Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1926, Page 82

6 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE 13 PERMANENT ACCESSIONS BY SOPHIE KERR Eileen Lived According to a Scientific Budget, but She Had Dreams and an Ideal—Tall, ILEEN and her dear friend, Lily MeAuliffe, were determined on two things: First, that they would never marry until they met the ideal. Second, that they must in every situation bear themselves as befits true women of the world. Elleen was the stronger spirit of the two. Lily was apt to get fearfully excited by a movie, or the prospect o a party, or little things like that. She was not at all certain, either, just what her ideal was. But Eileen knew hers. He was very tall, well past his first youth, say 35 to 40 (because kids are so sappy). with mysterious eyes, a low and thrilling voice, a small black mustache and coal-black hair, and the general mien of having loved and suf fered. Eileen intended to console him and make up to him for his past and convince him t pnstancy in v an is not vet dead. With the ideal so elearly in mind, she did not observe with any interest the advances which various vouths in the office had made in her direction. To tell the truth, she was terribly shy of boys and didn’t Kknow what to say to them or how to say it. Naturally, 1 world, the two & idea of listening to hut they had to made it a rule attend. They trouble and prominent and alleged-prom en to talk to their zivl: on Pr noon and not have all the girls pres ent to hear thes The speaker for this special Friday was stout, and dressed in shining' black velvet, with Jade earrings. leen merely iooked at her—then she began to lsten. The words ran something like this, though in cold type it loses the charm of the stout sonant contralto speaking voice. “The woman or man who tries to 1tve a sane, well balanced laife” (that was the way she chanted the helpless word “life”) “'without the assistance of a well thought out budget cannot sug ceed. Cannot, I say, because each one of us needs a sound cconomic system as much as we need a sound mind or a sound body, to make of ife the bee- voutiful, serene bprogress which it should he. If we do not know how we are apportioning our incomes, dear £lrls, how do we know whether we are making the most of it? Money earned by daily labor comes too hard to he Jightly thrown away hither and thither” (“She said an earful then.” murmured Lily to Eileen at this junc ture) “to be spent without exact knowelge that every penny is giving the richness of true val t our laives ing women of the is were bored by the he Friday speaker, . for the office had thit employes must were not expense o in d om- zetting nent * ox ok k HE contralto voice went on and on, but so far as Eileen was concerned she mignt have stopped then and there. In business parlance. the idea was sold to Eileen, and wrd From then on she meant to budget, and to budget thoroughly So on the way home she bought her- self a cheap little blank book But how to commence? She mieht open her pocketbook and count her money and write down coldly, “Cash on hand,” but this did not seem suffi- clently impressive. If this budget was the first step toward richer values of life, it ought to begin with a_more comprehensive statement of Eileen and her self and her aims and de than could be ntained in mere * on han Why not make a little per sonal inventory, look herself ¢ praise herself? Her pen flew: Efleen Powers, 181 years; height, five feet four: weight, 114 (She paused her and rose and thoughtfully considered her figure in the mirror. Thank Heaven she didn't have Lily McAuliffe's hips!) What next? Ah-—Complexion, me- dfum brune zood . hazel and large, without squint or ¢ teeth, small and white and even brown. with a natural wave, General appearance. After some thought, she wrote firmly: Above the average without bragging! Then fol- age hair, HE PRODUCEI going to the ! Dark, Handsome and | called a space. Space was the quality |it most conspicuously lacked. | Anyway, after the fixed charges, | there were still $14 left with which to acquire the richness of true value for | Eileen's life. It was whefi she this point in her budgetmuking that | Lily MeAuliffe called to go with her to the movies. ok ko € J'VE begun my budget, | as they started. | “Smarty! I can’t make up my mind Ito try one. T get my money and spend it and that’s all there is to it. I don’t see any reason for keeping a record of rapid transit.” “But do vou get the most out of it, | that’s the point? Oh, well, if I'll follow alon; i | one, | aivide you | “I've just got to that,” admitted | Eileen. “I'm a little puzzied. 1 was | thinking I'd put down firsc ‘Neces- | 1 ties.” That would mean car fare ! {and lunches. Then again—not every- | thing T eat at lunch is a necessity. I would do without caramel cake, even | |if I do love it. It always makes me | dopy in the afternoon.” ¢ my lunch,” said Ll { keeping a budget means | eating whisk brooms and chicken feed, | I'm through befor And here’s something else, on Eileen, disregarding he |ing up for a white toilet ser, with bl monograms, Now, how wuld T list t t a necessity and it isn't a lux- | xactly, but it's going to give me |a lot of plexsurs And when it's bousht, it's bousht—I mean ther no overhead and no upkeep and no re- newal. I believe I'll make a heading ‘Permanent Accessions,” for the toilet | Does that seem all right?” Why, yes—but listen, Eileen, how | will you enter toothbrusMes, and get- | ting your hair shampooed, and bath | soap? They aren’t permanent acc sions. Some of them are necessiti but not all. I mean you could w your hair yourself and save that, | instance.” Eileen considered. “I'm | call all that ‘Health and Beau {announced in_trlumph {that has to do with my appearance | | can go under that head. I'm glad you | mentioned ft.” | | “I always say discussing things | clears them up,” remarked Lily, with a little happy skip. “What about clothes? They might gounder ‘Health and Beauty' too. “Don't be silly, The head of ‘Clothes'—exact you're going to have How did you | went “I'm sav et for my you t going to erything £o0 under the | vy what they dress for Minnie | id Lily wistfully I I could sew better, I'd make one. But I wouldn't be seen in any- | thing I'd made—I'd look just like the | funny page. Oh, Eileen, that party’ going to be perfectly gorgeous There'll be 20 of us, and the fellow she's engaged to has asked some of the fellows from his athletic club, perfect dandies, Min says. What are you going to wear?” | “Foolish question n and ninety party dress and three years old, composed of equal parts of blue georgette and steel beads. I may go so far as to add a silver rose in honor of the occasion to cover up the worn place where the girdle hoc = T new mil- one 1t is| number ten I've got know it. 1 you * % discussion ended with their en- trance into the theater. It had, however, as Lily said, cleared up some of the doubtful spots in Eileen's mind. | The following evening she took her | ! budget book and made several page | | heading: < listed Permanent Accessions, but was no entry heneath it, hecause aving a_doliar a week toward | the toilet set and it would be at least | {five weeks more before she had| enough money to buy it. Then she ! began to wonder if a nail file ought to g0 under permanent accessions, but ‘ I i | ther she wa D A BLANK BOOK AND BEGGED TO BE BUDGETED. | not worry Eileen Very Distinguished. e to go, but Minnie's feelings would be hurt if she didn’t. Minnie Markell was rather a joke in the office, one of those determinedly young and kittenish old girls who sup- Ply in activity and vivacity what they lack in youth. She lived in a studio partment, consisting of one large barnlike room and one bath, and slept on a couch, and kept her clothe: in what she called an Italian creden And she gave parties. She lov giving parties, though the refresh- ments were apt to be sketchy und the entertainment_on a somewhat shrill key. Of late Minnie had added inter- | est in her social gayeties by the ac- quisition of o fiance, At noontime, cutting short a lunch- eon which was wholly hygienic and devoid of caramel cake, ileen bought a stunning silver rose, only slightly hopworn, and marked down from five-ninety to two-ten. She mounted the silver girdle with deft fingers, blithely to Minnie Ma with the exeited Lily all, t 157 pe de chine. Minnie’s bixz room was pretty well filled_when Lily and Elleen arrived, and Minnie was flying about in a new batik blouse and red-heeled slippers, welcoming every one, making introduc: tions, lighting more candles, putting | bits of old boxes on the “real fire- | place” fire, and delegating ce | her guests 10 ith the ments, which usual state of unreadiness T l[,\\ ING put her cape in the & tub, where all the wraps were sembled, Eileen looked about her decided ‘that her most pleasant pation would be to assist in sandwich making. She sidled she did not 1 rose on her nd went off 1S party > had, after tangerine to to a ti as ind oceu the | over | to the table where a couple of girls and_one youth were dallying with ardines and bread, and possessed herself of the slicing knife, which was | gladly relinquished. The three work- | ers promptly drifted away. which did ind she sliced bread | and buttered it neatly, until she had a really imposing supply. Minnie saw her and came dashing around. “Oh, you angel’” she exclaimed “Working away so bravely all by your little lonesome. 1'll get some one to help vou. Jasper brought one of the sweetest, dearest, cutest 2 She dashed away again and returned, dragging after her a mild-mannered round-faced blond youth who was| palpably overcome his surround- | ings. Jenkins—and this is leen Powe: fied Minnie, brightiy. 3unny — Eileen — Eileen -~ Bunny. Now go and make sandwiches for me, darlings, until I can find some other willing workers.” Eileen looked up timidly to see that unny was crimson to the roots s hair. It was evident that he was as bashful as she: but, after all, she must be polite “If yow'll mash up the sardines in this bowl,” she managed to say, “T'll season them and spread them on the bread.” Bun ardines This is Bunn I . nkins ¢ seized the howl and mashed jantly. The exerc him a b of courage. He spoke I'm afraid I'm not very handy,” he said deprecatingly. Eileen was Kind. nicely.” Working together in amicable fash jon, Bunny recovered his natural col- or and Eileen became more the wom. an of the world and they talked away like old friends. “You certainly can strut the stuff, making sandwiches,” declared Bunny Are we going to make anything be sides sardine ones?” “Rush over and ask Min—1I don’t see anything else,” directed Eileen “She says there's some cream cheese and some pimentos,” he reported So as Bunny chopped pimentos and Eileen cut more bread, the conversa »n went on and became personal His name, it appeared shortly, was not Bunny; it was Horace “But the fellows call me Bunny be- | »h, you're doing | | lowed quickly: Wear a 52 glove and a ' No. 31 shoe, take 16-year-old size ready-made dresses, .So far, excellent. But now Eileen went on to more serious matters Oldest of three children. Live at home with father and mother. High school graduate and went through business college. Have been working one year. “Then she added: and I am worth at That seemed of doubtful propriety in that place, but after profound thought she let it stand. After all, what she got and what she was indubitaly worth were economic facts. Now that she’d got down to income, she must begin to “apportion” it as the Black Velvet and Jade Earrings had advised. Very iwell, she would pportion. Fixed charges: To mother, for my board, $10. One piano lesson every Wednesd: night, $1.00. Mother had not wanted Eileen to give $10 toward the family upkeep, hut times had been hard in father’s busines—family. funds had run low, and Eileen wanted to feel that at least she pald for the food > ate and the space she occupied. if the tiny room she had 1o herself could accurately be 5 a week abandoned this weighty prob- i ! finai ! fina She had something else on her {lem. | mind. | Kileen slowly was determining to | put into her budget something which she would not have confessed to Lily 1y one in the world. After all, ¢k Velvet lady had said the budget was to provide the richness of true value. Where, or how, could cen obtain more of this valuable commodity than in preparation for the coming prince whose life she was to brighten, whose heart she was to i With a sweet and wistful ching toward the great romance, she took a fresh page and wrote above it: For My Ideal. Under this she would put the things she was making for her hope chy the guest towels, the doilies and the teacloths. The piano lesson she too on Wednesday evenings was all she could afford at present toward the higher cuiture which the ideal would She knew that music would console him. So she removed the item of the piano lesson from under fixed charges and put it along with the guest towels. It didn’t seem very much for the ideal, but it was the best she’could do. Other things would inevitably follow ter. She swung back to thinking of nie Markell's” pai She wishea des; | ause I'm such a rabbit.,” he con- fessed. “How ridiculous! “You're not a bit of they mean, anyhow “Well, T don’t like to do a lot of things they do. 1'd rather stay in and read than run around and play pool and pinochle and go to parties. I'm | an awful hoob at parties. That's why call me a rabbit.” “They're very mean and silly. To [ refuse their unworthy frivolities for ding, which is one of the things that | |zive richness to the true value of life— it just shows that they are boobs and | not you. If you were a coward, now, it would be different, but I know you are not that.” Bunny blushed again, this time with acute wriggling pleasure. “I'm champion lightweight in the | club, and have heen for two years. ! That's why the hoys can’t'understand | why I like to read. T play the viotin | a little, too. What was that vou hout the richness of true— “I consider that reading gives rich- to the true value of life,” said | cen grandly, a “laimed Eileen. rabbit. What do | | he | afraid some | h | tion, or tiny | looking toward the future, you know, | thing offhand,” he murmured. | nice the corner. | pleasant, | he had seen Eileen—an impulsive and His eyes became rounder still with intense admiration. | It gave Eileen confidence. She be- | (0 tell him wbout the budget, why had started it, and when, and-- | partly—what she had set down in i He listened cageriy, flatteringly. asked respectiul questlons. 1 never knew there were any girls like y told_her ingenuously. *I alway get awfully fussed talking to girl You're the first girl 1 ever knew who had sense—and ideas—and yet—and vet— his blush flared up again, | but he kept on bravely—‘and yet Was—was—was—easy (o look at.’” My friend, Lily McAuliffe, and I— | that’s Lily dancing with that fat man—never could see why women of brains should be personally unattrac tive. T don't say we'd set the world on fire, either way, and you mustn’t think I'm handing roses to myself, but we have tried to keep ourselves looking neat and—er—not repulsive and vet not to be nitwits, If you understand what I mear | “Oh, 1 can't give your friend so much, but as for you, Miss Powers, Il tell the world you succeeded, and | then some. Say, here I sit, dumbbell as usual. Don't'you want to dance?” | Liloen did want to dance. So she and Horace deserted the sandwiche nd jolned the agile throng. Horace could dance—and could Eileen The fox trot becamo a tripping of kindred souls in perfect rhythm. They went on talking about the ct. Horace said he was going | rt one of his own. Perhaps. he | ed falteringly, perhaps Miss would permit him to come wround some evening and show him how to start it. Yes, Miss Powers| would do this. “Only, I don't| promise actually to show you mine,” | she said. “Except the outside. I'm f the things in it ave ps sort of sill Horace called a few nights later. He was forced to argue with her on the matter, an argument that lasted through many other dances, and the various weird games that were an tnevitable part of Min Markell's parties. 5 He was not, Eileen observed, in the least like the Ideal—hut that didn't matter. He was a nice boy and she would play round with him while the Ideal was on his way. That would harm no one. Lvery woman f the world has her man friends before she experiences the zrand pas ion L ORACE called a few o produced a b begized to boe budgeted. She explained how she had started . and watched with more inter than the coming Ideal would ha liked as he wi Horace Jenkins, 5 feet 8 inches; weis can; Baptist: orphan; employed in hardware store; salary, $60. “I'm part owner of it,” he explatned “I had a little money left me when father died and I bought in. I could get more smlary if 1 wanted it, but I'd rather put the money back into the store. We're going to have whale of a place some day.” Eileen was impressed. This was no mere minion of a soulless corpora og in the wheel of busines: . he was part owner of an establishment of his own; an es tablishment capable of expansion. Horace lost something of his look of bashful youth when he talked about it, and became manly and at ease “Well, now.” he 1dings would you say I'd need?” Fixed Charges’ hat’d mean your hoard bill, and *Necessities' for vour car fares and lunches, just like mine.” offered Eileen promptly. @ it being ju . writing N of the page stion, in his looked just “And after that?” Eileen felt rather flat. She couldn't suggest health and beauty to him he'd think she was crazy. “Why | not_‘Healthful Diversfons'?” she said | at last. “Then you could put in your dues at the athletic club.” | “Oh, fine—and how should T put| my books down? I try to buy a book every week, a really good im- proving book.” “You might call it ‘For Mental Im- provement.”” she hegan doubtfully. “But I put down things like that under the head of ‘Permanent Acces- sions'—they don't wear out, you know and vou'll keep them probably al- ways.” “Say, that's a bird,” declared Hor- ace, and forthwith adopted it. ** ‘Per ma‘nent Accessions.” Got any more as good as that?” He glanced over at her book. “What's on that next page?” Now that was the page devoted to the Ideal, and it was unthinkable that Horace should see it, or even blindly be made aware of it. A woman of the world, in an awkward situation, is deft and tactful. Therefore, Eileen smiled agreeably and used Miss Barrymore's famous phrase: “That’s all there Is. There {sn't any more.” Horace raised his youthful evebrow. “Rut it seems to me there should be something more—something sort of nights later. nk book and height tepubli ked her. “what hy said tles’ at the ing his de- v wre seript, developing character or—or—saving for o home, or something. Fileen was still deft and tactful. “I Dbelieve you're right. Why don’t you think up gomething? I'm sure you could.” Uis answer proved that Horace could use deftness and tact himself. “It’s difficult to get just the right “But if T do think up something good may I come round again and get your opinion on it _ Yileen said this might be possible, whereupon Horace, glancing at his watch, asked how she would like to dash out for the second show at that pvie house he'd noticed around And on the way thither he hought a hox of chocolates with a wide pink ribbon! And on the way home they had spumoni and cakes! It occurred to Eileen afterward, with an odd pang, that the Ideal probably would not approve of eating choco- lates at the movies, and that he would not care at all for spumoni. Yet she admitted with honesty that the two sensations had not been un- nd when her mother said, return, “This young man very straightforward, nice v.” she said, “Oh, he's all right,” with real enthusiasm. Of course, he was, and just because he didn’t re- semble the Ideal was no reason to crab him. Horace called a. few evenings later with the news that he had decided that the heading “Looking to the Fu- ture” would be about right in his budget to express his savings and also certain expenditures. Among these last was a car, a second-hand car, which could be used to deliver things from the shop on week days, but on Sunday was for pleasure alone. This car, dark red in color and dash- ing in line, he had purchased since after her dashing action which impressed Eileen deeply. He wondered if Eileen would not like to go out in the car “By George, that's wonderful! That's the way I've always felt, but never im-\]d say it. That's—that's wonder- e next Sunday afternoon. In fact, they | will have | its 1926—PART 5. A eral, and the color of cars and their | speed qualities, that the budget was | after the first | not mentioned much few sentences in which Horace an- nounced the heading under which he had placed the car. They went to tho movies, too. And had further candy bonbons, this time—and sandwiches and hot chocolate instead of spumoni, | because the evening cool vainy. 7 was extraordinary how far away, how very far away the Ideal seem- ed after this second call of Horace's. He was becoming very shadowy, a mere wraith. His dark mysterfous eves had somehow lost their power to thrill. It did not seem nearly so worth-while to console him of his for- heart-pangs when Horace had was and * K ok % never taken a girl out before in h1~;1 life! This Eileen did not learn from him, but from Minnie Markell's flance | vix Minnie. She added that the en-| tire athletic club was stirred to its| depths by the fact that their cham- | pion lightweight had fallen for Eileen, and fallen hard. Eileen listened to th#s with a little weary woman-of-the-world smile. How all were! Why, she and just friends, good friends, that was all. But to Lily fessed that she found him esting. Somehow the subject respective budgets had quite dr out of their conversation, wh some dozen calls and movie | motor ride excursions and candy and so on, Horace f their ipped . after of | her boxes asked quite suddenly one evening 1f she would not, as a great favor, let him see hers. At first she refused, but at last went and hunted it out of her dresser drawer where it had lain neg- lected. Sho brought it and put it tn his hand. He held it a moment, and then, turning redder than he had been since the day he wuas born, he s “You know, Eileen—when we first’ talked about budgets said vou were keeping yours to see whether you were getting the—the—" calied the phrasc haltingly- ness of true value out of life want to make an entry in your. budget—and—and ask you-—" he could not go on. Instead he opened the little book and found the page mark ed Permanent Accessions. Under the sole item of white monogrammed toilet set, $14, he wrote, in his neat round hand: Horace Jenkins. Apy ingly he thrust the opened page ward Eileen. Appealingly, Dbesee , he waited een caught her breath. How how utterly clever of him to ke this! A permanent accession “Oh, Horace,” she said very b tle later he found that he sti! had Eileen's budget book in his hand “For my ldeal's" hat's _just my hope nswered Eileen, carelessly, as your ‘Looking to the Fu ture,” you know, And~ somewhere tall, dark, m 1 shadowy m peared. wraithland a stranger gave forever disap- in sterious and (Copyright. 1926 ;T races of Eight-Legged Animal Found In Grand Canyon by Smithsonian Expert BY GEORGE PORTER. BOUT the Spring th liax ame time this accounts of tran: plane flights, photo- \phic radio communications and rotor ships were filling the first pages of the country’s new: papers, and making people ask one another in wonder and bewilderment, “\What is the world coming to?” a Washington scientist was unearthing vidence out in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River which is slowly leading to the answer of the equally puzziing interrozation, *What has the world come from? Dr. Charles W. Gil tional Museum is now studying foot- prints of several hitherto unknown species of animals which he recently discovered on the sands of a distant time, and which constitute the world's oldest records of organic life. It is confidently expected that these footprints will, when taken in junction with other antiquarian dis coveries, lead to better understand- ing of what really happened in the days when the earth was young. While it is a delightful pastime to picture the years to come when we irplane excursions to the nd be able to get the movies in our own homes as easily as we now listen to speeches over the radio, it is equally fascinating to imagine the era when there was not a single man upon the globe, and the only animate creatures in exist- ence were outlandish animals of amaz- ing_physique. ; The picture becomes even more im- pressive if these strange creatures are fmagined to be traveling labori- ously up the steep slope of what is now the Grand Canyon to a distant watering place. All sorts of nameles things go up the trail—small animals of only a few inches in length; larger quadrupeds measuring several feet and weighing many pounds; repulsive- looking, sltmy things that make us shudder; cute and clever appearing mites that possibly would make good pets; animals with large, fantastic tails, and animals with practically no tail at all; creatures with long row of teeth displayed in a perpetual grin, and creatures which have no dental worries—one and all, they climb the hill intent upon their quest for water. They come, they make their impre: slons in the sands as they pass along, and they are lost in the mists of the primitive wilderne: Then we ourselves are lost. We go into a state of sleep and lose track of what is happening. Time passes, and in its passing changes are wrought, slowly, incessantly. The tracks were covered with the dry sand of the desert, which absorbed the moisture and hardened while fresh. Layer upon layer of rock-making ma- terial was piled upos them until they were over a thousand feet below the surface of the earth. The animals that made the origanal imprints be- came extinct, leaving no trace of their existence save those foot-tracks s0 well preserved in the rocks. Then along came a river, cutting way _slowly through the rocks, boring deeper andl deeper until it had dug a canyon 6,000 feet deep. Later still came men, marveling at the phenomena of nature, yet mi- nutely examining everything, ques- tioning everything. They also cut into the rocks, studving them layer by layer, and trying to learn how the crust of the earth was formed. Finally they reached a layer covered with animals’ footprints which the men, belng scientists and having some . under: what had happened_since those strange marks were made, regarded as so old they refused to estimate in terms of ‘years their age, realizing that such an am- praisal, like the statements which are made from time to time concern- ing the age of the earth, would be largely conjecture. A few of the explorers believed they had seen similar footprints before, but most of the marks were unfamiliar, so the men were happ: They had discovered a new puzzle, not knowing what the solution would be nor to what use it might be put, but spurred on by the realization that each bit of knowledge added to the world’s store is likely to be called upon at any time to serve a practical purpose. Such, in brief, is the story that is told by Dr. Gilmore of the fossil foot- is more of the N North Pole talked so much of where they would g0, and when, and motor rides in gen- prints from the Grand Canyom. Prof. Charles Schuchert of Yale bl con- | FROM THE GRAND CANYON FOSSIL FOOTPRINTS. DR. CHARLES W. GILMORE, WHO BROUGHT TO WASHINGTON SEVERAL SLABS CONTAINING University is credited with having first dlscovered tracks of estinct quadrupeds in the Grand Canyon in 1915, Nine years later the Smith- sonfan Institutlon became interested in the matter, and sent Dr. Gilmore out to the canyon to make a collec- tion for the National Museum. The tracks were found along Her- mit Trail, a zigzasging mulc path leading down the sides of the canyon to a locality known as Hermit Basin in the Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. The footprints occur 900 feet below the present rim of the| canyon, in a bed of rock 350 feet thick, of a material geologically known as Coconino. sandstone. Such a formation is considered Permian in age, which means that it belongs to the fifth of the great divisions of time into which divide the ages. The layers or strata of rock were found to scale off in large sheets, mak- ing it possible to study each individual layer separately. Tracks were found at three levels, and a collection of slabs weighing about 1,700 pounds was brought back to the museum. An examination of these slabs revealed the imprints of 10 species of animals that had, never been known before. | Whenever tracks indicative of a new species are discovered they are given a name so that they may be definitely referred to in future work. That these names are in Latin makes them sound strange to the layman, but they serve the same prosaic pur- pose that a file number does to an item of correspondence in a business office. In several instances they have been given the name of some promi- nent man who was interested in the work, as in the case of the new genus called “A. matheri,” in honor of Stephen F. Mather, director of the National Park Service, who was largely responsible for the opportunity the Smithsonian was afforded of mak- ing its collection of footprints. Others whose names have been similarly used include Dr. Marcus Benjamin, editor of the scientific publications of the United States National Museum, and Prof. Schuchert. During his 1924 trip to the canyon, Dr. Gilmore carried out a plan con- ceived by Dr. John C. Merriam, presi- dent of the Carnegle Institution of Washington, which called for the making of a permanent field exhibit {that would display some of the foot- prints just as they are found along the Hermit trial. As that path is traversed by hundreds of tourists every \vear, while making their pilgrimage to the bottom of the canyon, it was rightly supposed that such an exhibit would teach a lesson as to the great the scientists | pressed jof this curlous fact, recalls that antiquity of the animal life which once those anclent sands. In recatnz ¢he manner in that exhibit was made, Dr. Gilmore aid: “Our first task was to remove the overburden of loose dirt and broken rock down to the more compact laye and then we had to quarry off the loose upper layers until a solid and continuous face, covered with foot- prints, was reached. In this way smooth surface, & feet wide by 25 feet long, was uncovered. The upper sur- face of this large slab has a great many tracks and trails leading up the slope. The cross-bedded sandstone on whose surface the tracks are im- ands in a most favorable lo- | cation, and at an inclination of nearly 30 degrees facing the trail, so that it may be readily seen by those passing along it. “At the side of the slab, and lead- ing up from the trail, » flight of stone steps_was Iaid in order to facilitate examination by those interested in a closer inspection of the footprints. At the base of this main exhibit, other large slabs lying close to the trail were similarly cleared off. so that there are now several hundred square feet of rock surface forming a perma- nent exhibit of the curious tracks and trails that are to be found there. This Spring Dr. Gilmore again visit- ed the Hermit trail for the purpose of learning more about the mysterious footprints he has for the past two years been studying. He remained in the canyon over three weeks, explor- ing deeper into the rock formation than on the previous trip. Below the Coconino sandstone lies what s known as Hermit shale and Supai formation. Both of these formations were pierced, and each ylelded more footprints made by undetermined kinds of animals. “Sometimes as many as four distinct kinds of tracks were found on one surface,” Dr. Gilmoré asserts. “Some slabs were literally covered with im- prints, and, curiously enough, all point- ed in the same direction—up the steep slope, suggesting an old trail leading to water, or possibly recording a great migration of animal life such as is occasionally known to take place among the animals of the present time. that of all the trails studled, but one exception to the uphill movement was noted, this being the tracks of a large quadruped _which clearly pointed downhill. One scientist, in speaking it seems as if the animals all walked from west to east, or from where we presume water to have been toward the land.” As a result of his recent work in the canyon, Dr. Gilmore brought back to ‘Washington several tons of stone con- taining fossil footprints, from which he expects to find at least twice as many new kinds of animal tracks as were discovered in his first collec- tfon, made {n 1924. WWhen it iseremem- | It certainly seems remarkable ] tion along the mules, it addition to study, an ! labor is pvery over Hermit hecomes ay the hours immense arent that of painstal amount of manu required to make such a collec The most sensational made to date by those wol fossil footp! is that trail of T ic beast which evident legs and 15 toes. AS no ains of this or any other left its imprint on the have heen uncovered, all re extremely cautious in have looked ght-legged mon- it ix explained the beast may not have heen a vertebrate. Tracks of the double quadruped were found, like so man: others, to have been preserved in hoth he upper and lower str This gives both a convex and conc pression of the tra The convex impression of the alleg ‘ll.'h:—lf‘:irfil monster has bheen placed in the museum 2t Grand Canyon Na ional Parl The concr Lrought to W study Looking at a slab containing these footprints of long-forgotten animals fs as impressive as looking at the light from the stars. In both cases the ob. server sees a first-hand account of an event that occurred thousands, per Laps millions, of vears ago. In regard to the practical value of his discoveries, Dr. Gilmore points out that no one can fell how such infor mation may be used at any time, but that at present its chief purpose is to substantiate geological claims as to the age and type of rocks in the can yon and other parts of the continent He also believes that his work has n value of {ts own in that it throws con siderable light on the characteristics of the land vertebrate life during the disposition of the Coconino sandstone. Dr. Gilmore now .is, and has heen for the past three vears, curator of vertebrate paleontology of the Na tional Museum. which means that he superintends the work of the museum that studies the backboned animals which existed on the earth before the aze of man. He came to the local in- stitution as a preparator of vertebrate paleontology from the Carnegie Mu seum, where he had been associated with ‘a similar department iector. 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