The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-29
Brother Of c. Hornaday of keokuk
Knows More About Wild
Animals Thar Any Other
Man In the Country.
PRESERVATION OF SEALS
Head of New York Geological Park
Differs With Secretary NaseI in
Killing Seals on Pribilof
Islands.

An interesting story dealing with
William 7. Hornaday, brother of G.
Hornaday of this city and a man who
was educated at the Ames Agricul-
tural college, comes from New York
City where Mr.. Hornaday is head OF
the geological park and is said to
know more about animals, dead and
alive, than any other person. 1t fol-
lows
AS game protector he takes high
rank. As hunter he is simply bully,
AS an author he is perfectly corking.
But as a prophet
Well, it would be shame to give
William Temple Hornaday's standing
as prophet. Those who doped it out
that the hope of the white race was
to knock three rose coiored censteIla-
tons out of the hope of the colored
at Reno simply outclass him in accur-
acy, range, and penetration as pro
phets. 1t isn't SO very long ago that
he put lot of fresh facts out on his
little counter UP at the New York
geological park and arranged them
neatly, and tied bow here and a
ribbon there, and then felt the gift oil
tongue come upon him.
After viewing these facts" said
DR.. Hornaday, at is quite safe to say
that Secretary Nagel will not permit
the killing of seal on the Pribilof
Islands for the next few years"
There's where DR.. Hornaday stub
bed his geological toe. Secretary Ma
gel has just issued statement in
which, so nearly as the unlearned can
discover, he proved that it is better
for the seals if they are killed off, ex-
cept just enough for seed Probably
on the principle the Spaniards used
when they brought the gospel to the
Caribbean natives.
Those that de- said one mis-
sionary of century or so ago, are
sure of heaven while those that live
will afford sure profit to his most
Catholic majesty
Leaving that matter of seals how
ever-and leaving it hurriedly, for DR..
Hornaday can put as fine brand of
scientific wrath On exhibition as you
ever noted when he thinks of the
manner in which the seal herd is be-
ing pleased comment
is invited upon the fact that DR.. Horn
aday has been referred to as the head
of the New York geological park, and
not as the superintendent of the
Bronx ZOO, as the unworthy and super
fetal are accustomed to term it
There's another point upon which DR.
Hornaday wakes mildly insistent. Any
how, he wakes insistent. The Bronx
zoo will therefore be classified In this
treatise under the head of the New
York geological park, and it is to be
hoped that DR.. Hornadays admiring
attention will be thereby extorted
DR.. Hornaday is right at the top OF
that small but select class that be
iieve all men should do more huntine
of wild animals-and all hunters oil
wild animals should do less killing
He can trail around on hillside In
the Occur d'Alenes. with sliding
snow beneath hia feet and nothing
but an overruling Providence to stoI
him If he starts to slide, and take
more real enjoyment in snap-shootine
an eight-dollar mountain sheep thar
he could in turning a machine gun or
an African lion. Nothing delights
him more than to intrude upon the
domestic relations of cotton-moutf
moccasin and after sucking the poison
out of the wound, make note of the
reptiles sensations in his little note
book He doesn't bother much abou
his own He became the head of the
| Bronx-that is, the N. Y. q. P-be
cause he was the one man on the con
tinent who ought to be at its head
and he is staying there for the same
reason. He knows more about wilt
animals alive and dead than an.
other white man on the reservation
and can prove what he says withou
calling anyone liar.
Dr. Hornaday is short, strongl,
built, broad shouldered, dark of com
1 plexion and reasonably fertile of VIC
cabulary 1t was he who shot tn,
4 largest bison on record-the same bis
on whose portrait appears on the ten
/ dollar bills-and who has done NOR,
than any other one man to keep tn
few bisons that are left from extel
mination He is trying to do tn
same thing for the seal herd, but
/ thanks to the enthusiastic lack 0
support Secretary Nagel is givin
/ him. his efforts do not seem productiv
Of great success. He was born i
Plainfield, Ind, in 1854. and with tn