Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1926, Page 13

ARELEY COLLETS AFRGAN EXHBT Atmosphere of Dark Conti- nent Sought for New York Museum Group. 8pecial Dispatch ta The Star NEW YORK. September African conguest is under wa Led by Carl sculptor, tax- idermist and A B expeditionary invaded the great mveteric inent armed with palett: s Cameras and the various materials used in the arts of taxidermy and sculpture. % Their purpose is not to impobse American ideas and ways upon Africa, but to capture what remains, of the wild beauty of Africa and bring it to New York for exhibition at' the American Museum of Natural His tory It s their hope that they may be able to perpetuate in oils. wax and mounted hides the Africa t is, %0 that when the plow has replaced the buffalo. and the rattle of the whity man’s flivver has hanished the tom- tom of the savage, some of the charm of the present may still live in her- metically sealed alleyways where it may be viewed through lirge glass windows by visitors to ths museum's African Hail African Hall Planned. Thus, Europe may convert great continent into peaceful colonies to feed the fo north, and nations acros boast of tha aress ove etandards flutter in th breeze; but the real Africa--the Africa ©of the trumpeting bull elephan: of the snorting rhinoceros—will he ours. The African Hall of the Ame: Museum of Natural Hisiory I built. It has Although a mode the farm r to the sea may hich their tropical th hese plans: and while e 0 tell Low long ft coraplete the 41 array of bre . it is a parfe: it is tmpoasi will take tc groups & guess that longer than t the territory to he « ®oldiers of science in 1 quest will be - covered by any world conflict Mr. Akeley, who conceived the of African Hall. has sald he wish not only to preserve the Leasis and birds 8o reprexentative of the con- tinent, but he, desires each groip 1 have a backgrou:d rep definite type of African as Mount Kenya on the Pyramids, or the gor Kivu. He desires th, pleted to give a c of the Africa before the invasion ¢ Some of the sroup the hall already ar others are -parii the overwhelr groups have 1 Eastman's Money The immediate Akelex's party &pecimens, pain and arrangemen five of the la ing out of made possib) of Geo era_manufacturer and philanthrop! and Daniel E. Pomeroy, Wall s __CARL ARELEY. - has writthn that a group of er—a variety of small an telope—'‘with accessories, and animals,” was compieted six weeks' steady application.” The task of completing such a group includes the bagging of frst- class specimens and the preparation of their hides for mounting. the de- 2 of setting and collecting of of vegetation for and the wol v * n | realists. The effect i depends entir: | upon the r upon the obs { kground must Y nd in which |animals are placed. In order that | 1ers may really bring Af | v New York, they must do thair ng on the spot that it is decired the mounted oup on been worki Alelev writes t “rnressed his wish a &d them. and couldn’t hear being responsible for [ one. iev adds, however: wonderful ‘camp 10 miies rth of the Uaro Nyiro in the desert E happy and fine gifaffe, Zebra were he water hole groun. v the background is a superb a water pain shadowed by big trees, and beyond it the hig 1o A fap spectacular great ram- ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES For Cooking, Clea Washing, Ironing, ing. Clean ing, ght- safe, economical 1 use- i fraction of he usual time required. Guaranteed Appliances at Attractiveh Small Prices . press! : Caiiéra ‘uthodru shaped, and all ] “We | banker and hiz § My Eastman and AMr ar bunting with a par ame country Akalet and his v are and Killing s f the are tn he seen in the groun In One of his commu gording the progress of his work Mr. | ing | that | Joscph D. 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In justice to him, as well a8 yousself. let no cne sell you a substirute. For economy as well as beaith, insist THE BEDSPRING LUXURIOUS The “De Luxe” way to sleep The wrong way to sleep There is. it is made full name ca. e ROME {impang 1nc. Southern Rome Division Bal Note: part, sheer and imj ive, another extending back into a great blue mysterious beyond. Country Ages Old. “It is perhaps the one view which |l- characterized of the northern fron- | tier and is Historic in landmark and | primitive associations. It is thro | this gateway that Somall T : trading caravans have come and gone {for generatons. in intermittent con- tact with the south. It is bevond this mountain wall that even today Abys- inlan bandits plunder and kill. | 8It 1s encompassed by this desert |that & few fairly large herds of game | still survive. It is, therefore, sugges- ive of a wild Ife and an untouched {domain amazingly, and unfortunately rare in Africa today: certainly oundingly rare in Kenya. But here, with alkaline waterholes from 20 to 160 miles apart. and with nothing but ilong. and to despoil.” | The natives in this section, Mr. ! Akeley, writes. are ‘‘of splendid phy- ue and gentle.” and were constant visitors at the camp of the artists ‘and taxidermists. He writes: “They |brought us mi'k and wanted, in turn, {almost every one of our possessions. | Tt was yery hard to deny these chil- { dren their wishes, but we had to keep for ourselves a few things such as our clathing and blankets, and alao a part of our sugar. and tea, that we J | | might carry on. selfish attitude of ours, the wife of the chief offered us, as a gift, clothing she po: wo uti- fully colored, greasy calf skins.” Animals Cunningly Wild. Of some of the work preparing the buffalo group for the exhibit, Mr. Akeley writes as follows: “When the Eastman-Pomeroy party moved south to this camp to hunt for buffalo, we left our desert camp with a great deal of regret. But as Mr. Eastman was now ready to hunt for the group, we soon joined forces with ‘him. The hunt was short. He ob- tained the calf specimen, but the ani- mals are so cunningly wild, and the country down here impossibly rough for motor hunting, he gave up after two days of it. and moved on to airobi preparatory to his Tangan- imens for on the job here. s the moment we arri Ken) the dominant fea- ture in the buffale background. be- came enshrouded in a cold mass which never once has thinned. Rain, mist, haze, murky atmasphere and swarms of mosquitoes are some of the trials of daily life in this camp. Bur.we have amazingly cool weather day and night, and a splendid suppiy of clear, running water. Our boys delight in laundry work. as we do in hot baths i “Incidentally. there are thousands !Tana. and thousands of quail—a variety much smaller than our Bob White. They wander into our camp, deposit themselves on our tent fly and whistle apd peep all day long. “There are large broods of little ones, usually from 10 to 14, with one mother. We might have had them' constantly for food, but we preferred having them stay in our camp un- afrald and unharmed. Numerous Cranes There. “The Kaviroullo cranes are also here in great numbers. It {s their mating season. Thev come in pairs into the swamp in front of camp, calling incessantly. a wild. minor strain. A lttle way from camp is a semi-dry swamp with very low vege- tation. Some days they assemble here in hundreds. “Our force Ia working beautifully here. They are busily and happily doing their best. despita the handi caps of climatic conditions, at the moment very serfous, indeed. and de- laying work painfully. The<e handi caps are largely compensated for by | earnestneas, sincerity and eagerness with which the painters are doing their.job.” another ~ communication Mr. Akeley stresses the need for such work as the expedition is accomplish have just come | trip down the | have | through & vegion 1 | “AMERICA’ 'GREATEST CA —Tommy Mil known only as swarming with game, but I find it a complete waste. ““There is only a pitiful remnant of the great buffalo herds of the past, and of other games almost nothing. This is a condition we have found everywhere .we have been in Kenya not appreciated the abso- lute necessity of carrying on the Afri- can Hall, if it is ever to be done. as | now do after this palnful revelation. old conditions, thé story of which want to tell, are now gone; and in another decade the men who knew it will all be gone. The unhappy rem- nant of the magnificent fauna of Ken- ya now has its ear attuned to the rattle and bank of the motor car, which carries the alleged sportsman in his mad chase across the veldt in the hope of having the honor of kill- ing the last of a given species.” African Hall i to be quite different from any of the mussum halls the public ie accustomed to. It is to be spacious and simple in design. Upon | the floor there are to be no glass cases or -pillars to obstruct vision. In the center of the hall—and dominating It—will stand the great elephant group now on exhibition at the museum: comprising an old and a young bull shot by Mr. Akeley, a cow shot by he late Theodore Roosevelt, and a ‘alf shot by Kermit Roosevelt. The only other objects’ upon the floor of the hall will be some remark- ably fine specimens of the rhinocer- os family. and some splendid bronzes by Mr. Akeley—sagas of the bravery, ferocity and poetry of the life that is vanishing from the continent Groups ParBially Completed. At either end of the hall will be a great, broad entrance: along each side | on the main flogr will be 10 large win- dows through which visitors may view 10 of the complemental habitat groups. From a balcony visitors will be able to view 20 more of these groups. Of the groups to be viewed from the main floor, those occupying the cor- 1ers will be the largest. It is planned that one shall represent a scene on the River Tana, with hippopotam! the foreground, a crocodile and tu tles basking mearby, monk birds and otHer varieties of ani: life. it is planned that these corner groups shall be very much higher than the sthers, and shall be viewed from both the main floor and the balcony. Amon{ the groups partially com- pleted for the hall is one represent- ing a family gathering of gorillas— gigantic specimens whose cavernous eyes seem to smolder with hate for all invaders of their haunts. The group, without any background. may be seen at the museum now. To get a suitable background for that group, Mr. Akeley, on his present trip, wil lead two painters into the Parc Na- tional Albert—the gorilla country. and there they will camp and live as DICKENS’ SON OBSERVES HIS GOLDEN WEDDING By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 25.—Grim old London seemed to soften with Dick- ens’ sentimentality today for the cele- bration of the golden wedding asni- versary of the famous novelist's soa. Sir Henry Fielding Dickens and Lady Dickens, surrounded by their happy family circle, consisting of 6 childreg and 16 grandchildren, received me: sages of affection and good wishes thelr home in Mulberry Walk, Lady Dickens' three sisters wers present. Mrs. Fitzgerald of New York came from the United States to attend the celebration; another sister came from Germany and the third lives in bridesmaids at the gratulation from all parts of tl world to herself and her husband, who s 77 years old and a prominent law- er and . neighbors to the great man-shaped beasts until they have captured the natural charm of the gorilla’s habitat and have reproduced it upon canvas ‘or-shipment to New York. . HE first of the improved Packard Eight cars was bought by Tommy Milton, veteran automobile race driver, former international champion — the only man who ever twice won the 500-mile Indian- . apolis Speedway race. . + Milton knows automobiles. Racing drivers, gamb-’ ling their lives in the crucible of grueling speed, must learn the meaning of mechanical perfection down to the last cotter pin. And Milton was not only a racing driver but one of the greatest in the history of the sport. He still holds the official record for having traveled faster than any other man has ever traveled on wheels. What is more natural than that such a man should test his car’s performance on the Speedway? Milton tried his Packard Eight runabout at lndgnnpolia He drove it 88 miles per hour—faster than the grand average of the which won the Indianapolis Speedway races since 1911. Milton won the 300- mile race of 1921, in the fastest racing car of the year, with an average speed but a mile and a half an hour greater than he reached in his Packard Eight —a standard car. No one knows better than Milton what hard work it is to pilot a car at high speed. But he found rest- ful ease in his Packard Eight at speeds second only to those of specially designed racing cars. Is it any wonder then that Milton has called the improved Packard Eight “America’s greatest car’? He means great in performance, great in design and beauty, great in ease and comfort. 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