The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-16
TACKLES GDVGU ON FIFTH AYE.
JACK GREENWAY DOES ONE OF
MS FOOTBALL STUNTS

firum Got ont 81 Hh "a Sc and Was Head
ms Ter = nOy -near Only Five weeks
Oid and Capt. Jack DlinT Have 10
Eat ANN AIlse-ro tireet Roosevelt.
For five minutes yesterday morning a
vicious brown bear had things all his own
way in Thirtieth street outside the H0l-
land House Tie broke from his custodian
and fed In the direction Of Fifth avenue.
scattering an excited crowd 81 hotel
patrons and pSrters, milliners ASSISTANTS
and others. In his flight the bear grabbed
a mans hand and bit IT,
Such bystandeTs a. had the temerity
10 remain volunteered an sorts Of suEgea-
tons, but Il was loft for big Jack Green
way, the famous Yale football player OF
othef daya, Rough Rider and Spanish war
veteran, 10 sulduo hruin and oonhne him
again In the cage whence no had escaped.
In his rush through the crowd the bear
was heading directly for little Bobbie
NevinA, the six-year-Od sOn a X. p.
Nevins Of Pittsburg The lads fatherWas
standing some distance away. TOO FAR 10
save his child from the beast. lie spang
10 save him. hut too late. for he had been
forestalled by the former Yale athlete.
Realizing the danger 10 the child and
the bystanders Greenway called 10 mind
his gridirOn tactics and gathered himself
Tor one Of his historic tackles Quick az
fash he spang at the beast and made
his FIRST foul tackle In years. for his grasp
slid down below the left hind knee Of the
animal. But bruin went down.
In an instant the bear grabbed the right
hand Of his aasailant and GTeenway let go
The bear was on his feet at once, but before
he could spring again Greenway had
tackled him. Raising the animal by the
left hind leg as easily AZ he would hft
kitten Grcenway swung him into his cage.
the bear growing and snarling. and closed
the grated door upon him.
To be- frank, the bear q only a little
bigger than a kitten say fair sized cat
and his cage like a small dog kennel.
Capt. GrccnWay = IN charge % developing
the western Mesaba country for the
| United States Steel Corporation. That Ia
part Of the country where they have
| lots Of bears, and when q week aGo a
man came into his once bringing the
/ cub. which was then four weeks old,
Capt. 0rcenway. who was coming East
% attend the Rough Rider reunion on
| saturday night and % welcome Col.
! Roosevelt. decided 10 bring him along.
ID 4 the first time IN the momory Of
/ the room clerks that a live bear has ever
( been entertained at the Holland Houae,
and they did not know what - do with
him nc FIRST, NJ for an hour or more he
and his keanel were on the sidewalk
az the rear entrance of the hotel. There
everybody In the hotel paid Brlin visit.
and RroWnups as well as children TOOK
delight in peering into the kennel
When Capt. 0rsenWay took Niger, an
he calls him. out 30 snow him u a re-
porter a big crowd gathered and the
/ youngster rot away. Gp.enway grabbed
/ him and the bear grabbed his hand IN turn.
| Greenway let 60 and tho bear made m
Z the direction 81 the Nevins boy. who was
I admiring tho live teddy and asking h.s
/ nana n buy hum.
Look out, he may bite you'- shoutsd
| the Captain at the boy. who had stopped
| D. pct the bear Then Greenway darted
sftar him. arabhed him by the leg and
/ yanked him INTO his kennel Later Manager
Hartman % the hotel suggested that the
/ bear BE- taken 20 the roof. where almost
everybody IN the hotel visited the cub and
4 made friends with him. In biting Capt
I Creenway's hand The bears teeth did not
Z break he skin. The Captain may present
I him h one Of the Roosevelt children aftsr
/ saturday night or elas give him - the
/ Geological Park.
Cauf Grrrnwav. who in husin 90 Ii
I John q instead ~ Jack. 10 enthusiastic
over the possibilities of the Me-aha
-ShiDmcnts OF the Great Lakes from
| that country during che last year have
amounted 70 more than 5000 600 tons
u ore. h. said Our headquarters are
a. Coeraine. and We arr az the head
waters Of the Mississippi River. There
b a glacial drift over the country from
10 70 80 feet deep. We are on tho high
lands u the middle continent. Twenty
miles 10 the east of ~ the waters run
toward the Atlantic and thirty miles
g. the north they hnw toward Hudson
DAY. Our elevation h only about ,5On
feet above sea level
-The timber l. about all cut out Of the
/ country. The iron mines have a life
should say. q about fifty years. But
!, agriculture il coming up and towns are
:. springing up everywhere. During tho last
five wears ak towns each ~ about 3.bn
inhabitants. have grown up on the iron
range. o. ,..,-
40 there The hrst that Came were the
Scotch 4 anadians and French-C anadians
Who are usually the first boomers u a
new country up there They were FOL.
lowed BY Scandinayians and finns, and
then came the southern Europeans
mainly Austrians. Then came the Cor
nishmen. who are the best miners q them
All They have brought lots 81 their
frienda from the old country.
As intimated. the land is being taken
an bv farmers Tbs cost Of clearing b.
vsry high. but the lands are very fine for
POTATOES and for grasses, and it h fine
stock country think lot 81 people
who are rushing up n the Red River
of the North country in Canada would
do FAR better 20 try northern Minnesota.
That Canadian country has been over
done. There Is a good deal Of room up
where | come from