Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1925, Page 101

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, NOVEMBER 1, 1925—PART Words From an Ancient Character |Washington Explorers in Alaska Come to the Rambler at His Work First White Men to Visit Big Area - Some Moderns Also Contribute to His Material for Discussion of Prominent Citizens of Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Described as America’s Last Frontier, Furnishes Background 7 Various Former Times. for Thrilling Experiences of United States Engineers. WOMAN came to my desk a| § BY THOMAS R. HENRY. oAt ot oo P e MERICAN territory, whose area boss, it's time to write | 5 S % o is approximately 7,000 square the week's ramble, so let’s go| % miles—an empire in itseli—has to it!” She is a woman of young looks | J8a& 3 el N been visited for the first time o #ind is three thousand years old. Like | [ 7 ¢ % P this Summer by white men. 1 women of that age, her complexion " 5 s * 5 - By g ‘ In the official files of the Interior < fresh and her spirit gay. Many 5 2 Department this enormous stretch of ictures of this woman show her wea tundra, mountain and river, with min- rel wreath instead AL eral riches still unscratched, is known o soursing a roll g 5 simply as Petroleum Reserve No. 4. el L e O T : R } : The record of its exploration, which r powdeting her he said . = ¥ has been in prog for the past three me see! We left off last Sunday E i =, s y ' years, forms one of the most thrilling middle of the history of David A s X ¥ episodes in the recent aetivities of the You were defending him | § o 2 - *, ¢ L | Interior Department. The latest chap- the charge that he was a| B . s R o iy 3 g4l |ter was written by Gerald Fitzgerald Scot or any kind of a : . Vhae R o Pl =1 5 2 and Walter R. Smith, Government en- The charge had been bro : S8 Sty o 5 zineer: Summer. They have just Listorians not members of 2 3 e 5 3 i & 7. .Y |Feturnca to Washington out of the s' Union, No. 1, U. A. L. M - s ' 5 northern slope of the Alaskan penin- red Assoc n of Literary Me after more than seven months of ")“.v We :w\l:)': that Iur in one of the loneliest, most | na that David Buracs, Dayile beon s Bt el I hapied SOrn e e L spender, could not have been a : : ¢ i Pl et O sofehmar i , : o o 3 § g Ameriea’s frontier. Or 3 € U's up to us to' get busy - % Sst 5 138 c 3 ¢ rders on the Arctic Ocean. It tackle the job. The % oy . i RS R % g ¢ a0 erious, Impenctrable_mountains. ps on your neck| L of JeiRe X 7 e v 3 g J For five months Fitzgerald and 1 late with 54 e 65 3 R 3 -5 Smith did not see any other human ipt." " £ 3 AN - ¢ S o beings except two members of their nother g AR : = 5 1 - party who were picked up on the » talk u about. Y 3 Lot p ~ % 1 p: iy They were entirely out enough adjectiv ! h the rest of the e vl;‘l-‘ esteem wr ke world. 3 0o, modern boon of on adjectives no matter Arctic explorers, was denied them. v mean anything or not. Cut off from the world and oblig»d at is dry. u ought to throv e . z o o . - < - - - ind_frenzy. W 2 s S e o 2 to carry all their supplics on{ MEN AND DOGS PACKING THEIR EQUIPMENT ACROSS THE PORTAGE FROM COLVILLE TO THE s: “While th MANSION NAMED NONESUCH, NEAR THE END O SYLVANIA AVENUE EAS backs, a radio set would ha NOATAK RIVER. THE LONG STRETCHES OF TUNDRA ARE TYPICAL OF UNCLE SAM'S ARCTIC ombeams winged X A G e ¥ FARE A S 0 ¥ n an extra burden which th EMPIRE. 1 flight through | to roll tenpins at the Casparis House. | and who was a pest. I never got Into|Key and Scanlon went down fn =a fford in the perilous hu: s be B 80 pines, which whis-| ‘“For leads as to the Poe-Dow friend- | any other civic organization where |heap that day to the joy of the boys.|fore the leepy and somnolent lullabys | Ship you are referred to J. A. Harri- | there w yme gentlemen with {One of the papers r headed | " ppa story of their trip, as reported the somber shadows the night, | Son’s Virginia edition of Poe—the vol- | shrimp-like br: nd broken out| ¢ ‘A Whisker r Pulling ere came furtive, althy, | ume devoted to lettes | with the ite ed to an office. A i the | )y \emories of the happy | “But perhaps I dealing in mat-{ How we A <o) Sttin our_plain.fu “Then the: s the game fhat part of their rov anty. | the Utukok s fast he weather | siderable exploration in the past, but vore when you andfters that are common knowledge.|nished roo: o sl 8 riot because O'Rourke off ™ ry\ oarala, Smith and one other;|permittéd the supplies were relayed |nobody had been’ able to penetrate neath the t B} = 1l repeat to vourself that say-|about our picture triumphs, hopes and | 4 a8 soll LRI InG hin i) Delezene, sailed from Seattle|on toward the hea f the Colville|to its source in the mountain foot- the Frenchman To be »pointments th: wives would s put into play when t "8 S G et R B b e SRt elor ao the axiorems 1 wble we must make up ind police sta- | Na tiol What a - | el and arrived at the |river and a Bty ilia vear|nioted e een arstl e ¥ up our minds to be told things we | tions! The only thing about which | that w: i Nenana, the northern s v‘]:’“ lthis ‘~)x“"’ :‘\;ll; s ;!”W;\ g n_-“lll‘/ »L-m;‘l‘-‘m Railroad, | ;3" rought overland' to the Colville, | ground, however, after first great Fortunately e snow lasted, av arted and it w long unt than | ed p ary hills were the ice le ! men were , vari-colo) waiting to | of flowers and gra I seen in small bands every Sixty miles out on the trail the day ed ar froz enough of them were killed before Blankenship had lost a finger during heay E ! 3 the camp s plied with fresh me while unfasten the dogs from a|the boats were shoved out into the| The country along the Upper Col snubbing post, but he came on to|SWift curren nd the actual explora-|ville, the explorers found, is not a good 1 of the u 5 gun. | game country here is a | o | pographical and geologicdl map: During one of the was begun from e rveys | the > the to Secretary Work, is a simple narra- > south side of the and | Me: or were d Th tion of the doing v job which was 1 across to the dwaters of | Meade has been the object of con o | already know—by persons who don’t|any or every member of the old club| “We thought Bob Durr wa terminus of the Alaska |licd was his camera. His lens was|greatest pitcher in the world in t March 10. The fourth member of the o riously—vour rambles vs unthinkably fast and its depth [days. Believe it or not. And the ye R. Blankenship, had ite sentences | are awfully good | of definition beyond bellef. I think I|Washington the only pen \ched Nen from Tanana with return trip was mad Kotz 1 the subject ; s. A | used to say that my lens was made for | they ever had before last vea s vo dog tes £ 11 dogs each one day | camped 1 the object in-| ‘m.. Virgin »f Richmond, before. | the league (BEastern) only a readers know | You'll never er unless yvou anguag he best ywriters before the season’s end, disbanded and left the y Nats who wer Olympics of rgetown & vast their old srounds on this morning—a natural stadium—ar dent of the entire trip. On M | day just as it w 10 years the party Proms. *. STILE: | each loaded with ¢ mp equipment and i head of the Colville 1,000 miles away Nenana and had the wound dressed by " T said, ta n me { 4 3 i f It my a physician. This was the only ives pain to the fellows who they can w their kicks c ind I'll go back to my MEET Ed Scanlor lunch in “The LA - and T will see t t sirr 5in had been came to t : 5 v 3 . 4 Mrs. R. H. Frere, 1201 Euclid strect |S. Nenana with 3 logical investigatior 3 P 5 rthwest, sends to the Ra - al o P crossed the northern The thrill came whe = ded dance invitafion on the first| v = — % %% page of which is: “First Grand Ball | basin in the dead of Wir ~SonE to the Rambler give © et : P : of the National Blues. The honer of | ton Sl Bt informa Most of them b ? vour company is respectfully solictted | (or, 'l order to be in tertar Man ters run like th LRyl S & R at the first ball of the National Blues | 3 DB Wiale <o pexplons Andiar “Dear Sicastor aet 3 5 ’ 156 Elier Filths ieehibls e s | Spring set in. Previous efforts to map d in ican nies some- | S ” 3 o - the 22nd of February, 1860, ta- | the territory had been made by engi exple here between e 3 K Honlcommiiiae Cas Weit neers who went by boat to the porth- ‘ camp with and Point Lookout. His nam ooy x ] | Foxwell, Lieut. Rapley, I rd | ern: settlement under the Ameri & Ak e This afternoon ith. Wil kind enough 4 ARETE “omg X k £ ° 4 | Brown. Daniel Donaldson, Robert n fiag, Point Barrow, and from there : 2 unarmed. o tell me what he his plani % 3 e 3w | well, Wiliam Fiood." scended the rivers. The difficulty | _‘»"h;" he married and who his 2 R e 5 P & : g 2 ;: I have sther letter whose coming | with this method proved that, on ac- # # reported to t indchildren were? There it | count of the long delay fnlgettiiE to 3 ton, by the s 2 in the family that he f it in this column. Tt 4 ,| Point Barrow by boat the explorers 4 behind them or Wil re and although Mrs, ) P00 ®oonly T s up any one ok e were belng der Nap. . and t 3 read this part o joaw LB onlY 0L P ST o E wolf, the v e : ; 2 E s b ot Ohe o i ke, | f the coastal plain rivers before th ol helping to 1 the f 3 4 2 X g on girl who has become a | 1018 Arctic Winter began to set in not hunt in packs. 1. A neighbor of mine Bh s I P | singer. "Her name was tery [€arly im September, and it was neces E THEN e Al s ook o next block who is a sign pai * Bl | Murray and her name ix Vera Murray [ 47 0 make haste back to the coast. | The wolf followed. It has painted my ancestor’s coat B o . 3 B st Covert. She lives in New York City.| Fitzgerald and his party followed a | % f and if thi ” S our researches y miles back to camp She is the sopra soloist t the|somewhat different route fr that P X i dom turned around without seeir X Church of St Iary t Virgin, | taken by Smith t led down the Ta- ¥ { anfmal a short distance back, w soose andl I . ; New York City, and she gives many |rana and Yukon rivers to the village : for the possibility of one of cent stamp f 1 > ; 3 song recitals on the opera and coucert | of Kaltag, overland to Unalakleet, an 3 8 | coming exhausted and dropping o Man > 1o t 1 . v stage. Vera began her musie life on | Iskimo village on the Behring Sea: 8 B | <0 that he could be tackled a o o to have. 3 L X - the piano and studied w lice E.| northward along the st, across | + | Fortunately, they wae able t n in 3 s o ; fl | Burtage and S M. Fabian of Wash-| Norton Sound and the hase of the | : : ?] | together and’ all " reachea camp ington, Rafael Joseffy, Sigmund Sto- | Seward peninsula to Kotzebue, where : 2] |safety. Atter that, orders were isst Jjowski and Harold Bauer. Fie' peirey arriven Apellio idhe i dls : g that no parties go cut without i » g G, i = - She was glven public recognition | tance of about 700 miles from Nenana | B ¥ o . arms, B t S . ; g as an excellent pianisi, and while | e reorrmmn wr mriles {rom Nenana A party in the charge of R. T playing the piano she turned to sing i : e : gent and R. A. Nappen explored 1 In fieldTe dtisong alie Studied|| L, oo oot Usiuing, e that] ef o unkrowp setions of tlic A Wb Chiske W. Clirk of CHitae.| - S T na & . Gnat | | Semiiny Wb Ui i Clarence b. Shirley of Boston, William | £3°, 52 ) Y W5 TOPOGRAPHER AND HIS DOG. WITH THEIR OUTFITS PACKED | mapping it and investica Shakespeare of London erbert = atire dists | ' 'HE e 1 Lier > PrANS ; ; fhouo it g tean oo [ over nearn the entire distance at | FOR THE TRAIL. et e e s @ | of B o of her work by musie | 1€4st one man ran behind each sled to : e T = the which hitherto w oo s Win iheisHinle oo . itics in New York, Philadelphia and |Euide it by means of handle bars.|Over white rapids and angry whirl-|lick of small animals and b i knon: Sltomas auihan o6 Gl Boston and they speak of the beauty | Often it was necessary to go on snow-|pools and beneath undercut snow |foxes and bears probably have re-| QOne of the most important of the e e UlAr [ jfere's another letter: | me by the Jena Optical Works and|of her voice. hop beak of the beauty oest et lo o . “Dear Rambler: Refarring to your | presented to me in fecognition of my | understanding. - I¢ ‘alao. pleases ime | LFall was obscured by drifts and newly | o5 ioh scepery mever wibhsssed b | p DD Oncelwas o freat BRllmoll oval g N estsation doohin of Congress and ¢ Sk fay, October 13, I want | service to the photographle art. I|that they say much about “an attrac. |fallen snow. The snow was four of | {orC Ly (he eyes of whits men. Thes | Lontine sround. Formerly theee Hkl: | resources ‘of the Yukon Lasin, c Robinson.’ Anotl » Pyle 2 oo i . to tell you it was such a fast|'ive )!nm‘“~n:|~.¢:1(\_ : charming stage [five feet deep, and when the sleds |never knew what was around the next | mie. . Pheir et Erobom o eloo, duc romwé).m“d\:".w.y [ Baa gon of the IPresid i 4o this S Auitns iha Shth e d to go out at midnight to|Presence” and all that, Vera is pretty | missed the beaten trail by a few |hend. The current was treacherous. | pieces of clay poftery and broken bone Thbl gt 1l of Tihe icthrechae versitier, whose work EoRautsicl fuc ool o | make snapshots that the plates might | 374 her face is tntellectual and ani.|inches they would upset in the soft, |There was no physician with the | Implements were found. These oo | el Lme of the picturesq public prints. T 1d | sTess : session of which | no: he overexposed. I am still using | A, remember her when she Was | deep drifts. Little accldents of this |party. An accident of any kind would | ple probably migrated to the. coast A ot A D e it leas 5 5 W 10 b o Washington, No-|that lens. 1 bought it for $1.95 in|%,CHc St fer biono practice with |kind would sometimes result in a dog | have meant disaster. Sometimes the | many years ago, to be nearer the | menrytount MeKin atne. Jullers Hoie i . [ ven: John P.” Van | a second-hand shop thirty years ago | g BUrbas '_“"'l;l""“";f‘i“”‘;i";“:: fight, boats would strike a ¥ bar and | traders and missionaries. A party in the charze of F. H. Mof ennsylvania » Willard | N s el < & member of the \d a crack in it when I got|Lablan. s & ent fo ] e e have to be lifted across, The dogs e i A party in the charge o [ Aot Tennsylva 1| Yess @ mem ":”I\{l"‘gd’”xui S han & crack in it when T g0L| ) nacoatia and tne thonght. Gomas ta| T arrival at Kotzebue ended the (BAYe to be litted across. The dogs| A'curious fact noted liy Fitzserald | eit mapn 1 the shores of Irince Wil I was informed | December, 1501, Does this corre- | “slow rectilinear.” I remember many |1¢ that several girls in that little |1rst stage of the Journey. The greater JTAITEGAME (oo WS BEL 0 (T O R ehiored b Iiniself and his cou | uam Sound, using @ small gasoline t the old Cas | spond with vour story in The Star? It | of the old bunch—John Ullman, Wil | (08 across the Eastern Branch, be-|Part of it covered much the same trail | 0 T3P (UIMR AEAC of (hE (ORS e try explored by himself and his com- | poat - , Which stood in what is now the | seems to me as I read it yesterday de, Frank Crow, Doc. Stewart,|cAuse of talent and ambition, have|as was followed by the dog teams that | timeg each day | To he most agwenturous of the mativ |eom. e el o i the neizhborhood | there was some conflict and I havelMr. Tyler, the specfalist_on hawks, | o1 hish o syl bt o ‘f"l i :1:“‘"‘l‘:::“l‘m';‘:’r”'::‘l“‘ to| "It was a dreary Azctic country dur- | hunters. The members of the I,“m.;‘:’r‘]"l"‘\}l‘me":n‘p";;l111‘;“““"‘_mv(_‘r‘lz‘j“‘fv‘:‘_ = one o : er mother and|Nome a v months e . and over |ing May, a place of great wastes of | this e DEODABI. A Ly | and.so aportant S were |father, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F.|which the mail for Nome and places | snow and soeth wilcae ® Avates o | e Py e e!1io OBLY | made for the archives of the Geologi- Murray, are living in_the old home, | farther north is hauled at regular in.|middle of June came the i sum- | kimo, who ever have looked upon | SUrveY 2011 Nichols avenue. My hat is off to | tervals throughout the Winter regard. |mer with its everlasting days, its great | thousands of square miles of hill and | T you, Vera, and I hope that some one |jass of storms and with temperatures | masses of tiny flowers carpeting the ‘ tundra. H The Busy Pianist. | nd profit voice, her sympat skill and | shoes ahead of the dogs where the |hanks itt o ) treated into the mountains, since the | symmer's explorations was ympathy, skill and {panks the little group floated on, | jacial plain once was a great Eskimo Hb e R e The Tamiter o et oa, or| . When the survey party left Nenana [aDd its pleasant sunshine. Later there | with a previous survey of the central | app! BA60 o rather, stuck, for meant of hecom. | the Weather was warm.” It had been | YEre mosaultoes, never missing in the | part of the Colville Valley and the | = Dressure to the Kevs in & minuts I o e . raining, suggestive of an early Spring | ATCtic summer, to take something |party turned south up Etivluk River,|a pianist in the same time reads gl ting this story f he rom the pleasantness of the picture. | Jarge tributary of the Colville, which | 1,500 signs and makes 2,000 finge: should put in a photograph of Clio|in the Far North. This was rather | the party followed the river for i ican | mov s. wearing a sport hat, the five hundred | discouraging, in view of the long trip Lot |is " the. Mississipp! of the American | movements. | thousand classicists of Washington [ahead over the snow. However, the | would protest and some pious readers | temperature dropped in a few days. |would ‘say, “That Rambler is too|Before the party left the Yulon it { friendly with pagans.” If I were to| 30 degrees below zero. One of the | put In photographs of the gentlemen | engincers received a few frost bites. [ page. T I put in Verne pieture na|While the party was crossing Norton | man would see else in this story, and | S0und on April 1. The snow hecame the only photograph I have of her is| incrusted over the eyes of the dogs, gold-framed on my desk and I think |04 it was necessary for a man to go it not good manners to pass a lady's|on ahead of them. At times it was | picture around in public. The best I|impossible for this guide to see the | can do for vou Is to reach in my file |lead dog, although only a few feet |and take out three negatives which |ahead. Had it not been for a well | have no relation to this story. But|staked trail the party probably would they were made with the famous $1.95 | not have reached the roadhouse at lens, ground for me by the Jena works | Koyuk that night. The Eskimo road- i;é“{]xwpe:\’}sfi?'énpr:‘r‘,?ué'r’;l;x:i%firx‘-‘tu;:: house keeper was astonished when e e o e Y| they drove in, and told them he had not thought it possible for anybody to —_— - | cross the sound fn such a storm. Lost Sense of Taste. | i il . S s : E Kotzebue the party secured| e g e D Tt o supplies for the summer, The o A limb to reach the sum-|most difficult stage of the fourney of Mount Iiverest, the adven-|was hefore them, the crossing of the are said to have lost their sense | e Long Mountains. They hired more taste, onions and peppermints |gop teams to convey the provisions seeming practically without flavor. and canoes up the Noatak river to S BT e e e o ppezenue| THE TOPOGRAPHER AND DOG TEAM SLEDDING SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT DURING THE WINTER T i 3 FRSE e ( You Get New Ones! Thereafter the party camped in tents, AND SEABJI_HL G FOR A P{\hb ACROSS BROOKS R.—\.\(;E,AI\EORT!“.R.\ ALASKA. of New Jersey avenue southeast, in-|therefore given you the dates from|owls and snakes; Charlie Eby, Ved-{ (o1 cie—AR'd 1i -e a | except one night spent in the native 5 < 1 % 14 of being demolished, was put on | official récords. der and a score more. pm,f",,‘,"fhffe';‘":f:h Ab'd like to have a | Ti0; °0f Noatak. This village is | more ‘hflnfw’ miles (andmflmm&ed Lol » Thll-" l't‘“’rl W | The Nervous System. ollers and moved into the southwest-| - *“Sinearely your friend, rgea et Y ique in that it contains neither |an area from 2t o miles | about miles to its source at the | AR 3 T it of theiciy. NIy irfomoant| “CHARLES E. FAIRMAN, Another lette: N 3 vour shoes worn | TGS, ™ man nor | halfbreed. Not |Wide on each side. In making the | summit of a low pass in the heart | THE human nervous system is £howed me the building; as T recolle “Art Curator, U. S. Capitol.”| “Dear Harry: The world serles has Man, [one of the population of 250 used |tribs over the rough tundra away |of the Brooks Mountains, a range really a living telegraph line @hough I'm hazy about it) the Joca: P most people thinking about base ball. | tne bottoms of mah shoes is so thin | tobacco. H 3 '{,":’('{“ A O e L ion Was not very far west cr very ‘hy e 2 in s p an’ v As soon as the mountain range was | back animals, carrying packs of 25 | Alfred H. Brooks, s dea . oY sognder South—say in the neigiborhood of S, Charlle, I think I got the dates| Why not, then, a story about ¢la-time | & liin step on & dime an' tell whethah | C8 5% 08 0L OSSO0 60 Va0 | o ‘30 ‘pounds, for distances of 18 to | vears ago head of the Alaskan di, | thinks Dr.'W. R. Whitney of the or 13 and from Third to Four-and-a ght, and I told where I got|ball games and ball players? The old | ©* 3 farther with the hired dog_teams, |20 miles a day. Over a short portage | vision of the Geological Survey.. They | General Electric Co., according to haif street. My recollection is that|’em, my idea being that if they were|grounds at New Jersey avenue and (3 e " e They turned back at ®® =aad of [some of the dogs carried burdens as | found the Etivluk to be a swift, | Science. This idea is sharply disputed it stood on a corner—on the southwest | wrong I could lay the blame on some | street—the ‘boys’ corner—where we At Last the Truth the Utukok River, on the Aretfe slope, | great as 40 pounds. This method of | turbulent river, flowing over many | Ly scientists, who Sy that nerve mes- corner My informant (the late| “‘authority I remember you when |saw the game for a dime and hooted t Last the Truth. for fear that the smow would thaw |transportation hitherto had not been|rapids and sand bars. The dogs |sages do not travel at the speed of Avilliam Maximillian Long) spent the | we were in ¢he Washington Camera |Agent Key of the Humane Soclety| The following announcement con-|before they could return if they ven- |used by Geological Survey explorers in [ again proved very useful in lining | electricity, but Dr. Whitn y demon- greater part of his life in the Casparis | Club. I think with pleasure of the | the day he came there and protested | cluded an account of a wedding in a | tured farther. As the drivers turned |the North. It enabled the men to re-| the boats, but many times a day. for |strated with condenser apparatus that jouse vicinity and knew whereof he | years in that old club. I never got|to Mike Scanlon about the cruelty of | small town: back the little party of four white | duce their own burdens to a minimum, | 15 days the entire party waded in |the transit time of a message can he Ehoke, 1le claimed that Lincoln dur-|into amy other club where there was|having those boys exposed to the( “The bridegroom’s gift to the bride |men were left alone in the Arctic |although it was necessary to carry on | swift, :0ld _water above their | slowed down even to three seconds, & ing his first years in Washington (as a | not one Smart Aleck who had rounded |sun’s fierce heat when the grown-ups | was a handsome diamond brooch, be- | wastes, to be for months out of com- |their backs most of the surveying | waists in order to get the boats | timé much longer than the kn Tember of the House) frequently used ' up all knowledge worth rounding up'in the stand had a roof over them.!sides many other things in cut glass.” | munication with the rest of the world, ' instruments. through the rapids. A maximum air- | nerve reaction time of a human belmg. [ {made up of electrical condensers,