Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-02-25

Last Friday afternoon every seat III
Hunts thea re was filled when Mrs.
s. D. Mayhem, vice president of the
Wildwood Women's Civic Club intro
duced Thomas Martindale, of Philadel-
phia, who gave an illustrated talk on
hunting trips taken through Canada
and Alaska. He spoke under the au-
spices of the Civic Club.
He opened his remarks with q talk
on observation and said a by or girl
will amount to little in this world If
they do not observe. He described a
dry bog in Maine and said at one time
while there his son stalked a big carl
bou at which he fired two shots but
missed. The animal bounded away,
with him in hot pursuit. He travelled
for some distance and falling TO locate
the animal returned to camp and Mr..
Msrtindale undertook the task but
was unsuccessful. On n of his gun
ming trips in Maine a tribe, a. they are
called there, OF twenty-eight of these
caribou were located neal u of these
dry boys and MI. Martindale singled
out and shot the largest bull and had
the carcass brought into camp. These
animals, he says, migrate to New
Brunswick and other feeding grounds
in northern Canada as the spring of
the year comes on.
Devia.ing somewhat he entertained
the school children, who were present
and filled nearly every seat down stairs,
with an incident of a little girl who
had been sent to a distant point from
New York and was travelling alone on
a train. When Mr.. and Mrs. Martin
dale discovered her she was crying and
naturally Mrs. Martindale took pity or
the little one and mothered her until
she quieted down. Night coming on
she tucked her into her berth on the
train and then it was that Mr.. Martin
dale took up his part 10 an endeavor to
keep her quiet by barking like a dog,
which brought the porter on the scene
and a search was made for the dog,
which brought forth much merrimenl.
He next told of a moose hunt taken
several years ago and graphically de-
scribed stalking one Of these animals,
also while on this hunt he relates a
peculiar incident of the loss of his wal
let containing Sl35. The wallet, he
said, was in his clothes when he retir-
ed at night, but the next morning it
was gone. He could not blame his
guide for he was some eight miles
away af er provisions and the next
nearest nan was sixteen miles away.
How to discover the thief was a ques-
foot prints of a small animal near the
hut and he remembered there was a
certain animal that favored soft leath-
ers and the like for use ia lining its
abode. He also observed cracks in the
floor of the hut but did not think any,
thing the size of his wallet could pass
through, but he cut himself a stout
and pried the boards off and
by diligent search fou d the lost article
some distance under the flooring, The
children were asked to guess what
manner of animal it was but failed
it was a porcupine.
He described a trip he made last
April to Cooks Inlet which is a very
body of water some 200
miles long and so miles across, with a
tide. At certain times this inlet
can be crossed and Mr.. Martindale
paid a man 500 to ferry him over. AT
the point where he landed numerous
brown bear abound in the mountains,
have al altitude of between
nine and ten thousand feet. While
here a native offered to take him to a
place called "Turnagain" for $25. This |