Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1937, Page 46

c-s8 THE _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, ART GALLERY BORINGS to Determine How Best B X s o een sunk on site, south of &2 to Sink Piles. stitution avenue between Fourth and The first actual work on the site [ Sixth streets. Several Species of Grizzly of the new art gallery donated by| Eighty holes will be drilled on the Bears Among Those to Perish Since 1900. Twenty-five North American mam- mals have become extinct, mostly since 1900, Francis Harper of the American Committee for International Wild Life | to Norman Evans of Bury, England, Protection, told the American Society | 14 years of age, as a result of his of Mammalogists, meeting here today. | craving for arms. He collected old Notable among the recently extinct | syords, had a shotgun, his dead father’s gpecies, he said, are several species of | revolver and a pistol. On the last day grizzly bears, which played a colorful | of the school term he took his shotgun part in the westward expansion of the | to class. His woman teacher told him United States. They included some of | 5 Jeave the room. The boy turned the largest carnivorous animals on the gun into a corner and fired. The garh. | teacher approached him, commanding Throughout the world, Mr. Harper | him to eave. He put the butt of the #aid, at least 300 more mammals are gun on the floor, leaned over it, and | threatened with extinction and 100 it went off. He \;/u shot throuzl.l the probably will pass from the scene in head and died late: the next century. In making up his UseLOma FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1937, entire site, according to Philip E. Headley, representing the contractor. These test borings average from 50 to 80 feet in depth. The report on borings will be sent to H. G. Bal- oom, engineer, of New York. The general contractor for the new gallery is Marc-Eidlitz of New York City, who is understood to be going forward with plans for construction. the numbers of this species, Mr. Ham- ilton found. Once during such a cycle they number from 160 to 300 an acre. At another time there are only from 15 to 60 an acre. The theory is that when they reach a peak of abundance an epidemic sets in which rapidly reduces them to a minimum. Great herds of musk oxen—now confined within the Arctic Circle—once roamed the territory which is now Indiana. Dr. Marcus W. Lyon, jr., reported to the mammalogists today the finding of the eighth skull of these prehistoric musk oxen. The skull now is in the National Museum. Andrew W. Mellon has progressed Substantially in test borings to de- termine the nature of the subsoil. These findings will be used to de- cide how to sink the piles and lay foundations. Birds Ignore Time Change. PHILADELPHIA (#)—Turning the clocks ahead for daylight saving time didn’t fool Harry Spina’s two pet spar- rows, Baby and Petey. 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Death in a sensational tragedy came “Theres SOMETHING aboul lheme syou'll like® w1 TAREYTON CIGARETTES THE WASHING MACHINE THAT'S 2 STORIES HIGH Four giant washing machines, each as high as a 2 story house, vyuh the bottles that bring you P.O.N. Beer. They spin them and twist them and roll them, until they’d win a medal for hygienic cleanliness. Incidentally Feigenspan's bottling department is in a handsome new building. The walls are tiled to the ceil- ing. The floors are tiled every inch. Everything is new and recent except the flavor of P.O\N. Beer—end that hes received such praises for 60 yeers that we wouldn’t dars to Improve it even if we could. Christian Feigenspan Brewing Company, Newark, N. J. list he went back to the days when there were lions in Southern Europe and bison on the area of the District of Columbia. The bad record of North America, he said, is due largely to intensive hunting—sometimes amounting to de- liberate campaigns of extermination— and to plagues introduced by the | white men. South America has the | best record of all for countries for | preserving its mammals. I | I ’ and.in.a short time your lawn will become a closely-woven | corpet of rich, emerald-green | ... your iowers will be mers | colorful and longer-lasting your vegetables will be meat- The ultimate of “fast living” among fer add more flavorful mammals was described to the society | | EREILELTURIII PRI RV PR ST today by Dr. W. J. Hamilton of Cornell | |[EEETTTEETITNINRNPYY RS SN University. It is the way of the tiny trees and shrubs will be health. Eastern meadow mouse, or vole, which ler and more handsome. becomes mature when a few weeks old end dies of extreme old age in about | | 18 months. i During this period, Mr. Hamilton | | found, there is almost ceaseless activity i In search of food. 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