The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-12-24

GOING TO S0UTH AMERICA
Party Aboard Handsome Yacht

! A handsome yacht, the WISDOM car
,rying a party on what they call a
iSouthward. Ho, trip. was anchored off
| Brunswick Wednesday, some of the
members, including the commander of
the yacht. running into Brunswick on
/ d short trip. returning the same aft
ernoon, and the Wisdom continuing on
to Florida.
| Prominent among the members of
the party.as was stated in The News
a few days ago is Rex Beach. the ia
nous novelist who, while on the trip.
will write scenarios for motion pic
ture plays taken from actual happen
lings during the 1O,O0O-mile voyage.
| The purpose of the expedition is to
make pictures of animal, bird. fish
and human life in ther natural state,
for scientific and educational pur-
poses, which will be shown on the
screens in various universities
! throughout the world. The actual
taking OF the pictures will be under
the direction of George Stone, who
bears the Worldwide reputation of
| having taken thc best mi2roscopical
| pictures since the perfection of the
motion picture machines. His work
| is now being used in the larger uni
yersities for educational purposes.
The party is under the direction of
! f. A. Salisbury, who is said to be IN
que .onably the best animal photo Q
4apher in the world. He has spe
his life in the Wilds, and is thorough
familiar with the habits of tle fur,
fin and feathered tribes.
After spending a few weeks in Flor
! ida the party will cruise through
the West Indies, across the Caribbean
| sea along the HOndurian and Mosquito
| coasts; through the Panama canal, up
the west coast of Central America
and into the Gulf of California. Then
south again to the Galapagos and
! Chincha islands, Juan Fernandez, and
then the rainless peak bordered coast
! Of Peru and Ecuador. A visit will be
made to the San Bias islands, where
the party will get material for Vari-
Jas pictures and stories, and accord
ing to Mr. Salisbury, where no white
man has ever spent the night. Rex
Beach will endeavor to learn more Of
the habits of these remarkable island
Indians
They will also visit the Cannibal isl
ands where NJ Salisbury has spent
number of years in research work,
mails, fish and game, that have never
been seen by the layman.
The personnel Of the party is made
up of the following: Dr. E. A. Sails
bury, Rex Beach, George Stone. Of the
| University of California; Charles Earl,
Of the Harvard university; l.. B. Film
ton of Kansas state university; w.
Salisbury. of the Leland Stanford uni
versity and George Dow of Denmark,
The yacht Wisdom is seventy-three
feet in length has a water line Of
sixty feet. breadth of fourteen
feet draught of four feet and six
Inches, and is powered with Reeves
Graef high duty engine. She is equip
ped for a long voyage, having been
built especially for this purpose The
entire stern is made into d darkroom
for the developing of the firms taken
in the tropics, and owing to the fact
that this must be done daily or else
the dampiness of the climate will ruin
the exposures. a large thermOs bottle
holding thirty thousand feet Of film,
and an ice plant which keeps the TEN
perature at 60 degrees at all times
has been installed.
She has at present stores for a cruise
Of one thousand and five hundred
miles, including three hundred thou
sand feet OF film and three motion
picture camera.
Last year DR.. Salisbury took two
hundred thousand feet Of film, pic
turing the state OF California and the
west coast. He has some Of the most
remarkable pictures Of animal life in
the country today. Many Of his pic
! lures show the lion, tiger, leopard and
other animals being captured also be
ing hunted by sportsmen.