The sun., 1912-07-25
SHERIFF BOB CHANLER
OFF FOR MOQU| LAND
And There l. Comparative
silence in His Town
studio.
GOING TO PAINT "lNJtNS"
What the Public Wants Is
Something Like Local
MOqui Atmosphere.
GOING TO PAINT "lNJtNS"

--Iiobcrt Winthrop Chanlcr has gone
out West TO Join the Indians. Things
recently have been beginning to pail
around Manhattan upon Sob chanlcr.
He has been used to a life here and In
Dutchcss county that has been Just
one thing after thing taking care of
murdcrcrs az Sheriff at roughkecpsic,
holding down the job of being great
grandson tn the first John Jacob Astor.
splashing at ten league Canvases for
mural decorations. living up to his
reputation Of being the fastest talkcr
in the known world and celebrated
among Dutchess county farmers 'of
Democratic pcrsuasionD as host at the
ylost stupendous county clambakcry
since the first clam Of Eden called to
its matc. who did answer and was
afraid.
AS Craig Wadsworth said TO Bob
thanier quoting Stronghcar,'s exit line
exclusively for THE Si'N--yestcrday
while the artist Sheriff was supciin-
tending the packing of the Chanlcr
belongings in his studio at lI1 Fast
Nineteenth street:
II am going back to my people"
Sheriff Bob left at 3 O'Clock yesterday
afternoon wearing the conventional
citizens clothing. He is going to visit
the Moqui Indians Of the Southwest
to photograph them and paint their
sunset snake dances and stick around
generally with the Moqui younger set
as long. he says. as he can stand the
high cost Of beans and blankets.
"And are you going To learn the Mouui's
language?" the worlds fastest talker
was asked
The studio parrot, which is per-
mittcd the run of the house and also
Is called Bob had just started to climb
by heak and claws up the side elevation
Of Venus OF Milo on top of book
case to practise volplaning to the floor
The parrot. already much run down and
disappointed with life after trying from
infancy to talk as fast as Bob Chanlcr
and never achieving anything closer
to the original than compare
tive second speed. stopped climbing
abruptly as the new idea suggested
by the question presented itself to Bob
The parrots mind. The parrot stood
upside down on Venus's chin and calmly
awaited the answer.
"MoQuilanguage?' repeated Sheriff Bob
IN that time saving way he has oi pasting
up the words of IL sentence into one long i
continuous strip. "Suresuresuresuresur
sureofcourseofcourseof
Bob the parrot pumped straight down
ward onto the top of the bookcase in an
upside down lump and lay still for Il
moment The focks of other birds with
linguistic ambitions fitting about the
great big cages ranged along the win
dows -starllngs. smaller parrots and
cockatoos had paused in their hitter-
ings to hear the answer also. Bob the
parrot the only trusty in the collection
Sfidar ho hiu h1anE Gcr
monkey, which also is allowed to roam
a bit outside the bars, N last began to
revive a bit. and the parrot shook its head
sharply TO collect its thoughts and slowly
came to. One big bass voiced cockatoo
rufed It's gray-pink neck feathers and
then let them settle back slowly to the
accompaniment of Il deep sigh.
"Mygawd.' mumbled the cockatoo al
most 40 slowly that the words were pro-
nounced separately. And ii leaned back
against a corner OF the cage. standing
with one foot crossing the other its wings
folded before it across its breast loosely
and its head bowed in thought.
And where Is your first stop?" Sheriff
Bob was asked as the silence in the cages
began 10 grow painful.
sGallupN
Easy now. Where"
-GailupNewMexico Gallupgallupgal-
How many Galups in Gallup. Mr..
Chanler. and how do you spell it, please, -
"Gallupiikeahorse. G-a-llllllllllup. Gall
lupgallupgnllup. LikeahorSe, likeahorse.
iikeaho OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
likeahorse."
Pardon me-" interrupted Craig Wads-
worth, who is one of our leading spoilers.
"Gal!op like a horse isn't gallup. You
mean Gallup not like horse. Now,
Bob, suppose We take this thing quietly
and straighten it out once and for
1T sGaliupNewMexicoNe oNewMexicO." in
terrupted the champ fast talker. Hes
gothic sgorit."
Sure enough. it's just one Gallup and
it's in New Mexico. With Mr.. Chanler
Georges Chretien, the French mural
decorator. who has been working with
the Sheriff painter for years. From
Gallup two white traders of the South
west. one known to Sheriff Bob merely
as the Hon. EdlIart and
the other IA the Hon Observation-Disclosures
bellhubblhubblhubbl are going to meet
The artist Sheriff and the artist and take
them to the Indians by way of Ganado-
Ganado Ganado. which is in Arizonazona-
Zonazona.
Separated into single words Sheriff
Bob's idea Of what he intends to do is
to unleash two or three cameras in the
Indian country and spread out his paints
and sketching stool and make picture
notes of everything Noqui-ish from
downstage to the far backdrop. He II
stay he says until III" Indians begin
to tie can to i'm. pnt the roller. under
i'm, give hard shov" to i'm and peg
rocks at i'm as he begins to slide OF the
plateau.
Most OF all he wants 10 photogra ph
and paint the Moquis when they dance
the snake dance holding live rattlers.
But as the snake dance Is held at sunset
he fears for the results of the camera
negatives. When he comes back to town,
which will be about six weeks from now,
unless the Moqus get out the tribal cans
and rollers earlier. he is going to make
some Moqui pictures and send them to
rhe Paris Salon and get a prize. These
prizes. Sheriff Bob says he has figured
nut. help to impress the picture buyer
and therefore are most desirable ac.
ouisitions for a man who earns his bread
by the sweat Of his brow. Prize winners
make everybody sit up, Sheriff Bob argues
"Theythinkyouahellofaman. ahellofa
man" is the way Sheriff Bob summed
mp the effect of prizes upon the picture
buying populace the last thing before
he faced the sunset and started off yes
rerday to gather the material for his
prize winning piCtur Of next season.
After he had slammed the door OF a
taxicab yesterday afternoon and hao
started toward the station the parrots
and the cockatoos gathered in little groups
upstairs in the studio TO talk it all over
Bob. the parrot tr,isty. had watched from
the front window the departing taxical
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