Evening Star
- APE MAN’S SKULL DISCOVERED; MAY BRIDGE EVOLUTION GAP!
- TAPS ON PIPE SPUR MINE RESCUERS
- Apartment to Cost $5,000,000 Going Up Soon in Northwest
The Evening Star of September 28, 1926 reported the discovery of a complete prehistoric skull in Java, recalling Dubois’s earlier discoveries and the controversy surrounding them. Its mine-rescue account described blocked passages, four approaches to the trapped men, and differing expectations about the time still needed. In Washington, it reported Harry Wardman’s announcement of a $5,000,000 residential complex with more than 3,000 rooms in the northwest.
Translation
APE MAN’S SKULL DISCOVERED; MAY BRIDGE EVOLUTION GAP!
By the Associated Press.
BATAVIA, Java, September 28.—Prof. Heberlein of the Netherlands government medical service has discovered at Trinil, in central Java, a complete skull of the prehistoric apelike creature termed by some the “missing link” and by science Pithecanthropus Erectus.
The skull was found at the same place where Prof. Eugene Dubois of Amsterdam University discovered in 1892 the upper part of a skull, two teeth and a thigh bone, from which was reconstructed the previously unknown apelike human designated as Pithecanthropus Erectus.
Prof. Heberlin’s specimen, which is complete and sound, will be kept in Dutch East India, as the exportation of such relics is prohibited.
Dr. Dubois’ famous discovery was made on the left bank of the Bengawan River near Trinil. Much discussion followed, with many authorities opposing Dr. Dubois’ theory.
TAPS ON PIPE SPUR MINE RESCUERS
Maki made another discovery which was more disconcerting. His passage was blocked 50 feet beyond the point where a rescue party is working in the mine shaft to clear away the wreckage which blocks entry to the eighth level.
Rescue to Be Delayed.
This finding determined that it will be long before rescue can be made by this route. In the meanwhile, however, every available bit of energy is being concentrated on this and three other avenues, one of which is the piercing of a hole by a diamond drill to facilitate the passage of food, clothing and messages to the men.
Another is a horizontal tunnel from an adjoining mine, while the fourth and most hazardous is from the base of mine shaft, access to which is gained through a lower level. From the shaft base workers seek to dislodge the debris blocking the tunnel and to drop it to the bottom, thus clearing an opening to the trapped level.
Every one is confident that the rescue will be made. Just how long it may take cannot be determined. Expectations were that possibly one expedition would shove through late tonight. The Oliver Iron Mining Co., which owns the mine, however, issued a statement through its press bureau declaring that four or five days more may be necessary.
Elaborate Preparations.
With the mining colony the rescue is hope against hope, with the first law of confidence rigidly observed. A total of 470 men are engaged in the rescue work.
Relatives of [?] men crushed in the
Apartment to Cost $5,000,000 Going Up Soon in Northwest
A new $5,000,000 apartment house, containing more than 3,000 rooms, capable of accommodating 5,000 persons, is soon to be built on the site bounded by Calvert street, Rock Creek Park, Connecticut avenue and Twenty-eighth street, it was announced today by Harry Wardman, the builder.
The apartment, to be known as Wardman Gardens, will cover an area of 12 acres, which is said to be a greater area than occupied by any other apartment house in the world. Mr. Wardman described the plans as calling for a group of buildings about twice the size of Cathedral Mansions. The entire plan will constitute a group of five buildings.
Context
A purported human skull became an elephant-bone identification
The September dispatch connected the reported complete skull to Dubois’s earlier Trinil fossils, explaining why it appeared to promise new evidence about human origins. By December, the identification had changed fundamentally. Nature’s December 18, 1926 report quoted Dubois’s assessment of photographs: the specimen was the head of a Stegodon humerus, an upper-arm bone of a prehistoric elephant. Nature also recounted earlier information that it had been obtained from villagers rather than found in place and was said not to be a complete skull. The photographic identification therefore overturned the central anatomical claim behind the September headline. [Nature, “News and Views”](https://www.nature.com/articles/118887a0)
An approach from below brought rescue the following day
The rescue account describes workers descending nearly to the bottom of H shaft, crossing a connecting tunnel, and climbing the ladderway of G shaft. This approach from below resembles the lower route described in the September 28 article. [Pabst Mine disaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pabst_Mine_disaster) Kendrick Kimball’s September 30 account placed the last of the 43 survivors at the surface at 11:22 the previous night. Rescue was therefore completed on September 29, the day after this edition, sooner than the additional four or five days the company had said might be necessary. The outcome gives a concrete resolution to the article’s uncertainty about how blocked passages could be overcome and how long the men would have to wait. [Kimball’s contemporary account](https://migenweb.org/gogebic/cmtys/ironwood.html)
Financing prevented the five-building scheme
Wardman’s announcement envisaged five buildings housing 5,000 people, but financing proved an obstacle to that scale of development. A National Register history records his 1926 proposal for five high-rise buildings accommodating 5,000 tenants and states that the scheme failed to obtain financing. It records five acres, whereas the newspaper gives 12: the accounts agree on the building count and capacity but differ on the area. [National Register apartment-building history](https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/64500083_text) Wardman’s later construction included the Wardman Tower, dated to 1928 in the District’s builders directory. That later building belongs to his continuing development activity; it does not demonstrate that the five-building proposal announced here was completed. [DC Builders & Developers Directory](https://www.planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/publication/attachments/Builder%2520and%2520Developer%2520Biographies%2520T%2520through%2520S.pdf)
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Apartment to Cost $5,000,000 Going Up Soon in Northwest
P. LLS ORTH gation Note E SLATE ly, and nit [?] $ 5, 000, 000 Going Up Soon in Northwest A new $ 5, 000, 000 apartment house, containing more than 3, 000 rooms, capable of accommodating 5, 000 persons, is soon to be built on the site bounded by Calvert street, Rock Creek Park, Connecticut avenue and Twenty-eighth street, it was announced today by Harry Wardman, the builder. The apartment, to be known as Wardman Gardens, will cover an area of 12 acres, which is said to be a greater area than occupied by any other apartment house in the world. Mr. Wardman described the plans as calling for a group of buildings about twice the size of Cathedral Mansions. The entire plan will constitute a group of five buildings. SMITH NOMINATED FOR FOURTH TERM
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