THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, 3IARCII 9, 1919.
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BY W. A. EUOTT.
letter No. 11.
PARIS. At Neuilly - Bur - Seine this
afternoon I made arrangements for
a movie bird talk In hlspital No. 1.
I am also planning- to take a email
portable lantern and go Into the -wards
where the boys are lying In btd and
give talks on the "'Birds of Home,"
using my colored bird slides. I can
throw the pictures on the white walla,
making it simple that way. Dr. Ander
son is doing the same with his talk.
"Camp Fires Around the World," and
is making good. Koyal Dixon also la
riving his "Darky Monologue" in the
wards, but witnout pictures.
2Ar. Evans has made me responsible
for my own work for the rest of the
time I am in Paris. I am to make a
circuit of all the hospitals and huts in
this district which 1 haven't as yet
visited and make my own appoint
ments as to time and place. Mr. Evans
cays that this will relieve him. as
well as give me a better chance to see
the work at first hand. In about two
weeks I am to report progress, and
II through will receive new orders.
Going out this afternon, I took a
wrong car and went about a mile out
of my way, but in so doing met a
little French boy, Albert Beke, who
epoke excellent English. He told me
he was in Lille with the English
army and learned the language thero.
He gave me a postcard that had been
snapped while he was watching the
soldiers.
He said: "I was standing right there
all the time." It is a very good pic
ture of him. Odd enough he is work
ing in a etore right across the street
from the Hotel Tronchet, and he says
he 13 coming to see me sure. The little
rascal was smoking a cigarette, and
when I told him if he was in the
United States he would be put in jail
he grinned and said: "But I am in
France."
O. L. Ferris, head of the "Phez'
loganberry Juice company of Salem and
Portland, recently arrived in Paris
and I had the good fortune to meet him
next day. He will soon be placed in
work her, for he had splendid train
ing as assistant In athletics with A. M.
Grilley at Camp Lewis and is just the
man they need here.
Recently I visited the historic city of
Kt. Germain-en-Laye. 20 miles from
Paris. It lies on a hill about 500 feet
above the level of Paris. In the early
ages a fortress commanding the Seine
was on this site. A castle or chateau
was built here in the 11th century and
useo during succeeding centuries as
the summer home of the French kings.
Only the chapel of St. Louis remains
thn original chateau, the rest hav
ing been destroyed in the wars with
England. It was restored by Charles
V and rebuilt by Francis I. whose
architect was Ducerceau. It was used
as an officers' school under Napoleon
I and later as a military prison. Dur
ine the last 50 years it has been re
stored, according to the original plans,
and is now a museum of national an
tiquities, containing a wonderful col
lection, dating from pre-historic days
to about 750 A. D. The forest of St.
Germain is a great park covering about
11,000 acres. The view from the ter
race overlooking the Seine is something
like that from Council Crest. Paris
shows up in the distance and the river
looks very like the Willamette.
I saw my first European jay at St.
Germain, a bird about the size and with
the actions of our Stellar jay. In colo
the bodv is a light brown, the top o
the head is whitish streaked with black
the chin and rump are white, and the
tail Is black with white outer feathers.
1 heard a small bird high up in a tree
Einging a few little songs, but couldn't
Identify It. The leaden sky and dark
days make seeing difficult. A flock
of Chaffinches were feeding among the
dead leaves under the trees. These
birds have the characteristics and con
spicuous markings of the western even
lng Grosbeaks though they are very
much smaller and their main Doay
color Is a pinkish brown. The Starling
lightened the day with their pleasing
blackbird-like rollicking song. These
.birds of the blackbird family are very
highly thought of here and in England
In spite of a little damage which they
do in the grain fields. I am sorry
they have disappeared from Portland.
Several pair were imported and re
leased about 30 years ago and for a
number of seasons they seemed to
thrive and could be seen each spring In
various parts of the city, especially
flying around the top of the tower of
the Perkin3 hotel. I saw a number In
Bronx Park, New York City. Since
. their importation on the Atlantic coast
they have multiplied rapidly in. Con
necticut and New Jersey.
I am the "bird man"' here among the
men and many express a desire to know
more about the birds. I am only too
glad to help all I can for this is some-
. thing I think every one should know
more about. With the birds, the trees,
the flowers and the stars as one's
friends, one seed never be lonely nor
unhappy.
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$5000 WHISKY IS SEIZED
AgenJ of Department ot Justice
Board Steamship.
BOSTON, Mass. Agents of the
partment of justice boarded the steam-
chip Kershaw, of the Merchants and
Miners' Transportation company, here
shortly before the vessel was due to
sail for Norfolk, Vs., and seized whisky
valued at $5000. The officers declare
the liquor was to be taken into Vir
ginia, a prohibition state, in violation
of federal laws.
- Virtually all of the liquor was In
pint -bottles and had been packed in
euitcases and bass and hidden in lock
ers and beneath bunks in the crew's
quarters. Officers of the Kershaw
aided the federal agents in searching
the ship. No arrests were made.
Federal officers said the whisky was
of rood quality and would have sold
for $6 a pint in Norfolk.
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SEASON.
John Dewitt Gibert Acts as
Army Censor Abroad.
Former Student of University Writes
of Experiences With American
Expeditionary Force.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene,
March 8. (Special.) John Dewitt
Gibert, ex-'18, a major in the Journal
ism department, who is now with the
American army in France at the office
of Base Censor, A. P. O. 702, in a letter
to Eric W. Allen, dean of the school of
journalism, outlines some ot his experi
ences in France and tells of old Oregon
men he has seen and something of his
plans for the future. Ee writes in part:
We are waiting wholly unaware of
what the future holds for us in the line
of repatriation. Perhaps we go next
week, perhaps it will be June. One
would have to go beyond Paris and
even into the Inner sanctum of Chau-
mont to learn.
"Peace, as you say, seems tame, but
for us here there is one more great ad
venture at any rate, home-coming. For
those as young as myself, peace, too,
brings a challenge for me to do my
part in another work, if less fiery than
war. at least even more personal, a
victory for oneself in the front' of
the world.
I have been with my father but ten
days since and four months have passed
since our Mediterranean trip. We are
turning our thoughts now to one that
will lead us to the good father Tiber.
"I have in the space of perhaps a
month seen: Anse Cornell, Earn Cook,
Lamar Tooze, Joe Bell, Percy Boatman,
John Wilhelm, Bob Atkinson. Fred
Kiddle, Henry Trowbridge. Erie Lane,
Colin Dyment, Herbert S. Johnson, son
of President Johnson, and others whose
names sup me now. - Dean Fox. I be
lieve, is in Paris now. I hops to see
her tomorrow.
"Wishing to get a closely as possible
familiar with French history, art.
literature, and, in short, French culture.
am now supplementing considerable
reading with a course in French litera
ture of the 19th century by tutoring
irom a proiessor or the Guilds Inter
nationale, a connection of the great
soroonne.
ARTICLE ON QUAKES ASKED
University Professor Seeks Informa
tion on Phenomena in. Oregon.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene.
March, 8. (Special.) Dr. Warren D.
Smith, head ot the department of geol
ogy, has been asked to write an article
on the "Earthquakes of Oregon" bv
president John C. Branner of the Uni
versity of California. Dr. Smith finds
that there have not been many earth
quakes in Oregon but that a knowledge
of conditions here is necessary in
studying the situation in the territory
both north and south of the state in
which some serious earthquakes have
occurred.
Dr. Smith is making an appeal to
people throughout the state to send him
any information they may have con
cerning earthquakes in Oregon. He
wishes Information as to exact date,
Intensity of shocks and other interest
lng phenomena such as appearance of
springs and drying up of streams from
anyone who has felt an earthquake in
this state.
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