The New York herald., 1922-01-01
0NEDARING HUNTER
FILLS NEW MUSEUM
III. A. Snow and Family Back
From 2 Year Travels Gather
ing Specimens.
NEAR DEATH MANY TIMES
Film Story of Adventures Goes
With Donation to Oak
land Building.

II. A. Snow of Oakland, Cal, stood
up his full six and three in the middle
of his room in the Hotel Pennsylvania
yesterday and justified all that Cali
fornia boosters ever have said-and
what haven't they said ?-of the energy
and enterprise of their respective home
towns.
One night about three years ago
boosters meeting was in full swing in
Oakland-and full swing is quite lot
at a California boosters meeting. The
project under discussion was a public
museum for the edihcation of the local
populace and the attraction of that
vast number of tourists who go West to
tour but (see any Chamber of Com
merce bulletin) get there to stay,
The meeting was enthusiastic. 1t was
even tense and exciting. There was
much oratory about the value of such
an institution to Oakland and concern
ing the trifing ease with which Oakland
boosters could put It across once their
minds were set to the purpose.
At that juncture up rose Mr.. Snow
and spoke about as follows:
Tell you what. fellers If you'll build
the building I'll I'LL her up"
Oakland took Mr.. Snow at his word.
The building was built.
Death Faced n Hundred Times.
Since then Mr.. Snow has travelled
$4,000 miles-around the world and half
again; he has spent $125.000 out OF his
own pocket he has grappled with death
hundred times in places where no
other white man ever set foot he has
braved every kind of fever and deadly
ailment that posters the globe; he has
swum among man-eating sharks: he has
lived among cannibals; he has sweated
on the equator and frozen on icebergs: !:
he has slain tigers and lions and ele-
phants and giraffes and rhinoceroses
and hippopotami and buffaloes and ant
eaters and hummihg birds and butter
flies until the photographs of his
Slaughter are positively appalling.
He is on HIS way back to Oakland
now. He recalled the boosters meeting
and stuck his thumbs in the armholes of
his vest and grinned.
by jingo, I've filled her up !" he said.
Mr.. Snow Is a ranchman, but for
thirty years he has made big game hunt
ing and the fauna of the world his
hobby. 1t has been his dream for a long
time TO have a great museum in Oak
land, and because of his interest in the
project he has been made honorary cura-
tor OF the Oakland Public Museum.
Family Always with Him.
He started out from Oakland in De-
ecmber, 1919. taking with him his wife.
Mrs. Daisy Snow. his daughter, Norma,
now nearly seven years old, and his
son, Sidney. 90 All Of them, even to
little Norma, went with him through all
OF his adventures which carried him
ha baf n fvan
into the South Sea Isles and through
thousands of miles of African jungles.
Mr.. Snow regards his trip as success
ful from the point of view OF filling
the Oakland Public Museum, and beyond
his dreams as an adventurer and hunter.
He has shipped back to Oakland
Representatives of practically the entire
fauna of Africa and vast number Of
specimens from other parts of the world.
They include 500 specimens of mammals
TO be set up on the Mammal Hall OF
the museum 10000 butterflies, 500
mounted birds. 1000 bird skins, $4,000
bugs. beetles and Insects a complete
collection OF heads OF African bucks 4.
eixty-hve complete habitat groups OF
animals and complete motion picture
OF the entire journey and work.
He also has two live lions with him
at the hotel.
Gasoline Left in Caches.
Mr.. Snow Travelled mostly by Ford
automobiles, sending supply wagons
ahead of him to leave caches of petrol
along trails over which a motor vehicle
never before had Travelled, and over some
OF which another probably will never
20 In a hundred years. lie carried with
him crew of motion picture men, al
though. he said they were In such tight
places at times that the professionals
took flight and operation OF the camera
fell to his son, while he operated a high
power rife 10 stop charging beasts.
The adventures told by Mr.. snow are
inn. morablo and Mrs. Snow and little
Norma not infrequently figure in dam
gcrous situations In many OF them.
once he hauled Mrs, Snow and Norma
70 the top OF a high rock 10 get them
out OF the path OF herd Of 400 charg-
ing wild elephants. Sidney, he said.
stood IN the path of the herd and ground
his camera 20 the last possible second
and got what he thinks Is probably the
most remarkable elephant picture ever
made. The herd was diverted a mo-
nent later by the rapid pumping Of high
powered rifles into the front ranks.
Through the use Of blinds Mr.. Snow
said he was enabled 60 obtain q picture
of hundreds OF buffaloos IN q great