Show work years on map not yet done J H hawley in charge of work explains task washington Map makers have been busy in the united states for years under direct supervision of the government but their job Is far from fla asbed commander J 11 II ua banley aey acting head bead of the commerce departments coast geodetic survey explains the task by picking up a pencil and drawing lines on his desk to resemble a checkerboard from crosshatch cross hatch to I 1 crosshatch cross hatch commander harleys hawleys naw Haw leys pencil jumped you see he said the entire job Is by no means complete because we have cave only begun to round out our basic control project that Is vide the country into mlle mile squares of latitude and longitude with exact elevations above sea level at established points to allow topographical cappers to have bare it a basis upon which to lo work many times we find places which are re not actually where they think they are there was for instance an island in the philippines which was 14 miles away from where the charts listed it offshore progress slow why in plenty of our offshore surveys we are just replacing maps used by the old spaniards commander hawley stopped to point over brer a bas relief map of a bunch of islands and ocean to a hook nosed bust that stood upon a bookcase the bust looked ali like e an old roman homan senator that man he said is old ferdl nand hassler assler II no lie was the first man to run this bureau and lie he was started off by the personal appointment of 0 the president in 1816 the president called him into his office and asked him what salary he be wanted hassler said he wanted ile he got the and the job the bureau hils has been surveying ever since its quite a job there are miles of coastline to be marked and miles of this belong to continental united states most of the rest Is alanskas describes surveyors work this Is the wiy way they go about it surveyors pick a point on the coast and 15 it its latitude and longitude then they ligure figure out its relationship to the height of the tide that establishes level above the sea this fixes a definite point from which to inland for knowledge of both vertical and horizontal positions |