Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30
NOTED HUNTER HERE
"BuffaIo" Jones, Wild AMI
mails Friend, Arrives in City.
DEPLORES KILLING BEASTS
Making Countrywide Trip to Sc
cure Funds to Save Valuable
Buffalo Herd.
DEPLORES KILLING BEASTS

Buffalo Jones, who has made name
for himself throughout the world for his
remarkable efforts to preserve the buffalo
from extinction, as we'll as in conducting
what Col. Roosevelt has said was the
most remarkable hunt ever made ar
rived in the city yesterday.
This noted lover of wild animals does
not believe In killing them, and his trip
through British East Africa. he says, was
made to prove his belief. Accompanied
by two American cowboys of the genuine
Arizona type and ten real cowboy
horses from New Mexico. without a gun
or revolver in the party, but with hun
dreds of yards of trusty lasso rope he
plunged into the jungles and unknown
territory of Africa just behind the Roose-
Welt expedition. and lassoed hundreds of
wild animals of every description only to
let them go again.
II did that" said Mr.. Jones to a Star
reporter. Ito prove that it could be done
l did it, too. in the hope of heading off
of wild animals. which otherwise may be-
come eXterminated through mans So
called love of sport. or his we'll known
fear in the face of unknown danger.
Cowboys Rode Wild Zebras.
Il laSsoed ZebraS, and after our cow
boys lad ridden them. the true western
style. we let them go again. So. too.
slratfes, rhinoceros. hyenas, wild boars,
tlartebeestes. saZelles. yes. even lions
we're taken in their own lairs without
harm to ourselves OF harm to the ami
mails. We just returned last june and
brough: With us only one of our cap
tivs>. that . lioness, which we gave to
the Bronx Zoo.
..Eut what is of greater value TO the
world | have brought back thousands of
'eet Of MOVING picture nllns. showing our
xuer.ences. the wild animals on their
native heath, and our lasso captures of
them.
"Col. Roosevelt has said our hunt sur
passed anything of its kind in the annals
of time. And l think it did, too.
Gov. Dix Compliments Pictures.
Gov John A. Dix Of New York, in a
letter to me which has been published in
the New York press, said: Tile wonder
full pictures you exhibited at the execu-
tive mansion were revelation Of art
and realism and gave all Of us new ideas
iof the maTvels OF nature and of the pos
sibilities of Ileasure and joy in studying
and capturing wild animals without the
offense OF sacrificing Their lives and aid
ing in their determination. Your lecture
and word pictures We're. il possible, even
more vivid snd interesting than the
photographs. Your illustrated lecture
has a great educational value. 1t also
proves that truth is stranger than
fiction"
Buffalo Jones Is exhibiting his col
lection Of moving pictures with one sole
object. that of raising funds to preserve
herd Of 13o buffaloes which he has
protected and cared for for a quarter of
a century. They are now in Arizona he
says. but are soon to be removed to
more suitable location in New Mexico.
Something must be done to care for
them," he said. "or they will have to be
killed for humanity's sake
He will give his lecture and exhibit his
Sictures at the Belasco Thoater this
evening at $40 o'clock.