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revenge. In conjunction with his uncle.
Sir James Ramsay. and Col. l.. Stuart
Weatherley. wealthy Englshman young
Ramsay chartered a schooner and went
10 Siberia. where he picked mp about 90
Asiatic wolf dogs. From these he
lected three teams. and they finished FIRST
second and third In the race the following
year and established the record OF II
hours IL minutes and ~ seconds for the
distance of H. miles. a feat which never
before nor since has been equaled. Ram
say not only trained all the teams, but
drove one of them
l; is doubtful whether there is any other
sport in the United States that contains
so many clements of danger and calls
for much courage. endurance and judg
ment as long-distance dog racing in Alas
ka. In the seventy to eighty hours dur
ing which the contest lasts both dogs
and men are keyed-up to the topmost
pitch of physical exertion. Across tree
less tundras. frozen streams and high
mountain divides. and often in the face
of binding billiards. in which particles
of frozen snow sting the flesh like hot
needles, the competitors struggle from
start to finish. Fortunately. they do not
recover from tho exhaustion following the
race for several days. Dog racing is no
proper form OF amusement for weakliugs
and children.
The all-Alaska sweepstakes race IL an
annual event. but during the winter sea-
son several races over shorter distances
varying from ten to one hundred miles,
arc held, and during the past ten years
contests between dog teams and reindeer
teams have become popular. The Eskimo
reindeer herders take to reindeer racing
like kittens take to milk So far, how
ever reindeer racing has not become very
popular among the white people or
Alaska.
AbIacok's racing reindeer team covered
distance of eight miles I'm 30 minutes -
seconds This record however. was de-
feated by a dog team made up of Mis-
souri, bird hounds owned by Sol Warren
and driven by an Eskimo boy named
Split-the- Wind. who covered the distance
in 10 seconds less But deer racing and
dog racing over short distances are but
the hors d ouvers in the satiaton Of the
Alaskan appetite for sport. The all
Alaska sweepstakes race from Nome to
Candle creek and return is the piece de
resistance for the year
Copyright. 1912. by W. A. Du ruyl
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team of Siberian dogs. was third
Allan covered the distance in 81 hours
and 30 minutes, which is 5 hours and
50 minutes longer than his time last
year, when he won the race with the
same team. The record for the dis
lance is held by John Johnson, who.
driving a team OF Siberian wolves.
owned by Sir James Ramsay. traversed
and 90 seconds A team of dogs bred
from Alaska malamutes and crossed
with Missouri birdhounds, was left
far behind in the event this year. The
same team, driven by Oliver Batch
ford, ran second in the race of 1909.
Dog-racing enthusiasts-and their
name in Alaska is legion-are not
strong on the sport from an amateur
standpoint They like the honor of
winning. of course. but they think
that anything worth battling for is
worthy of something better for prize
than a blue ribbon. Therefore. the
first prize in the big race usually con-
sists of mammoth silver loving cup
and $4,000 in gold coin. The race
also is regarded as an event upon
which the residents feel at liberty to
back their opinion. AS difference of
opinion makes horse racing, so also
does it make dog racing. and. as
usual thing. about $250.00O changes
hands in the Bering sea metropolis
as soon as the judges decide which
team has won.
The prize for this event last year.
owing to a decrease in population
caused by the laws which compel
Alaskans to import their coal from
Canada-was cut down to $4,000. and
only about 100000 was wagered on
the result. Gambling is against the
law in Alaska. but betting on the dog
race is uphemistically termed back
ing ones judgment" Any proposition
which has within 1t an element of
chance, combined with Judgment
strongly appeals to the average Alas
kan. but gambling is tabooed This
love for anything that contains an e1e-
ment of chance finds it's strongest
manifestations in the dog races and in
the raffies for turkeys, which usually
take place at Thanksgiving and
Christmas. Quite frequently individu
ais win ten or a dozen turkeys for
their Thanksgiving dinners. 1t isn't
that they want so many of these birds,
but rather that they enjoy the excite
ment of winning them. One of the
greatest difficulties that some Alas
kans encounter during the winter sea-
son is to discover INDECENT families
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upon whom they might bestow their
surplus turkey.
The Alaskan dog races are run under
the auspices of the Nome Kennel Club.
founded by Albert Fink, Nome at
torney, ostensibly for the purpose of i'm
proving the breed of the CANNES used as
draft animals transporting supplies dur
ing the winter months. The development
of the keen interest in dog racing
amounting in some cases almost to an
obsession-was incidental When a man
begins to talk dog he is regarded as
disease. known as "caninitis.'
During the period of eight months of
ice and isolation, when the residents of
northwestern Alaska, hemmed in by the
ice, are cut off from the civilization of
the outside world. dog racing becomes the
one question of Importance. The result
of a presidential election or of a cham
pionship prize fight is regarded as sec
ondary matters until the All-Alaska
sweepstake dog race has been settled.
The race usually lasts three days. and
during this time all business, excepting
that of the saloonkeeper. is absolutely
suspended The laundries, the court
houses all government offices. the mines,
the stores and every other place of bust
ness and industry are closed down until
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die creek and return to the finishing
point either dead alive. This con-
dtion causes the owners and drivers to
exercise much discrimination in the Sc
lection of their teams. Every animal
must possess not only proved speed. but
unquestioned endurance. \ speedy ca
nine not endowed with sufficient qualities
of endurance often proves a handicap to
his driver and teammates, for when he
becomes exhausted he must be hauled in
the sleigh Carelessness in selecting a
team once lost prize of $4,000 and
many side bets for William A. Gilmore,
a nominee for delegate to Congress from
Alaska. Gilmores team. I'm 1902. was
driven by Peter Berg, young Swede
of superb courage and marvellous endur-
ance, who this year again drove the win
ming team. but for another owner Berg
became confused, and in binding biz
card. which broke loose few hours after
the dog punchers' started on their jour
ney. lost the trail.
He was delayed for several hours. but
after some difficulty reached one of the
way stations. He arrived at Candle
creek several hours behind the other COM
petitors and determined to endeavor to
make the run home without stopping.
Running behind the sled and riding only
when the team was going down hill, he
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straight and-narrow ideals graceful. The
remainder use IA hundred strateg es TO
hide their stiffness But ardent. sporting
souls simply cut off the lower ends of
their long, straight corsets.
Instantly they discovered all the MP
and waist suppleness of the old regime
to the delight of Rodn, sculptor; Ar
thur Meyer editor and Rostand. French
poet.
Rodin long bewa!led the lack OF undu-
latory grace An old-fashiOned. wasp
wasted girl may have such grace. her
hips being free. The new pannier girl
may have il.
Its exaggeration is found In the "anda-
dura'' of the Andalusians. and Rodin ex-
tolls it again in the harmonious wriggiings
of the lower-class young Venetian girls.
who are still using uD. a. reduced
prices says the sublime French sculptor.
the old stock Of Paris corsets dating be-
fore the straight front"
Artists and poets welcome the pannier.
because 1t promises this rhythmed ca
dence of the feminine body. of which
Rodin has made an analytical scheme. l
will tell you why the pannier permits 1t.
later; but the charming evolution is like
this-when the shoulders bend to the
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for full-grown women, while eighteen
inches are nothing unusual Strain
for strain, / prefer the wasp waist
with free hips and undulatory grace!'
Arthur Meyer gives another reason
for loosening up.
Elegant women will no longer fore
go their dear dessous, says the editor
of the fashionable Gaulois. THE
flmy lingerie which is their innate de-
light has been too long sacrificed to
a passing ideal OF mere slenderness.
which is not essentially feminine"
And Rodin, again:
eft is feminine to have rich contours
am not much. OF a painter, but I
would be willing to paint a true wom-
an for the salon. She should have the
equivalent of twenty-four-ipch waist
and forty-one-inch hips. Will these
panniers bring us to it?'
He rejoices in the tendency.
Il welcome wasp waists. free hips
panniers, bustles. the crinoline, even,'
explains Rodin, because they are all
more human than the immobilizing Of
lovely bodies in rigid sheaths. All
their fashions show deplorable ar
tistic sense in women, but. really. they
attained the acme Of bad taste when
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right the hips bend to the left 1t is a
supple undulation of the bust on the base
of the hips. made to oscillate by the
movement of the limbs. In other words,
a continuous re-establishment of equiiib-
rum by the hips displacing themselves
lateraly, while the waist executes a
slight rotation in the opposite sense.
Could the straight and-narrow gil exc
cute it?
These things are In the air.
A surprise to many. Jean xeber's
frescoes for the Rostrand visa at
Cambo are fresh in the memory Of all.
They are peopled by ethereal sylphs
from fairy legend, without much; room
for internal organs. But thef are
poetry.
My fairy princesses?" says Rostrand.
they are poetry. Poets may travel in
dream lands. where nymphs of fife and
ice bend like flowers on their stalks.
But in real life the results of COM
preston seem less awkward whel, they
do not extend along the whole line
He is happy 10 see that honest curves
are coming.
Riches of nature" sings the glorious
French poet, human forms for human
bodies! j had always been told that
the straight corset reduces strain on
the waist itself. but now I learn that
fashionable makers have been turning
out quite normal waists Of 1873 inches
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they attached to mere slenderness an
idea Of grace and beauty, without COM
preh ending that perfection exists. on
the contrary. in the soft infieXions.'
The negresses of Central Africa.
concludes Robin, who enlarge their
lips with wooden discs deform them
selves less barbarously tan does the
sheathed woman. Becs sc may
conceive feminine splenC = still exist
ing in spite of an eccen:Sc upper lip.
but the devastation is csSnplete when
sique"
Such are the rumbling.
''Pannier' means basket Tfhe reference
is. of course, to a woman 1arrying a lit
tie basket on each arm. HIve was the
first and carried apples inS them Then
one day. she tied them roa{ud her waist
and draped a fig-leaf skiia over them
The skirt swelled and puffet gloriously.
In ancient French prints dt the time of
Queen Marsot, women of cGu and town
alike are seen buying veritakle little wick
er panniers-like fishermen:s baskets in
pairs-to strap round theit waists and
hang over the hip on each side. (The
skirt, of course, went over them.) Hus-
bands are seen forbidding them, brothers
and fathers tear them off, and girls and
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wirowy when not resembling a stovepip'
simply cannot stand compression much
longer: she Will spread and swell in parts
or sections. and we shall love her all the
more
The pannier gown is her first step to-
ward free hips. Fashionable Paris wom-
en- order one. They try it on; they take
II off: they try il on again and medi
tate exactly as Cora Pear. in her epoch,
msdltated over the hoopskirt.
DO TO; tell me that the present classical
simplicity is any guarantee. or that the
panniers are ugly. Greek beauties of the
purest Praxiteles epoch switched to puffed
skirts. absolutely ridiculous. full of stiff
feners Since the discoveries at Minos.
We have frescoes showing even tine
archaic Greeks in puffs and bustles,
Cora did not know this when she made
her famous bet with the Prince de la
Moskova that the classic Greeks wore
panniers. Neither did the academi clan.
Cora Pearl Baltimore girl in Paris
brought up siraightly as Miss Cora
Crouch. daughter OF the immortal COM
POSER Of Kathleen Mavourneen" daz-
led the second empire by her chic and
beauty. led the styles more than Eugene
and felt responsibility. At that moment
sae had All eminent academician at her
feet.
Find me-" she said. ''pretext for pan
n.ers in the best Greek period.
Impossible" replied the savant: the
artistic Greeks would have looked on pan
niers with horror.
Hunt, nevertheless. said the American
beauty. and such was her tyranny that
tie academician finally tore up a quota
ton:
You were right" he said. Alexis
wrote. effectively, in his Isostarion': If
she hath not hips enough, We will sew
her "A sarniture.
II might have been written of the pres
snt TANNERS.
OUT. off come the hip dissimula- ors :,
Who can know the sum of suffering
caused by them in the past five years?
They have been represented as hygienic
n the nature of sustaining bandages TO
relieve somewhat the long. straight cor
sets strain. but you should see the steel
strips sewed into some OF them. They
leave straight, hvid lines. Others, OF
rubber tissue. are stin beyond relief. And.
note, most women have grown up in cor
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from the blizzard which usually is rag
ing at that time, and stands in line
with number of others till he hears a
pistol shot fired by the official starter.
Then he SEES streak of dog. with a
sleigh and a man hanging on behind it,
vanish into the atmosphere to the
southwark. Then he returns uptown,
warns his hands at the saloon stove.
and fifteen minutes later he returns to
the ice-covered Boring sea, where he
hears another shot fired and sees an
other team go streaking over the frozen
trail. He continues this process ten or
twelve times, or until all Of the teams
have started on their Journey. Then for
three days and nights he stands around
the saloon. leaving it only long enough
to grab a hasty meal at a nearby lunch
counter, and. with pencil and paper. fig
ures out the relative positions of the
various teams as they pass the stations
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covered a distance of 100 miles in nine
teen hours. but by that time two OF his
dogs We're dead and two were so eN-
hausted that he was compelled TO turn
them loose to run along beside the team.
Berg was we'll up in the lead and only
nineteen miles from home when his team
lay down on him and refused TO bulge
another foot for two days. 1t Is no un-
common occurrence TO see BOTH dogs ana
drivers staggering like drunken men from
exhaustion at the finish OF one of these
grueling contests.
Many thousands of dollars have been
expended in securing dogs qualified TO
enter this great event OF the north. FOR
months before the event Is scheduled 10
take place dog fanciers scour the country
to find animals that have proved their
endurance. At this season good dogs de-
mand fancy prices as much Sl.2W
each being paid for some of them. FOX
Ramsay. a brother of the Earl OF Dali
house. came TO Alaska four years ago
for the express purpose OF winning the
dog race. Young Ramsay was rather UNI
sophisticated in the ways Of the north.
and the first year his entry was regarded
as "A joke. Ramsay is innately polite.
Soon after his team left Nome "A man
stopped him on the trail. for Ramsay has
always gamely driven his own teams. and
said:
rs them your dogs" accosted the
stranger Ramsay politely stopped his
team and admitted that they were.
Well, one of them darned animals
stole a ham off of me- informed the
wayfarer. Ramsay at once became in
tensely concerned. For months he had
been feeding those dogs on choice cuts
of roast beef. He examined the accused
CANNES very carefully and then said:
Well. 1T doesn't seem to have injured
their digestion very much They look all
right and up to now they have been run
ming very nicely"
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NE OF the most
unique. thrilling.
e n d urance-testing
sp ort ing events
that has ever been
arranged by those
ruggedest Of pio-
ncers, the men who
are making Alaska,
has just been wit
messed along the
ice-bound coast of
Boring sea. That
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women make all sorts of pretexts, where
they got them. why they wore them. i
won it in a raffie.' is the favorite; and
1.-The doctor says it is hygienic" a good
second.
Doubtless. panners are hygienic. Big
or little, they permit the corset to be
shortened. perhaps loosened, while the
hips certainly play free. Even without
hoopskirts. the pulled psnniers of Amanda
completely dssimulated the corset region
to the sure advantage of beauty S
health.
The same is true of Tiaine's hustle.
Walk the streets of paris You will
find them calm. But. hist. the low rum
billings of the earthquake that Is coming.
Gentle rumblngs. Two ladies in very
moderate pannier gowns are going down
the avenue. and two are coming toward
them. On aristocratic streets of residence
the panniers are out lin force. Quite
moderate
Would you hear the rusnbling louder. go
behind closed doors, the doors of great
dressmakers. / have Seen to the one
establishment of the Rte Royae. They
are the rumblings OF a crinoline earth
quake, a hoopskirt volcano. We are living
in the edge of it!
How7 Why: Because It Is the quality
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the race is over. Nobody sleeps. There
is only one matter worthy of discussion.
Yet from spectacular standpoint
the dog race is not all that could be de-
sired. The process of the event to the
spectator is something like this: He
walks from the main street to Boring
sea. we'll muffled to protect himself
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HE pannier gown
is here.
The cTi n 0 line
ruInbles in the dis
lance.
Paris Is looking
for new contours.
and something has
got to give. The
IT aight-and-nar-
row girl. whom We
have come to love
so syelte and
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FASHIONABLE Women
/ Of French Capital Seeking
New Contours-The Straight
and-Narrow Girl to Co
What Rodin. the Noted
Sculptor. Says of the Wasp
Waist-Views of Rostand,
the French Poet-Changing
the Styles From One Extreme
to Another.
Special Correspondence of The Star.
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annual sweepstake dog race where men
and their teams go out for a test OF speed
and courage and generalship ana tram
ing in a dash that must cover more than
4on miles strewn with almost inconcclv-
able difficulties. has just been run inns
year a woman. we'll known In social cir
cles in the various Pacific coast cities, has
put a team across the winning line. so
has a woman won an event that is gam
Ing such fame that men who love sport
the world around are coming to Alaska
for a try at this most thrilling of speed
contests
The annual aIl-Alaska sweepstake dog
race is to tho inhabitant OF Alaska what
the Grand Prx is to the boulevardier or
Paris and the Derby is to the Cockney on
'Amsted Faith and followers of the
"sport Of kings" in European countries
Dog racing is a sport that is not well
adapted a. a pastime for "mollycoddles,
bur one requiring much inherent courage
and power Of physical endurance.
While there are many dog races in
Alaska during the winter season. the all
Alaska sweepstake race of the spring is
the event dc luxe. This race is over a
distance of 412 miles. beginning al Nome
and going thence along Bering sea to
Topkok Bluff. across a mountain range
To- Council City. thence up Fish river.
across the dreaded Death Valley, over an
other divide and down the Eeewalik river
to Candle creek. the northernmost mining
camp on the continent, and return by the
Same route.
This race was won this year by A. A.
C'>scotty'O Allan. driving A team of
dogs owned ny Mrs c. f. Darling of
Sacramento cal. Alexander Holsom,
driving a team of Siberian wolf dogs,
owned by Lord Fox Ramsay. who won
the race two years ago. was second.
and Charles Johnson. driving another
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The stranger. who had been expecting
navment for his ham, was so astounded
at Ramsay's exhibition of nerve" that
he couldn't say another word till the
Enelishman was half a mile farther down
the trail.
Ramsay was not at all successful the
first year. 1t soon became apparent that
he was to he left far behind, and when a
telephone message conveying the infor-
nation that he had stopped for "'tiffin''
at one place and for afternoon tea at
another were received, the odds against
his team were posted at 800 TO l. lie
finished last.
The next year. however. he took his
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PARIS. May Q, 1912.
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
Arizona republican., 1912-06-13
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
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Department of the Interior, U. s.
 Land Office at Phoenix. Arizona,
 May 23. 1912.
 Notice is hereby given that William D. Baxter, of Liberty, Arizona, who, on July 23, 1909, made Homestead Entry, No. 064S1, for SEA SEA Sec. 35, T. 1 N, R. 3 w, and Lots l. l2, and SEA NEA Sec. 3, Township l S., Range w., G. x s. R. Meridian, has filed notice of intention to make Final Communication Proof, to estab- fish claim to the land above describ- cd, before Register and Receiver, U. IS. Land Office, at Phoenix, Arizona, on the 25th day of June, 1912 Claimant names as witnesses: Bert Grove, of Phoenix Arizona; Wm. R.. Blackmer, of Liberty Arizona; James N. Carter. of Buckeye, Arizona; Paul Jones, of Buckeye. Arizona. FRANK H. PARKER, Register.
Arizona republican., 1912-06-13
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