| Show DARING HUNTER FILLS MUSEUM california man gathers thousands of specimens in two years CLOSE TO DEATH MANY fates TIMES film story of adventure goes with donation to oakland museum wife and two children also share in hardships oakland col cal uno ono night about clr time ve years ears offo ago a n boosters boasters bo meeting wa ns s being held in III this city the under discussion aa was a public ani 1 1 I 1 I 1 M for the edification of the local le ciul 1 1 I 1 faeo ic and the attraction of tour its i ts much M u eh orator had beon been spilled to io the value alue of suet such I 1 an institution up 1 rose 11 A snow and spoke U us follows BY U jingo ill fill her up he said mr snow has jut just returned since then mr snow lins has traveled 0 miler around the world orld and again ni ln lie his has spent out fl 1 I tile hl own on pocket he has grappled etli it death a hundred times in III places lipec her no other ither white man ever emr set pt ft fit f t lie leiis h as braved every kind of ft fever mr wid mid deadly aliment ailment that pesters tl it e globo hi he lins has swum around man bitting eitting eit ting sharks harks lie has hai lived among he has sweated Sf on tile the ind frozen on iceberg lie lins inin and lions and ele I 1 li int t ait anil d 1 lonnei and rhinoceroses rhinoceros es a binl ji 11 and t buffaloes uffa 1 I 1 and ant i vaters and humming birds and a but tor tiles until the photographs of his clinin hopr tire aie positively mr shiow is it a ranchman lint but for thirty years alls lie ho had made guide hig big game hunting imil the fauna of the world hl ills hobby hub it has been ills his dream for foi n long time to tn have hae a great museum in oakland 1 and because of ills his interest in the broj ct hp he has hag hen made I 1 hon on hrnry ani curator of tre the oakland 11 Mu family always with him no lie st started arted out froni from oakland ild in do de rember en ibor DID 1911 taking with nith him his wife mrs alls dally pull snow jin ills daughter norma orma now no nearly even een years old and lils ills son sidney all of them pen even to little normn cornin went ent with ith hini him through ill fill of his 9 adventure advent 4 which carrier hini across the equator half a n doyen times into the south sea isles and th gli thousands of miles of african jungles mr snow regards his trip ns as cuip successful cISS ful from the point of view of aliling the oakland public museum d beyond hla his dreams BB as an adventurer and hunter lie ho has shipped back to of practically the entire fauna of africa and a vast mist num her of specimens from other parts of the world they include SW sw specimens of mammals to be set up in the mammal hall of the museum butterflies POO mounted birds 1000 shins 1 hugs hues beetles and insects a complete collection of bends 0 of i african bucks sixty tive five complete habitat groups of animals and a complete motion picture of the entire journey and work gasoline left in caches sir air snow traveled mostly by automobiles sending supply wagons ahead of him to leave leae eaches of petrol along trails mer ever which a motor vehicle never neer before had traveled and over some of which another probably NN will never neer go in a hundred years he carried with him a crew of motion picture men although he said they were in such tight places at times that the professionals took flight and 4 operation I 1 on of the camera fell to his son while he operated a high power rifle to stop charging beasts the adventures told by sir air snow are eIn innumerable numerable and mrs snow and little normn not infrequently figure in dangerous situations in many of them unco once he hauled mrs snow and nornia norma to the top of a high rock to pet get them out of the path of a herd of wild ft lid elephants sidney ho sa wild id stood in the path of the herd and ground his camera to the last possible second and got what lie thinks Is probably the most remarkable elephant picture ever made the herd was dt dl averted n moment later by the rapid pumping of high powered rifles into tile the front ranks through the use of blinds mr air snow slid he was enabled to obtain it a picture of hundreds of buffaloes in a great shump warn conducting themselves in III a minnor ns as natural and undisturbed as cattle attle in a barnyard lie ile lias has enlarged front motion picture films of llona ilona and tigers and till nil latiner of wild ald beast charging th alu mail of nil libat dropping front bullett tit in tho the bild t of enraged efforts to pot get tit at met members n bers of the party grout great shaggy lions lion S hiding in tall nil agniss unaware of tile the p pre re ence of if the camera man and any am number of I 1 pictures of his gift untie mils hills I 1 ile he and his hig whole ahoe party parti were nere laid I 1 out once in the swamps of the lie tana tin n river africa with fever which carried him oft spiritual horticulture when lion there 1 Is sunshine in III the soul there will ile be fruit and flowers flours in the I 1 life boston transcript |
