New-York tribune., 1909-02-28
In the March Magazines
The Cost of Roosevelt Hunting pConquering Our Greatest
XoIcan,-Lincon's Cabinet Meetings.

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COST OF RoosEvELT's HUNTING TRIP.
Before Theodore Roosevelt may lift his gun
to shoot when he lands on the African Cont
nent ne must obtain license, at cost OF S-4V'
which viii entitle him to kill sixty animals
Among these he may include two elephants
(rnale only, two rhinoceroses. two hppopotdIlll'
swo zebras Except the mountain variety, W.
eheetahs. two male ostriches, two each OF the
large species Of antelope and gazelie ana Ten
each Of the smaller species. ten OF each specles
of wild pig ana ten Of the smaller cats ana
jackals.
The expense of the trip will be very great
but should Mr.. Roosevelt so desire he can ae-
frav every item Of it with the trophies OF his
hunt The sportsman who is so fortunate as
10 secure a white rhinoceros may dlspose OF II
for 4 small fortune Full half-groWn AMI
mails delivered alive at the Uganda RallNay VIII
bring q varying price Of from 500 10 5000
MIR Roosevelt zvill not be restricted In the
mum her of lions leopards and crOcodlles he may
shoot but the wild ass. the secretary BIRD
storks and okapi are by law made safe from MS
gun.
The President will be equipped with the most
modern patterns of firearms. The rifles, shot
guns and pistols which he will take with him
would be sufficient TO stock a small armory-
Chief among his weapons will be the -3o-calbre
automatic Remington, which is capable OF stop
ping anything from & tiger to an elephant IL
carries five cartridges In the magazine, Whlch
so in a clip. and when fired the rife auto
matically loads and cocks itself. When the bul-
let strikes animal it mushrooms and crun-
ples every bone il may hit. a soft-nosed bullet
would be discharged from such rife with suf-
ficient force to penetrate ten inches Of solid
oak or five-sixteenths Of an inch of steel arrnor
plate and would go through ordinary cast steel
as easily as through a soft pine board.
In his complement Of weapons viii also be
number OF .03-calibre rifles, and in all proba-
bIlity English express rife Of 800 callbre-
The overland journey after Mr.. Roosevelt ar
rives in Africa Will cost him about $4,000. his
retinue Of servants consisting 0f one hundred
porters and gunbearers. There will also be five
white men in the party, including the Presl-
dents son. Kermit.
Mt Roosevelt will be 2 guest of the King Of
Tganda when he reaches this region in Africa,
and the town band at Entebbe Will serenaoe
him with their tom-toms and dried bone crap
rers and other native Instrumentation Nor
denis Magazine.
CONoUERING OUR GREATEST VOLCANO.
F2ut the ton We were in an elbow of the
crater rim. Whence its level shot straight up
westward. From the east face Of the cone we
had TO swing around and climb it from the
north. A sleeper slope yes. but the thing was
surei Now time passed like lightning. Again
the slipperv treadmill of mud and honeycomDed
See but harder and thinner Irlckles spurtea
right out OF the ash and cut htue sIlIlhS
courses. An easier grade. Below black patches
swooped with hurried steam. and out sprang
the great wall Of Chetudina Glacler. ASH
everywhere soon. white and crackly with frost
flowers beds and beds of their huge crystals,
.fl blurred over with a finer rime that formed
T1eazeIessJy and clothed us from head TO foot.
Then everything plunged down, south into the
main universe Of steam. broke into a run l
i
II was exactly 10 O'Clock in the morning, July
30 that we reached the top Of WrangelL
Look out!', shouted Billy as 2atnIneq faI. t6is
the whole business shake" OF course 1t did
the tottering friable trap! Why we wereh
fools enough TO go hang over the undercut Guse
of the crater I don't know. With the wall OF
steam for background. photographed each
other-the horrid sores from sun and snow Dufn
on orr fiery cheeks and lips / compassed on
peaks and directions, sketch mapped, mace
notes ali IN a frenzied rush. laughing and talk
ing at once, but with feeling that accom-
plished nothing, and that time and the" watch
were racing on with broken eScapement Inc
pen froze and broke and speTed al over t,51e me
paper, but / scrawled right on, with liiesiule
blurs and fly tracks, thanking Heaven that we
had Just spelled out our names and the oate
and poked them under slab of lava
A dappIed floor Of white and blue opal cloud
hid all the world. Miles sheer down Chetudlna
Glacier very Gehenna of crevasses, plunged
under it We got not glimpse OF the copper
Valley nor Of the two-Tnile-high crest OF Mount
Drum Anyhow what mattered panOramas?
and the thumb of Mount Zanetti, and Mount
Sanford raised by mirage in an orange mist
and tilted toward US like q reflections IN a con-
cave mirror. And-hlessed that We had eyes 10
see itt-the broad shoulders Of Mckinley mag
netic west. exactly, like one lighted window OF
an invisible house Of splendor on the utternost
horizon.
Forty minutes OF living and then downward
Instantly a queer drowsiness flushed me Ten
wards from the summit could have lam IN my
tracks and slept. I tottered down to the crater
edge and gave a sleepy look in; but there
Thing frSnS1xed W as IL redl' was II a
rick of ewes that focused askew from the
glare and gale? Was it Inherent in the dream
that from the moment Of descending had sup
planted Ife2 A thin ribbon, tremulous blur,
rose from the exact centre Of the crater; trans
rarent woven Of many threads, like some gelat-
inous sea growth. I rubbed my eyes 1t was
still there. Was this spirit crater and Wran-
rer but the hgnent Of a mountain snlVereo
and plunged down the slope.
Ploughing across the white desert to the
@unaroIes had to shake myself 10 keep awake.
Don care DON care f school keeps or not
kent rnuttering like drunken man And far
down over the lip of ash, among the creVasses,
light fogs settled over and dlnused the sun INTO
a white-hot steely glare Light so mallgn was
unbelievable Stalled, the trail lost, we had 10
ulunee our faces into the snow ana wait ahu
wait-blind hours which fixed the Illusion thdt
-asls,, had ended Even through our glasses
ewes were iabbed as if with hot knives, ana We
felt our cheeks scorching. Yet somehow W
night felt quite sane. and, oh, so happy! AI9 i
still hirher than any one in the world VINO coulu
heboid tha pole star so near the zenith, we
siept--Robert Dunn in Harpers
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