The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-06
NORTH SIDE NEWS
Travelling Around World With
Six Dogs.
Brown and hurry, Globe TrOt-
tiers, ON North Side.
FOR $4,000 WAGER.
Started Christmas, 1906, From
st. Johns, Newfoundland. s
Endured Much Hardship on
Western American Deserts.


Travelling around the world with a
dog team from ST. Johns. Newfound-
land, William Brown and William
hurry, are in Topeka today. The dogs
are at the Bugham livery barn, 49,
l23 West Norris street.
They started from st. Johns Christ
mas, 1906, on a wager of $4,000 from
the National Sporting league of New
foundland, to make the trip in seven
years. They are now on the last lap
OF their journey, having crossed the
Atlantic from Newfoundland and trav-
eled over parts Of the principal coun-
tries of Europe and Asia, crossing the
Pacific and coming here through the
western and northwestern states.
The men make their expenses SELL
ing postal cards while on land, accord
ing to the stipulation of the club. The
club pays the cost of the ocean Voy-
ages. The men say that a like trip has
been tried several times by others but
full.
However, Brown is an expert on dog
travelling He was mail carrier between
Nome and Dawson City, Alaska, for
several years before starting out on
this adventure The mail was carried
by dog teams. hurry was with the
OXtailers' Minstrel show previous to
his logging it around the world.
Brown looks to be 35, but says he is
past so years old. hurry is not more
than 30.
These men drive six dogs. four
abreast and two ahead. Three of the
dogs are the original ones with which
the start was made. One of the pro-
visions of the contract is that one Of
the original dogs must be alive when
the party returns to st. Johns. One Of
the dogs was poisoned at
three original d
lands. The CANNES were only six
months old when the start was made,
but their masters consider them in the
best of condition in spite of the hard
ships they have endured. Three other
dogs have been picked up along the
road. cross hound and bulldog was
given to them at Redding, Cal. The
other two are a st. Bernard and Shop
herd.
The dogs pull a low made to order
cart, built to stand rough usage. This
cart they haul at an average of 40
miles day. The men walk and ride.
Their related experiences compare
with Jack London's stories They tell
of being chased by grey wolves on the
Siberian "steppes'' or deserts of being
held at Copenhagen. Denmark, because
of ordinance against working dogs,
passed just before their arrival, of
fine roads in Germany and France, of
the warm hearted generous French, of
CuI1OuS Stylus the highways anu
byWayS of India, Where the sun made
their shirts scorch their bodies like
hot irons, and of the heat and thirst
in the deserts of California and Mon
tana. In the deserts, the men say,
their water and food ran short, making
them do without for couple of days
at a time. Between Los Angeles and
Bakersfield, they say that man who
had a flowing well on his place wanted
% cents a head to water their dogs
and 10 cents drink for themselves,
but they refused and took the water
after shutdown without cost
From Montana the dog teams came
to Colorado by way of Salt Lake, visit
ing Denver. Greeley and making Ne
braska. They came through the north
Belleville. They arrived in Topeka
Sunday. This afternoon the team APP
peared on the street and attracted a
large crowd wherever it stopped.
The dog-teamsters have papers from
the mayors of each city they have Wis
tied stating that they have been in
their towns.
s'Our worst experiences was on the
deserts of America said Mrs. hurry
this afternoon. 1--WE ran out of water
and provisions for ourselves. We had
10 save a little for the dogs, but final
ly they had to do without like US.
I'm Siberia we were bothered by
wolves considerably. We would shoot
one of then-they run in packs-the
others would eat UP the one killed
and leave US alone for a while. At
night on the Siberian 'steppes,' we
would build a fire. One of us would
watch while the other slept.
81 think the dogs are in as good a
condition as when we started from ST.
Johns. We feed them meat and
bread In Alaska 1 fed my dogs fish.
| The dogs have become much attached
| to us, and seem almost human at
times.
Eat Copenhagen, Denmark, we were
held UP for two weeks by the authori-
ties said Mr. hurry. 1.-THE city
fathers had just passed an ordinance
against working dogs, and a repre-
sentative of the sporting club had to