ROOSEVELT OFF FOB GREAT HUNT EX-PRESiDENT SAILS AWAY TO DARK CONTINENT. TO EE IN AFRICA A YEAR Then He Will Travel and Speak in Europe—Thrae Skilled Naturalists and His Son Kermit Accom pany Him. New York. —Theodore Roosevelt, ex president of the United States, sailed out of New York harbor Tuesday on the steamer Hamburg of the Hamburg- American line on the way to his much heralded hunting trip in British East Africa. On the dock was a large assemblage of Mr. Roosevelt's friends, who had gathered to bid him God-speed, and who cheered him a« he stood at the rail of the steamer waving his hand and smiling with delight. Beside him stood the three men selected from hundreds of applicants to accompany him anil assist him in collecting the specimens of African fauna which he hopes to send back for the enrichment of the Smithsonian institution. These fortunate individuals were Maj. Ed gar A. Mearns, J. I.oring Alden and Edmund Heller. They comprise the Smithsonian's expedition. The fifth member of the little party, and not to be considered of least importance, was _ "*v>r 112 f/j r/w/u-aj \\C OND/a \ § \, VS. _ rn'nD (a u > C/h r/tr,vicp » p; \ / % fourth \\ % II »~s«r«wflcr Jjk vl |pfc^ c rX \ "'"i \ . yi Sv *^> —V/ .' I G*LLfi G*LLfi SOMALI/ J I V OROMfI / L*HF ft B7?/T/5/X jf Pbggsyp&Bm* S) E^rmcM' twwkn^ T O j '"/ /% f i-OPE:NCE: Lvicrwf/rtbfr-^' NYfinzfi S'*. \/AfOWQflsfl jr. iii ■!■!■ i■!■ ■WWOBitriaMgaMMMMMMMBMHMBHBB«BanBMmnMfii ROUTE OF THE ROOSEVELT PARTY IN AFRICA. the *x-president's second son, Kerrait, who will be the official photographer of the expedition and, next to his father, the chief hunter. To Mombasa Via Naples. Mr. Roosevelt will go via Gibraltar ♦ o Naples, where he will board a steamer of the German East African line for Kilindini harbor, the port of Mombasa. At the latter place the party will be joined by R. J. Cun ningliame, an Englishman of long ex perience in Africa, who has been en gaged as general manager and guide. The party will spend a short time in Mombasa and then proceed by train on the Uganda railway to Nairobi, head quarters of the administration of British East Africa Protectorate, a city of 13,514 inhabitants, of whom 579 are Europeans. On MacMillan's Ranch. William Northrup MacMillan, for formerly of St. Louis, owns a large estate near Nairobi and his big, lux urious farmhouse will be headquarters for about six months while the hunt ers and scientists make trips of vary ing length in all directions. It is in this section that Mr. Roosevelt hopes to obtain most of his specimens, for it abound;; with animals of all kinds. The smaller mammals will be trapped. The supplies of the party are packed in tin-lined boxes. These boxes when they have been emptied will be used as packing cases for the various speci mens. Many valuable natural history specimens have been spoiled by ants and other insects, it has been found from experience on other expeditions, and it is to guard against this that the tin-lined boxes are being taken along. Caring for Specimens. When the specimens have been pro pared they will be carefully packed in the boxes and shipped to Nairobi, where they will be forwarded to the United States. One of the taxider mists will always be with Mr. Roose velt, and as soon as any biir K amo is shot by him it will be skinned and prepared on the spot. .Mr. Roosevelt will b<' greatly dis appointed if he falls to kill several specimens of the white rhinoceros. This animal is the same as the square mouthed -rhinoceros and is the nearest living ally to the typo of the extinct Tichorlne or woolly rhinoceros which lived ia England at the close of the Glacial period. Journey Across Uganda. I.caving Nairobi in October, the party will proceed by the Uganda railway to Port Florence, on tho shores of Lake Victoria Nyanza, where a short stop will be made; then a steamer will be taken to Entebbe, 150 miles away. There a caravan will be formed and the journey across Uganda to the Nile will be begun. It is expected that the White Nile will be reached about the first of the year 1910. i.ake Albert Nyanza will bo touched at Kibira. In a general way tho course of the Nile will be followed to Gondokoro, and thence to Khartoum. At this city Mr. Roosevelt and Hermit will be joined by Mrs. Roosevelt and they will continue down the Nile slowly to Cairo, visiting many points of interest on the way. To Speak in European Capitals. Plans for the remainder of the ex president's two years' tour have not been decided upon definitely, but the time will be spent in Europe, and sev eral matters of importance have been announced. He will visit Berlin at the invitation of Emperor William and while there will deliver an address upon (he one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the University of Berlin. From Germany he will goto France and deliver an address at the Sor bonne. It has not been learned how long Mr. Roosevelt intends to stay in Berlin and Paris. After his visit in France, Mr. Roosevelt will goto Eng land, where a reception of great warmth undoubtedly will be accorded to him. He has accepted an invitation to deliver the Romanes lecture at Ox ford university and in all probability the honorary degree of D. C. L., which Oxford has bestowed on Emperor Will iam, will be conferred on Mr. Roose velt. The versatility of Mr. Roosevelt will be shown by the fact that he will speak German in his address before the students of the University of Ber lin, French in his lecture at the Sor bonne, and English iu delivering the Romanes lecture at Oxford. Pays His Own Expenses. Mr. Roosevelt will defray the ex penses of himself and his son on the African trip, but those of the scien tists and the cost of preparing the specimens and shipping them to Amer ica will be paid out of a fund secured for the purpose by the Smithsonian institution. One of the objects of Mr. Roosevelt in taking this trip is for the purpose of collecting material for writing sev eral books regarding his experiences. During last summer he contracted with Charles Scribner's Sons, of New York, giving that firm all the rights for the serial and book-form publication of whatever he might write on his visit to Africa. It is said that the contract price agreed upon is $1 per word, but this never has been verified. No Slaughter of Animals. Even if the British colonial govern ment should offer to throw open to Mr. Roosevelt and his companions the Af rican game preserves under its con trol, the ex-president will refuse to take advantage of this opportunity, Like other true sportsmen, he believes that the utmost protection should he given to wild animals on reservations and that permission to kill them should not be given or accepted under any circumstances unless, possibly, when predatory animals are becoming too numerous. Moreover, the killing of animals 112 r sport is not {he main object of his trij Mr. Roosevelt hopes to send back t the Smithsonian institution two air.; specimens, one of each sex, and : specimen of their young, of animal he meets with on the Dark Contin ;nt Beyond this the killing will be li ited to the demands of the comnii i sary. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY MARCH 25, 1909. plwiTiTfffiTW \\People Talked About Ij ii 1111111111111 m-rHll • """ ° ejeo iimoummm • • # ■*»"»■» tjTi» RELIEVED OF BUSINESS CARES 'i i - Luther Burbank, whose achievements in the plant world are to be capitalized by a company v(/ " iat w "* un d*'t'take on a large scale to introduce fey ~ his improved plants, vegetables, fruits and flow -7 h ors ' is t,ie foreni ° Bt living specialist in his line. / /iKv ■ il ° has originated the Durbank potato, several varieties of otoneless plums and prunes, vari / m ■jiiW-mtmaa ous new fruits, flowers, grasses, grains and (-»„ v o | ■•Tidr vegetables, and the spineless cactus, which *" SrfjNW promises to transform the deserts of the far ttr • west and southwest into fruitful dwelling places V 'sMlutt jJfylmL. ' or man. Mr. Burbank was born in Lancaster, Mass., in 1549 and lias lived in Santa Rosa, Cal., since 1875. All his experiments and discoveries have occurred on his California farm, where -W'f/////l"Jr/f/f'/A for several years he has been supported by the Carnegie fund. in order that his wonderful discoveries may be more generally distributed and incidentally that his work of discovery may not be hampered by busi ness worries, the brains and genius of Burbank, the, "plant wizard," have been capitalized for several million dollars. The men who have secured the sole right, to distribute to the world the plant discoveries of the Santa Rosa naturalist are Hartland Law and his brother, Herbert E. Law, well known millionaires of San Francisco, and Oscar E. Dinner, a wealthy eastern capitalist. There is no limit to the rights which the men have secured except one or two small contracts which Burbank is now filling. Working alone, Burbank has not had time to give the results of all of his experiments to the public, but now a systematic effort will be made to dis tribute both his past and future products to all the world. One of the first ihings undertaken by the new company will be the fuller development of tha •pineless cactus, which promises to transform desert wastes into grazing lands for cattle. In this connection it is announced that Burbank has de veloped a cactus cr.pable of producing saccharine matter which will yield both sugar and alcohol. Like most men of genius Burbank is decidedly averse to the worries and routine of business affairs, and he welcomes the incorporation as the best means of ridding him of this handicap to his experiments. The company will bo called "The Luther Burbank's Products, Incorporated." Mr. Burbank, when asked regarding the formation of the new company, made the following statement: "It is a fact that Herbert Law and his brother and Oscar E. Dinner have secured the sole rights to the handling of my products, with the excep tion of a few varieties I have already sold. I am glad to be rid of the business end. It. will give me so much more time for the development of more fruits and flowers." NEW COLORADO EXECUTIVE ____ Gov. John F. Shafroth, the new executive of Colorado, has stirred up a state-wide avalanche of comment, good and bad, by his announce ment that he will depart widely from the ways of his predecessor in the matter of. pardon li , -,w- granting. The former governor was a Methodist MjgA preacher, Rev. Harry M. Buchtel, and he found 112 /£\\ himself unable to turn a deaf ear, apparently, to Vm/trntog* 1 ". ihe pleas of the pardon-seekers. Men and wom if 011 wero release d from the penitentiary in a J) stream by his orders. .Now Shafroth announces that while he is yfljwfetoy. on ,lle j° b il is Solng to be a pretty heavy task / m lUIlw to tlra>; a I ,al 'don out of his office. He has start '//ffjfmk \ n'\uVuA to P rove his promise by dumping a wagon ■ fffyr/lroMUilr:^W' ■ ilWffl load of petitions and affidavits into the waste basket and declining to grant audiences to hear arguments for the unlocking of the prison doors. As a result, he is being bombarded with letters, some praising him for his stand and others denounc ing him with bitterness for his lack of human sympathy and charity. As congressman-at-large, before his election as governor, Shafroth as trnished the politicians by deliberately and voluntarily resigning his office be cause he found that some of his followers in a hot campaign had indulged in '.ricks that were common in politics but not exactly up to the moral code any where else. "I want no office that is tainted with fraud," he declared, when he learned, after being seated in Washington, of some things that had helped him win. Fraudulent votes had been cast and counted, although he had no band in it. After his voluntary retirement his fellow Democrats at home •cored him as a "quitter" while the Republicans sneered at his "pretensions of virtue." Full appreciation came later, however, and he was elected governor last fall by a heavy majority, succeeding a Republican. | OWNS BIG AFRICAN RANCH ijii *" W. N. McMillan, from whose African estate t§k Former President Roosevelt is to make his start vw into the interior wilds of the dark continent \ in f l uest for white elephants and other big game, WW' imi J is a nephew of tlle ,ate Senator James McMil fWSSStf lan of Detroit, a »cl the son of the late William awKlw-':McMillan, whose estate holds the largest inter -11 Wt eSt in the American ar & Foundry Co. Mr. j Hill'McMillan's legal residence is in St. Louis, but beiin; a millionaire with the ability to satisfy jJ his craving for adventure in the untamed sec tions of the globe, lie is as much at home in F Africa, India and a dozen other parts, as he is in the United States. As a hunter of Dig game, III'Wi 1,0 is a notable figure and Mrs. McMillan, his '/>/''ft**f/f'// /''' '!! wife, has killed her lion as well. On Ju-Ja ranch, 20,000 acres of land 23 miles from the seat of government of British East Africa, the McMillans arti ex perimenting in the domestication of wild animals, an experiment that is be ing watched with great interest by zoologists and naturalises everywhere. Here Roosevelt is to remain for several weeks discussing with his host tlio final plans for his plunge into the wilderness. Like the president, McMillan •lid his first hunting in the American west. He is 3G years old. WORKING TO AVERT CLASH~ _... "■'* —Sir John X. 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