RECLAMATION SERVICE. (Interior Department Building. Phone, Main 1880.) Director.-Arthur P. Davis, 2212 First Street. Chief engineer.-F. E. Weymouth, Tramway Building, Denver, Colo. BUREAU OF MINES. (Interior Department Building. Phone, Main 1880.) Director.-Van. H. Manning, 3602 Newark Street, Cleveland Park. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. (Interior Department Building. Phone, Main 1880.) Director.-Stephen T. Mather, Cosmos Club. Assistant director.-Arno B. Cammerer, 2024 North Capitol Street. ST. ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL. (Nichols Avenue, beyond Anacostia. Phone, Lincoln 1426.) Superintendent.-William A. White, M. D. Administrative assistant to superintendent.-Monie Sanger. Chief clerk.-Frank M. Finotti. Secretary to superintendent-Arnold W. Barbour. Chief of training school for nurses.-Alice Vaughn, R. N. HOWARD UNIVERSITY. (Howard Place and Georgia Avenue. Phone, Columbia 8100.) Patron ex officio.-John Barton Payne, Secretary of the Interior. President board of trustees.-Ex-Chief Justice Stanton J. Peelle, LL, D., The Cairo. BOARD OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS. (Interior Department Building. Phone, Main 1880; Branch 79.) Chairman.-George Vaux, jr., Philadelphia, Pa. Merrill E. Gates, Washington, D. C. Warren K. Moorehead, Andover, Mass. Samuel A. Eliot, Boston, Mass. Frank Knox, Manchester, N. H. William H. Ketcham, Washington, D. C. D. C. FREEDMEN'S HOSPITAL. (Fourth and College Streets. Phone, North 754.) Surgeon in chief.-William A. Warfield, M. D. ALASKAN ENGINEERING COMMISSION. Commissioner.-Col. Frederick Mears, chairman and chief engineer, Anchorage Assistant chief engineer.-William C. Gerig, Anchorage, Alaska. Engineer in charge supply division.-H. P. Warren, Seward, Alaska. Purchasing agent.-Charles E. Dole, room 422, Bell Street Terminal, Seattle, Wash. Senior clerk.-Howard M. Gillman, jr., 3449 Holmead Place, Washington, D. C. WAR MINERALS RELIEF COMMISSION. (Room 2117, Interior Department Building. Phone, Main 1880; Branch 571.) John F. Shafroth, chairman, 2034 Twentieth Street. Philip N. Moore, Wardman Park Hotel. Horace G. Pomeroy, Wardman Park Hotel. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. (The Mall, between Twelfth and Fourteenth Streets. Phone, Main 4650. Private branch exchange connecting all bureaus except Weather Bureau (West 1640), Forest Service (Main 6910), and Bureau of Public Roads (Main 5333).) EDWIN THOMAS MEREDITH, of Des Moines, Iowa, Secretary of Agriculture, was born at Avoca, Iowa, December 23, 1876; LL. D. Highland Park College, Des Moines, Iowa, 1914; married Edna C. Elliott, of Des Moines, Iowa, January 8, 1896; published Farmers' Tribune, Des Moines, Iowa, 1896-1902; established Successful Farming 1902; director Chicago Federal Reserve Bank 1913-1920; candidate for governor of Iowa 1916; member board of excess profits advisers, Treasury Department, 1917-18; member labor mission to Europe 1918; member of public group, Industrial Conference, 1919; director, United States Chamber of Commerce, 1914-1919; president Associated Advertising Clubs of the World 1919; took oath of office as Secretary of Agriculture February 2, 1920; member Federal Council of National Defense, National Forest Reservation Commission, Federal Board for Vocational Education. Assistant Secretary. Assistant to the Secretary.-Floyd R. Harrison, Clifton Terrace East. Chief clerk.-R. M. Reese, 3016 Dumbarton Avenue. Solicitor.-R. W. Williams, Cosmos Club. Private secretary to the Secretary of Agriculture.—Harrison F. Fitts, 819 Webster Street. OFFICE OF FARM MANAGEMENT. Chief.-H. C. Taylor, East Falls Church, Va. Assistant chief-Asher Hobson, East Falls Church, Va. Farm finance.-V. N. Valgren, 1706 T Street. Land utilization.-L. C. Gray, Falls Church, Va. Farm life studies.-C. J. Galpin, East Falls Church, Va. Geography of agriculture.-O. E. Baker, 1 Hesketh Street, Chevy Chase, Md. WEATHER BUREAU. (Corner Twenty-fourth and M Streets. Phone, West 1640.) Chief-Charles F. Marvin, 1501 Emerson Street. Assistant chief.—-Charles C. Clark, 21 West Irving Street, Chevy Chase, Md. Chief clerk.-Edgar B. Calvert, Florence Court West. Forecasting.-Edward H. Bowie, 3702 Keokuk Street; Harry C. Frankenfield, 1735 New Hampshire Avenue; Alfred J. Henry, 1322 Columbia Road. BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. Chief John R. Mohler, 1620 Hobart Street. Assistant chief.-B. H. Rawl, The Ontario. Assistant to the chief-Charles C. Carroll, 6801 Sixth Street, Takoma Park. Chief clerk.-J. R. Cobran, 814 Connecticut Avenue. Editor.-D. S. Burch, 1511 Seventeenth Street. BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. Pathologist and physiologist, and chief of bureau.-William A. Taylor, 1315 Gallatin Physiologist and associate chief of bureau.-Karl F. Kellerman, 2221 Forty-ninth Street. Forester and Chief.-W. B. Greeley, 219 Elm Street, Chevy Chase, Md. BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY. Chief-Carl L. Alsberg, 1941 Biltmore Street. Administrative assistant.-F. B. Linton, 222 Holly Avenue, Takoma Park, Md. BUREAU OF SOILS. Soil physicist and chief.-Milton Whitney, Takoma Park, Md. BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. Entomologist and chief.-L. O. Howard, 1705 Twenty-first Street. BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY.. Biologist and chief.-E. W. Nelson, The Northumberland. DIVISION OF ACCOUNTS AND DISBURSEMENTS. Chief of division and disbursing clerk.-A. Zappone, 2222 First Street. DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS. ! Chief-Edwy B. Reid, 1224 Crittenden Street. Chief editor. Assistant in charge of information.-Harlan D. Smith, R. R. No. 1, Bethesda, Md. Assistant in charge of exhibits.-F. Lamson-Scribner, The Beacon. Assistant in charge of motion pictures.-Frederick W. Perkins, The Victoria. Assistant chief.-B. D. Stallings, 2620 Thirteenth Street. Chief clerk.-W. A. Jump, 1308 Corbin Place NE. BUREAU OF CROP ESTIMATES (formerly Statistics). Chief-Leon M. Estabrook, 1026 Seventeenth Street. LIBRARY. Librarian.-Claribel R. Barnett, 1410 Girard Street. Assistant librarian.—Emma B. Hawks, 2622 Thirteenth Street STATES RELATIONS SERVICE. Director.-A. C. True, 1604 Seventeenth Street. Administrative assistant.-Eugene Merritt, Shepherd Street, Chevy Chase, Md. Chief of editorial division.—W. H. Beal, 1852 Park Road. BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS. (Willard Building, 515 Fourteenth Street. Phone, Main 5333.) Chief-Thomas H. MacDonald, 901 Twentieth Street. BUREAU OF MARKETS. Chief of bureau.-George Livingston, 935 Shepherd Street. Administrative assistant in charge of operation.-R. V. Bailey, 2207 Evarts Street NE. Chief clerk.-C. L. Snow, 2020 Evarts Street NE. Librarian and editor.-Caroline B. Sherman, 1440 W Street. INSECTICIDE AND FUNGICIDE BOARD. Chairman.-J. K. Haywood, 1729 Lanier Place. Executive officer.-J. Ġ. Shibley, 1848 Biltmore Street. FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD. Chairman.-C. L. Marlatt, 1521 Sixteenth Street. Vice chairman.-W. A. Orton, 600 Cedar Street, Takoma Park. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. (Commerce Building, Nineteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Phone, Main 5060.) JOSHUA WILLIS ALEXANDER, of Gallatin, Daviess County, Mo., Secretary of Commerce (1110 Rhode Island Avenue), was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 22, 1852. His father died when Mr. Alexander was only 7 years old. He attended the public schools of Cincinnati for three years, when he and his mother moved to Canton, Mo. There he finished the public schools and entered Christian University in 1868, graduating therefrom in 1872 with the degree of A. B. In June, 1907, the same institution conferred upon him the honorary degree of A. M. In June, 1873, he moved to Gallatin, Mo., and has resided there ever since. Studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1875. Married the daughter of the late Judge Samuel A. Richardson in February, 1876; his wife and four sons and three daughters are living. In 1876 he was elected public administrator, and was reelected in 1880. Served 21 years on the board of education of Gallatin school district, and two terms as mayor of Gallatin. In 1882 was elected to the General Assembly of Missouri, and in 1884 was reelected and made chairman of the committee on appropriations, and in 1886 was reelected and served as speaker of the house. Was judge of the seventh judicial circuit of Missouri from January, 1901, until February, 1907; in 1904 he had been reelected for a six-year term and resigned to take his seat in the Sixtieth Congress. Was elected to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses. He was named by President Wilson as House of Representatives member of the United States Commission to International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea, and was chairman of the United States Commission; the international conference was in session in London, England, from November 12, 1913, to January 20, 1914. Was chairman of Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries in the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses. In the Sixty-third Congress, as chairman of the committee, had charge of and conducted the investigation of the so-called “Shipping Trust. Appointed Secretary of Commerce by President Woodrow Wilson, and confirmed by the Senate December 11, 1919. Resigned as Member of Congress December 15, 1919, and qualified as Secretary of Commerce December 16, 1919. Assistant Secretary.Edwin F. Sweet, 1706 Sixteenth Street. Solicitor.-F. M. McCarthy, Stoneleigh Court. Assistant to the Secretary.-George R. Dickson, 2518 Seventeenth Street. Disbursing clerk.-Charles E. Molster, 934 Kearney Street NE. Private secretary to the Secretary.-William B. Yancey, Congress Hall. Private secretary to Assistant Secretary.-Alfred E. Wild, 928 B Street NE. Confidential clerk to the Secretary.—Naomi Eaton, The Avondale. Chief of Division of— Appointments. Clifford Hastings, Franklin Park, Va. Publications.-Thomas F. McKeon, 1352 Otis Place; assistant chief, Charles C. Barton, 2233 Eighteenth Street. Supplies.-Francis M. Shore, 1221 Euclid Street. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS. (Commerce Building, Nineteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Offices of the Assistant Director, Chief Statisticians for Population, and Agriculture, Cotton and Tobacco, and Geographer are located in Building D, Four-and-a-half Street and Missouri Avenue.) Director.-Sam. L. Rogers, 3610 Macomb Street, Cleveland Park. Assistant director.-William M. Steuart, 3725 Morrison Street, Chevy Chase. Chief statisticians: Population.-William C. Hunt, 1428 Montague Street. Agriculture, Cotton and Tobacco.-William L. Austin, 1412 Delafield Place. Statistics of cities. Starke M. Grogan, The Sherman. Vital statistics.-William H. Davis, M. D., 7 Grafton Street, Chevy Chase, Md. Revision and results.-Joseph A. Hill, 8 Iowa Circle. Disbursing clerk.-Fred A. Gosnell, 1111 P Street. Appointment clerk.-Walter S. Gilchrist, 622 Massachusetts Avenue NE. BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE. (Commerce Building, Nineteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.) Director. Philip B. Kennedy, Wardman Park Hotel. Assistant director (first).—Roy S. MacElwee, Sixteenth and R Streets. BUREAU OF STANDARDS. (Pierce Mill Road. Phone, Cleveland 1720.) Director.-S. W. Stratton, The Farragut. Chief physicist.-Edward B. Rosa, 3110 Newark Street. Chief chemist.-W. F. Hillebrand, 3023 Newark Street. Physicist (director's assistant).-Fay C. Brown, 3030 Newark Street. Assistant to director (in charge of office).-Henry D. Hubbard, 112 Quincy Street, Chevy Chase, Md. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. (Office, corner Sixth and B Streets SW. Phone, Main 5240.) Commissioner.-Hugh M. Smith, 1209 M Street. Assistant in charge of office.-I. H. Dunlap, 1728 Q Street. BUREAU OF LIGHTHOUSES. (Commerce Building, Nineteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.) -Commissioner.-George R. Putnam, 2126 Bancroft Place. Chief constructing engineer.-H. B. Bowerman, 15 West Twenty-ninth Street, Balti- COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY. (New Jersey Avenue, near B Street SE. Phones, Lincoln 1872 and 1873.) Superintendent.-E. Lester Jones, 2116 Bancroft Place. Hydrographic and geodetic engineer in charge of office.-P. A. Welker, The Parkwood. |