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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-04
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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-04

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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-04
win TRY Negro for
Assault Win ShOUei

Hugh Stool, negro. charged with
asaauiting =. n. selngor. negro. with
"a shovel, at $40 Exeter street, en-
tered plea ~ not guilty at his ar
rnignmcnt Thursday before Justice
II. j. Gray and Is held In the county
iall under bond OF $1,000 for trial
March u.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-04
AWARDED DAMAGES OF SlO0
Curricr Wins Suh AGAINST Railway
Company for Damage 90 Auto.

Verdict for slOO damages sus-
tHinod by II j. Currier when his
automobile was struck by street
car Of the Tulsa street Railway at
Ftfth and Main, was returned by
tho jury IN district court Thursday
morning.
Currcr testified he was backing
his car from the curb when the
motOrman OF the street car. through
negligence. ran the car into tho rear
Of the auto. lie asked damages OF
$500.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-04
Now Criminal pnckct Is SCI.

Beginning March 7 and cuutinu-
ing for about four weeks, a Grim
inal docket will be heard IN district
court before Judge Redmond y. cole,
who is now In Pawnce trying a
docket OF both civil ana criminal
cases,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-04

An Illinois inventor has brought
-ut a machine for threshing and
gathering clover seed IN fields with,
0ut CuUinG the plants.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03

neutral island, to be visited by
European fleets only for wood and
water, and left entirely in the pos
session Of its aboriginal inhabitants.
Therefore, while Defoe chose to
ignore the natives when he planted
Robinson Crusoe on an uninhak;;..2sss
island he was at least historically
correct in placing him on an island
which had no European residents.
Modern visitors to the island de-
clare that his description of the cur
rents which swept between the
iIands is a faithful description Of
the same tides to-day; and, finally,
in Crusoe's own words, it is recorded
that the island of Trinidad was in
sight, as follows:
when / passed the Vale where
my Bower stood, came within view
of the Sea, and it being a clear Day.
l fairly deserted Land-whether al
island or a Continent / could nc.
tell; but it lay very high and at a
great distance. l ask'd hin,
(Friday) how far it was from ou,.
island to the shore, and whether
Canoes were not often lost. And he
told me there was no Danger-no
Canoes ever lost; but that a little
Way out to Sea there was a Wind
and a Current, always one way il
the Morning and another in the
Afternoon. This | understood to bs
no more than the sets Of the Tyde,
as going out and coming in; but
afterward understood it TO be occas-
slon'd by the great Draught and Re.
f1ux Of the mighty River Oroonoqus
in the Mouth or Gulph of which ous
Island lay. And the Land which !
perceiv'd was the great Island Of
Trinidad, on the north point Of tbs
mouth of the River"
This seems to prove the case
Juan Fernandez is Selkirk's island
but Tobago is Robinson Crusc.'s.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03
n NE Of the Dutch artists
~ paintings, a Holland III
terror

best Of all. 1t is the first place
where have not been hungry"
How will it be in India?" he was
asked. will that not be as bad
as China?''
II have some friends in India"
he replied, land I expect to be able
to get some commissions there"
1T will be terrible ordeal" Mr..
Polah said, "but when he comes back
he will be absolutely made. This
trip will make him known all over
the world and he will be established.
even without the fortune awaiting
for him. He and his wife both
realize this and the prospect keeps
up their courage, event under great
hardship. Many artists have the
hardship without the reward, SO they
are very fortunate after all"
jacques Monnickerdam was born
in Amsterdam and will be thirty
one years old when he comes into
his fortune, if he keeps his con-
tract. If he once sells to dealer,
or allows dealer to exhibit pic
ture, the whole sum is forfeited. Nor
can he enter into any commercial
agreement or try to make money OH
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03

any ten-year-old boy Of your ac-
cNaintance--lnade no mention Of
any fur-bearing animals on his ISL
and.< He found few animals of any
kind save goats and turtles. 1t is
rather from his description of the
plants and fruits which he found
on his island that the location is
definitely ascertained to be in the
tropics rather than the temperate
zone. Tobacco he found growing
wild, as we'll as sugarcanes and
aloes. He found melons on the
ground and grapes growing in such
abundance upon the trees that he
made them the mainstay of his diet
for years. He also mentioned or
anges, lemons and lines, which he
made into summer drinks.
He also described the alienation
of wet and dry seasons, and the ter
rife heat Of the summe1 months,
which prevented him from dong any
work during the middle of the day.
Put II in Caribbean
1t is evident from these painstak-
ing and accurate descriptions of
tropical vegetation that Defoe had
a tropic island in mind FOR his hero S
abode. The reason it is definitely
located in the Caribbean Sea. and
can in fact be no other Caribbean
island than Tobago, is found in the
actual wording of the book. He
mentions the mouth Of The Orinoco
River several times, and in one place
says the land in sight from his isl
and was Trinidad
When The Life and Surprising
Strange Adventures of Robinson
Crusoe was first published. on April
25, 1919, the full title was
The Life and Surprising Strange
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of
York, Mariner; who lived eight and
twenty years all alone on an unin-
habited island on the coast Of Amer
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03
His Second Venture

This is his second experience in
adventuring for art, according to
Mr.. Polah. His father was the
typical father of an artist and was
so much opposed to his sons painting
that Jacques ran away from home
ir order to study with Hobhema. He
competed for and won many prizes
offered by various art societies in
Holland and later became pupil of
Joseph Israels. The influence of
this greatest of moderns is very
plain in Monnickerdam's work. 1t
was as the result of a competition
hat Mr.. Bilderbeck's offer was
made to Monnickerdam and Degen,
for the jury could not decide between
them, so they started out together.
In Paris their hardships were very
great, and Mr.. Degen, who was frail
and of a nervous temperament, con-
tracted pneumonia and died.
Neither Mr.. Monnickerdam nor his
wife shows any sign Of strain SO far.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03

silent and see it's more famous rival
reap the honors. Once in while,
every five years or so, it has voiced
it's protest, and at the time of the
Worlds Fair some enterprising
Tobagoan found a skeleton of huge
goat in cave, which was promptly
and joyously bundled off to Chicago
as the final convincing proof that
Robinson Crusoe had lived and
hunted goats on that island.
Nevertheless, most people will tell
you to-day that Juan Fernandez is
Robinson Crusoe's island, and now
the government of Chile is planning
improvements in the island which
will add to its popuiarity with
tourists.
Juan Fernandez is 700 miles off
the western coast of South America,
a rugged, mountainous pile, very
popular with the pirates Of old. but
never taken seriously by any white
men as place of habitation. For
many years it was used by the
Chilean government as a penal set
tlemert. In 1868 it was leased to
some Germans who made an expert
ment in colonization, but this, too,
failed, and It is only recently that
the Chilean government has seen its
possibilities as a tourist resort.
Monarch of All He Surveyed
How does it happen, then, that
there is this mistake in the identity
of two islands, on opposite sides OF
the equator, divided by the conti'
nent of South America, thousands
of miles apart and differing from
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03

each other in climate and natural
characteristics?
Alexander Selkirk is the answer.
Selkirk was a real person who
lived alone for four years on Juan
Fernandez. He was history, not
fiction, like poor old Robinson Cru
soc. 1t only goes to show how much
stronger the human interest of
story is than the dull geographical
facts.
Selkirk was not shipwrecked, but
voluntarily exiled himself on Juan
Fernandez after a quarrel with the
captain Of his ship, in which he told
that parsonage bluntly that he would
rather risk the perils of solitude
than trust himself another minute in
leaky ship under such captain.
He thought it over for four years
and then was glad to exchange the
perils OF the deep for his island Sc
curity. He took passage on the first
ship that happened along. 1t was
in command of one Captain Woodes
Rogers They knew a good story in
London, even in those days, and
Selkirk's adventures were snapped
up by the best feature writer of the
day, Richard Steele, who had beat
in The Englishman. This was in
1713. Defoe is supposed to have
based his romance on this account,
I'D on Captain Rogers's- own book
Cruising Voyage Around the World.
Selkirk's Story
Selkirk's story differs from Rob-
inson Crusoe's in many details, yet
bears a close resemblance to its main
features.
He was provided for l. nd life
with a sea chest, clothee al e-
ding, & firelcck, some gunpowael
and bullets, hatchet, knife and
kettle, a Bible and other books, and
a few pounds of tobacco Thus he
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03

missed all the fun Of discovering a
wrecked ship on his beach, and his
story is deprived of the most inter
estlng elements Of Crusoe's adven-
lures, the transporting of the treas
ures from the ship by raft.
On the island the only animals he
found were goats, cats and rats, and
from the first he subsisted chiefly on
turtles, just as Robinson Crusoe did.
For eighteen months he suffered in
tensely from loneliness and melan-
choly, scarce able" says Steele's
account, ito refrain from doing him
self violence, till by degrees, by the
force of reason and frequent read
ing of the Scriptures, and turning
everything to account to better his
condition. He now, taking delight
IN everything, made the hut in which
he lay, by ornaments which he cut
down from spacious wood on the
side of which it was situated, the
most delicious bower.
Provided Against Illness
The precautions which he took
against want, in case Of sickne-z.
was to lame kids when very young,
SO that they might recover their
health, but never be capable of speed.
His habitation was extremely
pestered with rats, which gnawed
ms clothes and feet when he slept
10 defend himself against them he
ted and tanned numbers of young
killings. who lay about his bed and
preserved him from the enemy.
When his clothes were quite worn
out ne dried and tackled together the
SKINS of goats, with which he clothed
himself, and was Injured to pass
through woods, bushes and bram-
3'-s With as much carelessness and
preclpltance as any other animal. 1t
happened to him once that running
on the summit Of a hill he made a
stretch to seize a goat, with which
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03
Monnickerdam
/ Seeks $4,000
Cuilders

JACQUES MONNICKERDAd
had the courage of his paint
brushes. He was willing to bet
-. vesrs Of his life that he could
as;nt his way around the world
:. he wins-and Mr.. Monnickerdam
.dr;ts there still are chances Of his
,.;,ure-he gets a nice little nest egg
II $4,000 guilders, which represents
= american money nearly $50, 900.
Mr. Monnickerdam arrived in New
York few days ago, two years out
from home and more than half the
,lobe still to be travelled. Literally,
10 is working his way around the
rorld paying his bills and those OF
his wife, who accompanies him, only
rom commissions received from his
psintings. According to the con-
.ract he must act as his own agent
N every sale that he makes. Art
dealers are not permitted to enter
INTO any Of his transactions.
Details Of the peculiar arrange
rsnt date back to 1918 in a little
town in Holland. Jan Bilderbeck, &
rich patron OF the arts, believed in
sdversity as stimulus to genius.
He offered $4,000 guilders to Mon
nickerdam and another artist, S.
Degen, if they would work their way
around the world by their art.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03
st w ayers He Can Paint His Way Around the World
Arrives IN New
York, Out Of
Funds

Both are young, strong and happy
looking and are delighted 70 be in
America.
What is it you Ike best about
American the painter was asked
"Is it the place or the people?"
"Oh, the people, he answered
without hesitation. They are 50
different, so interested. Over there
nobody cares anything about you,
but here everybody is interested. I
have many Jobs already, enough 60
keep me busy for several weeks"
1t was suggested that Mrs. Mon
nickerdam, who was not present,
might have her own side of this
story Of adventure, and Mr.. Polah
at once volunteered to give it.
Il can speak for q woman also
ne said, "for / have imagination and
/ know it is this way. She chooses
all this hardship rather than to have
him go alone. She will stick TO hin,
right straight through and aelp hin
by making little home as they go
along and making the hard life Q
little pieasaater."
However. Mrs. Monnickerdam
was sought and found that she nigh.
speak for herself.
New York Harbor Appeals
"Yes, I have made the whole trtc
with my husband from the start
she said, sand I shall go all the
way. We were married in Amster
dam, September Is, 1916. We have
no children. On this trip we have
spent one year in France, four
months in Brussels, three months in
Spain, six months in Italy
The question Which did you like
best?" brought out: .'Paris-bur.
oh, l like New York best Of allT'
And the women, what women
did you like best?"
''The ladies Of Paris, they are
very chic, but, oh, like the ladies
of New York! They are very chic,
too
Of the hardships of the two years
past and the three years to come
she had not one word to say. but
was full of enthusiasm for the pleas
.ures of the trip. 81 like everything"
she says. One of the first pictures
Mr.. Monnickerdam plans to do is
of the harbor of New York, which,
ne says, has overwhelmed" him.
He has already found in New York
City more magnificent prospects"
for painting than in any other place
he has been. He has few complet-
ed pictures with him, but those show
him to be distinctively a genre paint
er Of the modern Dutch school,
which, according to Mr.. Polah, is
rather conservative as well as mod
ern and very colorful.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03

ica, near the mouth of the great
river of Oroonoque; having been
cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein
all the men perished but himself,
With an account Of how he was at
last strangely delivered by pirates.
Written by himself"
When Crusoe was shipwrecked he
was on a voyage from Brazil to
Africa in search of slaves for his
plantation, and was blown from his
easterly course by the storm. Of
his location at this crisis he says:
Crusoe's Account
"The master Of the ship made an
observation as we'll as he could, and
found that he was in about II de-
grees Of north latitude, so that we
had gotten beyond the coast Of
Guiana and beyond the River ANA
zones, toward the great River
Oroonoque (Orinoco). . So we
SilSAIESCQ OAi SOAl SC falQ cCSSl CQ
away northwest by west, in order to
reach some of the English Islands,
but a second storm came upon US
.Hd c.oys US so far out of the way
of all humane Commerce that, had
all our lives been saved to the sea,
we were gather in danger Of being
devoured by the savages than of
ever returning TO our own Country"
The definite mention of II degrees
sf north latitude makes it clear that
Tobago, rather than any other Of the
numerous Caribbean islands, was De-
foes choice for his hero's refuge. To-
bago had been discovered by Column
bus on his third voyage and named
by him from its resemblance to the
shape of tobacco pipe.
At the time Defoe wrote his ro-
nance the island was familiar to
Londoners as the scene Of many con-
tests between French, Dutch and
English men Of war, but had been
declared by the treaty Of 1884 a
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03

unoer him he fell down precipice
and lay senseless for the space Of
three days, the length of which he
measured by the moons growth
since his last observation"
Juan Fernandez had been for
many years favorite haunt of
pirate ships, the. first globe trotters,
and it may be assumed that Defoe
was familiar with many an account
of landing on its lonely shores, as
with the many stories of shipwreck
and rescue which filled the London
coffee houses during those adventur
GUS years.
Pirate Stories
He may even have read John Es-
quemelings account of the bucca-
neers of America. published in 1878,
which mentions a predecessor to AL
exander Selkirk, VINO was left on the
island Of Juan Fernandez during one
of the pirate raids in which he par
ticipated.
He tells how the pirate ships,
resting in the harbor of Juan Fer
nandez, received warning of the
approach Of three men of war, "but
one, William, a Mosquito Indian,
was then left behind on the ISL
and, because he could not be found
at this our sudden departure.
The. goats which figured so fire.
quently in .Selkirk's "reminiscences
also were useful to the pirates. Cn
the first day they went ashore to
drive goats; they killed. threescore,
and similar quantities every day fol-
lowing. They also found great
numbers of seals, lying SO thick on
the shore that they had to kill them
before they could find space to land.
and had to beat them off with clubs
before they filled their water jars at
the fresh water springs.
Robinson Crusoe, it will be re-
membered-or will be told you by
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03

any large scale during the time of
his probation, nor in any way evade
the spirit of the contract. He is TO
earn just enough to pay his expenses
and earn it only by painting and
selling his pictures with no outside
aid
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03

good luck that befell the Dutch
painter was the offer of a studio.
Mrs. Polah, wife of the yiolinist.
and daughter of Richard le Gal
lienne, has given up her studio, 2 East
Twelfth Street, to Monnickerdam
during his New York visit. As the
artist does not speak English, he has
to borrow an interpreter on frequent
occasions. Mr.. Polah consented to
act in that capacity for an interview.
Il had the hardest time in Paris" ="
Mr.. Monnickerdam said "But
had always to come back to Paris
again and again from Spain and
from Italy to sell my pictures, as
Paris is the art center. This took
time and made my trip very expen-
sive"
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03

"When go to country" Mr..
Monnicherdam continued, 81 never
know just where I am to go until
see our consul for the Netherlands.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03

1t was in Paris that Mr.. Degen
died, his companion and fellow
artist, to whom the original offer
was also made.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03
to Capitalize Robinson Crusoe Island by Making Tourist Resor

w og1D you like to visi.
w Robinson Crusoe's island?
Would you like to explore
als cave, hidden behind the grove Of
tropical trees, where his hammock
swung IN the shade and his ships
parrot scolded the pet goats through
Inc drowsy summer afternoons?
would you enjoy wandering on the
0each looking for mysterious foot
prints in the sand, thrilling with a
uehcious horror of cannibals?
VI course you would, and the gov
eminent Of Chile knows it. There
'''e scheme is on foot to make
Juan Fernandez, "Crusoe's Island"
national park, and to provide it
win hotels, caves, parrots, picture
p0slcards, cannibaIs and all other
"ecessary appurtenances to a sue
sessful tourist resort-all this,
presumably, except Man Fridays,
''' II Is doubtful if the labor prob
'@ can be so easily solved now as
" was in Crusoe's time.
hevives Old Controversy
out delightful as the proposition
''ulds to persons addicted to South
va cruising, it has had the result
SURFING up again the old con-
''''ersy as to where Robinson
e'usoe's island really lies. Juan
'shandez has only doubtful c. aim
'ae title. Tobago. a tiny island
the Caribbean Sea. off the coast
venezuela, is the rightful heir to
' uslc, but being a little known
- sparsely populated scrap Of
S''i' Jungle, it has had to sit
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03

Ny passport shows that I go to all
the places required. Now, in Amer
ica l must stop in every state on the
way across to California. I must
visit, besides, Boston, Philadelphia,
Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and
San Francisco, and l must make
enough money while I am here to
pay my way through Japan and
China, where | cannot expect to sell
anything. That will be the worst
time of ALL"
One of the visitors suggested that
Mr.. Monnickerdam' early life of
poverty would make it easier for
him to undergo the coming hard
ships, but the artist replied humor-
ously, though with feeling, that be-
ing hungry was one of the things he
did not seem to get used to.
Even very poor people like to
eat sometimes" he said, and added,
enthusiastically, america is the
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03
Provided For in VIII

Before negotiations were CON-
pleted, Bilderbeck died, but he made
provisions in his will for the artists
when they had fulfilled their end of
the contract.
Monnickerdam and Degen started
cut on January /, 1919. They
worked their way through Belgium
and on into France. Degen fell by
the wayside, but Monnickerdam and
his wife continued on the journey to
Italy Spain and England.
In Italy Monnickerdam received
the Prix de Rome for a portrait. He
sold the picture for enough money
to carry him to London. There,
through Holland officials, he obtained
an audience with King George, who
commissioned him to paint several
pictures.
With the proceeds Of these sales
he bought passage to America for
himself and wife and arrived here
almost out of funds.
One Of the first pieces of American
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-02-18
Genrre LeMctt Sneaks.

Organized effort in wheat market
ing was explained yesterday at large
mass meeting in the county library by
George C. Jewett, manager OF the
Washington Wheat Growers Assoeia-
ton. Although the farmers took no
action toward joining the Oregon
Wheat Growers Association, they
showed considerable interest. The
general attitude seems to be to await
the outcome of the experiment. Mr..
Jewett explained that the purpose of
n cooperative association is to organ
ize the farmers to compete with or
ganized buying interests. An associ-
alton, according to the contract, Mr..
Jewett said, buys the wheat and sells
IL for the farmer at the best possible
price, returning the profit to the far
mer after deducting the necessary ex-
penses of the association.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-02-18
Diyorcc Cases stiII in Court.

Contested divorce cases are stili oc-
cupying the attention of the circuit
court. A number have been heard in
the past week but in only two have the
DEGREES been signed thus far, Judge
Phelps is taking some of the cases un-
der advisement and in one has not
completed the taking of testimony. In
one case an effort is being made by the
judge to bring the contestants togeth-
er and dismiss the case.