Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27
GRENFELL ON CONSERVATION.
WOULD POPULATE
COST LIVING MIGHT UNDERTAKE.
iNG-oTHER LABRADOR

treplenished from one to the other,
which would avoid the risk which
| breeding in and in involves of their re
turning to the common type of any
special breed of animals or plants.
labrador's Successful Herd
Our own reinpeer experiment is am
| ply justifying itself Besides the
small herd sent last year to the
Northwest. and the superintendent
stays which have been killed for the
hospitals, our original herd of 500
has become $50. Within the next four
months there should certainly be over
1900. We have not been able so far
to push the experiment north, the
| funds al our disposal up To the pres
ent only enabling us To maintain one
set of herders. But l fully believe
| that no better investment could he
made for the benefit of the people
than to be able to divide, and COM
mence two other centres at once.
have just heard that the University
of Pennsylvania student who is
camping with the herd this winter
and has been for two years, has left
this week on Il journey of $50 miles
with his reindeer team of two stays.
taking with him another team& both
sledses being laden with boxes of toys
to he left at the various villages along
the route. that they might have their
Christmas festival. even in SO far-off
la land: this is a real Santa Claus ex-
petition.
The new school which has been
made possible by friends in or around
Boston has, so | hear over eighty
scholars at work. and it is with great
pleasure that we are able to tell that
two Trained teachers who have volun-
teered their services are at work
there. The extraordinary desirable
ity OF a small endowment To per-
petuate and help 70 extend this work
has become very insistent ON those
who are behind the general work In
the hope of interesting practically
more people in this line a volunteer
teacher who has devoted her past
three summers to the school, would
be glad To give some personal expert
enees of the work which cannot fail
to convince anyone of its real value.
Her address is Miss Olive Lesley.
Grenfel Association. Il Beacon street.
Boston.
1t will also be great satisfaction
to the many friends OF DR. Harrison
Webster and DIR. Hugh Greedy. who,
volunteered their services. together
with two nurses. Miss Forbes and
Miss Gleason. to know that the little
new hospital which has been made
possible through their unselfish labor.
is busily at work and has already
brought within the reach of quite a
number of fishermen who would 9th
erWise have been unable to get any
other help, the skilled attention which
they need.
II will also be OF considerable inter-
est to the many Observation-Disclosures now
living in and around Boston, TO know
that this hospital. which is situated
in one of the northern hays in New
foundland. called Green Bay. is being
so Literally supported by the fisher
men themselves that the doctors write
me that with the grant given by the
Newfoundland Government there is
every prospect that the venture will
be self~sapporting in the future.
The good ship Clnett. so generously
launched ON her journey last year. is
now on most interesting ocean race
from ST Johns. y. r., to Pernambuco
in Brazil. She is trying her PAGES
against a vessel of the same size.
carrying the same acargo and starting
on the same day. She has already
shown her aptitude for the services
we require of her on the Labrador
coast; and we fully expect that for
many years those in Boston who are
interested in Labrador will have the
opportunity of seeing her as she
crosses to and fro.
The high price of fish this year has
been immensely gratifying after the
great scarcity which prevailed last
winter. and should go long way to
help out the immediate problem of
Labrado..
The new Fishermens Institute
which bears on it's face two large
shields, one carrying the American
Eagle and the other the British Lion.
as emblems Of the real union of pur-
pose of all those who seek the better
ment of the human race, win be
opened on June l.
While we would bid all our friepds
the best of New Years for 1912, we
would also bid them warm welcome
tie that function which we believe will
mark new era in the lives of the
many fishermen who all the year long
frequent this populous seaport, stand
ing ne-half way out in the Atlantic,
between New York and Liverpool.
Feel languid weak. rundown? Head
ache? Stomach oft Just plain
case of lazy liver. Burdock Blood Bit