New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-09
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH g. 1918

Of the isthmus it IS today ne counSeed anu eoou
round sum will be paid for them;
Won Teuber bore the Presidents advice in mind and
h, tbe time he returned the United States he found
the Smithsonian Institution willing to pay his own
price for the pictures
WHEN Colonel Roosevelt arrived at the Austrian
w capital on the trumphal tour that followed MS
African hunting trip a few years later among inc
mobiles who greeted him the station IN the name OF
the Emperor King was Baron Morez Won Ieuber
"Von Tcuber:~ repeated the Colonel as he shook the
hand Of the elderly aristocra Cah IT De- ' '"' yo"
Indeed, your Excclency, replied the elder baron,
"Franz Won Teuber is my May inquire how ne
CHANGED to win your Excelencys attention.:
"Spendd' cried the Colonel IN ms heaTteS' la,ea
@Dc.ligh-ted | am 10 meet Franks father! Let me
compliment YOU. Sir, on having son VINO Is Doth
splendid gentleman and man of the outdoors after my
own heart Why we discovered the Panama Canal TO-
Uorb soil Fran. lebeu! was the toast that night at
the senior Won Teubers table
DANAMA'S atmosphere appealed to young Won
i Tnuhor When the Presidents tour Of inspection
ordcd he finished his photographs in Colon, and re-
manned behind Before he had tired OF wandering about
Colons muddy streets Of onestory adobe houses ne
heard that a horde Of grasShopperS was sweeping over
the Rcpublc Of Panama laying waste the farming lands
"Thcv were gigantic graSShOppcrS, Said me- as Dig
as mans hand and with Unsuitable appetites. On the
heels Of the Of their lncurson han naked poems
bearing ShrncS and CruCilXcS, Hooked Hlo Ic 'iOy ~
nr,v in the plaza before the cathedral for relief from the
winged pests which stripping the ground bare OF
crops soon growing with hunger, the poems ceased 10
pray Instead they gathered before the gaudily painted
presidential palace threatening revolt 1000 was ho'
forthcoming had heard somewhere that the Depart
ncnt Of Agriculture had succeeded in stamping out Just
such pests in some parts Of the West the next day
called the Swarhy little President, who was aDJec'y
frightened by this time and offered TO destroy the grass
honpcrs If Congress would vote five thousand dollars
for expenses and FIVE thousand as my compensation
He clu,chcd at my proposal and summoned Congress
in extraordinary session the next day In an hour the
credits had been voted and had Cablcd 10 Washington
for instructions. They arrived. rcanS OF thcin, on inc
first boat Persons touring Panama during the next
month must have been surprised to see the entire po-
ation armed with squirt guns, spraying crops ana ION
age with solution Of lead while the bare-tootcd army
saw to that no pcon cvaded his duty But SO we went
at it, and grasshoppcrs became as scarce as diamonds
in Panama.
WITH money in his pocket Won Teuber was about
w to Law siege to New York more when he
learned that generous reward offered to the man
willing to search for an American named }anbndge,
who had sci out to explore the country Of the San Bias
Indians and had not been heard from. The San Bias
live in villages hgh up on the mountain ranges OF south
crn Central America, hundred miles pack from the
coast ~ they, alone among the Central American In
diauS have retained much Of the civilization 81 their
ancestors the Azcc rulers Of Mexico too have they
maintained traditions Of bitter hatred for their white
conQuerorS So successfully have they resented the IN
sion Of white into their country that Their hostility
was large factor in the abandonment by the United
States Of the project - build the oCcanOOCcan canal
through their territory enterprise far easier and
less expensive than the cut across Panama. Though
Won Tculcr appreciated the hazards Of trip 70 the
San BIZ, lands the lure Of the adventure outwcighcd
them and with his oN equipment Of dog tent and
rifle he SET out alone toward the mountains
rs he ncirci the foothills he had the good fortune 70
fall IN with party Of loWlanl Indians returning from
trading trip among the san Bias. who told him that
warriors from, village 20 the north. within the bounda