The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-01-23
DARING HUNTER
FILLS MUSEUM
California Man Gathers Thou
sands of Specimens in
Two Years.
CLOSE TO DEATH MANY TIMES
Film Story of Adventure Goes With
Donation to Oakland Muqaun-
Film Story of Adventure Goes With
Donation to Oakland Museum
Wife and Two Children Also
Share in Hardships.

Oakland, Cal.-One night abou
three years ago a boosters meet
ing was being held in this city. TIT
project under discussion was a public
museum for the edification of the loca
%populace and the attraction of tour
lists. Much oratory had beer spilled
as TO the value of such an institution
When up rose HI. A. Snow and spoke
about as follows:
by lingo, I'll fill her up he
said.
Mr.. Snow Has Just Returned.
Since then Mr.. Snow has travelled
$4,000 miles-around the world AND
half again; he has spent $125,O 600 out
of his own pocket; he has grappled
with death a 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 around man
eating sharks; he has lived among
c%annibals; he has sweated on the
equator and frozen on icebergs; he
has lain tigers and lions and ele-
plants and CRATES and rhinoceroses
and hippopotami and buffaloes and
a~nt-eaters and humming birds and but
terflies until the photographs of his
slaughter are positively appalling.
Mr.. Snow is a ranchman, but for
thirty years he had made big game
hunting and the fauna of the world
his hobby. 1t has been his dream for
a long time to have d great museum
In Oakland, and because of his interest
in the project he has been made hon
orary curator of the Oakland Public
Museum.
Family Always With Him.
He started out from Oakland in De
cember. 1919. taking with him his wife,
Mrs. Daily Snow, his daughter, Nor
ma, now nearly seven years old, and
his son. Sidney. All of them, even to
little Norma went with him through
all of his adventures which carried
him across the equator half a dozen
times, into the South Sea isles and
through thousands of miles of African
jungles.
Mr.. Snow regards his trip as sue
cessful from the point of view of
"fIling'' the Oakland Public Museum,
and beyond his dreams as an adven-
turer and hunter.
He has shipped back to Oakland
representatives of practically the n
tire fauna of Africa and a vast num-
Der of specimens from other parts Of
the world. They include 800 speci-
mems of mammals to be set up in the
Mammal hall of the museum; 10000
500 mounted birds, LOCO
skins. 5000 bugs, beetles and insects,
a complete collection of heads of
bucks, sixty-fve complete
groups Of animals and a com
plete motion picture of the entire
and work.
Gasoline Left in Caches.
Mr.. Snow travelled mostly by auto
mobiles, sending supply wagons ahead
of him to leave caches of petrol along
trails over which a motor vehicle
never before had travelled, and over
of which another probably will
never go in a hundred years. He car
ried with him a crew of motion pic
-ure men. although, he said, they were
such tight places at times that the
professionals took flight and operation
the camera fell to his son, while he
operated a high-power rifle to stop
charging beasts.
The adventures told by Mr.. Snow
ire innumerable and Mrs. Snow and
title Norma not inf%requently figure in
dangerous situations in many of them.
Once he hauled Mrs. Snow and Nor
to the top of a high rock to get
hem out of the path of a herd of 400
'harging wild elephants. Sidney, he
aid, stood in the path of the herd and
round his camera to the last possible
second and got what he thinks is
robably the most remarkable elephant
icture ever made. The herd was di-
erted 4 moment later by the rapid
jumping of high-powered rifles into
front ranks.
Through the use of blinds Mr.. Snow
he was enabled to obtain a pic
ure of hundreds Of buffaloes in q
reat swamp, conducting themselves
4 a manner as natural and undis-
as cattle in a b%arnyard.
He has photographs, enlarged from
lotion picture films, of lions. and
gers and all manner of wild beasts
harging the camera a of animals
rOpping from bullets in the midst of
efforts to get at members of
re party great shaggy lions hiding
j tall grass unaware of the presence
{ the camera man, and any number of .
of his gigantic kills. =,
He and his whole party were laid
ut once in the swamps of the Tana ,