Show r T r w K Uik H V' K II n II The Majestic Symbol of Freedom Now Branded a Marauder Because of Its Raids ? i vu Xdr Nj ihfU1 i Kfc and a Bounty of Fifty Cents a Head ‘t ' Vf '1 Or J w i v jX K i Nh: — '$? fj ' M Is Paid to Hunters and Trappers for Every Specimen t ' ’“'“-wm- V One of Two Gigantic Stone Eagles Which Will Decorate the Entrance to the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Bridge at Harrisburg Pa Each Eagle Weighs About 392000 Pounds Destroyed shields and banners with tlje American Eagle long popularly accepted as a living symbol of freedom will be seen side by side with the Stars paand Stripes in Independence Day disrades the bird itself has fallen into been placed on repute A price hasAmerican citizen? its head even by who accept the patriotic symbol ' Briefly stated the American Eagle and today is considered a destructive worthless pest when alive When killed it is worth exactly fifty cents — that being the bounty price that has been placed on itshead In several parts of the United States particularly in the Rocky Mountain regions hunters and trappers are afield and a vigorous campaign of extermination is even now under way for specimen captured every means money Majestic in the appearance though it behabits e and character eagle’s f are such as to make jit a Is J menace Many granges and associations farmers’ other h j1 and not a few State Game 14 commissions are agreed! that while the eagle may be at- If f 4 tractive as an emblem on $ff coins the only good eagle ' as they know it is a dead ' one To those who have never ’ seen an eagle except in pic- - p tures or as a figure on a j shield or banner and who associate it in some way as typifying patriotism theisun-a deniable fact that it marauder and never plays fair may seem like a cruelly unjust indictment but is a fact never-- j theless Ornithologists long have known it and many a ranchman farmer and drover has had sad experience to prove it With the unsatisfied hunger of a vulture the daring of a wolf and even the cunning of the fox the eagle does not hesitate to seek its prey injthe grazing fields of the farmer’s flocks or indeed WHILE I -- V Vvr S3 but it would be as hard to check up on i A JV eagles as on rattlesnakes The fact that are too many there y be their whatever Thi Eaglet is number the conW’as who those of clusion Hatched in on insist carrying an the war into their From indLos Angeles Incubator eeries But it isn’t an Egg Found in a Cliff Nest at all likely that the in the Big Tajunga Canyon eagle will ever beThe Photograph Was Taken Jhst After come extinct Nearly the Bird Emerged From the Shell zoological park in the country has a specimen in captivity and intrepid si on Near Port Henry young men from time to time manage also in New York State to scale the rocky cliffs and return was a similar attempt in made by a big eagle to with eggs At Western University an from retaken Cleveland eagle’s eggs force an airplane to of Canada have tire from the air The nest in the mountains eagle been hatched by hens which took turns plane knocked the on its stting on them Out in Big Tajunga out and continued was disCanyon Calif an eagle’s nestcliff flight quite as if nothing was wThile of the covered part had happened were Two blasted eggs away J ust how many being an incuin hatched and later found in are A there eagles Los in has one bator Angeles no America ' ever tried to esti- Census of mate ' elkherds and other I large game give us a h x fair idea as to these t ' j Captain C W f R Knight and ' a Sea Hawk Taken as Part of a Photographic Record of Life in the Bird Sanctuary on Gardiner’s Island every w v°"T vfc A i hV v ' a ' A v- -- 1 & ' V ! lW i Eagles when full grown average a little less than three feet in height the females being the larger The spread of wings is usually more than double their height All the qualities for which are airplane manufacturers are seekingmore natural with the eagle perhaps than in any other winged creature The strength of its wing muscles giving it a lifting power which enables it to carry a weight evenI greater than itself Thus it seems there remains one in the intrepid bird’s talking-poithe albeit favor only one a matter of course sentimentalists everywhere and particularly ' in sections where neither lives nor property are likely to be endangered by the lust of the handsome kings and queens of the air express “tuttuts” about the eagle’s ravages and “Ohs’’ and “Ahs” about the virtues and patriotic values attached fo ‘Old Baldy’'j In another age by a perversion of old Spartan psychology or with general acceptance of somethingdie akin for to the campus urge to “do Or dear old Eagle etc” the war of extermination might come to ai sudden end But the law of nt --- As V j - v "V V 'J1'4 ' ' jl V-XjLk-v 4 ' ' "'if h ‘ f y y ' ' r ' ' t-- " 'X self-governm- j ' y i v JV Vh V x ent which experience has proved to be stronger than any other urge in the life of man prevails Directly in the protection of life against the winged creature’s talons and indirectly in the shielding of livestock from mutilation in the claws of the greatest of the hawks thi3 elemental balance of values We knew the eagle is danis evident are after him we gerous and an authority tells Bendare Captain of a golden eagle that struck down and n deer It is comkilled a of mon to hear eagles carrying off lambs rabbits and chickens From a great altitude an eagleto will watchanda flock being turned out pasture circling overhead it will pick out a lamb which has strayed from the flock and with something like a plane’s nose dive pounce upon it and be off While there is a growing feeling of their against living eagles because continues bird defiant the maraudings to have a place in the field pi artistic decoration- - when done in stone Memorials and monuments all over the country bear witness to this Perhaps the finest examples of the eagle m decorative stone are found in the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Bridge at’ Harrisburg Pa These eagles patterned after typical specimens will be on either side of the entrance Each weighs 392000 pounds J vy s full-grow- ‘il' ! 4 V jc rmirr i"- t Photograph of Little Dorothy Magner Who Was Saved From the Attack of a Giant Eagle by a Timely Shot From Her Father's Rifle Which Sent a Bullet into the Bird’s Brain The Eagle One of the Largest Speciments Measured Ten Feet From Tip to Tip John Trout Is Here Seen With the Big Eagle Which He Shot and Thus Saved His Little Daughter From f Being Mangled by the Bird's Talons The Eagle Made Two Attempts to Claw the Child fmr 1 if within the confines of the Its searching dooryard eye spots the quarry and it swoops down on powerful wings Its sharply curved talons are fastened on the object and such is the bird’s speed and flying range that within a few minutes it is back on its nest high in some great tree or in a sheltered ledge on a mountain side Eagles are mostly solo fliers Spurred by hunger they set out alone on the hunt soaring high over the countryside and not infrequently daring to enter the firecincts ofa a villagebald Not so eagle giant winged down from ' its eerie in the New England forest and was seen The pet dog over Hingham Mass of the little daughter of William Magner of that town was romping The eagle in Hie Magner dooryard saw the dog and swooped to seize it The little girl ran out to rescue her the eagle momentarily Set andturned to attack the girl Mr Magner fortunately was at home He seized his gun and shot the great bird before it could get out of range This eagle one of the largest of it3 species had a spread of wings from tip to tip measuring ten feet — its curved talon3 were four inches in length and as sharp as a chisel It was estimated that this bird possessed strength which would have enabled to one it to rise with from seventy-fiv- e hundred pounds of weight in its talons Another attack of this kind is reOn this ported from Pennsylvania occasion a little girl for the barely escaped with her life to seize eagle failing in its first effort the child swung around and with extended talons tore at her again The child was the daughter of John Trout a farmer of the back country of Manoa Trout as in the other case was at home He saw the eagle riding down from the sky and the danger of the little one His gun wa3 within shot he reach and with a brought the big bird down It was a gaunt specimen with a wingspread of seven feet Mr Trout was convinced that his child would have been killed or cruelly mangled had he not been Young Bald Eagle in the Zoo In Central Park New York Which Has Been Named Lindy in Honor ol Col Lindbergh The Bird Was Presented to the Zoo by Former Gov Smith ' ' A vvC1 j -C five-year-o- ld well-direct- L 0 ’i'-J- J k 4 V ' y k V - '4 ed at home With an ever increasing number of airplanes flying at great altitudes and covering routes across North America in many directions the eagle must feel that its freedom is becoming circumThere is evidence that the scribed eagle resents it and is prepared to contest the right of the newcomer of the air - ' At Saranac Lake N Y an eagle' popularly known in the Adirondack section as “Old Baldy” winged out of the mountains and with a screech of defiance struck at a plane in flight The result was as could be expected The eagle was maimed and sank to the ground with one wing out of commis- - J? ittjiWtoMiWMMeeoMeaeuMh wwwdeeHk Eagle’s Eggs Taken From a Nest In Canada Were Brought to Western Reserve University in Cleveland and Hatched j by Motherly Hens These Eagles Are Believed to Bethe First Ever Hatched by Hens Newspaper Feature Service 1931 |