Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-10
HE TRAILS DINOSAURS.
Professor Schaeffer Thinks Millions Of
Years Back.

The Herr Doctor has just completed
his bath-the aftermath of a three
days trip from the Grand Canyon of
the Colorado His arrival time was
4.30 O'Clock yesterday afternoon, the
hath consumed an hour, and at $50
o'clock the Herr Doctor was IN the lob
by of the Hoteb Baltimore. his mind
full of the dinosaurs of cid the rail-
roads. the newspapers, the Hospitality.
the fine gexlemen' OF the United
States. ard It was with a wave of his
hand that he admitted that II may
have been four or Aght million years
ago that those dinosaurs. died; he
didn't know. but he was pretty sure
that was long enough.
The Herr Doctor is. an Austrian of
high degree and he has got his degrees
because OF ,tinpsaurs and tassils and
all kinds OF .ffehistoric things. Cura-
tor of the Imperial Museum of Natuf-
Al History of Vienna, professor of geo.
logy in the University of Vienna and
the hero of many an archaeology expo
dition TO Asia and Africa, Dr.. +. \.
Schaeffer of Vienna. Austria, was there
with his closely cropped brown mus
tache and close fitting, gray suit with
the short lapels of the old country,
There's an Anstrianized- English brogue
that goes aiong, too, and much use OF
the hands In talking. The Herr Doc
tor Is in this country on invitation OF
the Carnegie Museum of Pittsbdrg,
and IN eight months he has Travelled
more than twelve thousand miles from
Fhe Atlantic to the Pacific, the Cana
dian border to the Mexican. just about
everywhere there is to go.
AS n scientific country in which 10
study dinosaurs there is absolutely no
place in the world like the United
States. our anteailuvian monsters are
regular monsters. according to the doc
tor. And since MAY he has done Moth
ing but travel throughout the Western
country. investigating mountains, de-
serts, plains, river beds, creeks, eXea-
vations of museums expeditions and
haunts of the prehistoric monsters OF
which he found the finest collection OF
vertebrate it has been his pleasure to
see. The expedition of the Carnegie
Museum to the bad lands of eastern
Utah was where he spent the most OF
his time.
! And there they found the femur of a
dinosaur which is six feet long The
rest of it VIII make an animal ITO feet
long, providing they find L, and 1t VIII
exceed by 20 feet any e<Ar found. In
all, the expedition has blasted from
/ the sclid rock nine dinosaurs, ranging
from 20 TO 50 feet long, which are any
where from four to eight million years
/ old, according to one OF the best known
"dinosaurists"' of EGqpep
But the doctor could not keep from
talking about the fine men he l1ae met
in this country
He has met hundreds yes, thousands
of college professors, school teachers
| Andrew Carnegie, sheep herders, COW
boys, miners, 'laborers, newspaper men
| scientists. and he hasn't found che oil
them who are anything but the finest
J of gentlemen" He likes our hospltaH-
/ ~, too, and the way we ask him tc
> make his home in our midst. Lots OF
| people wanted him TO do that. Rail
J roads, too, are better and cheaper II
this country. even though .lpq, do buy
tickets as long as'ssoth arms stretched
lout. And the trains go so much faster
! and they don't roek SO much. and you
can sleep a whole lot better and tho
distances are, SO big and the vertebrate
are So wonderful. He will go home IN
three weeks kalisas. City Times.