Show Arctic tic Is 5 More Thrilling Than ThanS S Africa Giraffe Hunter Declares I I i ii i- i Sh Q S Si v t S S Si i r r k tr By PHILIP J J. J SINNOTT SAN FRANCISCO Dec 20 If I If youre you're looking for thrills dont don't think altogether of chasing chaing big game through the American Veldt where its it's a long ways between water waterhole holes hole S Just ruise luise along the Alaskan coast in a small schooner and you'll get all sorts orts of them dodging whales and lassoing polar bears according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to Sidney Snow And as Sidn Sidney Sidny y chased giraffes all over Africa in his dads dad's flivver he ought i to know S Young Snow son H. H A. A Snow I curator of the Museum of Natural History is just back from breaking through polar ice filming and bagging big game specimens And in to the sport of ot the chase his trip include a y narro narrow W escape from death in the floes when the vessel c caught fire discovery I of the bodies of expedition expedition I tion Uon victims breakage of a crankshaft crankshaft crankshaft crank crank- shaft while the ship was in the Arctic wilderness and several veral clo close e calls from rom ha having ng the little schooner gro ground nd to bits by polar ice iceS THEY GOT THE BEAR S Snows Snow's jaunt jaunt to the Arctic was made on the fur trading schooner Herman commanded by Captain Louis L. L Lane veteran of or northern waters The broken crankshaft forced the Herman i into to St. St Michael for repairs and It ft was two months I before the trip could be resumed Dont tackle it warned Alaskans Alaskans Alaskans ans when the Hermans Herman's crew announced announced announced an an- an- an it it was going on north I This years year's ice was the worst In a I decade But the Herman and Snow were out for thrills And AId the first day dayI out of St. St Michael l they commenced I getting them A huge polar bear was sighted I Captain Lane snared it with a II alasso lasso then ther threw other rOl ropes s over it ft Then the fun began with the I bear fighting snarling and diving to escape It finally was o overpowered and drawn along alongside ide A submerged net and a derrick landed it on deck SOLVE KARLUK MYSTERY Cruising along the Herman came cameto to Herald island nd and Lane and Snow paid it the first visit of any in ten years An And this Visit cleared part art of one of the northlands northland's mysteries the mysteries the fate of I the men lost to th the world when the schooner Karluk of Ste ansson's I expedition was lost in 1914 Skeletons of foUr mert inert gave hV mute testimony to their fate They h had d to death for there was food in their supplies and their guns had ammunition It Was n a thrill to cl l ar the mys mys- tery ten It was a thrill for Snow to tot t take le possession of or the Island for br the United States And it was waa a thrill as the filming fllming of bi big game ame continued continued continued contin contin- when a whale Snow Was Avas as filming filming filming film film- ing from a smaller small r boat suddenly attacked the small craft Captain Lane harpooned the monster Just lust as asit asit asit it was vas about to crush the boat With Its tail Sa Say this is ln in my idea of real life says Eddie OBrien O'Brien 14 who went along as a steersman Africa has nothing on the theAr theAr Ar Arctic tic for adventure avers Snow Snots If you feel foel blase l se let r me sno 1 prescribe prescribe pre pre- scribe a trip to the northland q t 7 itie i y I 1 s y yr r i I Upper left A left A pet Alaskan bear takes a turn at the camera Upper Upper Upper Up Up- per right the right the s schooner hooner Herman Lower left Sydney left Sydney Snow Lower right right right- year old Eddie OBrien O'Brien at the Hermans Herman's wheel 1 14 4 a t 4 S 5 S S S SS SS sJ S 4 S r S S 5 S SS SS S S I II I I S I II j |