New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 25, 1925, Page 3

- ALASHAN TALE 1 INTERESTING The Story of, the Mighty Eater of Etah Washington, D. €., Sept, 26 ~—This 1s the tale of Akkomidingwa, Old Man of the North, once a mighty hunter, and, now a mighty eater and patriarch of Etah, as told by 'M nard Owen -Willlams, of the Mac- Millan Arctic Expedition, and for- warded by “the machine that talks through the air,” as the Eskimos call it, to the Natlonal Geographic Socle- ty at Washington. The amateur radio operator who relayed the message was A, W. Fiverest, of station 1 ARE, at Pitts- f1€], Massachusetfs. J“Although it is known as the most northerly settlement in the world, Ftah's population {8 unstable,” the message sa. “Tuplk and {gloo, summer tent end winter rock house, are not al- ways in the same location. The Es- kimo, still a hunter, moves his dwelling to sea or hill according to whether he is pursuing the savage walrus or searching lis stone or metal traps for blue fox or other game. Summer or winter there are likely to be Eskimo settlements at Anoritok and other places farther , north. “The dean of Etah eoclety, by liv- ing the year round in a rock igloo at the inner break of the Etah Harbor, Boomerang, enables Ftah to. maintain its reputation. When there was work to be done in as- gembling the planes, this old Eskimo chose for himself a convenient view- point and restricted his heavy labor to overseeing the job of paring 2 new black plaster whose presence wae proclaimed only by his pecullar stoop ""Akkomidingwa came to be known as Ol4-Crick-In-The-Back. He is father. of the tribe's best hunter, Kookapingwa, The -old man. has staked out for himeelf a sitting-out job and taken into his home as part- ner and helpmate a seventeen-year- o0ld girl whose industry is as unno ticeable as his- own “As an eater, Akkomidingwa is without a peer among the Smith Sound Eskimos and he is as regular with his meals 28 there are meals Acquisitive by nature, his stomach, adting as general staff of operations, 1doks out for itself first. N¥'When T first head of him he was reputed the greatest ‘bummer’ and béggar among a people whose way of inviting themselves to partake of the white man's food might beget more censure were it rot for the f4et that when opportunity arises they are as eager to share their own ag another's A kkomidingwa is as-clever as any of his juniors and ‘has a real sense ofthumor. - Hig head net only serves and his stomach, but con- talns & craftiness that h ready to place at the disposal of his friends. When a'visitor wants a sec- tion of walrus tusk made into a gavel head bearing the insignia of his lodge, Akkomidingwa is the one who can do the job. “He concelved a real friendship for Dr. Davidoff (Lr. Leo Davidofr, of Bostdn), and in return for pro- fesslonal services rendered, which not only relleved the aches of age but also gave the old man a certain standing in his own gommunity, he made a generous present for which he obstinately refused any return. Koelz also ‘won his admiration and our icthyologist proclaims that he has never detected a sign of the mercenary In the old man’s make- up. “When Nookapingwa salled with Captain Bernler for Ellesmere Ts- land on the Canadlan Patrol Steam- er, the Arctic; Akkomlidingwa shed real tears, not so much at the tem- porary loss of his meal ticket, for Nookapingwa's caches of walrus meat will always be at his father's disposal, as at the thought that they may never meet agaln. Akko- midingwa, clever at keeping inside the law, {s committing that unpara- donable sin agalnst the cruel north. He is getting old. “When Akkomidingwa salvages gasoline boxes and coffee cans from the wreckage of expedition work, some of his fellows think him stingy and grasping, but it is really fore- sight which prompts him to gather fuel for his American cook stove, also salvaged in other years so that his rock igloo, embellished by his youthful mate and the colorful la- bels from cans which to him are not entirely legendary frults, will not be without cheer {n that day when cold and hunger exact their toll and the dean of the Smith Sound Eskimos of Etah goes home; let us hope to a land where the joys of the stomach are not unknown “It was not mere chance that en- abled Captain MacMillan to picture for georgraphic readers the Eskimo patriarch in the act of eating. That is one taek in which Akkomidingwa, whose hard work has long since, if ever, been done, is still a leader without a peer.” Liquor Is Found in Car Of Spanish War Veterans Cincinnatl, O., Sept. 25 (P—Fed eral prohibition agents and police raided a special train carrying sev- eral hundred members of the Span- jsh American war vetcrans associ- |ation en route to the convention at {St. Petersburg. Florida, while the train lay over in Cincinnati last night Police Lieutenant Samuel Emith and Patrick O'Hanlon, city fireman both of Detroit, and Deputy Sheriff {Willlam Olbrecht, of Wayne county, Michigan, were arrested on liquor charges when they admitted owner- ship ot grips in which liquor was found Four special trains bearing veter- {ans bound for the convention passed through Cincinnati, but the train containing the Detroit group was the lonly one searched 8room never saw one another until ish Wedding of This Kind Constantinople, - Sept, 25 (A—Cons stantinople has witnessed fts first Turkish wedding with both the bride | and groom present. A generation ago even the engagement of {wo young persons was arranged entirely by their families, and the bride and after the wedding. The wedding was held in a club house and was attended by some 200 persons, men and women, wore a modish street coat and a face was entirely exposed. The priest, bearded and turbanned, alone | & was In keeping with the. old (radi- tion, The priest asked the girl it she would accept the man as her hus- band under a contract that he would | Way present her with the sum of 150 |% liras, or Turkish pounds, and a guarantee that in case of divorce he would present her with another 150 liras and one plaster. The bride answered‘in the affirmative and the groom did likewlse to a similar question, Rings were exchanged and | ¢ the priest pronounced the man and wife, A reception followed 1in which ! ‘1 “Tahit], section of the United now in Paclfic waters, is France's posscssion among the Bouth Sea islands.” says a bulle- thin vell bound about her head. Her|'!m from The bride [ MO8t couple | planters; and women The only incident hark- | hands Sister Republic Washington, D. ¢, which was Important the Washington, raphle society. “Papeete, its chief port is n turn the metropolls of the southwestern Pacifie, “The Honolulu of the South.’| Because of its position almost mid- Panama and its reasonable tance — as South sea distances go — from Samoa. the Marquesas, and Hawall, Papeete is a sort of ocean | crossroads. and its cosmopolitan as- | crs have suffered from a competi- pect never falls to impress visitors. On ita wharves and in its street one | their numbers have grown lees. coconut | - Trench, an-i “Papeete may be ‘far from civi- ish and American, engaged in every between ealand, and ncounters oanlilla traders and ine* guests vho(h the me | [] R UM took. part. ing back to the old type of nm'lfll} cegemony was the sprinkling of eau. | de-cologne on the ARE BOTH PRESENT 5 Constantinople Has First ank-*TAHlT' |S l]lJEEN OF FRENGH ISLES Is Pacitic Headquarters of the . Rept. visited by a States fleet 26 - D, O. headquarters of the National Geo-| New | d|u-[lmn.’ma4 can be gathered as needed silk stockings to fertilizer pearls; sea captalns and ugents; French oMclals, (for Pa- peete la the capital of the French Paclfic); missionaries; natlves;, the ever-present Chinaman; and the nondescript beach-comber, Tnterior Uninhabited “Tahlt! is of voleanic origin and might be described as a plle of green mountains, The highest peaks tower 7,800 feet above the sea and are amothered in a blanket of rank, tropical vegetation that sweeps to the topmost pinnacle. Even knife- like rock ridges are covered with trees and shrubs that stand out against the skyline like bristling hedges, “Tahiti Is made up of two ‘loops’ llke a figure '8’ one smaller than the other, connected by a narrow neck. The larger unit t& about 15 miles across and the two, length- wise, exténd for 30 miles. The for- est-covered, mountalnous interlor is almost uninhabited, the population being confined to the relatively level strip along the coast, In this strip are the vanllla, coconut, and sugar plantations of the foreigners, an well as the villages of the natives. “There is little to urge a Tahitian to work, Fish may be caught on the coral reefs for the spearing, and breadfrult and fel, a specles of and in the mountains. With the advent of Western methods and an influx of Chinese these easy-going island- tion they do not understand and Good Food Follows the Tricolor | llzation' from the viewpoint of the concelvable from copra and ' stay-at-home, but the palate of the How Long Does It Take You to Earn Ten Dollars? A Good Many Days of Hard Toil We Are Sure— YET YOU SAVE THAT MUCH HERE IN TEN MINUTES We’ll Prove It Tomorrow when you Buy your Fall Suit or Topcoat! FALL SUITS TOP COATS 7. 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