Dayton tribune., January 08, 1925, Image 7

STARTED THE CRAZE
Survey Is Made
of Bird Banding
Bolsheviks Celebrate Revolution Anniversary
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ways follow the same route, and Is the
route the same for both spring end
fall flights?
Do migrating birds make the same
Washington.—From the banks of the stop-over every year to feed?
How long do birds remain In one lo­
Kennebec to those of the Niger—that
is the Journey accredited to a common cality during the migration, the breed­
tern by the biological survey of the ing or the winter season?
What Is the relation between the
United Htates Department of Agrlcul
tore, which is now receiving many in breeding and the wintering grounds of
terestlng returns from the bird-band­ Individuals; that Is, do those birds
ing work at one of Its bird colonies In that breed farthest north winter
Lake Michigan last year. Among the farthest south, thus Jumping over
other Interesting rei«>rts growing out those that occupy the Intertndlate
of this work are those pertaining to zone, or do they merely replace the
Arthur Wynne of Mountain Lakes,
three < isplan terns, which were lo­ latter individuals as winter residents?
To what region do the birds go, par­ N. J., Is the man behind the present
cated In Colombia, South America.
These wre found Just st the time ticularly the young, that do not return cross-word puzzle craze. He started
when bird banding was being done at to the vicinity of their original nests? forming them for the amusement of
I jo birds adopt the same nesting his
;
children; the neighbors’ children
the original colony in Michigan this
year, thereby proving that the young area, nest site and winter quarters in Joined, then the parents of the neigh­
bors' children, and so on until the
birds do not breed Jn their first year. successive seasons?
For bow many broods will one pair puzzles had invaded hundreds of
According to the agricultural experi­
menters two Caspian terns were re- remain mated, and which bird. If not thousands of American homes. Mr.
ported found In Nova Scotia and many both. Is attracted next year to the old Wynne Is seen at work on a new puz­
nesting site?
zle.
Been, in Moscow during th. Huvlet celebration of th. seventh anniversary of the Russian revolution, The parsa* others were discovered along th*
To what extent do males of a spe­
routes to the latter country and South
is passing through the Red square.
America. Those found en route, the cies assist In Incubation and brooding?
Wise Youth
How far from their nests do birds
Investigators say. show what course Is
the worry may kill some peo-
n followed by the migrating birds be­ forage for food. and after the young pie, While
the office
------ --- boy
. observes that most
tween their summer and winter homes. have left the nest will the parent birds folks who need killing seem to do
bring
them
to
the
feeding
and
trap-
।
Invention Enable»
With the growing Interest In the
very little worryin«.
¡ring station?
procedure the department has only re­
Voicele»» to Speak
cently published a list of instructions
Baltimore. — Experiments In
concerning the practical significance
which persons supplied with an
of bird bantling, as well as some of Its
artificial larynx have been en­
history. This form of Identification In
abled to speak well enough to
America dales from the time of Audu­
make themselves understood
bon. who a twin t 1803 placed silver
have been conducted by Dr. J. E
even villages some kilometers distant,
threads around the legs of a brood of
MacKenty of New York. It was
Eruption» From Popocate­ have been covered with a fine yellow
plioeb<"s and was rewarded the follow­
disclosed
before
the
Baltimore
ash. but the old-time Imflans took no
petl Alarm Native»
ing season by having two of his
Medical
society.
notice of this, being accustomed to
marked birds return to nest In the
Patients
who
have
undergone
such a alight Inconvenience, but when
drove the French vessels on the beach
same vicinity. Although bird "ringing"
Mexlco City.— Popocatepetl.
operations for cancer of the
Now some miles south, wrecking every ves­
the recent subterranean rumblings be­
was
attempted
in
Europe
as
early
as
Five
Historic
Spots
co'» great volcun*>, nnd known ns
throat nnd whose vocal appa­
gan to become prominent, even these
sel. After a forced march Menendez
1710 It was almost 200 ye are later, in
smoking mountain." has begun
ratus hns been removed have
Open to Public.
old
warriors
been
ms
frightened
and
vil-
captured Fort Caroline. All the de­
J Mi JO, that systematic work "-as under­
erupt, causing alarm to the little
been
enabled
to
breathe
through
now are practicing all their witchcraft
fenders were killed and the women
taken.
Liberty
I uses on
holes in the neck nnd. with the
Washington.—For »8 years
and children were carried away. Re­
City of Mexico. which, accustomed to in order to appease the god and so
harbor
Started
In
1901.
Instrument substituted for the
looking down on New York
turning to St. Augustine he rushed
Ree u white peak towering above the save the country from the destruction
The earlier Investigators, according must have blushed under the reverent
larynx, have made themselves
they
believe
Is
Imminent.
south to meet the shipwrecked French.
clouds, now notes a black, stem y
to the recent re|>ort. marked their gaze of millions of Immigrants Only They surrendered unconditionally.
understood In what hns been
stream of smoke forming curious fig-
birds by dyeing or staining the flight In October, 1624, did site come Into
termed a “voice almost human”
“Binding the arms of bls prisoners
urea In the sky. The inhabitants of INDIANS INCREASE
or tail feathers, attaching memoranda her own. officially—she was made a Menendez started them in parties to­
and audible throughout a good
the village of Tlamncas are repww
written
on
parchment,
or
mutilating
national
monument
by
an
executive
sized
room.
2,599 IN ONE YEAR
ward St. Augustine. Near the site of
to have deserted their homes through
feathers, feet or bill. In this country order of President Coolidge. The or­ the new national monument. Fort
The device consists of a pad
fenr.
active experimental work was begun der reads that Fort Wood. N. x- Matnnzas, he placed a firing squad.
over the breathing aperture In
The Indian witebmen tn the village Report Shows ' Improvement
In 1901, when aluminum bands were shall be made a national monument Florida's white sand was stained with
the patient’s neck, trüb n rub­
which
He*
between
of Ameca meen,
tms no»""
attached
to the legs of the birds The Fort Wood 1“ no more and no less the blood of 200 French that day.
ber
tube
leading
to
an
Instru
­
in Health Conditions.
the volcano and Its twin iztncdbuntl.
results were s<> satisfactory and s’im than the Statue of Liberty enllghten- Matanzas In Spanish means ’massa­
ment which stimulates the vocal
th* latter known ns the "sleeping » »
nlated so much Interest that eight ing the world.
cords.
cre.'
Washington.—An Increase in the
ter." are endeavoring to rend In Hie
years later the American Bird Band­
Air I m forced from the lung«
in the same order that made the
"Under the protection of the walls
figure», imide by the column of fire. country’s Indian population and a
ing association was organized In New- Statue of Liberty what the American
noil Is set In vibration, the vi­
the warning of the gods, for Ai "cn- marked improvement In health condi­
York city. Subsequent study has re­ ¡>eople thought she was, four other of Fort Marion, first known as San
brations being carried through
meca has been destroyed four times tions on their reservations were noted
vealed that two principal lines of re­ military reservations or parts of tnem Juan de I’lnos and later as St. Mark,
a short tube like a pipestem into
the mucking mountain. In an annual report by Indian Com­
search must be given special attention were set aside as national monuments the Spanish Introduced Into America
the speaker’s mouth. The re­
nnd there Is a prophecy that a savior missioner Burke.
First of these Is the banding of fledg­ ..pen to the public. One of these, tort limes, lemons, citrons and China and
suit is said to be similar to
chief I» t« be b«m of Popocatepetl “nd
Growth by 2,590 In the Inst year to
lings nnd the second, the systematic Marlon at St. Augustine. Ha., is well Seville oranges.
siwecb In a monotone.
"Discovery of coquina, a soft shell
a total of 34UAJU2 In n population total
iztacclbuntl.
and banding of adults. The known. The others, Castle Pinckney,
« trapping
Scientific observers, however, say entirely dependent on the difference Ö.
latter Is tl e mure significant because Charleston Harbor. S. C.; Fort I u- and coral stone, near SL Augustine
that continuous explosions occurring between the birth and death rates. Is
the older birds give the most Informa­ laski, near Savannah, Ga., and Fort about 1570, led to the replacement of
the wooden structure with the mate­
In Popocatepetl, at the nite of “bout accepted as proof that the Indians
leasings reached 226,01o tion on bird habits.
normal,
Matanzas, near St. Augustine, are less rial a visitor sees today. Old Fort
a dozen n minute, do not result In dis­ are becoming a healthier people.
Trapping Is accomplished by various
acres; 411.040,433 barrels were pro
Matanzas Is coquina also. Thirty mil­
astrous eruptions Explorers Just re
Campaigns being conducted against duced.
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und the total revenue was $2».- snares, one of the popular ones being well known.
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lion dollars Is the reported cost of
What They Commemorate.
turned from fur up the slopes of the trachoma
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and tuberculosis, the most 143,517. A tract of 160 acres on the Ihe “Government" sparrow trap, a fun­
mounlaln say they were unable to prevalent Indian discuses. are yielding Osage reservation in Oklahoma wns nel shaped device of wire nnd hard-
"A massacre which probably was Fort Marion. When King Ferdinand
H»<end beyond the snow line.
results, nnd the commissioner seeks lensed for near.<!.<««.000 and sev ware doth
easily made even by the the n -t terrible committed on Amer­ IV beard this he exclaimed: 'What!
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an additional appropriation of $130,v eral others brought more than $1.000.- novice and
Smoke Spreads Over 100 Mdes.
effective. Others ican t '. the only intact example of Is this fort built of silver dollars?'
"Today the War department keeps
The smoke arising In a huge col­ (too to carry on the work,
000 apiece/ The Gauges alone real which the department recommends are a medi. d fort In North America, the
both
forts In repair.
A
gain
In
school
attendance
also
site
whet."
rifled
guns
first
spelled
the
the well-known drop trap, the door of
umn from the crater lias spread !«>
Ized $24,6*6.483 from oil nnd gns.
wns noted. 05,484
05.484 Indians h having bee*
A Gallant Defense.
which Is smqiended until the unwary doom of parapets, the scene of the
miles from Its source. Powderllke ! was
Lumber
cut
or.
nil
reservations
ag
ire falling about the mountain. I enrolled In various schools. represent­ gregated 20,UU0.<W feet which yielded bini makes for the halt, when it drops Civil w ar’s first shot and the first suc­
“Fort Pulaski Is located on the sea
cessful submarine attack, and the end of a sand spit dividing the mouth
Indicating only sulphur deixtslts are ing an increase of 4,0'1 over 1028. In the Indians $1,1*32,000.
down and shuts In the victim.
three years the number of teachers in ;
The department, to be able to study I modern world’s equivalent of the of the Savannah river. Built on the
burning.
Pima
Indians
In
Arizona
will
be
es
One of Mexico’s lending artist*. I»oc- Hie Indians' summer training schools , p0<*Ally benefited by a $3,5tM*.000 dam even more closely thnn heretofore the Colossus of Rhoden—these are the in­ site of Revolutionary Fort Greene,
»
cidents memorialized by the five new which was destroyed by a hurricane.
tor Alt, 1» Interpreting the movements Ima grown from 24 to 325. ’
Although oil nnd gas operations on ( to be constructed on the Gila river life histories of birds, urgently re­ national monuments," says a bulletin Fort Pulaski was taken over by South­
of
smoke
nnd
fire.
quests
the
co-operation
of
naturalists
of the columns
treat
San
Carlos.
Indian reservations were, leas than..
whose casual discoveries of wayfaring of the National Geographic society ern troops at the beginning of the
which he styles "the anguish of my
Union troops attacking
band bearing birds might be well from Its beadquarters in Washington. Civil war.
brother Popo." But he Insists that
"History knits together the stories Savannah brought up some of the
worth reporting. In this way the gov­
the residents of Meglio have nothing
ernmental Investigators expect to solve of Fort Marlon and Fort Matanzas, first rifle cannon ever made and de­
to fear from the volcano's convulsions.
The
nnd that greater dangers exist for
the many problems which previously the latter 15 miles to the south. Don manded the fort’s surrender.
them in their midst, such ns politics,
have baffled the ornithologist. Among Pedro Menendez, the 'adelantado' or Confederate commander replied: 1
camions nnd the "right to direct ac­
these are the speed with which indi­ governor of Florida, founded St. Au­ have been sent here to fight, not sur­
viduals of any species may travel on gustine in 1565 as a base from which render.’ Despite a gallant defense the
ceptjy
he
caused
the
ninety-three
tion.”
Doctor Alt spent three years living Claims Historic Burial Plot headstones to be removed. Including their periodic migrations, the possible to attack the Huguenot colony at Fort rihed cannon pounded out a military
and Dumps Markers.
n hermit’s life on the edge of the cra­
Spain lesson that scrapped most of ihe
five which marked the graves of Rev vanguard formed by one flock for oth­ Caroline, 50 miles north.
ter, with snow nnd Ice on one side,
olutlpnary or Civil war soldiers. Fifty ers and the advance made by succes­ claimed the Huguenots trespassed on world’s forts.
nnd lire nnd lava on the other. Ho
Stamford. Conn,—With the town of three of the stones were set up In a lot sive flocks passing one over the other their territory. But the Huguenots.
“Fort Moultrie, that beat off a Brit­
says the mountain Is one of the pas­ New Canaan up in arms against him, which Mr. Jones purchased in Lake In alternate periods of rest and flight. French Protestants, who had come for ish fleet in 1776, and Fort Sumter, the
religious freedom like the Pilgrims Civil war’s SeraJevo, are twin guards
sions of Ids life.
Questions to Be Answered.
<1. Elmer Jones of this city Is facing View cemetery, which • Is In anotiiei
later, decided •to Charleston harbor.
Recently, at the first sign of trouble possible complications a* a result of part of New Canaan.
These two
Other questions which can be an­ were to come 65 years
within the volcano. Doctor Alt wns off the wholesale removal of headstones
The others were piled In a heap In swered by bird banding operations to surprise the Spanish.
forts are still in active use so Castle
down
on
St.
from Mexico City with his pack. In an from a small cemetery in New Canaan. n swamp and left there, No effort
"Their fleet swooped
Pinckney, an unused fort on Shutes’
endeavor to see the activity of the In the cemetery, the graves in which was made to disinter any of the bodies are:
Do Individuals of any species al- Augustine but a Florida hurricane Folly island, has been named a na­
volcano.
now appear confused beyund any Iden In"the old cemetery, nnd It Is said It
tional monument for Charleston har­
Indians Practice Witchcraft.
tification. New Canaan’s dead have would be impossible now to replace
bor. It Is opposite the point where
For some weeks the press of Mexico been Hurled since enrly In the Eight­ the headstones over the graves to
batteries first poured shot into Sum-
City hns been occupied with the ac­ eenth century.
which they belong. One of the Stones
Union forces used Castle Pinck-
ter.
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tivities of 1’opocntepetl. The country
ney In their final attack on Charles-
As an heir of one John Jones. Mr. bears the date 1736. the name on It
around the slopes of the volcano, and Jones lays claim to the property on being Annn Eels. Only one stone was
ton. It was in this harbor that the
tl rst submarine, run by steam, tor-
which tlie cemetery is located. Ue left, thnt being so tangled in the root»
pedoed a ship during the Civil war,
of an elm tree It could not be budged
ONLY ONE OF HER KIND
but went to the bottom with its vic­
Laborers and truckmen had the work
tim Castle Pinckney also saw one of
of removing the stones completed be
the first attacks of an armored fleet
fore the townspeople realized what
Find» Spiral Nebulae
on forts.
wns going on. Incensed, they nre now
"Bedloe’s Island provides the foot-
clamoring for action. The town o1
Are Stellar Systems
New Canaan 1ms Instructed Its counsel
stool for Liberty, It has had a more
Wushlngton.—Confirmation of
France's gift of
Homer S. Cummings, to take whatever
peaceful bistqry.
the view that the spiral nebulae
1870 on the centenary of Independ­
’
steps
are
necessary.
which appear In the heaven® us
ence raised this 2^-acre oyster Island
The town contends the cemetery Is
Whirling clouds, lire In reality
I public property. The Connecticut law
of New Amsterdam to eternal fame.
distant stellar systems, or "is­
I he Colossus of Rhodes in Asia Minor
1 provides a severe penalty for tamper
land universes," has been ob-
was one of the seven wonders of the
ing ■ with a tombstone or grave. At
.talned by Dr. Edwin Hubbell of
I Mr. Cumming's office It was said j
world. Yet Liberty Enlightening the
the Carnegie Institution’s Mount
World rises to 131 feet above her
■ Careful Investigation was being made
\yilson observatory, through in­
pedestal, 26 feet higher than the re-
and that action would be Instituted If
vestigations carried out with Ihe
ported height of the fallen wonder of
the facts warranted.
observatory's
powerful
tele-
the Near Lust. The American people
At the Jones home It wns said he
s4opea.
immediately accepted Liberty with
was apay. His vyife declined to make
The number of spiral nebulae,
fervor and enshrined her as First Lady
any statement In his behalf, From
the observatory officials have re­
other sources however, it was learned
of American History."
ported, amount to hundreds of
Jones had consulted counsel before
thousands, and their apparent
having the stones removed.
Finds Bug Which Makes
sizes range from small objects,
almost slnrllke In character, to
Vicious Mosquito Flee
Chinese Dancing Rules
(he great nebulae In Andromeda,
Paris.—Dr. Legendre proved in a
In China, the ballroom floors art
which extends across nn angle
report to the French academy of
of three degrees In the heavens,
divided into squares, each of with li
sciences that disea Rehearing mos­
Miss Surah L. Lockwood of the Uni
bears n sign of a bird, fish, or some
about six times the diameter of
i^meed to absolute penury by the loss of all her money through helplug quitoes can be driven from Infected
varsity of Missouri, at Columbia, Is
other form of nature. Dancers must
the full moon.
areas by a variety of nonvenomous in­
the only woman professor of Journal
The Investigations of Doctor
keep to their own squares nnd If they
sects bred systematically In his labora­
Ism In 'the world. She Is a graduate
Hubble were made photograph
fall to do so nre stamped with n
tories from Insects brought from Bel­
After several
colored disk. Three failures to keep
of timi university.
leully with the 100-lnch reflec­
gium.
years' experience with Missouri and
within the square assigned results In tea for passing cyclists, nnd runs a country boarding house for dogs.
tors nt the observatory.
Oklahoma newspapers she recently
the penalty of leaving the place.
h.
Joined the faculty.
Tern» Migrate From Kenne­
bec to the Niger.
lì
Warning of Gods
in Volcanic Smoke
New Monuments Are
Set Aside by U. S
REMOVAL OF MARKERS FROM
CEMETERY ENRAGES TOWN
Lady Decies, Broke, Runs a Shop
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