Show dezinno AM r F I 1 lc if museum california man gathers thousands of specimens in two years CLOSE TO DEATH MANY TIMES film story of adventure goes boea with donation to oakland museum wife alfo and two children also share in hardships oakland ani buu night about three years yeara ago a boosters boasters bo meeting tn was wag being held in tills this city the project under discussion was fl public for the edification of the local populace and tile attraction of tourists much oratory had been spilled as to the value of such at an institution when up rose 11 II A snow and spoke about as follows ily hy jingo ill fill her up he s said aid mr snow has just returned since then sir mr has traveled miles tile world and half again lie ho ling has spent front out of tits ills own ov n pocket lie he lias has grappled with death a hundred times in III places ici here no other whito white man ever tat set foot tic lie hus has braved brave A very every kind of fever and deadly allin elit that hint pesters the globe tio lie has swum around mitti eating sharks he has lived among cannibals lie has sweated on oil tile tho equator and frozen ou on icebergs he has slain tigers and llona lions anti and elephants 8 ind and ji giraffes and rhinoceroses rhinoceros es and hippopotami fand nd buffaloes and anteaters ant lilt eaters caters and humming birds and butterflies ter flies until the photographs of tits slaughter are positively appalling sir mr snow 14 a ranch ranchman nian but for thirty years yeara lie he had made bits big game gaine hunting find the fauna of the world his hobby it has been tits his dream for a long tinie time to have a great museum euill in oakland and because of tits his interest in the project lie hus has been made honorary curator of the oakland public museum family always with him lie iio started out from oakland in december 1010 1019 taking with him tits his wife alfe mrs rally daily snow his daug daughter liter nor inn ilia now nearly seven janra oil alil and ills son sidney all of thorn them oven even to little norma avent will him through nil of tile MB advent tires which carried film acro ia the equator half a dozen times into tha ho south sen sell isloa and through thousands of miles of african jungles mr air inow regards tits trip na as successful front from the point of view of the oakland public Mus and beyond ills his dreams us its tin hn adaven and hunter lie lins bas shipped back to representatives of practically tile the entire fauria faunn of africa and a number of specimens froin other pertti of 0 tilt the world they include SW s sped I 1 mons mens of inami nals to bo be set up in tho Arnini Alti minal nol hall ila of the lie museum butterflies GOO mounted birds 1000 skins bugs beetles tin and insects a complete collection of henda heads of african hucks bucks five alvo complete habitat groups of animals and a corn com motion picture oi of the entire journey mid and work gasoline left in caches mr snow traveled mostly by automobiles sending bonding supply wagons ahead of him to leave cliches caches of petrol along rails over which it n motor vehicle never before lind had traveled and over sonic some of which another probably will never go in it 11 hundred years ile he car aled with hini him a crow crew of motion picture men id though he said they were lit in nich fuch tight places at times that hat tho professionals took flight and operation of the fell to tits his son eon while he bo operated a high power rifle to stop charging beasts the adventures told by mr snow tire are innumerable and mrs snow and little normn norma not infrequently figure in dangerous situations in many mandof of them once lie hauled mrs snow and norma to the top ofa high rock to get them out of the path of a herd of charging wild elephants sidney he sald said stood in the path of the herd and ground tits ills camera to the tha last possible second and got what he thinks as s probably the most remarkable elephant picture ever rande made tho tha herd was vas dl di averted it moment later by the rapid pumping of high powered rifles into the front ranks through the use of bf blinds mr mi snow said lie he was waa enabled to obtain a picture of hundreds of buffaloes in a great swamp conducting themselves vea in n it n manner as natural and ami undisturbed tur b e d as aa cattle catt I 1 e in a barnyard har nyard lie HP has photographs enlarged front from motion picture films of lions and tigers and till manner of wild mild beasa charging the camera man of an dropping from bullets in the lie midst tt ft efforts to get nt at members of tie me party great shaggy lions hiding lit in tall grass unaware of the presence of tile camera man and anny number af of pictures of tits lila gigantic h kills lie ile ind ills fits whole party were ere laid out once in the lie swamps of the lie tann tana river africa with fever which nearly carried him hian off |