Bird Breeding
Place Menaced
Most Remarkable Refuge in the
World in Danger From
Hunters.
MANY RARE SPECIES THERE
Bird Reservation Is Under Control of
the Department of Agriculture__
Protecting the Birds There Is
Precarious Business.
AVnshington.— Sticking out in the
Pacific ocean 000 miles beyond Hono
lulu is a group o f little Islands, the
largest not more than two squure
miles in area, and several of them
barely rising above the waves at high
tide. Yet on those islands are many
hundreds o f thousands o f birds and
among them are at least six species
! auk, they recall, was exterminated by
ilshermen. The rarest o f all the species
that exist only in the Laysnn group
is a duck-like bird, excellent fo r food,
and therefore most likely to be shot
by fishermen.
Rare Birds on Island.
The species that nest there and no-
j where else are the Laysnn teal, the
little Lnysnn rail, the I.nysnn lioney-
euter, the Laysan finch, the miller bird
(a small warbler), the Hawaiian tern,
and the Laysan albatross. Other spe
cies that nest principally on Lnysnn
and adjacent islands and would be
in danger of extermination if molested
there, are the red-tailed tropic bird,
the black-footed albatross, the gray-
backed tern, and the sooty tern.
The number o f individuals o f the ex
clusive species in 1911 were estimated
to be: Six of the Laysan teal, perhaps
100 o f the miller bird, 300 o f the
honey-eater, 2,000 o f the rail, 2,700 of
CHILDREN OFFERED AS BAIL
Pueblo
S trikers
Seek
Release
W ives A fte r Mayor Is
Beaten.
Pueblo, Colo.— Children as surety
for ball is something new in Colorado.
Five women were among those ar
rested here following a riot In which
Mayor Mike Studzinski was knocked
down and severely henten by striking
steel workers. Husbands o f .he wom
en made frantic attempts to obtain
their release on bonds, saying they
needed the women to “ keep the home
fires burning,” and one man, who could
not raise the $200 bond required, took
his three little children U f the police
station and offered to leave them in
custody as surety for his w ife’s ap
pearance in court. The offer was re
fused.
Later the women were re
leased on a cash Doud of $1,000 given
by the strike committee.
The rioting followed the attempt to
reopen the Mlnnequn steel mills, closed
since July.
Austrian women stoned
the workers who tried to enter the
plant.
HIGH
HEELS
CAUSE
WHERE EX-SERVICE MEN ARE DISPLACING CIVILIANS
of
DEATH
Pittsburgh Woman Mangled by Ele
vator A fte r H er Shoe Catches
In Door.
Wholesale cuts In the number o f female employees o f the bureau o f war risk Insurance are part of the general
plan of the bureau to bring all its employees under the civil service regulations. The pinces o f probably 1,000 o f the
girls who have been permitted to resign will be taken by an equal number o f ex-service men who have qualified by
civil service examinations. This photograph shows service men and girl clerical forces working side by side.
Woman W orker
Has Made Good
Pittsburgh, Pa.— High heeled shoes
dragged Mrs. C. Steffler, aged forty-
two, to a slow death when she was
crushed beyond recognition between an
elevator cage and the shaft wall In the
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North Park apartments. No. 204 East
North avenue, where she resided.
Wonderful Record in War Service
Mrs. Steffler was hurrying through
the hall going to the elevator when
Is Shown in Statistics
John Gibson, the elevator operator. In
Just Compiled.
formed her that he would carry her
up after he had answered a telephone
call. As Mrs. Steffler stepped into the
waiting enr her high heeled shoes
enuglit between the elevntor and the
floor. In an effort to extricate herself
she fell forward, grasping the cable N early 15,000,000 Women Drew Pay
o f the cage which started slowly to de
fo r Labor Never Before Performed
scend to the basement, pinning her
by Them — 700,000 Acted as
between the steel cage and the wall.
Volunteers
in
Liberty
MANY TAKE UP MEN’S WORK
RUSS REDS SELL CZAR’S GEMS
Loan Campaign.
Washington.— Statistics have proved
Albatross Wings Piled In Old Guano Shed, Laysan Islands.
Evidence of
the Extent to Which Poachers Have Killed These Birds.
The Wings
Stored Here Were Evidently Intended for Shipping, but Never Had
Been Cured.
nitions, employed 10,000 workers, near
ly all of whom were women.
~ That the women have made good
has been definitely established. In one
o f the munitions plants where 2,000
girls were at work the greatest out
put made by two sets o f engineers
were 15,000 complete sets o f fuses
dally in two shifts. The girls turned
-
out 38,000 complete sets in the snme
allze the possibilities o f women In
period o f time. In another Instance
men’s jobs, and within a week after
where the work dealt directly v lth a
the selective service act had been
drill press the greatest production
passed called fo r woman volunteers
where men were working in teams wns
to replace the men. Instead o f con
3,200 pieces each in nine hours’ time,
fining the replacement to the fnmllles
while that o f girls doing the same
o f Its employees, It sent out an appeal work was 4,400 pieces each.
to all stenographers, telephone opera
tors and clerks, with the result thnt
the clerical force o f their own estab DESCRIBES SIBERIAN MISERY
lishment, which was essentially a war-
producing machine, wns not In any Col. Teusler of Red Cross Says Filth
way depleted, and within a few
W as Cause of A rm y’s
months women were operating electric
Reverses.
and steam locomotives, running motor
trucks, operating steam winches nnd
Tokyo.— That a chief cause for the
cranes. Inspecting and ninlntnlnlng recent reverses o f the Siberian army
lighting nnd telephone and other com wns to be found In Its unsanitary con
munity service utilities, loading cars ditions, was the opinion expressed re
and ships, packing In warehouse and cently by Col. It. B. Teusler, American
cold storage rooms and handling de Red Cross commissioner to Siberia.
tails o f transportation.
Col. Teusler said that bad sanita
T oo k Jobs of Men.
tion, both In the army and among the
In the operating department o f one population, with the agoDles o f starva
o f the Enstern railroads 2,360 women tion, brought about extreme misery
and girls took positions form erly held nnd a moral breukdown, which was es
by men. In one of the lnrge Western pecially reflected In the troops, who
cities more than 20,000 women re felt they had no support behind them.
placed men who had been called Into The minds o f the population seemed
service. Another American establish to have become almost benumbed and
ment employed 5,000 girls In nearly all absolutely Indifferent to what hap
the mechanical departments In the pened, or to the suffering o f others.
operation o f making fuses. In another
Col. Teusler added that although
plant where uniforms were manufac such numbers of the people were starv
tured nearly 3,000 women were em ing, there wns sufficient food, hut Inck
ployed.
Still another plant, a Mas o f transportation facilities prevented
sachusetts concern manufacturing mu its distribution where most needed.
Lenine Government T rading in H ol that during the world war nearly 15,-
000,000 women actually were drawing
land Through Germ any to
pay for their services. More thnTi 1,-
Avoid Blockade.
000,000 of them never hnd done d day’s
Amsterdam, Hollnnd.— The -Lenine work in their lives. The number of
government in Russia, balked by the volunteers would add another 1,000,-
world financial blockade from sending
000 to that total.
money abroad fo r propaganda pur
In the Liberty loan campaign alone
poses, now is conducting an extensive
700,000 women acted as volunteers.
traffic In confiscated jewels through
There was a similar number in the
Germany to Holland markets, accord
ing to the Hnndeisblnd, which com united war drive. For the Red Cross
ments on a charge that the com the total must have been millions, for
this organization women who
munist member Llsser o f the Am in
sterdam council offered the Russian worked all day or who kept house all
day, and who had an hour to spare,
emperor's diamonds for sale.
would devote that hour to surgical
dressings, classes, refugee work or
ministering to the wants o f those
whose homes had been hit by the in
fluenza epidemic. Then, too, stenog
raphers, clerks and girls in office
buildings would, at the close of the
business day, offer their services grat
is, to the draft boards or any o f the
other countless bureaus organized for
Albatross Destroyers Arrested.
* --------------------------------------------------------------- — ------------------------------------------- the speedy termination o f the war.
By way of illustration, this: One
Beetle Causes No End of Trouble to
day In 1909 the crew o f the cutter
ing wire connections useless until the
In actual figures the women whose
(w ith direction given).
Record will
Telephone Companies in C a li
Stefansson
Discovers
Supplies
Thetis found an old shed absolutely
bored places are found nnd repaired.
services brought monetary remunera
be found in house.”
fornia.
piled full o f albatross wings. A search
The problem o f control o f this metal-
Left in 1850 to Aid Ill-
“ Lieutenant McClintock,” saya Cap tion w ere listed as fo llo w s: Mechan
boring beetle is still unsolved, accord
revealed the fact that 23 plume hunt
ical
and
manufacturing,
2,000,000;
ag
tain Bernier, who was eommnnder o f
Washington.— When telephone girls
Fated
Franklin.
ing to the bureau o f entomology of the
ers had landed on Laysan island and
the Intrepid and second in command ricultural, 2,000,000; transportation, in California find their wires are
United States department o f agricul
had killed at least 300,000 birds. The
200,000;
merchandise,
000,000;
public
to Captain Keilett, early showed his
“ shorted,” a bug mny be on or In the
ture, and It w ill be difficult to find a
men were captured, taken to Honolulu,
great activity by making sledge Jour service, 50,000; professional, 70,000;
practical way.
and form ally arrested. Since that time
clerical,
700,000;
domestic
and
per
neys o f a hazardous nature across
there is not known to have been any
M elville Island from the locality In sonal service, 2,500,000; unclassified,
repetition of such depredations, but
which the Resolute and Intrepid were 6,750,000— total, 14.870,000.
it is nlways Imminent.
Food and Clothing Found to Be Alm ost frozen In near Dealy Island.
H elp W in W ar.
“ Immortals” Tackle Job
The
Just now many fishermen— largely
In as Good Condition as When
Those employed In the actual win
tracings made by McClintock around
They Will End in 2020
nationals o f countries other than the
Placed There by M cClin
the shores o f M elville Island and ning o f the w ar or in positions listed
United States— are extending their op
tock in 1853.
Prince Patrick Island, on foot, added as necessary fo r the winning of the
The holiday seasoD set the
erations from Honolulu out to the re
many hundreds o f miles to the coast war included munitions, 100,000; can
French
academy
back
two
gion o f the bird reservation. Landings
N ew York.— O f interest to all who surveyed under Belcher and Keilett. neries, 80,000; food, spice, drug, tobac
weeks In the work of revising
on the Islands are constantly Immi
have heard the call o f the North and The calms established by hint be co and similar factories, 125,000; tex
the French dictionary which, ac
nent, and such landings would be n
the lure o f exploration Is the an tween 1852 and 1854 are mentioned in tiles, 275,000; clothing factories, 212,-
cording to the best estimates,
menace to one of the most remarkable
Beetle Bores Through
Lead
nouncement that Vllhjnlmur Stefans his reports with the pnpers found nt 000; hosiery and knit goods, 130,000; T h is
will be completed in the year
bird-breeding places in the world. The
8heathing of Aerial Cablea— Magni
mnklng shoes, 95,000; genernl equip
son found the abandoned cuche o f Sir Dealy island.
2020 or 2025.
bureau o f biological survey, having
fied
Ten
Tim
es.
ment, 600,000; shipyard nnd foundry
Leopold McClintock, commander o f
B u ilt H a lf Century Ago.
The two holidays this year
direct charge o f the reservation, Is
the Intrepid, in the Arctic after a
happened to fall on Thursday,
It is probably one o f these cairns employees (the latter made holts nnd wire, fo r California has a wood-boring
calling attention to the fact that dis
lapse o f more than half a century. It that was discovered by Stefansson rivets, ran drill presses nnd worked In beetle that goes through wood and
the only day o f the week on
turbing the birds on Laysan or any of
wns Sir Leopold McClintock, in com nnd built by McClintock more than machine shops), 100,000— total, 1,717,- also
which the Forty Immortals as
through
alloyed
substances
the smaller islands is forbidden, and
000 .
mand o f the ship Intrepid, who found half a century ago.
semble.
considerably harder than lead. The
announcing that the reservation will
This figure rep resen t only the wom
traces o f the voyage of that unfortun
Academy members began the
Continuing,
Captain
Bernier
says
of
beetle
has
put
hundreds
o
f
tele
be protected, by whatever means are
ate explorer Sir John Frnnklin. He M cClintock: “ His subsequent enreer en who already were mill-trained and
present revision in 1878, 41
phones
out
o
f
commission
hy
boring
necessary, for the benefit o f all the
built a cache on M elville island, pre in navigating the waters In Lady does not Include those who left oc
years ago.
holes In the cables that carry the
peoples o f the world.
sumably between 1850 and 1854, when Franklin’s yacht Fox o f Peel sound,' cupations to assist in war work, nor wires. W ater enters the cables, mak
Laysan, the largest o f the group, Is
in quest o f tidings o f Sir John Frank Regent inlet, Rellot strait, King W il does It Include those who had had no
one o f the most westerly o f the H a
lin and the members o f his ill-fated liam island and around Montreal is previous experience In work o f afty
waiian Islands. It has an area o f about
expedition In the Arctic.
land and Boothia peninsula are well- kind.
two square miles, and within It. con
In 1910, one-fourth o f all the wom
Located by Stefansson.
known.
His brilliant achievements
forming generally to the coast line, is
The McClintock cache was located and discovery o f definite information en In industry were married, and more
a large lagoon. This Island is one of
by Stefansson, who reports that he regarding the fate o f Franklin point than 15 per cent were either widowed
the most populous bird-breeding places
found everything in almost as good to him as the most fortunate o f all or divorced. In 1918 the number of
on the globe, literally hundreds of
married workers had practically dou
thousands o f birds resorting there to condition as when placed there In voyagers who pursued the most re bled and, with comparatively few ex
1853. Articles o f clothing he found markable search known in the his
lay their eggs every year.
ceptions, all had one or more depend
Specialists o f the biological survey particularly well preserved and much tory o f navigation.”
ent upon them fo r support.
better
In
quality
than
the
clothing
of
One
o
f
the
documents
left
by
Mc
call attention to the fact that the
O f the number who actually have
ostensible occupation o f fishermen today, and the food and supplies left Clintock In a copper (ube and under a replaced men no figures are obtaina
In
the
Arctic
cache
by
Commander
pile
o
f
rocks
was
found
by
Captnln
does not mean that men may not be
ble. The Bush Terminal company of
very destructive to birds. The great McClintock and his men also were Bernier. Another wns found outside New York was one o f the first to re-
well preserved, despite the severe o f K ellett’s depot probably disturbed
not found anywhere else in the world.
In 1911, one of those species was rep
resented by six birds— all that were
left as the sole means o f perpetuating
the species, and they concentrated on
a single little Island, where one man
might kill them all in one minute’s
shooting.
That species— the Laysan teal—has
fortunately increased until there nre,
by estimate, thirty-five Individuals.
For the United States department of
agriculture, for a few years, has con
trolled the Islands as a bird reserva
tion— tlie Hawaiian islands reservation,
It is called. But protecting the birds
there is a precarious business. The
possibility has existed always that one
or more o f the rare species might be
wiped out In a day.
the finch, and 180,000 o f the albatross.
Indications are that, while the teal
has increased, the other species have
probably decreased.
The islands composing the reserva
tion nre Laysan island. Ocean or Cure
island, Pearl and Hermes reef, Lyslan-
ski or Pell Island, Mary reef, Dowsett
reef, Gardiner island, Tw o Brothers
reef, French Frigate shoal, Necker
island, Frost shoal and Bird island.
50 Year Old
Cache Found
Bore Into Telephone Cables
RECALLS TRAGEDY OF ARCTIC
NEW MORMON TEMPLE NEAR HONOLULU
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Invents Typewriter on
Which to Write Music
Wichita, Kan.— W ill Kansas
wonders never cease? A type
writer on which one can suc
cessfully write music Is the In
vention o f H. P. Flauth, a com
poser o f this city.
The machine is said to have
135 characters which can be
written on, below or above the
staff.
The typewriter differs
from the ordinary model only in
that the printing surface o f the
roller Is flat
Flauth Is understood to have
worked more than 18 years on
the invention.
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weather known to prevail- In the Arc-
Uc regions.
Documents and a list o f the con
tents o f a cache built in the far North
by Commander McClintock and other
data also were found by Capt. Joseph
E. Bernier, In command o f the “ Arc
tic” expedition o f 1908-1909. A tablet
e r e c te d on Dealy island by Captain
Keilett and Commander McClintock
in 1852-1853. whose vessels were lost,
also was found by Captain Bernier
and re-erected, with his own tablet,
on Pnrry’s Rock, commemorating the
annexing o f the Arctic archipelago In
1900. On the tablet found by Captain
Bernier were the names o f the ships
navignted by the explorers— "H. M. S.
Resolute, Henry Keilett. Esq., C. B.,
H. M 8 . V. Intrepid. F. L. McClintock.
Esq., Comm. Wintered 1852-1853, S.
82 E. (tru e). Door o f Depot House
from Its resting place hy a polar
bear, fo r It bore the marks o f the paw
o f an animal o f considerable size.
Much o f the Information found In
these documents was utilized by Cap
tain Bernier while cruising through
northern seas In the Arctic.
Enjoyed H is Own Funeral.
Hillsboro, Pa.— James H. Houser,
seventy-five years o f age. Is all ready
to die now. In fact, he has already
burled himself.
Believing funerals
should be enjoyed while living, he has
, had his staged here recently. Many
friends attended. They sang “ Nearer,
My God, to Thee,” and a lot o f other
funeral songs after a minister deliv
ered Houser's burial services. Houser
has prepared his own obituary. The
ceremony wns held at a church and at
the Houser home.
“ Thirsty for Words” Is
Her Bigamy Defense
London.— The
excuses
and
palliations, brought forward In
bigamy cases are monumental
In tlwMr ingenuity, bnt I think
this one from the north o f Eng
land will take a prodigious lot
o f beating.
A girl was had up
fo r
a
triple
bigamy—surely
oughtn't It be called trigamy
when It'a three?
Her mother
was called fo r the defense, but
all she could say In explanation
w as: "She can’t help It, my
lord. Bhe’s got a reg’lar thlrat
for ’avlng the words spoke over
’e r l”
View of the uew Mormon temple at Lale, on the Islund o f Oahu, near
Honolulu, which waa recently dedicated In tha presence o f noted Mormon
church dignitaries. This la the only Mormon temple outside o f continental
United Stutee.