The daily star-mirror., 1923-12-15
BIZ; [)E:lIAND FO:
DIN0SAUR EGGS
Fossils Found in Mongolia Placed
in New York Museum; Mon
etary Value Unknown.

| 1erent parts of the world.
One will go to Peking, where the
| Chinese government. in cooperation
with the American Museum of Natural
History, is planning to found Chi
| nese national museum. The American
institution has promised the Chinese
| government a duplicate set of the fOs
| silS taken from Mongolia by the Asi
| attic expedition. An egg may go to the
! Smithsonian Institution in Washing
| ton. One will go to one of the British
| institutions. Others, according to Roy
| Chapman Andrews, leader of the Asi
attic expedition, will go to France, Bel
! gium and elsewhere.
| These are the only dlnosaur eggs
| ever found Their discovery is as i'm
| portant to natural science as the find
| of the original manuscript of Ham
| let would be to literary collectors.
The demand for the eggs is enormous
Offers from private individuals are be-
Iieved to he contained in $50 letters
to Mr.. Andrews. He has not had time
to open them. He refused to set a
monetary value on the eggs. Ten
thousand dollars apiece was suggested
as reasonable figure, but the scientist
shook his head.
Unable to Pawn Eggs.
"It is absolutely impossible to fix
any money valuation On them he said.
1t was learned that the eggs already
had had one unsuccessful financial ex-
perience. The expedition had over
drawn it's account with the American
Banking company at Peking. The bank
asked for more security.
"I'Il let you have two dinosaur eggs"
said the explorer
How old are they7" asked the
banker.
"Ten million years." replied the ex-
ptorer. The banker considered it. but
declined to accept the aged collateral.
This is said to have been the first time
that an attempt was made to pawn
prehistoric eggs.
Money was raised at Peking by sell
ing the American automobiles, which
had travelled 5000 miles over camel
trails and open country in an almost
unknown region. All five automobiles
three motorcars and two one-ton mo-
tortrucks-had gone through two sea-
sons of terrific usage in an almost un-
explored region and had come out in
such good condition that they were
sold for half their original price.
The fact that DR.. Charles P. Berkey,
professor of geology at Columbia uni
versity. was nearly torn to pieces by
savage Mongolian dogs wos told by
Mr.. Andrews, who gave more details
of the expedition by permission of the
tr.f.. ~I-L L
for his stories.
Dogs Eat All Dead Psrssns.
"The Mongolian dog IL the most saw
age animal on EARTH" said Mr.. An
drews, 'and is the only beast that 1 |
Know of, except the wild boar, that |
will attack human beings without be-
ng attacked first. They live largely
,onae burial practice OF the Aong0s
rhey believe that when q person dies
,r is about to die an evil spirit enters
lis body. They want to get it out of
heir yurta or felt-covered hut as fast
is they can. They load it on an OK
art and drive it at high speed over
'ough ground. At some point the body
alls of. The driver must not look
round to see where it falls. II so he
ttracts the evil spirit to himself The
'Odfes exposed on the bare ground i'm
nedlateIy are devoured by the great
haKgy dogs which resemble the IT,
etan mastih. My wife and I saw q
ody thrown out once and 1t took the
ogs just twelve minutes to spread it
ut over the desert.
"They are a menace TO human life
Professor Berkey had a
arrow escape from them. He was at
scked by three dogs when he was ap-
reaching hut. He shot one down
ithin a few feet of him, then shot the
econd. The third one let him alone"
Drove or Fourteen Dogs.
In 1919 when they were making
reliminary exploration in Mongolia,
[r. and Mrs. Andrews had a narrow
scape. They were on the ground in
eeping bags. Mrs Andrews suddenly
woke, screaming. A pack Of ii dogs
as closing in on them, probably sup
,sing they were bodies exposed by
e Mongols. Mr.. Andrews had two
ms beside him, high-pOwer rife and
.22-caliber weapon Half asleep, he
cIked up the small gun, but by luck
aiiaged to kill the leader Of the pack
the first shot. This diverted the line
dogs and they passed 4 few feet
way from him. He wounded two more
ith the p. The wounded dogs were y
stantly torn to pieces by the others. =
On the following night, his nerves =
Ill f little taut. Mr.. Andrews drew . q
ad and nearly shot a young English