Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1926, Page 10

The man who looks forward all day to dinner, drinks it! (fly’ w Roasted RIGHT |(olybyanioris here i Washington Motor Gasolines are not alike. We'l let your motor decide— Test AMERICAN-STRATE The Reguiar Motor 24 “‘AMERICAN k, -M~—ESRT3£TE THE AMERICAN OfL. €0. Try AMOCO Motor Ol The Chair Ilustrated —is a Solid Wal- nut Hall Piece of inspira- tion—exceptionally well executed. Jacobean $49.50. veals—Trail BY E. PAUL READING. steadily for t It tock W civil en partner McLaren, his wn of ays to make | tream of ingoing traf. unkind opposition of the tiin to the many dos teams re pulling their an with his load nd two horses pulling to- nd three teams of horses orthodox lumbering [ d time to re bound for fast_as their moc cassins would carry them over slip. pery footing. Will Surpass Records. The rush is developing faster than I had anticipated. Already it sur- passes anything since the days of the Yukon, and it is going to be the big- gest thing in the history of Canadian quartz mining. When I left Red Lake over 700 claims had 1 there were o enl factory vest | 1 heard of good vs that had b Lobtained on T the shore. where the il i hardly touched and new rus to two more remote districts are foreshadowed as <oon as the water opens. T am nursing a_frost-bitten nose and chin and a pair of feet that are blistered like a hot tar roof, but just ne I'm willing to say that this h River territory is a great suntry—and besides there's The most interesting incident of our hike out from Red Lake concerns the Mouse, swing-dog of our second team. The Mou in Red Lake mining history as the | | mostinconsistent, cussedest dog in | | th d_country. Not only did she | the most difficult part of the Antan |} will go down |« also the midst of one of the THE EVENING BLIZZARD, WOLVES AND PUPPIES |AMONG RED LAKE MUSH PROBLEMS |Six-Day Journey Filled With Hardship and Yet Not | Without Humor, Reading’s Log of Trip Re- Often Lost. to—can you guess it?—well, here's what—to give birth to the most capti- vating litter of unwanted puppies 0| you could possibly imagine. Refused to Leave Nook. The Mouse had found herself a shel red nook and was curled up there her furry tail acting as a res- When Hyde approached harness in hand, she stubbornly led him till he caught the soft nur of complaint at her flank that gave the secret away. Com- pletely hidden by her fluffy caat were five squirming youngsters not nnlike voung field mice in facial ex- pression and squeaking plaintively. One of them had been chilled and he did not survive. but the other pre- sented a very live and actual prob did we do? What could we abandon- nd_babies only alternative t of the xperiment and it Wo Bound inside the tarpaulin that ered the toboggan loud, the M rode in state tor the next two days made the with Ler family tucked safely in- side her flank and Brown's rabbit skin sleeping robe to keep all of them warm. STAR, WASHINGTON Island Lakes, with portages in be-|tearing down the wind. D. O, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, For us it tween, an even 15 miles to the camp | meant heavy going and a rapidly dis- where a crew of Finns and Icelanders | appearing trail—for the planes pos- are cutting out a tote road. At the end of the tenth mile hunger, the in- evitable companion of the trail, had begun to assert itself. Three further on we were counting the dis- familiar hum startled us. High overhead were two biplanes making their first flight to Red Lake, and we watched them soar in 15 min- utes over the distance it had taken us 4 hours to cover. That afternoon they buzzed once more cheerfully overhead, due in little more than an hour at the goal that for us was six days distant. Misery hates a contrast, and when the plancs repeated their annoying perfarmance next day the miles ahead seemed all the longer to us human ants on the snow benecath who had to crawl them. W. J. Scott. who flew into Red Lake for The Star on Thursday, told me gleetully last night that he had seen our party plodding over the ice and, judging by the location he zave, he was right, but I am still too fresh from the trail to enjoy the joke. Om Friday, however, supremacy was oure anxiety. TLeaving Pine Ridge post in the morning. we had made the first stretch over Lac Seul when the planes passed overhead bound for Red Lake. One Plane Damaged. Lunch that day was at the cabin of an Indlan named Paul Thomas, whose establishment has become a sort of road house for the comfort of all wayfarers. While we were eating Once or twice it was necessary to|l turn the tohoggan flat on its side and pe the bottom free of ice, but even operation did not_disturb the dog on the first free ride she had ever enjoyed. We landed her safely at Hudson, and v she wiil go hy train to Allan - there to enjoy the rest and clusion necessary for the nurturing of one more dog team for next Win- 1 | ter's trail. Huskies Show Speed. Winter tr in the north is meas ured by its vicissitudes, and we had our share of them. Yet, when ac Seul Factory we discarded one loaded all our traps on the other and hitched a five-dog team to it our mileage h ese fellows wound up with a burst of speed. The trail, which had a heavy night's frost, and < enabled us to keep up with the eager dogs ed Lake the first half day's down the Chukuni % Lake, Big Gull and Two was _sensibly better | Huskies know when they ‘hing the end of the trip, | | . 14th STREET AT R {Insurance? x 211 COMMER Health. | Fire, Lite, _BE SURE T LET US BUILD YOU GASOLINE Service Station $180 Down—$50 a Month on sour farm or vaeant_land on #00d road. Fireproof. Store. re- alr_garage and gasoline tanks. mmediate construction. Service Station Construction Company Vermont Bullding. Ave. 8 L St N.W. Main 1779 A 303 Vermont Ready to Render Unusual Service E USE the term service literally —meaning a careful and consistent catership to your needs. Co-operating service—that will collabor-. ate with you in the accomplishmcnt of a desired effect in furnishing—putting all our facilities, all our resources in the great pro- duction markets at your disposal. Guaranteeing service—which means that we assume the full responsibility for the con- tinued good behavior of what you buy here. The price has nothing to do with it. If it comes from here it MUST meet our standard and your expectations. This store stands as a landmark of com~ mercial stability. We have pursued the same progressive and aggressive policy for nearly forty years—expanding to our present pro- portions as popular preference has indicated its appreciation of our store ethics and the integrity of our merchandise. miles | ed. and it caused us a good deal of | «ibly danger, and when we saw no more of them for the balance of the Journey we were a good deal concern- Hardly an hour after our arrival vesterday afternoon one of the pilots tance by yards, when a strange but |janded on lost Lake with the news that the blizzard had caught them and caused a blind landing, in which one of the machines was damaged. It ws that blizzard that held us up in “Johnson's camp,” a log shanty at @ head of an island which forms a shing depot In the Summer and t Winter had formed one of the wa) side inns of the Red Lake trail. The wind was shrieking before we reached it and the surface of the lake was a blinding smother of snow, so one could only guess at the trail. The dogs bent their heads down and I drew in the puckering string of my parka and jerked the hood forward, hut even then my chin was frost-bit- ten before T reached the camp. It was only the keen sense of the dogs that kept us on the narrow strip of packed snow we were traversing, and even they blundered occassionally, to flounder back as the footing gave way under them. At the camp. we 1 a party from Haileybury and 11—F. €. Bidgood, his son Nelson, Kearney, 16.yearold Kenneth 22727228 Y 2 % 1926. Kearney, who has the distinction of | forces of earth to rob the earth n{l === being the youngest musher on the trafl, and George Tucker. Kearney and Bidgood are seasoned prospe game Bidgood's quest of mineral dates hack to K bury before the Boer war and has led | Montana = sta him to British Columbi; and Tdaho. He saw s the Yukon rush as well ething of id quite emphatically that the present stam- pede was the o i he had witnessed since to ¢ 3 Howl of Wolves All that night the te) weird song and at intervy was swelled by another note the dogs frantic Down on the wind came the thin mournful wail of wolves, as the night itself. them and I have no idea how many there were, hut their howl was un mistakable. “This dramatic stuff country no good,” don't do the caution T received from a atranger further down th il: but that night at Johnson's camp it needed no garnighing of verbiage. 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