Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-13
REINDEER TRANSPORT
CRUDE, BUT ONLY MEANS
Company Organized to Circumvcnt
Russia's Rigorous Weather Com
ditiOnS i'm Winter.
JOURNEY IN DEER slElGt,
american Correspondent Writes En-
pertaining Account Of His ITip,
Driver Directs Travel With Long
Scalskin Rope.

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Driver Directs Travel With Long
ScalSkin Rope
MGRMANSK. July II Thy maid
The Reindeer Transport organized 20
circumvent RusSas rigorous weather
eomdi,ions. the vasar..s OF the Rus
termed systematic Russian railway
workers uncXampled stupidity. and
the thousand and one things which
render travel in this country 4 thing
To be we'll considered .efore hc!ni;
undertaken. deserves a chapter l." Il
self when the history OF the eNpedi
ton into Northorn Russia written.
Lieuienant-C'oSonel T. q. 4 Moore is
%. c. Reindeer Transport" as we say
IL the army. From the Very incen-
i;on OF ;he scheme he has controlled
ii. and, although no officer on this
peninsula has more descrvedly earned
the gratitude of MS fellows. am salts
fad that he VIII not murmWr pro-
test Il this artjcle circles around one
'Squarey +. NJ. SQuarey. bat
preferably 10 ,to h.m> "Squarey." No
ure dreams ~ giving him his military
rank
Personally / owe. the captain a deep
debt OF gratitude for = Ben HUI raee
eight miles from Mu-mansk. Also
eve him crudec Tor iniroductnS 1e
10 reindeer don; " sh to SEE them
for reason ;hat shall try TO eN-
plain later
Romance OF Transport.
First let me tel yon OF the romance
O. ths Neindeer Iransp97t attached !"
the Northern Command and OF the
fines; achievement TO is credit. In
the beginning, marx The fact that N
Russia one talks ot versts as easily IS
London draper "a Is q: inches. There
are no suburbs n Northern RUSSIA,
there are posts leaeues apatt as
beyond runs due south for 500 odd
miles; and there are no loop lines 10
take one home after oom.or;a bic
is ohi;tera;ei; there are troops away
10 the ives; % the dreaTy barren
1'Ks an Sn oibs 2 oys >'t s5a. ey.
Reindeer were the only solution o:
a difficult problem. ana Inc Laps are
saout the only people in ne world
reindeer. Captain +. NJ Squarey asked
For the opDortua.iy Of organizing the
tennan;-coioaei Moore selected him
Now. the Lapn : peaceful. INDUS
yr;ous person H. j. Very reserved. h.
-as his aye-s,ons and the Russian is
That cannot very "eN he described and
il naturally suspicious Captain
SQuS-ey went out with IN interpreter
10 make new allies. - p.cAed UP =
trz.i - ;aei- village. ate with them
siepi IN ,hei- huts harssiaed WI
them and. n his own words. treated
tFeD .iAs white men
.Sauarey" Gets Results.
Today 500 l~a7ps Wiz 1000 rein
6eer and 500 sle.shs. a-e in use by ne
TRANSPORT There Is reserve, .; 20
Say should arise. The Lapps arc "a
toned by US on payment. and fair
enc y think SquareY sees 20 thao
they are paid three kopecks per pooa
$50 lb) per vsrst. And they have done
exceedineIy well out % the arrange
men,. Win one sleigh and two rein
$50 a day and sometimes ONLY.
sonnet: -SQuarey throws IN tot oil
Three reindeer form team and. as
there are no brakes sleigh.
fourth animal is tied behind. so that
when the team IS likely TO be over
decl!vity the fourth ,unfor,umate
wretch pulls back, and has It's head
almost pulled of for rs Offices In
place OF a wh:p the l.app uses long
pole. with which he jahs at the quar-
ttrs of the deer.
The ,ransporta,on - ne MpnuH
sex, from rcichen:a, In the horih' 20
inc Garrison At kola. a distance 10y
the trail of lis t:ns!ish miles wa
done by reindeer. and cost the .oN-
eminent 10000 less than I would II
i, had been done by iccbreaNer rms
Was Captain Squarcy's finest feat
Deer sleigh Journey.
re exnlain my antjpaihy to rein
deer: Ne LEI, Murrnamsk for kola at
3 in the afternoon -Squarey win =
Iapp driver on. the hrst sleigh ana
viii an ami;,bie little gentleman who.
In his furS and. rt.ins. Locked HE q
n, n"% ron,ro m%s wa s:inIe S rein. ioms
rope OF sealslin CONNECTED TO he
head OF the deer on the irfi hand ma sue Sue,
abreast. turn when he turns. i;N
aickine the rope over me leHhGr
IN left or rig hi
We sit back to back on the slegh.
the Lapp and Heaven alone knows
him. hut | should say tina, 1t was.
''Deliver The goods at all costs.
W. have reac chfd ko ilt which VAS
hombarded by the British in the
We have tea in the mess at, llola.
the ou,nos,. long rest The i.apns gre
Square details fresh driver to take
me back to Murm,ansN | SAY TO Can
half doz"n i.app words that YOU know
I may memnriZe them III cas-" OF
emtrgency,' The. words are "skoro
along; and Thanks m saiisled
1T Is ; o'clock when we set ogt.
covered in forty minutes. ana b, is
good pole Y hos ,s i9neiy rlaer; 70
The gentlemen who are no; quite salts
fed in their own minds whether it
General Maynard come out 20 Try their
aim with piif"rcd rifles
Two m miles &C. s,ip paSt soa and m ii,;@
ia .ha T. IrssIpl!es., &2HiiSsin me ans
that ne vii do his best Then he
prods the animals yiciousIy with his
long pole. so vcinusiy tina; it snaps.
with Il binding o! hide
Deer n"c. on strike.
think my ilttlr friend is angry