Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1926, Page 78

THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. JUNE 13, 1 926—PART Sixty Chinesej Pirates, Led by Girl, Terrify Passengers on Vessel Shipload Is Helpless Only Short Distance From Land—Youthful Ameri- can Is Seized as a Stowaway—-From Tramp Life to the Whirl of Society— The Fateful Brass Ring in Fan-Tan— Murder and Plunder. After many adventur emusing and romantic—we now find Mr. Halliburton-—in this, the fourth of a series of five articles. preparing to set forth again on his vagabond way around the world And, as on other occasions, lack of funds for transportation did not deter him Mr. Halliburton had just spent several idle weeks upon the idyllic island of Bali, in the Dutch East Indies. Previously, as related in other articles, he had the narrowest escape trom death atfter stepping upon a cobra’s nest in crossing the Mala peninsula; had visited the ruins of Ankor, “the greatest mys. in history"; spent one glorious moonlight night at the Taj ) and another night on the pyr: of Kheops; and had climbed Matterhorn. BY RICH \lll; HALLIBURTON. P ERIE'S tain th —perilous, A stowaway, What shall we him?" ing heard my me case stated the ing. Knowing t back the 30 miles to Surabgva stowaw 2 that even' thongh were jaile veaching Jav 1 tritmph jail_in smile him. This smug attitude on my disastrous, “Drop him with the pilot:” captain’s only remark Pilot! Holy smoke! all about that. Hadn't ing 3 ho 1t had not stood repress as 1 Id seemed three vears left on my return m Bali, and with a e away on to China, I had reluctantly the only irse open me in a midocean <kiff it we stopped emerged the black ped ovi ordered out rboard, and 1 to climb down pilot. Seated in the boat T watched my ship sail disappear. followed by all erous vituperation in my was it gyratiy on dred feet away, and on it T w come as the black plague. I slept a vacant bunk that night, far out sea, mad enough and enough to die ahoard turning Next mot her an inbound Dutch steamer o that hell-hole, & 1hayva day the steamship name), an American freig via Singapore. and hefore the « a grand old man with a gense of mor, could called on him a free ride. He was so astonished he gave it me, with qualifications, gift was absolutely defendu United States Shipping said if 1 could come magnifi get ashore Board aboard at hide me in the vacant hospital 1 for at leas 1 obeyved ter, and for 24 fed and cared officer, who “‘caugh me hours was for. Then had heen my and in a the fright,” before the blessed crew fully expected to see me trom a yardarm When he was sure everyhody heard this ter took me into clgar and This was cabin, gave me smoke offense with ci vy and when. I began to turn a bit pale, amuse more | the old skipper roared with ment and thrust half a dozen upon me with the suggestion that smoke them all and learn how. moment 1 got on deck Havanas were fed tdé which short order. The Minerva had to tar Sinzupore, where the the v captain, 1 ight to the Amer ra deck pas 1e consul asked “What ship do you want to go o “The Minerva,” I replied ngly to pri sent lung to) from the president of American rubber com to Mr. X the local English manager in this rul nt a letter of AN E ML AN A \\\}\\\}\‘ ‘ NNWE ap The skipper sternly by < wha had found me in hid at he would not turn for one Singapore, that would be better than heing out of hefore part was was the forgotten we been sail With to Sura m from Java and taken stow seemed. ess: a rope ladder was drop roughly behind the row and the vocif- vocabulary. The pilot ship was only a few hun as wel in at humiliated and next morning went re. Minerva put into port sailing for Hongkong Dptain ent nd brazenly asked for to since, such a with the | He mid night he would have the chief office: where | ] structions to the let secretly chief keeper, perfectly feigned rage marched me. gulping with | old_ skip- per, who, with twinkling eves, played the role of indignation until the entire hung had | The he half-dozen sharks, no doubt died of apoplexy in 48 hours of |served only $100 for my future travels. se. permitted me to slip ashore un can | Macao. nt and with little diffi- | Hongkong ze to unblush- This matter heing settled, 1 hurried [boarded the British steamer introduction | Which, following her unva in Caleutta and fortunately |schedule, left her berth an ber metropolis. As at Banekok, T ws received along with my Khaki shorts |and knapsack, into the British-Amer- |lcan colony, and for 36 hours “had @ whirl. * ok ok ow | "T"HE second evening, having dined at Mr. X.'s home, I donned one of his dinner coats, et party of his friends to dance Hotel s me it was @ very merry party—until in the midst of it I the captain of the Minerva seated at a side table, He was staring in amazement, able to believe that the destitute vaga bond. the stowaway whom he had charitubly protected and the man in the dinner coat daneing with one of the prettiost women in Singapore Jcould be the same person. For fear | he would think me & fraud falsifying | my position, I thought it best to show | him no recognition. All evening 1 met his quizzical glances with stony stares The ship sailed at 2 a.m. . moment to spare, 1 hurried to my host's house and changed my for the old rough attive. The captain, awake to superintend the departure. was on hand when I climbed aboard with proper papers from the consulate. mock indignation at seeing me on his hands again. and greeted me with a torrent of profanity “Oh, captain, captain.” 1 exclaimed, “that’s no way to welcome a legiti- | mate passenger. Your Singapore agent has just sold me a deck ticket on your ship to Hongkong, and here's a letter from the consul authorizing it and re- | questing your good will | “Deck ~ passenger!” he roared. “Baaah! What's your gameanyway? One minute I see ou dressed like a Aude gallivantin’® around a ballroom floor, and the next minute you come on my ship wearing those confonunded Boy Scout pants and asking for a deck passage.” Why. enptain.” T replied, looking as abused as possible, “I've heen eat ing peanuts in the park all evening.” Hum! Are you quite sure you didn't eat some of the peanuts at Raffles Hotel?” W he me” chane Well, if I'm danined He was considerably more damned than satisfied with the situation. Al during the five days’ vovage to Hong kong the dear old captain was continu- ally asking me questions in regard to my history and interests—without avail, as [ was always very non-com mittal tle was never quite sure I was the person he had been at Raffles, vet | neither was he sure that I wasn't. Not until we parted company at eur destination did 1 confess to the dual role “You're n disgrace to your family, he said savagely, but there -was [twinkle in his sharp eves. “If you'l | admit it. Tl give you a box of cigars.” I admitted it and then went ashore | vainly trying to subdue another one of the gruff old skipper's poisonous Ha- vanas. Five Raffles at tafMe: Swell vou weren't there, then hundred dollars! That was ‘ces on reaching the Ame press Company, where my been accumulating. * ok ok x JF!VE HUNDRED DOLLARS! Now at last T could travel decently. buy a new outfit and cross the Pacific in comfort. The very thought of it—the thought of putting all the strain and destitution hehind me and going home in peace—made me purr with content- ment “Quitter!” an Ex- mail had contempt into my ears. “Quitter! 17 months vou have heen a vaga- hond. and now just hecause you have a little money you'd throw over your iginal determination and spoil every- thing at this late hour for a private hath and a derby. romance!—all right so far—but if you pave it with money this Hongkong will be the end.” I realized the voice was right, and, appropriating $400 to spend on Canton jade and Macao gambling dens, re- Sunday is always the great day All the business houses in are closed, allowing ths employes, with their week's wages in hand, to take advantage of excursion ates and travel in crowds over to the antan houses Choosing a at visit, Sl An, ving daily t Hongkong carrying 70 Europeans and some 300 Chinese. It was the usual crowd, many of the voyagers being tourists going Sunday for my RN AR W LR N N A \\ ..\ NN \ With not | clothes | He snorted with | what awaited me from unexpected | The still, small voice at | ble tonguelashing, he |the height of my rejoicing whispered ‘The roval road to | 1l | . and went with a | saw | un- | to Macao more out than | anything else. | At luncheon t of curiosity ime we were all very \merry, talking of “systems’ by |which’ we planned to make our | fortunes. It was well that everyhndy ate rather heartily just hefore land |ing, for it was the last food we were to have for 24 hours. As far back as 1550 the Macao area was the happy hunting ground Chinese pirates. (It still is) In that year, as a reward for temporarily ex pelling the maranders, the city was ceded by grateful emperor to the | Portuguese, who have held possession ever since, waxing rich on the reve. | {nues received from the gambling and opium houses, It is quaint little port—medieval Portuguese in archi | tecture and Asiatic in population This was the place, then. where our 370 passengers disembarked from the | Sui An and scattered to the v ous |fan-tan casinos, with the understan ing that we must be on board at § if we wished to return with the ship to Hongkong While fan-tan is a simple #me, it is at the same time absorbing. One wins as often as one loses, almost, so that it is very fair and very popular The | house might not he ahle to meet de mands were it not for the 10 per cent | commission it takes out of every dol- lar won. In place of a wheel spun det termine the winning number, in roulette, a small pile of copper rings is dumped on the table, and drawn away four rings at a time, until only four or less are left. Thix number remain- ing decides one's fate. The Chinese players stand ahout the table on the ground floor; the Euro peans sit on a balcony above and send their stakes below in a basket. The house i always rich enough to pass around tea and candy gratis, enabling | You to get a free meal even if you lose all your money. c | ¥ ok e w | F NTERING a reasonably respectable- | looking establishment, 1 soon got| to under: nd the method of play, and, | placing my coins at reckless random, won oftener than I lost, with hegin- ner’s usual good luci As 5 o'clock | | approached 1 was $45 ahead, and | | beginning to have vi | | to ns of going | back to America in my private vacht. | The all-aboard warning came from the Sui-An. Just one more play, then | | T'd rush out and jump on. 1 placed | $5 on the fourth number—and lost. | Had I won that time I wonld have he- | come a fantan fiend and not gone back to Hongkong till next day. But I lost, and, snspecting that my | streak of good luck had changed, | rushed out of the casino, clutching “iN MID-OCEAN, IT SEEMED, WE_STOPPED: A ROPE LAD- DER_WAS DROPPED OVER- BOARD, AND I WAS ROUGH- LY ORDERED TO CLIMB DOWN IT.” | with velling ba |scious, the engineers h [ treatment, completely, and aved the ship. However, whatever our minds were never expressed, for the second-claxs (hinese, wild-eyed and squealing, began to pour into the saloon and along with them unother o wavering first-class pirate contingent. Any resistunce now was hopeless, and being 10 miles at sea on u boat with out wireless, there wus no excape. * oK ox % l‘lm systematle, orderly plundering of the Sui An now hegan We were crowded pell-mell into a. narrow passage leading 1o the we squeezed through the entrance, one at a time were thoroughly searched and relieved of whatever valuables we were guilty of possessing. 1 would have tried to hide my gam bling gains (fortunately the $100.rs perhaps heroies were in and on to the Sui An. the last By what slender passenger ahoard threads our destiny One small brass ring: and vet how fateful Through the gathering twilight the little ship steamed onward toward Hongkong, her passengers hoasting ahout the sums they had won, or grumbling at what they had lost Nothing was farther from our minds than piracy, vet at the very moment the resurrected spirit of skull and crosshones was ambusghed in our track, waiting to pounce with glee upon its a little thing— | fat-pursed. helpless vietims. Some’ 10 miles out from Macao the purser approached two Chinese passen gers to ask for their tickets. To his amazement, he received instead poke in the ribs with a revolver and an order to throw up his hands, trightened man turned and fled down the passage, followed by wild shots from the high-seamen. This was the signal for a carefully planned assault. Simultaneously, in every part of the hoat from saloon to steerage, the passengers found them selves confronted hy masked men and leveled guns. I was seated on the first-class deck trying to console a young English bank clerk. who had lost his entire week's wages. Along with every one else, we jumped to our feet at the «ound of the uncomfortably close re- volver shots Pandemonium had broken loose. Pi rates, pirates, armies of them, seemed to have swooped upon the deck from thin For an hour after leaving Macao the Sui An had heen the peace ship itself. then prestol—she swarmed dits, and the air sang with bullets. There was nothing mag- ical. however, about the attack, except | for the astonishing which it was executed. There were 60 brigands in all. A number of them, to assist in deceiving the ship's officers, had boarded Sunday morning at Hongkong, hought round- trip tickets and to all appearance were nothing more than model Chinese gamblers. The remainder of the gang came ahoard at Macao and stationed themselves in their alloited places, some first-class, some second-cla some steerage. With the first shots two of the four Indian armed guards rushed to the scene. From three sides bullets were poured into their hodes before they had a chance to strike a blow in de- fense of the ship. The two remaining guards were beset hy the wolves, and bleeding and unconscious, left for dead on the deck. * kX X Fnu.\l the tangle of rushing terrified people, a young Chinese girl, ob- viously the leader of the band, de. tached herself and ran up the ladder toward the captain’s cabin just as the captain himself appeared on deck. She fired point-blank at him, and as he collapsed an accomplice beat in his skull. The girl, losing no time over her first vietim, dashed to the cabin of the Chinese purser, who, she knew, kept the keys to the ship's safe. She found him, but not hefore he had time to secure his own pistol. The girl fired away at her second victim, missed. Hie returned the fire, and did not miss. She fell into the arms of her efficiency with | confederates, shot through the shoul- der, and while not killed was disabled the rest of the evening. In 10 minutes the Sui An was com- pletely ut the mercy offthe attackers, the captain was all but dead, the two murdered guards had been pushed overboard, the other two were uncon- A been dragged on deck, and the passengers were huddled in corners, driven into cabin or stretched on the floor, where they had prostrated themselves to escape the fiying bullets. The initial assault had been directed against the second-class passengers, who, being all Chinese, could be counted on to stampede the ship and make no resistance. But the pirates allotted to the saloon had not been idle. Speechless with astonishment every one of us stood, helpless and humiliated, with our hands as near heaven as we could get them. 1 was not so frightened but that I could congratulate myself on being present to participate in this little pirate party—even though the price was $50 and my hat and coat and belt and what was left of my pride. Neither could I help being tremen- dously impressed by the contrast of the ominous, tense quiet prevailing among the Europeans and the chaos and howls and hysterics coming from the Chinese. The very composure of our group, its moral resistance to this outrageous began to disconcert our handful of assassins. They made no move to rob us; their eyes betrayed the fact that they were really the more uncomfortable of the two sides. I am inclined to believe an audacious Blow, or an act of resistance, from ene of us would have routed them sometimes hangs' | a | The | and ! serve was still safe at Hongkong) in OF RUSH] IRL.. THE 1 “FROM THE TANGLE YOUNG CHINESE UP THE LADDER n bundits came to the ald of the | loon, and as | JUST AS THE my shoe, hut the bandits didn't give | Hongkong, he appropriated these also. | fortunate Amevic When | my i | e me a chance to lower my arms ched into ew out the wallet v wrist-watch t thiul service throngh all |t situdes of my teip. [ They were welcome to the fantan woney, but the wateh they could not | have, Not stopping to think that 1 might get a bullet in any vibs for my | inpetuosity, 1 suddenly dropped my | arms and snatched the beloved old | wittch from the pirate's hand | | given such ! I don’t know why he didn't resent such impudence. Perhaps it was be. {cause the watch was small hat tered and rusty, with and vy record engraved back | Anyway he let me keep it. | The wallet and money were not all {1 lost. My cap was €0 hecoming to | one of the gang he decided to wear it, {and taking a liking to my ecoat and vest, bought not three days before in and name the . t c -~ v it K i the rightful quartermasters, forced u | ‘PM&H!HT to take the wheel and steer to & | Again they h went, thre smoking that initial nothing « was only ables felt been d lives, Fanded over their last cent for European hats and shoes. | seized added | several | uinder & great tow leather vemoved, my broad i buckle intriguing silver wd off that can we nothing uspecting some of | & or withholding valu- | wien, we were all ordered to our state- | ooms, there to await a second and | more soclable hold-up, | From cabin to cabin the pirates tening the pussengers with plstols and demanding in Jloodthirsty tones the watch or wallet was known to have escaped the search. Nine times out of 10 the sort was known. It vuse, but a very siuccessful those who had secreted valu- their treachery had | and in terror of their | The cont elt with an anght his eve our captors horough ulzht be hidi it not \ e, fo | sure overed Our bandits had a particular Hking Having #1l jewels and money, they insuit to injury by ordering | helr prey to hand over most of their | slothes, &0 that later we stocking: | '‘ooted and bareheaded passengers saw pirates disembark tottering - of hats worn one i top of the other, or perspiring inder the weight of six overcout Meanwhile the Sui An, part of the fme In utter darkness, was not stand ni still. In keeping with their fault ess plan, the brigands stood guard over the engine-room, and, removing rendezvous on the malnland howed sportsmanship, for m disembarking they offered the en |slaved passenger $100 for his services. sutded by v, we a bright led close fire on & prom ant in to shore, | and there were met at once by a num | her of allied junks, which pulied along- {unfortunate ship. of hats, | B side to receive the forty thousand dol- lars’ worth of loot stripped from the When the stacks bundles of overcoats, silver ruge, furniture, dishes, supplies every removable thing. in fact—-had heen transferred to the junks, the 60 | followed | send long chee; An limped awa | | she | tiabitity ING, TERRIFIED PEOPLE, A UEADER OF THE BAND, RAN CAPTAIN APPEARED ON DECK. SHE FIRED POINT-BLANK AT HIM.” | | %3 HE forty-ninth State of the Union™ is now nearly as ge as Massachusetis “The forty - ninth State has heen huilt out of 4 is their gift to the public The name of the new State ix the Com- monwealth of Parks. It is distrib uted in more than 500 arveas of iand up and down the United States. 1f all the State parks were collected and fitted together like a map puzzle they | would make a block of land 82 miles on a side. | These are the findings of a surve: just recently completed by the Na- tional Conference on State Parks and | Forests. The report on the State | parks will be placed before governors, philanthropists, conservationists and | patriotic citizens who will attend the annual meeting of the conference at | Hot Springs, Ark., on June 14. There, has heen no stinting on_the | Commonivéalth of Parks, the survey shows. The States have given their heat and most cherished sites to the public—Niagara Falls, Lincoin’s Birth- place, Riley's “Old Swimmin' Hole,” Starved Rock. Wisconsin Dells, Lake Itasca, the California Redwoods, Gene Stratton Porter's “Limberlos Some of the parks are precious for | their scenic beauty: some saw the | most stirring chapters of American history: some contain the choicest nat ural wonders on the continent. Fa mous poets, song writers, naturalists and authors are memorialized by the reservations. Striking dramas of ge ology are preserved in some of the parks and the largest do double duty for recreation and protection of water- sheds. In April. 1924, President Coolidge fssued a proclamation which laid the foundation for unified encouragement of outdoor recreation. The President | called the Conference on Outdoor Recreation to draw all agencies to- | gether. The survey of the National | Conference on State Parks is a major | contribution to the Nation-wide in- quiry summing up the United States’ recreation resource: Standing beside the State Parks Survey will be other reports by the Playground and Recreation Associa- tion of America, the American Fores- try Assoclation, the National Parks Association, the United States Cham ber of Commerce and the Bureau of Public Roads. Together they will States. Tt municipal parks. National parks, land policies county parks, Federal and highways. To the individual this will probably mean in time that his children will | he guaranteed a neighborhood park to play in; that there will be city parks where he himself can play or rest at the end of the day: that there will be parks within easy reach for week end pleasure; that there will be a State park every hundred miles" 1when he tours, and finally that there will he Rtate and National parks avail- able for his Summer vacation. { State parks vary in size from the 11,850,000-acre recreation ranch of Adirondack Park in New York to Dart | Island State Park, a oneacre sand - in the Connecticut River. —Adi- rondack Park i second fn size only to Yellowstone Natfonal Park. State | parks fall roughly into two classes— first, parks for purely recreational uses, which comprise three-fifths of | the 4,313,000 acres set aside, and, sec i ondly, State forests which have been opened for recreation. The survey found that if all the Jand now the property of the States and | were opened up as State parks the to 10,000,000 acres. This acreage is chusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. State parks and forests serve an important place In inviting the Sum- mer migrations of tourist campers. Most of such tourists bring money into a State and add to the income of all classes. Seasonal conditions ¥n- vite such tourists North in Summer, and private and public provisions for entertaining them are increasing every season. The development of the cabin camp, with a central eating place, surrounded by snug one-room shacks, with bed, stove and other simple necessities, which grew up first in the West, has now extended east, and is to be found in many public preserves as well as in private enterprises. Provisions of this kind are also de- veloping along some of the great high- ways leading south, and the increase of public preserves in the States of the South and Southwest will afford op- portunities for this form of service to tourists. State parks and forests are now so numerous and o distributed in the States which many of the important ®transcontinental motor - highways cover the problems of State parks, | ! capable of heing used by the people! area total would immediately run up} equal to the combined area of Massa- | DLESTICK IN K TUCKY. RARD COUNTY, NEAR CAMP NELSON, FT. THOMAS, t and had the audacity to after us as the Suf hoiling with rage and rd Hongkong. noon Monday the harbor, to the of her owners, for when this ferryhoat of long-tested re. in calm weather, fafled to home all night from a 3-hour vovage, the wildest rumors as to her fate began to fly thick over the city As our little ship moved painfully toward her dock I, was standing on deck in my shirt-sleeves heside an un humiliation, tov It was nearl erept in to enormous refief come Areas of State Parks Make Big Total Of Recreational Reserves for Country ENTUCKY RIVER GORGE, GAR- KE traverse that tourists, by a little in- vestigation of opportunities for un- usual and pleasant camping place: may enjoy the finest scenery of every | State they pass through on their trips| to the Western National parks or to any other obfective. And thisewith-| out losing much time in detouring or | {in risking bad roads, for highway sys- | tems are improving o much ever: where that dozens of good routes| North and South, East and West are to be found where only a few existed | ten years ago. For example, take the trip, which thousands of tourists make every year, from New York to the Western na- | tional preserves. Most of them take the Lincoln Highway because of its fame and its general good surfacing. From Philadelphia it goes wi through York and Hagerstown, just beyond, near Chambershurg, are several of the State forests and forest | s of Pennsylvania, which invite to | | overnight stops in woods and hills, | Following it through Ohio, one may pause at the State park lakes in Ohio near Akron and Lima, and in Indiana, by detouring a bit on good State roads, | may enjoy the State park at Lake Jumes, in the northeastern corner. Leaving Chlcago, one may stop at | Starved Rock State Park, on the Illi- | nois River near La Salle. Crossing Towa, the Lincoln Highway passes close to several of the State parks, in jcluding a very scenic one at The { Ledges, near Boone. | Going through Nebraska on the same highway, it would be worth while { | to turn north at Bridgeport and stop a night in Chadron State Park. and | from there to go on, via Hot Springs and the Wind Cave National Park, to the magnificent Custer State Park, one of the finest in the whole country, on which South Dakota has expended $2,000,000. Thence the Black and Yellow Trail takes one directly to Yellowstone. Or, turning off the Lincoln Highway in southern Pennsylvania. one maj take the National ‘Old Trails road through Wheeling, and after passing Zanesville, Ohio, turn south and e plore some of the beautiful caves and gorges in Hocking County, which have been lately acquired as State forest | parks. Leaving this highway at Indianapo- s and taking the Dixie Highway to Crawfordsville, one is within a few miles of Turkey Run State Park, one of the finest remaining examples of original heavy, river-bottom forest and gorge scenery in the Midwest. If the exploring tourist wishes to turn north into Michigan, either the east or west branches of the Dixie Highway or excellent State roads be- tween them, will take him past dozens of attractive State parks, along the shores of Lake Michigan and Lake | dustrial Huron and on the interior lakes. Crossing the Straits of Mackinac, the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway will take him by State parks in the upper peninsula, and on into northern Wisconsin, which has similar preserves near Ashland and Superior. Other State parks in suthern and central Wisconsin, su | as the uniquely beautiful Devil's Lake, t Baraboo, are on the Yellowstone trail from Chicago. 18 State parks of varied charms, the finest of all. Itasca Lake, at the headwaters of the Missiesippl, being on the Jefferson Highway. Texas has 52 State parks scattered through its vast domain. and the parks board is linking them up by a circuit highway scheme. Missouri's highway stem is making accessible the newly acquired State park inclosing the &reat springs of the Ozarks. Consideration for parks in connec- tion with highway development fs de- veloping everywhere in the South. West and Southwest. Along the Pa- cific Highway State parks are found in Washington: in Oregon the State highway department is acquiring parks and camping places on the Pacifie, Columbia River and Roosevelt Coast highways and in California the Lee highway, entering San Franclsco ifrom the south, passes close to the finest of the preserves of the Golden State, including the giant redwoods in Big Basin, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, In New York and New England State and through highways many parks and forests, and in New York alone a delightful trip of at least a week might be enjoyed by making a circuit of the State park, system, from the Talisades Interstate Park., to Finger Lakes. to Allegany Park. to Niagara reservation, back east through the St. Lawrence reservation, through the Adirondack Park and southward home again via the Catskill Park. In New Hampshire the Ap- palachian scenic highway passes, in Crawford Notch, one of the most pop- ular camping places in the State | forests. The provision of such facilities for wholesome and unrestricted outdoor recreation, such as National and State parks supply, is more and more recog- nized by pubilc offictals and by philan- thropic citizens as one of the best means for increasing health, happi- ness and contentment of the people. And for such values preserves which are within an hour or two by motor, or steamhoat, or train of a large metropolitan center or a crowded in- district are of incalenlable value in putting into practical form the ideals of our system of govern- ment for the greatest possible dis- tribution of happineas. In 15 years of service the Harriman section of the Palisades Interstate it} Minnesota has | pase | n tourist who had ost_ most of his $200, “Lord, I'm hungr * he growled to me. “Oh, everyhod nnsy i theticall having such u fo “Jelly adventure Why, of such a goud time. “Idiot!" he burst out. “Fossil!” | retorted (Copyright, 1926.) - Detects Nerve Current. HE electric current that shoots along a nerve fiher has hean de- tected by means of a three-tube radio apparatus, aceording to Dr. E. D. Adrian of Camhridge University It had long been known, he said, that the passing of messages dovn & nerve caused an elactrical disturhance. But it had only been possible to racord the effects from a large number of fibers at once, for example, tha thou sands of fibers from an eve, or to a muscle. The results obtained were therefore am confused as would he the superimposed records from all the telegraph wires between London and | Manchester. Dr. Adrian's ApPa- ratus, suys Sclence Ma nakes it possible for the firs to ol taln records in & rapldly moving phot.- graphic plate of the lmpulses passing along a single fibe: In conjunction with Dr. Zottermann, a Norwegiun neurologist, Dr. Adrian recorded the results of Vating & sense organ connected to th " a siugle fiber. The tn | the skin which give information < to touch, pain and temperntire near together for this Those in the muscles silh<e so-called muscular sense are farther apart, and by stretching a frog's mus cla it was found possible to stimy a_single one. The impilses wore of the same size. hut as t was stretched their freqie {ereased from 10 0 per intenstt transmitted through the | differences of rhythin. | This is the firat o before a hungry,” T repliad “But It's worth it vengure.’ he gusped I've never had e sense or as are | nery sion on which the message passing along a nerve has been decoded. and the opens up a new field of neurologs | the opinion of physivlegists. Wirhin the next few vears it should he poss the main types of entering and leaving the nerve tem. and the time has heen hre measurahiy nearer when it | sible to record the ac brain which are the physica of consciousness. experiment messi ml events in tha Park, only 40 miles City, has given to the of outdoor recreatior | children. 60.000 in the Summer |u mping in centers | hilis lakes in the historic High fl shrines | American Revolution! T | Boy Scouts camp all at the camps their he Kanawanke Lakes. Chil crowded ( er New Y the open, bathe ke, learn ahout trees and animals, and see what beneficent government mesns in w that their younz minds car | preciate mil ited the parts |last vear. Or take the Cook o [ Preserve, along the Desplaines It | just outside Chicaga, where 5,000 | people last vear enjored the o lin the an. of woods and fields avzreunds which the | county missioners have deyveloped | there. hink 1u6-mile canoe trip. within 1% heart | of the second the countr with pleasant woodland mpir | places for every night's hivouac | or ima State forests, | with their included forest parks. | Pennsylvania arge and wild | that ene can enjoy any form of out- | door recreation and sport he likes, | from a day’s pienic. by a brook, under huge hemlocks and tall rhadoden- drons to hunting large game like deer and hear. Then there om New York wle all forms nk of 10,00 vara the Hudson dren vk sleep Eleven vis various on_ peaple of that Kk tdaors and to 40 miles of the zine the great is the gr rthern Forest Park Wisconsin, 88,000 acres of woods and dozens of lakes, with room enough for thousands to fish and camp and swim. Many State parks are shrines of our early history and of our famous builders of the Republic. Along the Hudson River in New York. State properties include the beautiful old Manor House in Yonkers, whera orge \Washington vainly courted Mary Phillpse: the fort on Stony Point which Anthony Wayne and the first American regulars stormed on a dark July night in 1779: old forts and battlegrounds about Suratoga and | Lake George and Lake Champlain, land oth sites assoclated with such legendar figures as Sir William Johnson and with heroes of the ench and Indian and Revolution |ary conflict . Pennsylvania has such shrines | Valley Forge, the name of which is an epitome of enduring riotism Washington Crossing, which brings {up. in the mind’s eye, that icy and | stormy Christmas eve when the ras | ged American Army crossed fo t | surprise of Trenton: or Presque Isl |at Erie, where Commodore Perry fit | ted out his battle fleet for the victory | which enabled him to write the fa | mous: “We have met the enemy and | they are ours.” 1 New { full of every aspect of picturesque { colonial and later history of the Pur. |itans and thelr descendants. Maine recently bought several old fort the Federal Government to pr | glorious memories and give recreation spots. | In the Middle West such preseryes [ memorialize stern couflicts in French and Indiun fighting, und mark the succeeding outposts as the Engiish ‘ lonists pushed westward. a_dozen sites of this kind, like Logan's Elm, and the scenes of many @& fell fight, and Starved Rock State Park in 1liinols was a French post in the | time of Marquette and La Salle. Al hama is lately conserving similar relics of early French adventurers, !and of sites’ connected with such figures as Andrew Jackson. Florida and Texas include in their State parks several sites connected 1 with pioneers and fighters. North Da | kota has a large number of preserves | where stirring events of the early fur | trading and Indian fighting dars oc- curred. For the first two hundred years of { the history of the American colonl ‘and republic, there was little need think of preserving any part of | great domain as parks. Our three m! |on square miles were all park and wild enough, as our pioneers found it. The character of the earliest forms !of outdoor activity is shown by one | of the first laws passed by any gov- | ernmental body in our territory. relat- ing to conservation and recreatian. an ordinance by the fathers of the Mas sachusetts Bay Colony, in 1641, giving the public rights for “fishing and fowl- ing” on “great ponds.” bodiex of wa- ter over 10 acres in extent. And the change in our habits of outdoor en- joyment i likewise shown in recent interpretations of this old statute. as | re-enacted in a modern measure, by an attorney general of Massachusetts, who ruled that the intent of the Puri tan legislators was not to limit door relaxations to the specific spo! of fishing and 4pwling, o ‘ Fngland State preserves ares Ohio has,