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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-05-24, Page 6L eilistreel Monkey Shines "A Modern " Noah'" Docks His "Ark" With a Sigh of Relief After an Exciting Voyage A widow from Arkansas, of impos- ing dignity and even more imposing girth, was sunning herself in her chair ow the deck, gazing with dreamy satin• faction out across the Atlantic. Sud- denly there was a soft thud on the arm of her chair, and before she could look around a monkey, chattering shrilly, peered into her face. The lady had not met the monkey, so she solved the social problem by fainting. That was the beginning of the fun. "It the blasted birds had said some which was scarcely ended when the thing besides 'Carramba,'" exclaimed Captain Zastrow, telling of the inci- dent, "it wouldn't have been so dis- tracting. Every time a man caught one parrot, five others yelled 'Carram- ba!' n made you nervous. But the STEP '!,The cos Stephen. kali, Credi Ito at 1 p.n lomat The > .31als nzeetini Whereas of Me males, fleet taypheii ."curt xeparecl by L: . and 1.1)a^aitf on Al veil (that ti• i tnd that thi rr ifted ".'irw"'$ Om an ,i 1:+Iii.1 ._ ... . ... Canada s 1Vlouutairi .P . . The monkeys, about finzty-five ^r them—three crates full swarmed over the deck after that like an in• wading Pirate crew. They ecucuad down the promenades, scattering the promenaders. Before the truth of the matter got around, four passengers who wore walking it off, tools the Pledge of "Nevermore." The monkeys climbed into the rigging, screamed through the portholes of the wheel- house, and the Ecuador lurched live Points of her course. It was twenty or thirty minutes before the demoral- ized ship's officers gathered their faculties and commenced the cam- paign to capture the monkeys. Meanwhile a crateful of parrots were floundering clumsil yon the fore- deck, muttering at intervals, "Carram- ba!" And we are told further: Ecuador, a Panama Mail Line steamer, docked at New York several days later. After the docking, we learn from St. Clair MclEelway in the New York Herald Tribune, there were de- livered with unusual promptness to a I parrots were easy compared with the New York importer of tropical aniIn - mals 62 moukeYs, 657 parrakeets, 252 (onlykeys. I had the three or four hours, r butthemon- parrots, 98 finches, 28 flamingos, 1 ducks, and 22 sloths. For six days, we read on: Most of the monkeys had roamed the passenger decks, screaming at dignified tourists, chasing little boys, tangling up the rigging, and in other waye making Capt. Curt Zastrow, who were drafted for the monkey hunts has seen nine years as a master, wish The Chinese and Filipino waiters and he lrad gone into some quiet business' dish -washers proved the most agile in in which neither animals nor indig- this, the ship's officers say. Some of rant old ladies from the Middle West I have a part. the passengers remarked icily to the purser, however, that among the three Everything was going nicely until the there was not much choice -a monkey morning of Friday, the thirteenth of chattering at you, a Chinese falling April. The Ecuador had steamed from on you from somewhere in the rigging, San Francisco, through the Panama as as Filipino ipursued a r oukeydown bumping tilt hethe deck. For six days that serentity which goes with a tropical cruise was not aboard the Ecuador. The shin's offi- cers had no way of telling how many monkeys had escaped, and thus could not tell when they had captured them all. After three days it seemed that there could be no more monkeys in the world, so many had been captured; but about the time the passengers were risking the deck again, assured that the monkey, hunt had ended, a playful beast would appear from un- der nder a steamer chair or from within a funnel and disorder would be resumed. Each day brought a prisoner or two, however, and finally the last free mon- key—as far as is known—was shoved gingerly back into his crate. This one had been named Sandino, Captain. Zastrow said, because he had come down from his hiding -place in tale rigging and stolen an orange out of the hand of the wife of a United States marine officer returning from the Canal Zone. He had amused him- self by playing the game of "masts." This was simply the act of coming down one mast while his chasers were going up another, and vice versa. Captain Zastrow said he really won —that is, Sandia() really won—because at last he merely stood still and let himself be captured. If he hadn't, the captain said, the game might have gone on forever. keys ---they're tricky devils, are mon- keys," said Captain Zastrow reminis- cently. For the rest of that day—Friday, the thirteenth—such members of the crew as were not essential to the now secondary ask of running the ship is Radio Will Give World News of Nobile Flight Over Arctic U,5 Stations sari Alaska to Aid Expedition in Airship Italia in 'Trip Over the Polar Regions in Search of Land; Will Establish Schedules The world offers uo more beautiful I Built ltin the natural o teralto building whmatteit rialss scenery than that fond in Jasper found National Park, that wonderful out -of- situated, Jasper Park Lodge is proving. doors playground in Northern Alberta l a mecca for tourists. Pine and cedar on the lines of the Canadian National logs, materialsrs and hand other utilized her aatural Railways. Lakes, rivers, mountains building and glaciers, and a splendid 18 -hole in the construction of the main lodge golf course all combine _to make Jas- and no 1 h le oundge, ugal wh apeommoin the per National `Park one of the finest !main of tourist centres on the North Ameri- !for the majority of the .guests is pro - can Continent, and the Canadian l vided. The result is a series of log National Railways have provided the cabin homes, where the visitor lives utmost to comforti and convenience .w nde ous mid mountain scenery and b eathingythe. ing for the travellers n their wouondsrous log cabin hotel, Jasper Park Lodge, health -giving mountain air, while his which will be visited by the members log cabin is equipped with .hot and of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers 1 cold running water, steam heat, and Association at the close of their Ed- 1 all the comforts of a modern city mouton Convention this summer. 1 hotel. The world will again listen: in to the progress of trans -polar flight when General Umberto Nobile departs, from Spttzborgen in his airship, the Italia, this month In an attempt to find land in the arctic wastes. The craft is equipped with radio apparatus capable of transmitting several thousand miles. Efforts will be made to main - Canal, and was just leaving Havana. She had come through nasty Pacific weather without a mishap. Two or three tropical storms had assailed her, rounding the circle of her tour, but these were all in the day's work. A small world in itself; with 150 passengers, mostly idle tourists. and a crew of twice that many, she plowed serenely northward toward the jour- ney's end. Captain Zastrow felt that life on the sea held no more new things for him; the tourists, free from all ordinary worries, felt sublimely self-sufficient in the universe, where any wrong could be righted by a sew- ard. Then the monkeys got loose. One of them—which one, Captain Zastrow does not know, but wishes that he did—squirmed somehow from his confining crate, about ten o'clock on that memorable morning. In. the space of a few minutes he had pulled the bolts on the doors of two other crates besides his own—whether through intelligence or fumbling luck Is another unknown fact. Each crate contained fifteen monkeys, taken on in Central America, along with the parakeets, parrots, finches, fia- 'Mawr , ducks, and sloths. Some of the free 'monkeys—or per- haps that same first one—pulled the bolts also on one crate of parrots. C::ptain Zastrow said yesterday that he was thankful, at least, that the monkeys stopt at this point. "If some of those flamingos had come on deck," lie said, "I'm thinking I would have given up the ship and jumped overboard. Flamingos are most annoying—most annoying birds!" The open hatchway leading to the passenger deck was merely a couple of jumps and a tail -swing or two from the. ,:place whre the animal cargo was stored. They came up, two by two, like beasts out of the ark, in the Ian - page of Chief Officer William R. Cal- cutt, except that they were all of the sane species—all monkeys. After tltrem,came the parrots, but Chief Of- ficer Calcott told more about the monkeys before he started on the ad- ventures •of.the parrots. clan houses, where it is considered d Germany Develops eos eult� andoto aearain printofrol frocks German In the stalls. withal developed a sense of humor, ed"The passion for slimness has reach- rarely possessed in the old days, and mean that approximately every (lith fu Germany. Tho full-bosomed,h per-ais becoming a'good sport' in the truly member of the entire population be - austerely Brest d, is pr with hair British sense. longed to some kind of sporting as - tinctamong they, u practically ex- "At present she does little more soeiation4 There are, however, of But, the younger ivly simple than criticize her' men folk, but the course, many holders of double mem- amem- affair it is a e one's figu e, i simple day is approaching when she will de- busbies. Indeed, satirical tongues affair to reduce figure, it is not mend that husbands shall conform to have even suggested that the morbid always easy to reduce one's ankles the new ideals. When that day dawns activity of the German's gregatrious in wprhich tier That is he one dead eve shall see German husbands allow- instinct, his passion for joining 'Vee in which here is sill room for ing ing their wives to pass through the reins' and 'Verbande' of every kind, provemen—that, and the lingering restaurant door first, giving up their has had a good deal to do with the development of sport in his country. "But, even when all allowances are made, the figure remains an impres- sive one. An exact analysis of this 11,500,000, and its distribution among the various categories of sport, is im- On the subject of the present pas- possible. Many of the organizations sion for sports in Germany, the least are -of a comprehensive character, and observant visitor to that country can- •devote themselves to almost every not help noticing that it has become I imaginable form of physical recrea- "a universal obsession—one might al- most say—a universal religion—which permeates both the entire corporate and the entire individual life of the peoplmon'to both sexes eand to all classes.ch is " So we learn from E. H. Wilcox, Berlin correspon- dent of the Loudon Daily Telegraph, who continues: 'In every corner of Germany stadia and athletic grounds are being built and laid down with feverish haste. even in the streets of big towns one meets droves of young men or women doing cross-country runs in shorts and vests. Football matches and athletic meetings, which but a few years ago were watched by languid hundreds, Berlin.—How Bismarck's clever ruse now bring together enthusiastic thott -' for ridding himself of tiresome visa - sands, and sometimes tens of thou- I tors was turned against himself is re- , ' bis cls races, in the counted In the recently published sok New Type Woman Exercise and Athletics Change the Old Order of Things in a Remark- able Way The time is long past when, accord- ing to Imperial pronouncement, the career of a German woman was con- fined to "church, kitchen, and child seats in omnibuses and tramway cars, thin and Republic, tbrie we learnw er of fro n i ofsjudice powderbis notsquite respectable. things in the Republic, and transferring to their wives some- thevar sources, woman the German y land therut e is littlen are doubtthat creatures, a thing of the respect which has been the German woman are of an entirely i different type. The young women ; and artifice will soon complete the tarn contact on regular schedules with the flyers. Army and... Navy radio stations in Alaska and the northern part 'of the United States have been instructed to maintain communication with General Nobile ,on his aerial expedition over north polar regions, according to the Associated Press. Message from "their Italia will be transmitted on 333 kilocy-eles to all shore stations except S. Paolo, Rome, when a frequency of 908 kilocycles will be used- The latter is the same frequency–treed in communicating with the mother ship, -the' ice -breaker City of Milan. During the first ten minutes of kept on Pre ing the remaining fifteen minutes, far transmissions' on 9,990 kilocycles. Each time General Nobile starts on a cruise over the polar regions the City of Milan will broadcast a warning to all shore stations. General Nobile, who already has flown over the North Pole with Cap- tain Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth in the Norge, is making the flight from Spltzbergen to Point Bare row, Alaska, Wen attempt to fined land in the barren Arctic regions, 'believed to exist, although still undiscovered) The Italia's radio equipment is of Italian • manufacture and has suocess"- fully passed tests, a000rding to Gen- eral Nobile, The apparatus is extreme- ly flexible, being adaptable to use on a number of different wave lengths. The transmitting 'equipment is design- ed primarily. for continuous wave transmission. Antenna equipment consists of a weighted wire, which is suspender from the airship. The length of the wire is varied according to the wave length being used. The cruising speed of the Italia is sixty'two miles an hour. Plans for every hour watch will be cep several flights during the spring and quencies between 500 and 199to les ( summer have been �nade.ora e base at Kings, Bay cycles for stations attempting tablishb communication,forty-fifth ominute m tire six-. Aboard of tiag, whichhis tdirigible bdropped at Ittalian every tthe every hour for transmission on frequ- ;Pole, and a wooden cross with a spiked encies below 199 kilocycles, and dur-base is to be fixed in the ice fields. maid -of -all -work is out, and she is gl If each ototal ftheseof about t11,500,000. ,500 involved0. Ing up beer for cocktails. a separate individual, this would • 1 for athletics and the slim figure, while the married have gone in strong Y women it appears, are beginning to transformation. Ideas Change Too . Temperamentally also, the English make their husbands sit up to the 1 observer goes on to say, the German fact that a wife is not a man's hand- I girl has: changed, and "therein lies maid. "Fat Frauleins with thick an element of tragedy." Judged by ankles and ample figures," we read in British standards, he claims, many the London Sketch, used to be consid- German husbands "differ vastly from ered typical of German girlhood, but the conception of what a husband things are very different now in Cen- should be." They are inclined to be tral Europe, and "the Backfisch,' 'or domineering, he asserts, the standard flappers, of to -day are the same in of fidelity is "lower on the whole in Germany as everywhere else." This Germany than in some countries, and weekly adds that they are "slim, ele- they ,drink a good deal." We read gent, sporting young things, and are then: highly decorative creatures, whose ""In pre-war days all this was taken slim ankles and lissome grace equal for granted. A husband was frankly those of the English, American, and allowed his flag occasionally—was be French girls." An Englishman, who not a man?—and his wife was accus- has lately returned to his country af- tomed to piloting him home after a ter spending more than two years in beer party which had lasted well into various German towns, also noted the the morning. She did not question change that has come over German him as to his whereabouts If he re - womanhood, and writes in The Daily named away from home longer than The Modern Home. "Well, has he given his bride a good, modern home?" "Oh, to be sure—invested every- thing he had ,in a beautiful big car." man's prerogative in the past." Sports Mad Claims of Genuine "Old Masters" to Be Upheld by Means of X -Rays Mail as follows: Slim Flappers "Not so long ago the German girl conveyed the impression of an indif- ferently proportioned lugger, with sails square set, and unduly over- weighted aft. To -day a more suitable I analogy is that of a spick-and-span clipper with neat lines, the cut of her jib distinctly Parisian. Take a stroll along the Linden, visit the best dance restaurants in any large provincial town, and one beholds German girls dressed in almost the latest Paris cre- ations. There are still a few frumps lett, but they hail mostly from parti- World-Famous Italian Picture Seen to Hive Whole Land- scape Painted In Since It Left Hands of Original Artist I,anilon --Kennedy North, the well- tore but to have another signature known artist, in a recent interview almost obliterated and showing the with a representative of The Christian plain finger marks where efforts bad Science Monitor, urged the great value been made to erase it. of the X-rays in detecting whether a Mr. North has been making a study tiicture is entirely, or in part, the gen- of this work for some five years. It vine work of one of the old masters. must be realized, he said, that there To jedge by what the Monitor repre- is no perspective in a radiograph. The i;cntative was shown in the course of I top, bottom and middle of picture, that the interview, it is possible that di- I is, say, the wooden grain, the worm tiecteis of art galleries might hesit• holes, the gesso, the paint in its light ate to submit their treasured old mase and shade, the restoration work, etc,, Eters to the X-rays willetu show faith- are all there, but in one plane which fully the texture of he paint used, can only be read by those who. have every scratch, the shadowy outline, made a study of it, (perhaps, of another picture under that Radiographs, however, 'can be view- eeen by the eye, the filling in of worm ed stereoscopically in an apparatus proles with white lead on a wooden 1 made for the purpose. The plgnlents used by the old mas- ters had a mineral basis and the dell- tate texture of these is most unmis- takably shown up by X-rays, Tiels can quickly be seen when a pieturo has undergone modern restoration. panel, and so on. A world-famous Italian picture of which the value is computed at many thousands. of pounds was submitted .ko Mr. North for examination, The !radiograph stowed that a whole landscape background had been paint The rays passln.g through the modern )i in since the picture left the artist's r pigments produce a quite different ei- ands-: Added to this the n contoixr fent f tho man's hat had been altered and Asked whether there was any like- • tair had been added. All this Bold be seen in the radiograph even by the Mood of the pictures in public gale leninitiated. An old picture was re- leries In Great Britain being submit- elontlY' submitted to him which was Cod to investigation, Mr. North replied ',eputed to be absolutely untouched that he had seen no sign of it at pre- . the way of restoration, The radio- sent. In France a certain amount of raph, bowevor, disclosed that a work on pictures In the Louvre had foreign newspaper of a 1922 date had boon done. Ilut it would seem that Green used to fill in a truck and been in future a prospective purcbaser of painted over. Another famous pic- an old master will have a court of "found on olrbe minus itlrc+e xpected signet- nese order the rays was appeal ttotherwise.hich can dacide its 'G©ruins usual, and she accepted in humble spit was " in order in the household when he i immense whichexistin two or three (puled by ..Schmidt-Hennigker. returned. And though there are—and p have been—many honorable � of the chief centres, arouse frenzies of One day Lord Russell, the British always most German husbands excitement.' A fight between well- Ambassador to Berlin, asked the Ger- where 1111 to : man Iron Chancellor at his mansion tion. - "Even if the spirit of the Gorman masses were not willing, the whole machinery of State and society is now so elaborately organized to drive them to the sports ground, the gymnasium, and the swimming -bath that they would hardly be able to resist its im- pulsion. President Hindenburg, whose words stick because they are few. has declared that `physical exercise is civic duty.' " Bismarck's Ruse to Speed Guests Turned Joke on Him it his rebukes if allnot quite sands. Six day Y covered ar eras of the sport I lection of Bismarck anecdotes, con• ons, known boxers will any overflowing the biggest hall in the place, at prices which. the public would hardly pay to hear Shaliapin at the opera. ' ' A Civic Duty e - are following the footsteps of their fathers and grandfathers. "The German wife may now be found Charlestoning—in the peculiar fashion common to German ballrooms thetime of day when she used whether he did not find It very irk- some to have to receive so many un- official visitors daily. Bismarck re- plied that on the whole he found some- thing of interest in every. caller—un- —at meless he overstayed his time. But for to be having a knitting party or cut- "Statistics collected by the big such "stickers;' Bismarck remarked, ting up the Wurst for supper. She is sporting federations show that last he had an Infallible household remedy. demanding to be taken to dine fru res- year German organizations for the var.' He explained that his wife, who from taurants on days when the cook or the suit of various types of sport had a experience had acquired an intuitive sense for the proper duration of a visitor's stay, could always be counted Upon if needful to open the door and on some pretext or other Call him awa. Bareyly had the Chancellor finished speaking when Princess Bismarck called through the half -open doorway: "Otto, isn't it :;bout time for you to come and Lake your medicine? I just wanted to remind you." An embarrassing silence followed these words, The next moment, how, ever, both men roared with laughter as the humor of this strange con- flrmatiop of tiro "infallible remedy" struck 'them. Titled British Quit Office - To Re-establish Fortunes London. --Politics is losing its at• traction for Englishmen who have business ability. The financial re- wards of public lite aro too slight for men who haven't large private in- cozn.e5, and so many landed English- men who have devoted years to pub - Ho life find their incomes are so large• ly absorbed by taxes and so shrunken by the slight income from land that they cannot afford to devote their entire time to public interests. Sir Robert Horne, Reginald Mc1Cen. na, Lord heading, Lord Bucktnaster, Sir Otto Niemeyer, Sir Josiah Stamp" Sir "Eric Geddes, Sir drank Baines and Cel. Moore•Brabazon are a few ol England's able nubile officials wha have abandoned public careers withift the last two years to take top buse teats. I3anks, fuel cotnpanies, railways and inclustrics of all sorts are bidding for the services of the government el ployos. Scouts Study Style Eng AMBITION AND ENVY IN EACH SMALL BREAST ish Scouts admiring one of the Ilorsc Guards doing sentry dt ty.