| Show Y Off C P t n Mat fd ar F h II k L S' S O J II Id ll a. a t. t 4 fr C. C 1 lt I I l ee S. S U 1 L it p AI 1 tr t x 0 U Big Bill Thompson Former ormer Mayor of Chicago y r I a i f tf y Fitting Out South Sea Island Expedition to Take d' d uy u c r y a r. r y l t l Motion Pictures of t 4 q S r S yS u t r tf i t h j. j aj rt t f r S. S I Famous r Climbing 1 try f f r f b Perch of the yd i k Trip r ZT dYo ft 11 t i Antipodes Trip Antipodes Trip n He r May Alay Include the t 1 t y f. f r y F f k 1 r t-t t L S f t L i r Quest of Crabs d i i. i S 'S tL I. I i r r iq 9 7 That Live in qt r s z t t d 5 r k 1 r T Former Thom Thompson Thomp Thomp- r Mayor i e r i S d. d tF 7 recreates recreates' the 1 y son on 1 71 Trees L Like Lek k Be B Birds d exclusive L rees z e l S water almost 1 exclusively f k r rr rry It f and his moments of real t j I x y relaxation co come e when he heis e L rf S y I is at the wheel eel l of his bis r et t r. r M MI yacht His His' yacht the t. t St a w Val Valmore more still holds the I I c y tAA t y record in the he Chicago go J S g SS- SS 54 1 V k Yacht Club lub race race r 1 t r 55 l 9 1 lj I r n L' L r fk X x y f m lL r rr r L tj 4 J a N 1 r y 4 i YR K Kr l 1 EU t s e m i N 5 1 b S Zw Y gy p tb rt J Za i l I o a. a S d tia 1 u r rr y ai h t t e feM ft r In the lagoons of the ther r South Sea Islands where r r the Thompson expedition expedition D 4 r tion will try to photograph photograph photo- photo 1 graph the climbing fish ti r this 1 summer it is pos pos- possible possible sible the they y will find also 5 crabs s that come out by a f N n S 4 J night to climb trees i f i I r i r. r The climbing perch never attains a length of more than si ix l inches ches and looks not unlike the sunfish of of our ponds ponds' andr j. t streams It has a an exceptionally large head filled with within cells r i in which it carries arr es a supply of water when it starts starts' on a f. f overland journey I THE HE climbing perch concerning whose a 1 r very existence many doubts have i 5 f been expressed is is' is soon to be given a Jf 1 place on the picture motion screen Now jf jK laugh that off you nature faker foes if V Y r you rou can f fy No 1 less solid and substantial a maY man 1 v than William Hale Thompson former j Ma Mayor or of Chicago is one of the sponsors of the expedition which is going to photograph photograph phol pho- pho l the in his naI native na- na I tive haunts many of the watercourses of off f t Asia sia r The climbing perch has long been r known 1 and its habits fairly well wen catalogued cata catalogued cata- cata but only a very few persons ever saw one The Thompson expedition will bring him from his faraway y home to toi tov tovie i v vie ie with the heroes and heroines of the i screen i J- J Left high and dry by a falling flood V the climbing fish does not waste his time J. J floundering about in the mud but calmly clambers ashore and proceeds overland v to the to-the the nearest water which seems to act actis as is an infallible loadstone In the journey J i he frequently climbs trees and over wide over wide expanses of rocks Tho The mystery of his ability to live so fc 5 long out of his native element is explained ex- ex by an examination of the head which is exceptionally large occupying nearly one-fourth one of his entire length lengthS V S of about six inches In the bony structure structure 7 ture are myriads of little cells which are filled with water when the creature starts on his overland trip From these are oxygen necessary to sustain life There are several other species of fish is which are capable of making trips of ofF F considerable distance out of their native 1 i element Eels frequently cross the meadA mead- mead A i V from one stream m to another and andt andi I i t they they make make the journey either early in i T i the morning when the dew is on the i grass as or ar duri during g a rainfall 1 t 3 iv ji AL ili Another of natures nature's tricks is displayed display d dby by the f four eyed eyed ur-eyed flying fish which lt is found in the tidal waters of tropical America One pair of eyes are used by the fish fish- when h he is a fish and the theother theother theother other when he ho changes himself into a bird to skitter across mud flats For many years Mr Thompson has Jias been an an enthusiastic fisherman and andre recently recently re- re he interested several other men en in a project to photograph the climbing perch Among them are Eugene R R. R Pike president of the Lincoln Park Board of Chicago and Ge George F. F rge Harding f for formerly for for- formerly r- r merly comptroller of the same city THE 1 HE story begins s some years back k at the Lipton Cup races Big Bill Thompson then Mayor was on hand So was Mr Pike who is is s perhaps his most intimate friend and so was was' Mr Harding It goes without reason th that t tall all had money wagered on the race but but but- Listen fellows said tho the Thompson Im not going to be M Mayor forever So lets let's make a pool Well We'll bet so much so-much much and well we'll take what we win if we win winand and and well we'll invest it letting the sum sumo grow o i Th Then n when I Fm m not Mayor Mayo r any more re lets let's build a boat a little boat and go sailing round the world Fine c cried the the others and the pool was made The Tho amount invested by each is not recorded but the total winning was 35 35 a a tidy sum The astuteness of the persons involved is shown perhaps by the fact that this sum now nets nets' a a regular steady income of 1100 a month But that is is' is is-a is a side aide issue Came time when Bill a Big was no longer Mayor and he began to feel feel the urge of the open sea a need for this little boat bound round the world 1 Now another character comes Jn 11 the i i S S' S 1 4 i S. S ii 1 s While s t climbing g f r that in x s sr r r t r. r p stator 4 Z yr f nativeS native 1 S F j branches 3 s k pi piPi yet h 2 v Q t Pi r rK t L fx 1 Y f t j k J y t ti y ry v vF F R t l t. t 5 t p y Q k d N r r rb SS S'S 55 P d vY 1 p 4 r s t t e 11 t It is p possible that the exp will pick u up interesting and instructive pictures of native customs customs' of the people visited In the photograph reproduced South Sea Islanders are shown Ho in the r council il chamber nt at a fl tribal conference fa story Captain A. A J. J Duken a former captain of a in n the South Seas who was once on the verge of fame and fortune Then the came war ho however ever and the captain was forced to seek seck succor in America After the war was over ho journeyed to Chicago with his English wife and rind then sought out Mayor ex-Mayor Tho Would it int interest rest you said Captain D Duken ken i if I told you about a fish that climbs trees a fish that comes up on land when it chooses and cA hes grasshoppers grasshoppers grasshoppers' pers pers' then leaps into the air to catch butt butterflies rUes for dessert 1 Would it And so it happened that the first fifty-first visit made by Captain Duken to Mr Thompson was entirely taken up by a discussion of the tree-climbing tree fish A After t r it was all over Mr Thompson called a meeting of the members of the thero ro world the syndicate And it happened that not so so lo long g gago ago the keel was laid for a foot fifty-foot ketch out in Riverview Park an amUsement amusement amuse amUse- ment resort in the tho north branch of the of-the the river he ship in which the tree climbing fish expedition will start out to sail at least two of the sever seven seas This ketch is being built under the personal per supervision of the ardent captain The boat incidentally will be Ia launched 18 Ledger Maer ii l ii L k r Th i May May- 14 the Mayors Mayor's birthday It will set sail from m the Great Lakes Naval Training Station July 4 carrying a crew r of four including Mr Thompson President Coolidge has' has been invited I and Congressman Martin B. B Madden t will be master of ceremonies monies Five hundred hund hun- hun d dred ed thousand posters have been ordered l and will be distributed along the route j of the boat in American Americ n waters The boat will go o down the th thi chits Chicago go o River to the dr drainage mago canal thence tactics t eh e to and into the tle Illinois r to j the Mississippi 1 River tho the Gulf Guif 1 Mex exico ex- ex ico ico through the Panama Can Canal l and and iid i- i thence into the Pac Pacific 1 C i i S v sk laugh at the idea of off offish f fish science confirms the fact P Pacific waters are to be found ial specimens that leave their w waters for sorties into the of trees in quest of insect prey rey and it is to take motion pictures of these finny freaks freaks' th hat hat the expedition has as its objective this summer Remember please said Mr Thompson Thomp Thomp- son were going after moving pictures of fish that climb trees and were we're going to get em cm emif if they're th them l If th not there and this fellow Duken has been well kidding us well welI Ill track him to the ends of thee the tho e earth rth for revenge Mr Thompson has received thousands of letters regarding the trip One from Henry Parkinson a retired English trader now now living in Honolulu follows Dont Don't permit any anyone one to criticize you about your beli belief f in the stories told you by Explorer D Duken ken that fishes can climb trees I have seen them with my own eyes climb over six feet in the swamps of East India I have also seen fish in my time th that t tare are able to shoot ft- ft fly from an overhanging overhanging over over- hanging branch by 1 ringa a drop of water at tm m much ch the same ame as a boy uses a n. bean blower From off far Honduras Is Js' another other from froia froma a capitalist who Is s Anxious for tor the for for- former mer Mayor to include In n hL his hb c expedite a side de trip to a peninsula la ic it the South Sea Islands It follows Bows o owa Be Before ore you return to the theSta States stags s permit permit per per- mit moto meto accompany you to a most rema remarkable peninsula which is infested with millions o of tree-climbing tree crabs which come como out only at night in indro droves es ma making iI-g iI their way steal stealthily to thee the in land like a military P precision pre pre- re- re f for or all aU the world like a platoon of of's s soldiers Then T hen they climb the coconut coco coco- nut trees cut cat th tha nuts nuts' down with their ys y claw resemble resemble a tailors tailor's s cut ting shears and arid are ara equally as sharp nd and eat th the s meat of the nut which h has hag burst in fallin falling e Mr hir Thom Thompson son is seriously thinking o of s stopping off to make these pictures pct a aa at a sort of f a raiser curtain raiser curtain for the th tre clim climbing ing perch |
