New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1928, Page 2

i i a | PR e | | opportunity to make certain of their lana anxious for trouble when they |death and their addition to our were approa It is surprising string of ies. the amount of lead a bear can carry. ON ALASHA LEDGE From the left of the ledge. as we faced 1t, 2 rock slide built a cause- way to the wat Its apex was a | snowdrirt. at the top of the | | slide, and water fall tumbled out from a ¢ undermined 1 Thrilling Adventure Ends With Bagging of Three Animals (By J. VA Now for a bear-hunt! 1 a E that those who have followed the series of descriptions which have been published in the Herald cerning our trip into th and Alaskan pet con- e of our trip. bears are ti brutes, vivor almost their bigger c ly common over s kan country. 1 £00d policy to to ki ders T have 1t my contentior that on outdoor » to incor- e thrill of » party got there and back but the actual they got bagging of t me, the real re son for the story lismissed wit a few words. 1 have come to the cone that it is impossit impart to a sportsman which comes to a hunter when )\L succeeds in his quest. The story seems flat to the sportsman w had thrills his own. It Is - difficult to excite anwone who ited; words are not i n with the virus of | do not flatter myself |, achieve where better | failed, but, in se to write of t s from one te the open. I that T may men than T have detense, I am going bagging of three 1 spot. The self-d e element inly the story is the rhurfl to be absolv- a4 from repeating it to everyone meet. So liere goc b Under Overh: Picture to vourself, it my words can supply the groundwork [¢ for an adequate mental image you, a long water filled valley the rocks some five miles deep and |- a half mile wide. On every side, the entrance is but a hundred fect|b wide, rise cliffs, jagged, bare T sinister. Some of them are a cour of thousand feet high, terminating in saw tooth peaks that actually| overhang the fiord below; other, ing Ridges )1 v and just as irregular, connect the higher peaks. Occasionally a stream | The fourth bear Srie e axirm GF siaies trom Rome on snow |Slide some 20 yards from us, un- Seinkat Teattiens e T =S | wounded, and made his way up into deepened seam and drops i deep bluc of the salt water our boat floats, lacelike and from a distance, strong and impetu- ous from a nearby point. Alt the boat is some hundred: from the cliffs it is neces: to bend the head far bac the tops of them. Be slope the rocks have gathered no snow but occasionally, on their faces | may be scen a sizeable ledge on | which a small patch or two of green grass is growing. The se son is short in that country and t foliage must make the best of opportunities in the spring. even to the extent of pushing up through a snow hank Every now and then the breaking off of rocks from the ks above | for countless generations has formed “slides”, up which it is vossible for | man and beat to make a way. The | slope is gentler as the slides have filled a path from the bottom of the tjord, no one knows how deep, up the faces of the cliffs. It is all & man can do to mu.bl»: up thes slides on all fours b e done. Bears Seen on High Ledge This, then, was setting for our | hunt for “blacks.” We saw several | groups that d 11 bears in all we | tigured, but th last four were the ! ly ones approachable. As the “Westward”, our staunch little | veyance, cruised up tiord | were all on the forecas ering | what unusual sight was going to be | next offered us in t land of ¢ happenings. the four be ond feet, on 154 that is usually ral we emergir his den and thr )8 of about were having one of their first me spring on the 1 ted us with : i ] e e e e e DOCTOR'S ADVICE ENDS 'HEADACHES | § out need of Aoctor re . 17 tree trom aches and ha ruddy compi- snowdrift rockslide to o poer [in to | in|started. ind we had three bears down for s !good it was still left the cleft from which the i and roared down the sea sheer cliff, the it terminating in that way to th and they slide ‘Game Up Rock Slide the two wi ip’'s small boat 1 cllm\ about 700 with ou and then it was quite mals would be ' on a little pa any time. With beat- breath we 1 fours at s and pa g 1p our pet rifles on ind ed rocks. Excite- wyed its part in our trip, it y hastened our i ¢ the snow field was 1 indicating that we had come © top of the slide and were only about a dred yards from our ot seen sin Caution was r 1 we h“ crawled over the | er of the slide until we the ledge—and there was ur had just seen us d milling around, now gainst the face of the cliff in back, now to the edge of the ledge in front, now to consider the on means of escape, across our path, t was a memorable scene before the shooting started One of us, who can say which, got n his 'st, the 30 Govern- nd the fusillade - bear went down 0 get up again and go down under other shot. “There’s one down, him another.” We concen- our fire on one bear at a Shooting accurately enough, with great speed we soon had shausted our cartridges of which we had none too many when we There were but two left im med. One but we refused to use the last cart- ridge in our gun on him as we were facing three wounded bears any one of which might get up and come for is at any time. The last shot was to be reserved for close quarters if lower points or ridges, just as sharp | 16Ces Quarry Down But Not Out sued. The other three were not yet quite dead though they had been hit They had three or four times apiece. to be despatched at close quarters after more cartridges had been ob- [tuined from the ship. Even though several hard hits had been made on the brutes they were looking for fight Every ‘Boyshform’ Brassiere Left in Stock We Offer For Wednesday A. M 79% each These are reg: $1.00 and $2.25 values. ular (Act Quickly) Every Cotton Crepe Kimono Left in Stock $2.50 Tomorrow A. M. Lot Includes 32.98, $3.98, $1.98 Values COLORS Rose, Blue, Peach, Green At the back | the ¢ it excepting by the | srefore if we went up 1 bears had to stay where | or come down the slide So we reasoned, and it up, we had | stream is- a They were too badly hurt to have ma \l\, their way to us, warranted. Anyhos ized ones alth b ars, good ugh two ere young. Two, the mother and ! eone cub were black, the one which es- brown, as w caped. The beurs were skinred out fter they had been rolled over the to a point considerably nearer | hip than they had been. Bear | was then in order ahoard the! Wash Vestward” and the mounted ough we d the excitement of ! hunt, Dick Top Bill founder, . 1=ft on board, n be equalled. From their | Charles o pomt they could see us and s at the same time. The | cpisode was spread bef n the face on the clift SRy | tained, Theatrical rvival the set- could never 2, no play more intriguing could L e Mk “Thie grandeur ot | Possibility of mechanical flight with | Sery it an impression of un- | heavier-than-air machines. ondty Langley, on the beholder, the spectacle | hunt was undoubtedly similar I am glad I was one of parti 1 regret o |the activ | since that T could not have scen the | mated tableau as well. | ties on Have I given you the thrill of our| The iventure? 1 hope so but 1 fear, like others, T have failed. N —— o over Sends Son to Death To Save Travelers of Honor. But his son is dead. Faced with the alternative of sac- the lad or endangering hun- dreds of passcngers, he gave the sig- nal which sent a train hurtling onto the track where the boy stood. | Mme. Andreux had sent the lad to | the signal box with his father's lunch. 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Abbot. Thus the traditional association of the Smithsonian institution with the | | development of aeronautics is main- for Abbot is the in the office of secretary of that in- stitution of both Walcott and S. P. who first demonstrated the Langley he is an astronomer, having been connected with the Astrophysi- cal Observatory of the Smithsonian | 1895 and being recognized as ani- |one of the world’s leading authori- color radiation. committee for he Smithsonian ship, to advise the institution in re- search work relating to aeronautics, which had been suspended with the Ficrs, France ¢ 17 (@M. |unsuccessful attempt to launch a : Al gleep | . o 3 B, e, iman, has|man-size model of his fiying ma. |9l overslceps “once in a while. Lanikin's destiny seems to have Andeus, railway sig 3 {chine in 1903 and his death in 1806, | This is revealed in a newly pub- been laid out for him by his fore- been given of the Legion | 4le was accomplished until 1915, | lished juvenile biography of the ex- |fathers. He has in his possession committee was stablished by congress with an an- | nual appropriation of | k supervise and direct scientific study | health, of the problems of flight.” That act was passed shortly after the outbreak of the world war in recognition of the fact that aircraft become an im- portant military weapon as well as potentially valuable aid to com- estin to Then, as now, the who serve The appropriation, R A | has increased to $600,000, and the | READ HERALD CLASSIFIED l[isl number of employes to 200, includ- energy elements * salads made w1th VANHOE ayomzazs& faster beating! MINER, READ & TULLOCK Local Distributor For Quick Clearance Kid Gloves $2.50 a pair Includes ev $8.00, in our stock. 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By electing Uel Walter Lamkin of Maryville, Mo.. as its new president the National Education association has drawn upon the teacher-training branch of the profession to fill that office for the first time in 18 years. |! Miss Cornelia S. Adair of Rlch-l mond, Va., who last year became the | first classroom teacher to head the, association, will serve this vear as first vice president. Her adminis- tration has been concerned largely | with development of “education for | citizenship.” Lamkin, president of the North- west Missouri State Teachers’ col- lege at Maryville, began his career as principal of the Washington school at Clinton, Mo., in 1897. Tn recent years he has been a leader among the presidents of Missouri educational ‘institutions in an effort to bring about uniform standards for admission and graduation and a more harmonious curriculum in the schools. closes a ranch of 90 square miles. It is his duty to see that the fence Walcotr, | For more than 80 years Barten appoint- | has been riding the range, and in that time he never was hurt when tumbled off an erratic pony ror injured by any of the wild long- horned steers. At suorise his clear voice rings in the corral of the Smith ranch as he cali for his mount. He works six 1o ten hours daily, and when there is a roundup he is the first |man on horse in the morning and last to dismount at night. Barton came to Texas from Flor- ida at the age of 16. He was In an | isolated wilderness during the Civil war and did not learn about the struggle until it had ended. His eycsight is clear, his memory vivid and his hair still black. Byrd Can Stay Awake But Prizes Sleep Too New York, M—Commander Rich- ard E. Byrd, who on occasion can t along with almost no sleep at successor, Like secretary. formally | blorer. |an arithmetic text written by his “I think sleep is the most import- | great-great-grandfather, Uel W. ant thing a man can get for his|Lamkin, in North Carolina in 1772. * the man who spent 42 hours | The book was written and bound awake over the Alantic last summer |by hand and was used by its au. told Fitzhugh Green, author ofthor in teacKing school before the “Dick Byrd, Air Explorer.” Revolutionary war. Lamkin's father “I always trv to eleep eight|E. P. Lamkin, was associated with [ hours.”” ne said. “Sometimes I try to|the Clinton, Mo., Academy for many add an extra hour when T know I !years. am going to have a hard spell of | The new president of the educa- work ahead.” tion association has had a wide “to member- President however, | 391 - 401 Main St. Just a Step From the Square KNow The Foods You Buy These Summer Days— That They Are the Best—Pure Fresh and Wholesome. 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