Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-04

ample uf modern German architor-
lure aud 90 that end II is about 10
invite AN German architects 10 enter
a contest for the best design for the
building
The demand Tor furs ana feathers
TO add charm To the women Of the
world Is constantly running counter
to the efforts OF governments and
scientists 10 preserve the birds and
animals whose lives are sacrificed To
supply these adornmuts Birds Of
paradise are found In FAR Africa, but
the sale for their feathers for wom-
ans wear is so profitable that meas
uios have been adopted by the par
llHmonts Of nations, else they soon
would be eNtorminatcd.
Professor Schlllngs the German
naturalist who made a reputation for
himself by his camera studies of ami
NAL life in the wilds Of Africa, is
urgirg the government 10 take encr-
gotIc steps 80 prevent the eXtermin-
alton of these birds IN German New
Guinea lie points TO the example
of British New Guinea, whore the
government prevents altogether the
export Of the pumcs Of the bird. In
the Germany colony, on the other
hand, the authorities grant permits
10 shoot 1t to any man who clears
and brings under cultivation 1913 acres
Of original forest for The German
New Guinea company Schillinss
hints that whites, with hunting
rights, compel the natives To assist
them in finding the birds by turning
their guns upon them in case OF re-
fusal Schillings appeals to the Ger
man government to initiate the Amer
lean example and prohibit altogether
the importation Of feathers for mil
lincry and similar use. Australia
too, he says, prohibits both the i'm
port and export Of plumes of birds
threatened with determination. A law
against such imports has been passed
by the British house of lords, but the
commons have not yet passed it, us
ing the argument that Germany and
France would derive the chief bcne-
tit from such legislation.
Professor Schillings is greatly con
ccrned also about certain fur bearing
animals. lie thinks it is only a ques-
ton Of time when the polar bear, the
musk-oX and the silver fox viii be
practically eXtcrminated. Whales
and seals are yearly growing scarcer
in the arctic and antarctic waters;
in the vast forests of Russia the sa-
BILE is rapidly approaching extinction,
and the same is true Of the chinchilla
in the Andes mountains.
Although the committee Of the I'm
perial Yacht club at l{iel has learned
Of only two new German boats build
ing for the German-Amorican sond-
erklassc races off Marblehead, Mass.
next September, private inquiries
have brought out the fact that at least
five others are on the stocks. OF the
seven, three at least are extreme types
on new lines Of construction and sail
plan.
Royalty, IN the peESSns Of the
Grown Prince and Prince Henry Of
Russia, is interested in two Of the
new boats. The Crown Prince, al
though not very successful in his
earlier ventures in sonder-klasse rae
ing, has ordered a new boat from
Won Hacht, in lIamberg, and Richard
Kregmann, a veteran in the German
American contests, with whom IS as
Fociated Prince Henry, the emperor's
brother, is bringing out the other.
The Klegmann boat is again to be
named "Tilly."
Five boats are building in or near
Berlin Jaechel has designed two of
these, "Seehund" and "Lunula,' on
extreme lines and to carry lugger-rig
instead of the usual s'oop-rig; Krue-
ger is constructing Lucifer" along
what are said to 49, entirely novel
lines; while Abeking and Rasmussen
are building "Palmstroem" and Ma
gle -Englebrecht "Wttelsbach TX
upon more conventional designs.