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v. v- : x WHETS' ex-Prefldent Roosevelt et sail for Africa on his quest for big game, he will (Imply be fol ' lowing In the footsteps of several nota ble Americans of today, whose hunting prowess Is known in many of the big game fields of the lan. Is that lie beyond the bound of the United States. Indeed, some of these predecessors of Mr. Roose velt have records as hunters In most of the world's big game fields, including those of their native land. W. T. Hornaday. recognized In two hemispheres an America s leading oo Inglcal garden authority and rreator. has bagged big game and email in South America. Florida. India. Ceylon, the Ma lay Peninsula. Horneo. British Columbia. Montana. Wyoming. Arizona and Mexico. He has shot the Indian elephant, the tiger, the Indian bison, the sambar deer, the axis deer, the wild hog. the gazelle, the black buck, the sloth bear, the sun bear, the muntjac and the mugger In the East Indies, and In America his rifle has brought, to earth the bison, the antelope, the mountain goat, the mountain sheep, the mule deer, the white-tailed deer and the puma truly a formidable bag of blc game, and one of which any hunter, no matter how exacting or strenuous he might be. would undoubtedly be properly proud. Mr. Hornaday has been a hunter of and a student of big game and small from childhood, when, as a Hoosler lad. he learned to shoot; and with the exception of the few years that he was engaged In the real estate business, he has spent all bis grown-up yean. In going after and making still and live collections of the animals of the world, both great and small. Most of his hunting expeditions have been made with the express object of making xoological collectioa. and on some of these trips he has passed as much m two and three years at a time In" the heart of the Jungle, meotlng. It Is need less to say. with enough adventure and close shaves" to form the backbone of an Interminable series of boys' books. According to Mr. Hornaday himself, his most hair-raising adventure and his near est arproach to violent death in the Jun gles befell him when he was In India hunting elephants. On the day In ques tion he tame unaware upon a rath er large herd of elephants, but without betraying his presence to the pachy derms. As he stood watching the herd. Ms attention was fixed by the playful antics of a baby elephant. After romp ing for orhe time about Its mother, the little creature set out on an exploring tour of the Jurgle. Mr. Hornaday. anx ious to study the youngster further, fol lowed it. noiselessly, as he supposed. But he must have made some flight noise, for before he had taken many steps In the trail of the baby. Its maddened and ter rified mother came crashing through the Jungle and w:is all but upon him before he realized his danger. Mr. Hornaday frankly acknowledges that he never was more scared in his life, but he stood his ground-there was nothing else to do and when the great beast was within 15 paces of him be let go with his rifle, fir ing two zinc bullets in quick succession Into the elephant's, skull. The effect was elrtrtc. for with a suddenness equal to that with which she had charged the hunter, the mother turned at right an gle and. shrieking and trumpeting In her pain, crashed through the Jungle. One of Mr. Hornaday' most Interesting b:g game experiences in this country be fell him when he was fortunate enough to discover a herd of bison whose existence was unknown to the settlors round about. Mr. Hornaday at the time was making a collection of bison for the Government, and for tree months after he located the precious herd-bison were mighty scarce even then-he and his assistants spent their time killing snd mounting the ani mals. He returned to Washington with S3 mounted specimens and a live calf. Leaving out of consideration Colonel W. F. Cody. Mr. Hornaday probably has more bison to his credit than any other living well-known American. And these bison are to Mr. Hornadiiy's credit, for he killed them that future generations of Americana may know what the great game that once crowded our Western plains looked like In the flesh. averi Jr'rom an Klephant by a Ijlttle Fox Terrk-r. Another prominent big game hunter who had a blood-curdling experience while after elephants is William Astor Chanler. who also has an enviable record as an African explorer, ar.8 who did such good work before Santiago that he was es pecially con-mended in dispatches by Gen eral Shafter. This Chanler. by the way. is a brother of the Chanler who failed to defeat Chsrles E. Hughes in the recent gubernatorial race In New York. Chanler turned big game hunter and African explorer at one and the same tune when he was Just a short time past his majorr.y. He had got well toward his objective point, a plaoe near the equa tor never before visited by white men. when he had his never-to-be-forgotten ad venture with a herd of elephants, coming out of It with his life owing to the fact that he had taken with him on his travels a spunky little fox terrier that answrered to the name of Felix. Meeting with a band of natives who were so short of food that they were on the verge of starvation, the blacks prom ised to show Chanler where there were elephants if he would fill their stomachs. This the wTilts man did. and true to their word the natives supplied him with guides and off the party started for the haunts of the pachyderms. After a fruit less Journey of several hours, the hunt era suddenly came upon elephant trails leading In all directions. From this point on the huruVers crawled on their hands and knees through a forest of brush and thorn until they came near to a clearing In which the game was feeding. At this Interesting Juncture the natives beat a re treat, leaving Chanler with only his .two gun-bearers and his own guides as com panions. Chanler, nothing daunted, wormed his way to within 60 feet of the herd, then fired. Before the smoke following the speeding of his second bullet had cleared away, he heard what he calls "a sicken ing, crashing nolee and trumpeting." and realized that an elephant was bearing down upon him. Quick as a flash, he reached for another gun. and then dis covered that both his gun-bearers had fled. He was alone with an unloaded and useless gun and behind the wounded elephant five other were tearing In his direction. Chanler took the only course that was left open to him he Jumped Into the mass of thorn bordering the trail, and hurt himself so painfully that for a mo ment he forgot all about the six mon sters charging down upon him. But not Felix, the dog'. Escaping from the native who had run with him to. the rear, the terrier had bounded back to his master's side, and as the leader of the elephants came abreast of Chanler. Felix sprang through the air, landed on the pachy derm and bit It viciously. Clearly fright ened by the onslaught of this" unlooked for and mysterious enemy, the elephant sheered suddenly away from Chanler's uncomfortable post and made off Into the Jungle, the other elephant following. One can Imagine the feelings of the little dog's owner when later Felix disap peared forever down the cruel maw of a crocodile. At another time Chanler had a close shave from being badly mangled, to say the least, by a rhinoceros. He waa stalk ing this game, when he suddenly heard, not ) feet In front of him, the snort of a rhino. 'In a moment." says Chanler, "1 heard the dull thud of his feet, but the grass was so high and thick that I could catch no' glimpse of the animal, yet all the time he was coming in my direction. Soon he reached the trail not 30 feet be hind wnere I stood. I had my rifle ready, but could not use It. as my boy, Sururu, was between me and the onrushlng ani mal. In an instant he caught Sururu and with horror I saw him fling the boy's body through the air, and I had Just sufficient time to throw myself to one side into the bush ere he thundered past me Into the long grass and dis appeared." Fortunately, the black boy escaped fatal injury, this being due to the fact that the beast' horn was Impeded In Its progress Into the lad's flesh by striking against a nickel framed watch and a nickel framed compass which were In a pocket of Chanler's coat that the boy was wearing. Chanler gained quite a reputation among the natives as a hunter of hip pos and rhinos, and several time als skill in landing these species of African big game kept his expedition from be coming foodless in the fastnesses of the Park Continent. On his first trip Into the African big game regions, Chanler was accompanied by his brother Wln throp. who. also. Is no mean big game hunter; and on his second trip he had aa his sole white companion a Lieutenant THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND, NOYE3IBER 23, I90S. MM) WHO e-J? . STF. V In the Austrian army, who injured by a hippopotamus. Caspar Whitney a Worldwide Hun ter of Bis Game. Like Director Hornaday. of the New York Zoological Society. Caspar Whitney has hunted big game In many quarters of the world; and, again, like Hornaday, he has been an ardent sportsman most of his life. Indeed, after he had taken the entrance examinations for Harvard back in 1S76, he decided to go traveling instead of to college, and ever since then he has headed once every so often for some one of the world's big game fields. During the six years beginning with 1SS0 he spent practically all his time hunting and exploring. Mr. Whitney has the distinction of being the first American of note to hunt In Slam and Burmah. going there after big game that he might get out of the beaten paths made by big game hunters in India and Africa. In Siam he laid low several specimens of the native buffalo, despite the fact that the dense under gTowth of the Jungles made hunting, even to an expert like Mr. Whitney, akin to pot luck. In Burmah he got buffalo and a panther, while in Sumatra, where he next ventured before turning his face homeward, he had the satisfaction of putting a bullet behind the ear of an elephant that was charging on him and beholding the great brute fall dead. Whit ney's big game trophies make a formida ble loological collection of themselves. To Mr. Whitney I am Indebted for an authoritative definition of the word "hunter." A hunter Is a man who goes out for the love of sport, who loves the wilderness, and who spends a good deal of time hunting. A hunter la an alto gether different creature from a shooter. A shooter, according to Mr. Whitney, Is a man who goes out for a week or two in his vacation to see how much game he can bag. He simply fires a bullet and hopes and prays that It will hit some thing. Under these definitions a good many well-known Americans, who donbt leFS consider themselves In the hunter class, are nothing more than shooters. The Greatest Amatenr Big Game Hunter. An American who has hunted big game m every clime and country of the world who. In fact. Is probably entitled to be heralded as the greatest amateur big game hunter In the world Is John R. Bradley, of New York City. Wherever big game roams over the face of the earth, there Mr. Bradley has been on its trail, and as he Is a millionaire several times over he never has to think twice about the needed funds when he feels the hunting fever coming on him. About the only species of big game known to he modern world that Mr. Bradley, has not yet placed In his bag Is the polar bear. Some months ago he. In company of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the Arctic explorer, went North In search of polar bears and other Arctic game. But before a bear had been secured Mr. Brad ley asked his companion if he would not like to make a dash for the Pole. Dr. Cook re plied In the affirmative, his host turned over his yacht to him, and the doctor set about his polar preparations, while Mr. Bradley returned home. Some day, however, Mr. Bradley means to bag at least one polar bear, even If he has to go to the pole Itself to get It. In one hunting day Mr. Bradley has been charged by a rhinoceros and con fronted by a lioness at close quarters. As the rhino charged him from a dis tance of less than a hundred yards, Mr. Bradley pumped lead Into or rather against Its sides as fast as his gun would work. But on the brute came, until a bullet struck it in a leg, when It halted In its charge for a moment, thus giving Its enemy time to get Into a safer po sition, from which he sent a bullet into the animal's brain. The rhinoceros had barely been cut up and distributed among the natives when Mr. Bradley, on his way back to the head of his caravan, found himself facing a lioness, which had emerged from the Jun gle only a few yards ahead of him. Brad- Irak WQDT EAME XT? jq-:;Ji m. tVI' : was badly I . - 1 T ? V $ ; te, i .ft ley raised his. gun to fire to his dismay an empty shell prevented its working. As quickly as he could under the circum stances he set matters right, but before he could fire the lioness took to her heels and was swallowed from view by the jungle. Mr. Bradley's home is decorated large ly with the trophies of his hunting ex peditions. Skins of all sorts are strewn about the floors and the furniture, and not a little of the furniture Itself has been manufactured out of such trophies as horns and tusks secured In every big game field In Africa and Asia, from the Cape of Good Hope to the bleak steppes of Siberia. While In the arctic fastnesses Explorer Robert E. Peary frequently goes after big game, not only that he and his men may have sport, but also that they may have full larders. Walrus, polar bear, reindeer this the big game that Peary knows best and of which his rifle, since he has been searching after the Pole, has brought down numerous specimens. Peary haa also hunted big game In the Maine woods and elsewhere in this coun try; Indeed, he cultivated his love of hunting when, as a youngster and a young man. he spent a great deal of hls spare time tramping through the great woods of the Pine Tree State. A. Donaldson Smith, the Philadelphlan who several years ago attracted the at tention of the geographical world by his Important exploration work in Africa, has to his credit one or more specimens of all the familiar species of African big game. General A. W. Greeley's rifle has been heard not only In the big game fields of this country, but elsewhere on the continent, as well; and. of course. Colonel W. T. Cody, known to young America a "Buffalo Bill," Is a familiar figure on many a big game field, though he has done most of his hunting on this continent and in this country. Of late years. Colonel Cody has limited his hunting practically to the Big Horn Basin, in Wyoming, where he has a ranch of some 20,000 acre. Here he spends his Winters, leading his guests in expeditions after the game of the region, bear, mountain lion, deer, elk, etc. Glfford Plnchot, of the Federal for estry service, and a confidant of Presi dent Roosevelt; with gun in hand has tramped through the forests of the far Northwest for weeks at a stretch, and( every species of big. game indigenous to these forests has fallen before the crack of his weapon. He, however, is yet to hunt abroad. The same is also true of Owen Wlster, the novelist, who has quite a reputation in certain parts of the West as a big game hunter. He has killed every kind of big game known In the Rocky Mountain country except the mountain lion. Somehow or other, -whenever he has taken aim at a mountain lion, the bullet haa sped wide of its mark. Two of England's best-known big game hunters are Baden-Powell, the hero of Mafeklng, and Lord Desborough, who was at the head of the Olympic games held In London last Summer. Baden- Powell can shoot as easily and accurate ly with his left hand as with his right, and many a ferocious animal has he laid low In Africa and India. Lord Desbor ough, besides hunting In India and Af rica, the two big game fields most fa vored by Englishmen, has shot in the Rocky Mountains. With him, as with all true hunters, he hunts that he may be in the open and escape for a time from the conventionalities of civilization. When he was in India at the Durbar, the Prince of Wales turned big game hunter on several occasions, and his party had the satisfaction of bagging tigers, leopards and other fine specimens of Indian big game. Sir Harry Johnstone, who discovered the okapl, is another en thusiastic big game hunter who owes al legiance to King Edward. STUDENTS TAKING UP COMMERCE AS A STUDY rra r.lw.mM Are Kow Teach lnK the Principles of Business to Students Who Work oy Day. BUSINESS college Is not the same thing as the business de nartment of a university. The A university adjunct attempts to realize the Ideal of extra Instruction to men already at work who want to improve on their standing in the commercial world, says the New York Sun. It alms to teach them how to do their work better and how to rise to greater heights. Instilling Into 'the mind of a man the principles of com mercial law. how to make contracts and how to sell goods, the sciences of accounting and investigating are part of the university business department. It is a step above the business school, which teaches rather mora llmltedly Dookkeeping. stenography, typewriting and other things to Introduce a man Into business. The business branch of university work is comparatively a new thing. The first of all was the Wharton School of Commerce and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania. That had its earliest beginnings in 1881. The members of other faculties In the university objected to the estab lishment of it. believing among other things that It would cheapen the uni versity name. So the Wharton bequest was kept, but the Wharton commerce school lan guished for almost a dozen years. It was not until 1S93 that It began to amount to something. It did not, how ever, take up accounting, reckoned one of the most important parts of the work such a school may do. In 1890 the University of Chicago announced that courses in business in struction would be a part of the work hereafter, but the courses were not seriously undertaken and they amount ed really to very little. The second business department In the country actually to do something was that at the University of Wiscon sin, which began operations in 1897. Then came, almost together, the schools at New York University and Dart mouth. The local school was founded at the request of the certified public account ants, and for that reason accounting forms a very Important part of its work, very likely the most important. The Amos Tuck School of Administra tion and Finance at Dartmouth was be gun In the neighborhood of 1900, too. The school at the University of Illi nois was founded through the efforts of Edmund J. James, president of the university. Professor James was for merly In the faculty of the Wharton School, which also had In It the dean of the New York University School, Joseph French Johnson. The best work of the Illinois school began this year. Michigan and Harvard were next to fall Into line. The latter school began work this year. It is called the Gradu ate School of Business Administration and Is not as close to the working person as are some of the others. The very pre-requisite of a bachelor's de gree Is bound to separate It from the "masses." One of the most promising schools of the year Is that at Northwestern Uni versity, opened only a few months ago. This Is In the city of Chicago, not in Evanston, and Its night courses, It is But the most noted of all the British big game hunters Is Frederick C. Selous, who. from 1871 to 1S90, Inclusive 20 years spent every day of his life hunting big game In Africa. He was only 19 when he asked permission of the dusky King of Matabeleland to hunt elephants In his domains, and was laughingly told that he was barely old enough to hunt antelopes. But he secured the coveted permission, and soon thereafter began to show the Matabele ruler that, boy though he was, he knew how to lay low the elephant better than any other man that had yet set foot on Africa. Mr. Selous did not return to England until 1892. and the same year found him back in the Dark Continent. In fact, since he first went to Africa he has spent precious little time In England, for hunt- believed, will soon be the biggest of all. Night courses in Philadelphia have attracted about 500 students..Outside of the colleges named Vermont has a small business course, founded through the efforts of John H. Converse, of Phila delphia; the University of Cincinnati has a small evening school, and the University of Colorado also ha estab lished evening courses. It is explained that almost all the colleges have some courses which are likely to be of value to the man in busi ness, and these are called, vaguely, business courses. The universities now have set out after the establishment of business departments, because day after day the sentiment in favor of them grows. There will be a school present ly at Tufts College, a bequest having been left for it. In this city the New York University School has grown from 60 students to nearly 1000. At the present time there are more than the building can accom modate with comfort. The students have to carry chairs from one lecture-room to another, so hampered are they for seats. As has been set forth, the chief thing at the New York University is the course for ac countants. It was the first university to pay particular attention to this de partment. New York University, says Dean Johnson, makes Its especial appeal to the young men in the city who have jobs but who want to better them selves. For that reason the bulk of the work is done in the evening. While the school attracts men who are college graduates In some cases, in the main the students are of the city stores or industries. The young men in Insurance office who want to help themselves along come to the school and get the theoretical and practical work in insurance. They are taken around by an expert who teaches them how to Inspect buildings In order that they may Know what sort of risk each building is. They laarn the sort of thing they will need In actual business. The school does not demand anything more than that the prospective student should have had a proper high school education. Dean Johnson has in his care the looking over of the prospective students, and he depends chiey upon his judgment for his decision. Dean Johnson was telling the other day of taking his daughter to a large college to arrange for her entrance there. According to his description It took four hours of hard work and trot ting about to consult various persons before she could get in. "Nothing of that sort here,', he said. "If a young man comes In here It needn't take him 15 minutes to arrange all the details. This is a business school and we try to do thing in a business like way." The N. Y. U. school doesn't want the sort of person who comes to It only be cause he believes he can get a job when he gets out through the agency of the school. The department does that sort of thing, but doesn't want the man who regards it as an employment agency. Dean Johnson told about a man of 40 who came to see him and told him his story. "He was a telegraph operator," he said, "but wanted to get out of that Into something better. So he took up the course in accounting and graduated. "He got a Job and held It for about three months. I met him In the street ing with him Is not only a pleasure, but C business, and by It he has made his living all these years. Just as John R. Bradley Is probably the world's greatest amateur hunter of big and small game, so Mr. Se lous is probably the world's greatest pro fessional hunter of big game and small principally big game, however. For years he has held the record for elephant killed by an individual In hunting; a few years ago the number was 80 odd. Buf falo and antelope he has killed by the hundred, literally. He has had more hair breadth escaoea from death while hunt fng""tnan"he has years, 66; but despite his lifelong strenuous existence and the in numerable hardships he has suffered, he Is as spry as a three-year-old and as fond of hunting today as when he began it, a slim youth of 19. Of the members of royalty who claim to hunt from time to time, old Trince Luitpold, the regent of Bavaria. Is the only one who really hunts. The rest shoot, and, at that, shoot at game that Is driven right up under their guns by the beaters of their hunting preserves. But Luitpold, who is now 87 and still vigorous. Insists on real hunting when he takes his gun In hand, and without the assistance of beaters and other game re tainers he scrambles over fls Alps in quest "of chamois and eagles, and fre quently with a good measure of success. He is a Jolly old hunter, too. and doesn't care a hang about court etiquette when he is afield. Emperor William and vari ous other crowned heads pretend that they also don't want to be bothered by court etiquette when they hunt-beg par don, shoot. Which is probably .true: but It Is equally true that they have a hunt ing etiquette that is as formidable, al most, as the etiquette with which they usually surround themselves. (Copyright. 1908, by the Associated Liter ary Press.) one day and he told me he had been laid off on account of lack of work. I knew what that meant, because the poor workers are always the first laid off. "He got another place and lasted only a few months there. But he was game. He came back to us and told me that his brother, an Insurance man up In tha state, told him if he'd study insurance he'd find a place for him. "So he went to work and completed that course. I haven't heard from him since, but I believe he caught on well. He had the patience and the pluck, even though he was 40. "We get them all ages, but most of our students are younger than that, of course. We had one young man who came In here. He was working for an Insurance company. "He took the night courses and studied hard. After he had been out a while hs dropped in to say he had been promoted and was getting more salary. Some months later he came in to say that h was secretary to the president of the company, opened that man' letter and answered most of them himself. Just leaving them for the president's signa ture, was getting J3500 and was to marry the prettiest girl In Brooklyn. "Well, I told him 3500 a year and the prettiest girl In Brooklyn was a pretty fine combination for a young man not 30 years old, and he said It wm, and that what's more he'd be president one of these days. There' nothing to stop a young fellow like that. "What we have chiefly to do Is to In struct the young men in the actual me chanics of the business. We can't teach them tact if they haven't It born in them, so of course we cannot guarantee them success in life. "The best that a department of this sort can do is to give them a thorough grounding In what commercial law. prin ciples of railroad work, finance, politi cal economy and the writing of business English. German and Spanish they can get from our teachers. Financial and commercial newspaper work, adverti Ing all that sort of thing we teach as well as they can be taught. "It take nerve to work in the school. With a young fellow who is working In the day time it needs courage to give over his nights to study. That's what he has to do from the end of September to the beginning of June. He has to quit thinking of going around with girls to dances and so on, and he ha to buckle down to keep even with his classes. "There are men who aren't missing any chances and .they don't want any one in the class to hold them back. However, if a fellow has the nerve to give up the social side while he is tak ing his two years in the business school he ought to amount to something." Dean Johnson comes from the middle West. He went to Harvard and after being graduated In 1878 started to work as a reporter on the Chicago Tribune. He took up financial work and was for a time financial editor of the paper. In 1893 he decided he would do some thing else and went to the Wharton School to teach newspaper work, which college prospectuses call Journalism. When the N. Y. U. school was opened he 'came to New York and took charge of it He looks like a good man to size up folks, whl ;h his task calls for. The Calcutta conntable or "parawallah." & he Is called has an apparatus attached to his shoulder to aupport aa umbrella over hi head.
