Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-06
STORY Of TWO BEARS
FEATURE Of ADDRESS
Part of Symposium on Wild Life in
Rockies University Club
Entertained.

The story of two grizzly bears, john
ny and Jennie, was told by Enos A.
Mills. author and lecturer of Colorado.
at the University Club last night. 1t
was part of a symposium on wild Life
in the Rockies" in which the other
speakers were Mark H. Daniels, super
intendent of national parks. and
Thomas Adams, civic adviser on con-
servation in Canada. Mr.. Adams chief
qualification for speaking on the wild
life in the Rockies. according to his
own statement, was that he has never
seen the Rockies. Consequently he di-
crossed from that subject to wild Life
With the Town Planners" with which
he is we'll acquainted.
Mr.. Mills, who has hunted over every
section in the country in which game
is to be found. but always with
camera and never with a gun, captured
the bears, Johnny and Jennie, when
they were cubs no larger than jack
rabbits. He chased Johnny up the side
of mountain for some distance before
he could get his hands on him.
Has Lively Five Minutes.
Then I spent a lively five minutes
trying to let go of him. said Mr.. Mills.
Finally, he put Johnny into a sack, and
then caught Jennie and dumped her
into the same sack. That is where
made a mistake" said Mr.. Mills. For
as 1 was walking down the mountain
the bears got a jolt and Immediately
began to fight, and one of them bit
clear through the bag and bit the
wrong bear
The bears. he said. soon became
friendly and grew up in Mr.. Mills
home, where they were made much of.
Mr.. Mills told of putting Johnny in a
rocking chair when he was well grown
and starting him rocking. Johnny
was delighted, but his enthusiasm ran
went over backward.
II saw what was going to happen.
said Mr.. Mills, land had taken the pre-
caution to jump on top of a table. 1t
Johnny had picked himself up he was
after me-"
He said that the bears were very
quick to resent practical jokes or teas
ing, and that while he was away from
home two of his men had annoyed the
bears and had been chewed up so that
they had to spend weeks in a hospital.
Il thought it time to stop paying hos
pital bills, so / sent the bears to the
zoo in the national park in Colorado,
and they are there today" said Mr..
Mills.
Scenery in Parks Described.
Mr.. Daniels described the scenery TO
be found in the national parks of the
Rockies, the Sierra Nevada mountains
and the Cascade mountains. He de-
clared that he had seen at least 100
sections in his travels through the
mountains of the west which should be
set aside as national parks because of
their natural beauty.
Americans spend hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in Switzerland every
year. said Mr.. Daniels. principally
for the scenery. Yet there is scenery
unequaled in any other part of the
world in the mountains of America 1t
is time the government began to cap
italize this scenery"
Mr.. Daniels spoke of the giant trees
of California. thirty feet in diameter
and some of them 5000 years old The
oldest living things in the world" said
Mr.. Daniels. land the most majestic
He described Crater lake, in the Sierras.
and the beauties of Yosemite and
Glacier parks.