The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-20
EVENTS OF THE DAY
FROM STATE CAPITAL
Nv WILLIAM GoRMLEY

( evidently especially designed for swim
ming. A good otter pelt brings from 81
to $50.
MUSKRAT NUMEROUS
The musKrat is perhaps the most
numerous of the fur bearing animals of
the state. The rnuskrat delights in swim
ming and it subsists on the roots OF
rushes swamp grass and other aquatic
plants, and also upon crab fish and
muscles which it brings from the bot
tom of the streams in its mouth and
proceeds to open when the bank is
reached. The pelt of the muskrat is dyed
and made into cloaks and sold as Hudson
bay SEAL, a single coat bringing the
handsome price of from $50 to $1,000.
THE raccoon. opossum, fox and mink
| are familiar animals to almost every Ala
bamian.
THE black bear is found chiefly in
the southern portion of the state and
then only in the canebreaks and jungles
along the banks of rivers. In the winter
bears hibernate and in Alabama they go
up, as the native say that is, they climb
up on the inside of huge cypress or gum
| trees and remain there until the spring.
The black bear such as is found in Ala
bama never fights except in self-defense.
| He, like most wild animals, upon sight
| ing man, whom he recognizes as being
| his natural and dead.iest enemy, seeks
safety in flight
| The conservation department believes
| that in the future the new law will better
regulate the trapping and killing of the
] fur-bearing animals that, in the past.
have been slaughtered In and out of sea-
son. The law was among the many that
| will better protect fsa and game in Ala
bama All were approved by Governor
! Kilby.
7 Montgomery, October Especial )-Co-
| operation that has always marked no
| accident campaigns in industries OF
America in the past has been assured
railroads for the period beginning today,
and continuing until midnight on October
81, according to information at railroa
| offices in Montgomery NJ C. Stokes, COM
| mercial agent of the Central .of Georgia
railroad, received answers from many let
ters addressed to ministers, educators and
industries living on the lines of his com
pany, and each promised all possible CO.
operation in making the National Rail-
road Accident Prevention Drive a sue
cess.
such campaigns in the United States
were not known two years ago. Thou
sands were killed yearly by fast moving
freight and passenger trains railroads
were held responsible in a large number
of cases and automobile drivers were
l
country's railroads is to go the period OF
two weeks without a single accident
either to employees, passengers or other
persons.
The idea originated about year age
with officials of the Central of Georges
railroad. The no-accident campaign Of 3
week resulted in 100 per cent perfec.
record, not an accident being recorded
over the entire system of the giant cor
poration. The idea, considered a good one
by railroad administration officials. il
now embodied in the two weeks cam
paign.
| Mr.. Stokes has sent special appeal To-
cooperation to employees of his railroad
and persons residing along the route
Many pamphlets, showing the hornois o
railroad accidents, wrecked automobiles
buggies and dying children. have beef
sent broadcast over the country by tn
various railroads.
The campaign has created rivalr.
among the various railroads, and eacl
is conducting a campaign to educate N
\ people up to it's meaning.