The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-31
WOODROW WILSON'S
LITTLE BOOM[ET
l. 4
Would Be Supported by Many
New York Southerners
PEARY ON MAT HENSON
Over White Man for Final Dash
to North PoIe-Poor Leader,
Good Follower
By ROBERT LEE CARTER

New York, July 30.-(Special. 1.-THE mild
presidential boom which has been started
In favor of President Woodrow Wilson
of Princeton has stirred up good deal
of interest in the southern colony In
New York. President Wilson is south
ern man. He was born in Staunton, Va,
married Miss Arson of Savannah, Ga, and
practiced law for awhile In Atlanta. He
has always been a conservative democrat
of the Cleveland type, and while not In
any sense politician he has always
taken an active partein public affairs.
While 1t is not seriously thought he
stands much of a chance 1t is pretty
safe to say that If the nomination was
he would be the man named.
In the jubilation of the colored popula-
ton over the recent victory of Jack
johnson 1t would be we'll for them to
read Commander. Robert e. Peary's latest
installment of the story of his conquest
of the pole.
The reasons that impelled Commander
Peary to take Mat Henson. a negro to
the north pole instead of Captain Bart
lett. the only other white man left with
the Advance party besides the COM
mander, are clearly set forth in the ex-
plorer's story.
Mr.. Peary makes 1t plain that Henson's
selection was necessary because any
other arrangement would have weakened
the general strength of the party. Hen
son, according to Mr.. Peary. was In
valuable as an aide in a dash over the
ice, but lacked the executive ability re-
quired In a man to have command of the
chief supporting party. Captain Bartlett
possessed Just the qualities needed for
that work. Commander Peary says:
while Henson was more useful to me
than any other member of my expedition
when 1t came to travelling with my last
party over the polar ice, he would not
have been SO competent as the least ex-
perienced Of my white companions in get
ting himself and his party back to the
land
IF Henson had been sent back with one
of the supporting parties from distance
far out on the ice, and If he had struck
conditions similar to those which we had
to face on the return journey in 1906 he
and his party would never have reached
the land. While faithful to me and when
with me more effective In covering dis
tance with a sledge man than any of
the others, had not as racial inheri-
lance the daring and initiative of my
Anglo-Saxon friends. owed 1t to him
not to subject him to dangers and re-
probabilities with which he was temper
amentally unequal to COPE
Commander Peary certainly cannot be
charged with race prejudice.
That to New York is due in large
measure the saving of the American buff
falo from extinction seems almost alb
surd, but 1t Is a fact nevertheless.
The herd of domesticated buffaloes that
has had the greatest prosperity, that has
remained the healthiest and that sent
the finest bunch of recruits to the new
reservation in the Wichita forest Is the
New York Geological park herd. 1t was
in this city that the work of saving the
buffalo was mapped out by the Zoologi-
cal society. Now 1t appears that the de-
vastation of the remaining animals has
been stopped and that the creatures will
be saved for future generations. The
growth of private preserves throughout
the country II q decided agent for the
ultimate saving OF the buffalo, since no
one who has great game preserve now
adays seems to think his collection of
semi-wild animals is complete unless he
mas lew UuldlOcS
j. P. Morgan, In establishing his new
western ranch, has decided that he will
have large herd of buffaloes. and has
made arrangements to care for them in
the most scientificSmanner.
The herd in the New York Geological
park continues to multiply from year to
year and It becomes necessary every now
and then to thin 1t out by exchanging
a few for other animals. Even Central
park has done this. 1t is believe that
the ultimate fate Of the buffalo will be
to become thoroughly domesticated, as
the animal has a ready money value for
food and for it's hide and hair. But the
chief reason why the biologists hope 1t
will ultimately be domesticated is that
the buffalo is easy to rear If properly
1t has been proved that where there is
plenty of grazing ground the buffalo will
hustle for himself, growing fat where
ordinary cattle would starve or freeze
He has a warm coat and a digestion
that enables him TO pick up a living
where cattle could not. Briefly stated it
costs $40 to rear a buffalo. At maturity
he is worth $500.
determination Of the English sparrow,
desired by naturalists for the reason
that these birds have In a large measure
driven out the native song birds, may be
soon accomplished, It having been dis
covered that the sparrow potpie' equals
some Of the game food served at cafes
Advance In the cost of living Is re-
sponsible for the adoption of the English