New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1918, Page 11

'EXPLORER TELLS OF THE BLONDE ESKIMO W. J. Bowen Says They Are Aborigine of White Race NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1918 11 Seattle, Nov. —“Sure they're b g B8 | ‘blond Eskimos'. They are aborigines | R | living up in the white Arctic on Vic Blly a Bu a ] 4 toria Land in their primeval state ab Y ; @ | solutely untouched by the outside ) 2 world’'s civilization They are com- . * 8 4 EM | pletely out of contact with every- Chrlstmas Chflstmas A [ | thing and, consequently, have non of our improvements and also none $ g of our evils.’ i % W. J. Bower, known along the Arc- Present Present o | B | t1c const as “Levi™ Bower, ane of 11 | : | < very few men who have gone from ‘e BN | the outside into the far northern a eek a Week 1 most fabled, land of the “blond ¥ ‘Nr : 8 | mos” thus described them when he was here rccently. ; “And T don’t think it was Stefans- 3 3 | son who first found them,” Bower as- Case on the Docket b B | serted. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, ro- 8 | turned Canadian Arctic explorer, who P | has been credited with discovering the strange tribe, agrees with Bower that he did not find them first. He does, however, claim that he made ; the first study of the tribe and brought back to the outside world the fir: report of its existence. . : According to Stefansson and Bower, it a Captain Klinkerberg, master of the whaling schooner OI; in 1905 push ed northwest to Victoria Land where he found the blond tribe. On his re- ° ° ¥ our rriends an ompaniens are to be the Jur B B [k et & : Island, an Arctic Ocean point, he told of his findings. Stefansson, then Herschel, heard Klinkenberg's ¥ and immediately went to Victo e en an s 0 a Os s where he made a study of the nat Bower claimed the ‘“blond mos'” are really blond. Stefansson does not go that far but says they have light gray, almost blue eyes and a few have light hair and eyebrows. i 4 Bower pointed out that the “blond" - - . & o natives have round full eyes while the Defendants (Bzsse-Leland Co.) make the claim that their Clothes are the best,on the market at the price; : e b E o the slant eyes of Asiatics. “It looks as if the ‘blond Eskimos’ plaintiff (Mr. Customer) says that all dealers make the same claim for their goods, and that very little re- ‘ e e Scandinavian stock of some kind”, liance can be placed upon their statements. Therefore, it has been decided that the plaintiff (Mr. Cus- o B T e % the half breed Eskimos have black tomer) shall have the privilege of two weeks’ trial when he purchases a suit, and that should the claim of o B onies nave Tght eves and hght skin and hair. The old men of the tribe the defendants (Besse-Leland Co.) not be proven, or should the suit for any reason prove unsatisfactory, it is B B i . “Bows and arrows are used by to be returned and defendant (Besse-Leland Co.) shall refund all money immediately. BB B W e wior, ey make therr w o [ St B aa club their fish, they won’'t eat out- sider's food and they speeak a lan- guage similar to that of the Eskimo “They are hospitable, friendly and square, too square, T think. If you give them anything they are not sat- “We left a gun with them. Instead of using it to kill meat, the men 2 4 i isfled until they give you something in return. I gave one woman ) % empty baking powder tin and s} : BN | immediately brought me a big slkir seemed to think’it was a plaything fo Several thousand suits of Besse-Leland Co. clothes have stood trial and been found guilty of being the B OB OB B o e ooy e siooiing e into the air. When they ran out of = ¥ & beSt n the market' b T ammunition they probably turned the . i | gun around and got some real use out of it as a club. Bower said he thought there w o over 250 “blond Bskimos” on Vic- ) R 8 B | torta. Tand. It is not very probable £ B | that they will ever be molested much = & M | by the outside world for Victoria \ e g Land is far off the usual run of i e B B | traders and whalers go into the Arc- tic no longer. Bower has served on whaling igi i i g ¥ : : sels in many parts of the north, and A" R mOdels Cibaii o"glnated by Sl(llflll deSIgners' i A untll his recent return to the States, : had not been out of the Arctic for 5 B | five years. On Sefansson’ last trip he was steward on the schooner FPola Bear which Stefansson used for a time. Stefansson took Bower into Tailored with infinite attention to every little detail by master craftsmen. B B | ona meiimo” country. 120,000 GLASSES OF JELLY. Displayed for your approval by courteous and efficient salesmen. RAEE San Juan, Porto Rico, Nov. Porto Rico has completed the hip ° g ment 0,000 glasses—about 31 N va jelly to the Red Cross 2, § , to be distributed among the o b % B | hospitals. The jelly was made by i the Porto Rico chapter of the Amer ; B | ican Red Cross and sent to France as B8l | 2 contribution, from Porto Rico. Last year®the island Red Cross Ship- . . - . . . ) M ma nd sent to France about You are summoned to give them a fair trial, and if found guilty of not being as represented, you can have g 1w£?e§§ . AT e e ¥ d N | so ‘gdeMbiy appreciated that Cha : 5 9 3 8 A aitmian of the Porto Rico A w“:hout R ! ; fi?;:::” :Q}B‘C(Ent!y focelved a _cable : jonal Red Cross headquar- ters at Washington ing the sup- ply in France was all gone and ask- ing if any plore was availahle. Ten thousand cases of jelly which the Red Cross had ready for ship- ment ‘to France recently we sunk i Bl | ot the pien at New York i 5 3 ‘ELIGIBLE FOR APPOINTMENT. : 13 B | Candidates For Fire and Police De- ® £ g partments Pass Civil Service Exams. By the report of the civil service : sion, which has just been com- 38 Stores 38 Cities i ; pleted, John M. Shaw and William : ; § Bollman have been recommended for £ S TERULALON T ieW LG, B B | ana Albert Sharpe, Peter McEvoy ? 8 B | Michael Flynn, Horace Mercure | Jonn T. O'Brien have examinations for app regular patrolmen Both Shaw and | Bollman have served with the fire department, Shas being at present a callman and Boll man having resigned several ve ago to work In a local factory. ! candidates for appointments in | police department have been on the | force from one to seven years, | The average in the examinatio | attained by Flynn, 99 per cent., | highest attalned by any candidate ' since the civil service was established,