The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 07, 1914, Page 3, Image 3
ALASKAN DRIV1
WOLVES
Bill Brown, Alaska's F
ning a Wager of
of the Klondj
Driving six dogs and two wolve
on a trip 25,000 miles in length
through every State and territory ii
the union, in order to win a $10,00
V wager, Bill Brown, Alaska's famou
mail driver, reached Anderson Sun
rday morning aDoui iu o wuuk, tum
ing over the National highway fron
* Atlanta.
The appearance of the team o
dogs and wolves, drawing a ricket;
little buggy, attracted considerabl
attention as it passed through th
streets to Cheshire's stable on Eas
Market street. Here the dogs wer
v "stalled" to rest and be fed, am
hundreds of young boys, and mer
too, visited the stables to inspect th
animals closely, and to talk wit!
Brown.
A $10,000 Wager.
Brown says that early in 191
some government men in Alaska oi
fered to bet $10,000 against $50
that he could not drive his team o
.
dogs on a 25,000 mile jaunt, visi
every capital in the 48 States, an
return to his home in Nome, th
capital of Alaska in six years. Brow
says he gathered together $500 an
staked the bet, and his minin
friends, having confidence in hi
ability to make the trip, in the give:
^ time, made many side bets on him.
W
Is Ahead of Time.
, The wagers being arranged Brow:
departed from Nome on the 5th da
of May, 1912, and up to date he ha
visited 39 capitals, only nine yet t
he visited. Two years of the allotte
time has elapsed, and Brown say
that he expects to complete the tri
and be back in Alaska in four o
five months from now, winning th
bet with a margin of about three an
% one-half years.
Doesn't Steal, Beg or Borrow.
"I am to earn my living on th
trip by selling cards; that was on
of the stipulations in the bet. I ar
neither to beg, steal or borrow," sai
Brown to-day.
. Prom Klondyke Gold Fields.
Brown says that he comes fror
the Klondyke gold fields; that th
gold fever still exists in that sectio
of the country, but not to such
great degree as it did when gol
was first discovered 18 years age
He says that the miners out ther
are making fortunes every day, find
ing new deposits. ine oia way u
discovering and staking a claim i
still in vogue, the claim not to b
less than 10 and not more than 10
acres in area.
Brown says that the mining c
gold and coal in Alaska will grow t
an enormous degree just as soon a
the United States government com
pletes the proposed railroad from th
Siberian straits to Nome.
Native of Newfoundland.
'
Brown was born in Newfoundlanc
Vbut
went to Nome -when quite
young chap. He is 45 years of ag<
although he doesn't look' it, an
IT* talks the English language fluentl>
The out-door exercise, for it is rea]
> ly exercise he is taking, because h
does not ride in the little bugg
drawn by the dogs, seems to hav
agreed with him heartily. He say
he feels fine, much better than whe
he first started on the long journej
Weather Causes Comment.
"There is one thing that impresse
^ me greatly, "said Brown, in talkin
with a representative of The Dail
-x
Mail," and that is the cold weather
have experienced down in the sout
is much more penetrating than th
weather we have in Alaska. Win
in Alaska we sometimes have sno-<
deeper than the house-tops, and th
thermometer drops way yonder b
low zero, yet we are not so col
, then as you people are here when th
temperature drops below freezing
Our atmosphere is dry?that is th
reason, I guess."
The Original Team.
Brown has only three of the dog
and the two wolves which he starte
with originally. "Duke." the bi
Newfoundland, which leads the tear
is one of the original dogs, and h
* ? i? jr _ i
^ is trie mainstay or tne team, uae t
the wolves is a full-blooded gra
*0-* Alaskan timber wolf, while the othe
is about one-half wolf. The collie
<
are the other dogs that have wit!
k stood the trip so far. In additio
to these Brown has a shepherd, a sei
ter and a hound. The setter was ac
ded to the team a day or so ago whe
Brown stopped over in Georgia. H
says that he had no trouble at a.
in training the new dog to do hi
? share of the work in palling the- bag
gy. One of his dogs was taken fo
* a coyote at the capital of New Mex:
co, and was shot down by a Mexica
as he went to a fountain for watei
Makes Good Time.
Brown says he averages betwee
40 and 45 miles a day; that h
[NG TEAM OF
AND DOGS IN S. C.
amous Mail Driver, Win-!
$10,000.00?T ells I
jrke Gold Fields
s travels six days a week, always rest-1
i, ing up on Sunday. He travelled 1 o
a miles yesterday, as he could not
0 reach Anderson Saturday night. He
s camped out near the river Saturday
night, and came on to Anderson ear
ly in the morning. Because he used
a a part of Sunday he decided to let
: the dogs have to-day off to get conif
pletely rested.
y The Man and the Dogs.
e! Brown is wrapped up entirely with
e, his dogs and wolves and they are
* attached to him equally as much. He
6: does not use reins in driving them
^ on the highway, using the words
l,| "gee" and "haw" in making the core
ners. The big Newfoundland in the
k! lead understands him thoroughly,
' and this dog prevents any break in
: the ranks behind. One of the dogs
- ! is a hound, and every time a rabbit
~; crosses the road there is a strong
? j temptation to pursue, but the other
*| dogs hold him back, and the rabbit
* is allowed to proceed on his way un^
j molested,
e'
To Columbia Next.
u
j: After departing from Anderson
j Brown and his team will proceed toI
ward Columbia, where he will secure
1 the signature of the governor, and
' then go for Raleigh, North Carolina.
After reaching: Washington, and se
j curing the signature of President
n Wilson, if he has time to leave the
j Mexican troubles long enough to see
| him, Brown will go towards Bangor,
? i Maine, and there visit his last capi^
tal. He will then hurry across the
a j country to Alaska, and there take
P i down the $10,000 wager.?Peoples
r'
i Advocate,
e j ^
^ i Hunting Up Trade.
The old way was to let trade find
e j its way to a city, but the new way is
e I to go out and bring trade to the
n city. There are various ways of dod;
ing that and a city which expects to
get its share of the trade has to use
! one or another of the various ways to
u get trade.
e ! On Monday Charleston had anothn
| er trade excursion, which left that
a i city for an itinerary through the upd
| country. A large number of Charles).
j ton jobbers, representing various
e lines, accompanied the special train,
t- j and, of course, they are going along
if i so they can meet business men in
s the interior and give business men
e j a chance to meet them. There is a
^ ?Awino- froHoi o n/I
w gicai ucai m niiui?iu& uuu
: letting the trade know you, if there
'f ( is very much in you.
o; Trade excursions are pretty good
s j advertisements within themselves.
j They indicate that a jobbing centre
e! has confidence in its ability to sup:
ply the trade. Jobbers have bet:
ter facilities than ever for doing
I. i business, and the live business man
a j is not content to stay at home withi,
j out personally meeting his old cusd
j tomers and making the acquaintance
r. j of new ones.?Wilmington Star.
I-1 ?
e Too Much Publicity.
>'
I
e 4T disapprove of the senate having
s, secret sessions. I favor the utmost
Q j publicity for everything."
T> | "I did; but since the new gowns
S came out I think the women are go?
| ing a bit too far.?Seattle Post.
sr i
&,
v ! Ain't. Tt. Finfl To-dav.
T j
k i Sure this world is full of trouble?
e! I ain't said it ain't.
1 Lord I've had enough an' double
K Reason for complaint.
e Rain an' storm have come to fret
' me;
^ Skies were often gray,
e Thorns an' brambles have beset me
? i On the road?but, say!
e' Ain't it fine to-day?
What's the use of always weepin'
;s Makin' trouble last?
d ! What's the use of always keepin'
g Thinkin' of the past?
n | Each must have his tribulation,
ej Water with his wine;
>f I Life, it ain't no celebration,
y' Trouble? I've had mine?
T But to-day is fine.
*!
i-! It's to-day that I am livin'
n I Not a month ago;
t- | Havin', losin', takin', givin',
I-1 As time wills it so,
j Yesterday a cloud of sorrow,
e1 Fell across the way;
j It may rain again tomorrow,
s ' It may rain?but, say!
?- i Ain't it fine to-day?
r ?Douglas Malloch.
n; Russia's population is increasing
-.'at the rate of about 2,500,000 a
I year. It now stands at about 147,ni
000,000 of which 100,000,000 are
e I peasants.
NARROW ESCAPES.
Hudson Maxim Has Figured in Some
Perilous Incidents.
One of the most thrilling adventures
in my experience took place at
the government proving grounds at
Sandy Hook, N. J., when the United
States government was testing maximite
before adopting it.
Near a light frame building in
which I was filling shells with maximite,
-a ten inch gun was being tested.
A number of shots had been
fired from the big gun. Just as I
had concluded my work and started
for the wharf to take the government
tug for New York, the signal
was sounded for another shot. I was
walking along a stretch of railway
track directly behind the gun.
At that instant I remembered that
several years before, when one of
these guns was being tested, the
breechlock had blown out, passed
through the bombproof and killed
six officers and men, but I argued
with myself that the chance was infinitely
remote that the breechlock
would be blown out of the present
gun on this discharge at the very
instant I was in range, but upon a
sudden impulse I ran with all my
might.
The gun was discharged. I looked
round just in time to see the huge
breechlock pass through a building
near the one in which I had been
at work. It came up the track,
striking and breaking one of the
rails over which I had passed. Tt
ricocheted against the top of an old
granite fort, a shower of stones and
debris fell over a wide area and many
fragments struck the ground close to
me.
I walked back to the scene of the
accident and found that the windows
in the little building where I had
been filling maxamite shells were
completely riddled with partly burned
cylinders of .smokeless powder
that had been blown from the gun.
I once had another curious exper
ience at Sandy Hook during some
trials of the Maxim automatic machine
gun.
4 Among the severe tests to which
the gun was subjected was one intended
to stimulate what might occur
in making a landing upon the
seashore, where the mechanism of
the gun might get filled with sand.
The test is known as the "sand
test."
The gun being tested at the time
was of the kind using black gunpowder
cartridges, for it was before
the introduction of smokeless powder.
There was so much energy in
the recoil of the barrel that a great
deal of sand could be thrown into
the mechanism without interfering
with the working of the gun.
The commanding officer did not arrive
to see the gun fired until after
the board in charge had completed
the test. He then appeared and demanded
that the firing should be
continued for his benefit. The chairman
of the experimental board demurred,
saying that the gun had
passed through the test admirably
and that it was too bad to fire it
more than was absolutely necessary,
with its mechanism filled with sand.
But the commander insisted.
A schooner was apprdaching near
the line of fire. The commander
said he only wanted to see a few
rounds fired and that the firing would
be completed before the schooner
would come within range. Accordingly
a belt of 333 rounds was inserted,
and the firing begun. After
perhaps fifty rounds were fired the
command was given "Cease firing,"
but the gun kept right on. It afterward
proved that the trigger was
blocked by sand, so that it was impossible
to stop the gun. The
schooner came into range and the
bullets flew over and around her.
My assistant, who was firing the
gun, did his best to work the trigger,
and stop it. It did not occur to him
on the instant, to unlimber the gun
and swing it round so as to bring
the schooner out of range. As the
gun fired at the rate of 750 shots a
minute the firing was all over inside
half a minute.
Fortunately no damage was done.
When the same gun was undergoing
a sand test at Annapolis, Md., I came
very near being killed by it.
The gun had passed successfully
through a severe test, but the officer
in charge wanted to see whether he
could put enough sand into the gun
to stop it. So he had the gun box
filled full. The gun fired about 150
rounds and then stopped. My assistant
threw down the safe?that is to
say, locked the trigger, so that it
could ' not be pulled?and began
clearing the gun box.
Thinking that the gun was safe, I
was just about to step round in front
of it. Suddenly it fired a dozen or
more shots so close to me that my
clothes were seared by the powder
gases.
One of the tests made at Anna
*0,000 CAN'T MOVE NOW.
Chicago Landlords Have List of
Evicted Persons.
\ ???
More than SO,000 persons in
Chicago will be unable to move on
.May 1, the annual spring moving
day in this city, because of the unwillingness
of landlords to receive
them as tenants, according to a statement
to-day by an official of the landlords'
information and protective
bureau.
"From 20,000 to 25,000 persons
are evicted every year for non-payment
of their rent," said the official.
'.More than 80,000 persons have been
sued by their landlords. We keep
the names of such tenants in our
books. Other lists are obtained by
working with real estate men and
with neighbors of undesirable tenants.
This information is given to
landlords for their protection.
"Some people find it less expensive
to move than to pay rent. One woman
moved 4 times a year, or 24
times in six years. She was evicted
everywhere she went after three
months."?Chicago Tribune.
Brother Not in the Same Fix,
"Why do you object to vaccination?"
asked the busy magistrate
sharply of the applicant for an exemption
certificate.
"It's a matter of conscience, sir,"
was the reply.
At that moment the clerk whispered
to the great man on the bench.
"Ah," 6aid his worship, "I am informed
that you have a brother on
the police force. Now, does he object
to having his -children vaccinated?"
"No, sir."
"Very well, if vaccination is not |
against your brother's conscience
why should it be against yours?" ?
"Well, you see, sir, it doesn't ex- ~j
actlv follow. Bill, as you're talking I
about, has not neither children nor
conscience."
He got his certificate.?New York
Globe.
polis was to fire a Mexican gun vertically
into the air. We had fired a
couple of hundred 6hots in this manner,
when something struck very
near us. It then occurred to the officer
in charge that what goes up
must necessarily come down. Firing
ceased, and we sought cover for a
few minutes to avoid the the leaden
rain.?Hiram Maxim in Youth's
Companion. 4
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