemen found no blaze there they de
cided to telephone to the commission
department and finally solved the mys
tery.
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Ptarmigar and rabbits are very
plentiful around Nome this year ac
! cording to reports. The foxes and
mink have not been so plentiful for
years on the Seward peninsula. Field
mice and moles were never so abun
dant, and old timers lay this fact to
the absence of destructive fires.
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