The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-18

Adventure. says the veteran pro
fessionaI explorer In the service OF
Uncle Sam, is thing peculiar to the
amateur. a man who knows bis DusS
mess never has an adventure. Adven-
, ture is an experience which comes
only to the blnnderer, to the man VINO
founders into situations that he
should have foreseen and avoided.
In substanttatfon of which theory
the government explorer modestly re-
lates some Of his accom- p1ishme nts
and those OF his fellows. He tells
Of expeditions undertaken and exc
cuted, in attempting that which other
men had lost their lives But, he
hol6A, there was no adventure. no
danger, when the scientist went forth
upon the same tasks. For the scten-
list foresaw every possibility and pro-
vided against it. He discounted ev-
cry danger. He proceeded with I'M
derstanding and returne in safety.
Many field men of the government
are just now out upon sucn tasks Tor
explorations have to do with num-
Der Of branches of the government.
The explorers of the geological SUR
vey are the most numerous of those OF
any bureau that sends men into the
Wild. To be sure there are agents
of the department Of agriculture who
j
of the bureau of ethno1ogy, who ven
ture among strange ana savage peo-
pie. of the Smithsonian INSTITUTION,
which sends all manner OF scientific
expeditions into all parts OF the
world. But the geologtcaI survey is
the official bureau Of explorations
the government.
Pioneers of ALASKA.
The scientists of that service were
fnf1.eS 1afI-
into the forbidden interior or that
vast waste where the foor or white
man had never before trod. They
elm bed its mighty mountains, crossed
its tundras, navigated Its unknown
streams, suffered the darkness OF Its
long winters. But, they say, they ex-
perienced no adventures.
One such scientific expedition
started out with a pack train, travel
ed a thousand miles, exhausted Its
horses killed and cached them
against the possibility Of needing
their flesh as food, built itself boats
and pushed on. So precipitous grew
the region that it was necessary Tor
the boats to be taken up the stream
by wadinS in it and dragging them.
All day there men foundered through
the waters that ran from the snout OF
a glacier, slipped and fell in 1t and
never changed their clothes. Tney
knew that vigorous exercise ID the
open prevented such q possibility as
taking q cold. There was no danger
for them.
They came to the end Of the stream
and knew that they were near the top
of q. divide. Beyond were Eaters tnal
flowed in another direction into tae
unknown. They cashed food against
|tlna necessity OF returning this way
and portrayed over the divide and
found new river. They built tnen-
selves stout RATS. If raft IS strong
enough it will not break to pieces II
1t runs into rocks on 1ast ia plus. 80
amateur would build a raft tnat
would 20 to pieces and would nave
an adventure in the first rapids, put
NOT the scientist. He discounts the
possibility of rapids.
with food sufficient for trip OF
almost any length the voyage was
hap,1n III led into new valley that
q an offshoot Of the Yukon anu
eventually 1900 miles down tnat
stream to its mouth past which ply
Whaling ships that may take a wan
derer home.
Moose Not Afraid.
Frank G. Schrader is the veteran
axnlorer of the Geological Survey.
One spring he crossed Chilkoat Pass
early and went down the Yukon
Thousand miles with dog team be-
fore the ice broke up. Then ne
climbed a stream that reached out
toward the Arctic ocean at the east
ern boundary Of Alaska. Wh1te man nan
had never crossed here. ne 80.
over q pass 5000 feet high Wnere
the moose were unafratd OF MIN pc
cause they had never known the en-
mf+1y of this man creature. Going
down q stream on RATS he reached
the Arctic ocean far beyond Point
barrow which IS the northermost
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