The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-27

big temporary stage. filled with maps oi Scuth America, Aa big screen and a blackboard on whiel was drawn a scale chart of portion df the Amazon river. with it's tributaries. Made a and Tapa : jozi. The chart shoted .s> new water course discovered bsz >Av<>i Roosevelt in dotted lines NY.
 Long before the e xYk}reac ched the hall the crowd bega ,e9 9,rrive. filling the building, and se .AOso tHk temperature we'll on it's way Z sSS0egrts.
 When tb o.yel reaUhed the pla atform chorus Q tSlers greeved him. He was introd, . G. H. Gf4svener. president of the ,onal Geograkh khic society, and applause broke out agah as he reached from the stage to shake hands with Maj. Gen. Leonard A Wood and Chief Justice White of the supreme court. The colonel was attired in evening dress and seemed to feel the heat. He apolo- gized for the .drynes-, of his address. Nothing of note can be done" he be- gan, unless you build on the work that has been done by your predecessors. He said he had built, on the work done by South American explorers particularly during the last eight years. He charac- terized his South American expedition as a zoo-geographic reconnaissance and that that exhaustive Investigating work could not be done properly by the first expedi- tion to penetrate the wilderness.
 The colonel said the work of early Span- ish explorers, who discovered the Anna zon river made the explorations of our day seem like child's play" He added that these explorers also discovered the mouths of several tributaries of the Anna zon.
 Maps Wrong
 Some of these rivers were not known beyond their mouths for centuries." said the colonel, even what they knew of the mouth of the river l am going to speak about, was all wrong
 The colonel said he had not gone to South America to discover rivers. but on a purely geological mission but that Dr. Muller. Brazilian minister of foreign af- fairs, had inspired him to seek out the now famous river of doubt.''
 "Dr. Muller told me- Mir Roosevelt declared that as a result of the work of the Brazilian telegraphic commission in western Brazil. all the maps in ex- istence of that part of the country would have to be changed"
 Some of these maps" the colonel con tinued with a twinkle, were drawn by fellows of the Royal Geographical so- ciety and they are all wrong, too. Muller said the telegraphic commission had dis covered the sources of two new rivers, but they knew not where they went. One Of these was the river of doubt and pr. Muller asked me why didn't in- vestigate it. told him. .Sy George that's what l would like to do.' "
 Asserting that he made up his mind to undertake this task the colonel continued:
 Everything we did was based on what the teegraphic commission of Brazil un- der Colonel Rondon had done the pa st seven years. All sse did WIS {, sar he pyramid of which tley laid broad and firm. the foundations'
 Colonel Roosevelt urged that the Geo graphic society recognize in some way the work of Colonel Rondon and the tele- graphic commission, adding. they have had not too much recognition at home in Brazil
 Colonel Roosevelt criticized the modern maps, which he said were "all wrong
 Tt is almost impossible for me to show you what did on these maps.H he said
 because they are so preposterously wrong"