Seward daily gateway., 1925-10-23
BIGGEST GAME HUNT ALASKA
 IS. RECALLED
AUSTRIAN BARON SPENT $10o,OOO ON SUMMER HUNT ABOUT
 16 YEARS AGO.
CHARTERED BIG STEAMER
Charles Madsen and John Dubriel Acted As Guides on
 Big Trip.

It was SlALtcu ycdlo dSO yes ICIudy that Charles Madsen, we'll known Kanatak business man, arrived in l Seward from what is believed to have been the record big game hunt ever undertaken in the Territory, for it has been estimated s1OO,0OO was ex- | pended on the expedition.
 Older residents of Seward will re- call the big hunt by Baron von Gutt- man, Austrian nobleman, who with a | personal friend and a retinue of sci entists, French chefs and valets, ar rived in port from the Arctic on the | Norwegian steamer Transient, a thir- teen knot vessel, which was charter l ed all summer at the rate of $500 a day. The Baron and his friend completed their hunt in the Kenai lake district bagging about five big moose, it is said,
 MT. Madsen stated he joined the | Baron at Nome, and acted as guide 1 along with John DuBriel, who has been a Seward resident for many years. From Nome the vessel sail- I ed to the Arctic and along the North coast of Siberia where polar bears and walrus were killed. They then proceeded down to the Kamchatka peninsula country where mountain sheep and brown bear specimens were obtained. Next, the Baron ordered the vessel to cross over to the AL
 aska peninsula where, in the vicinity of Merindeen bay, near Chignik sea-
 lions were shot.
 \ MT. Madsen, said the Baron was
 we'll pleased with his hunt and with
 the boat load of big game specimens he was taking home Mr. Madsen
 was paid off in Seward for he was
 anxious to get back to Seattle in or
 der to make connections with the last steamer sailing for Nome. Be- \ fore he left for Seattle, however the Baron decorated him with many de-
 plomas and medals, in appreciation of his services.
 The greater portion of MT. Mad sens life has been spent in the Nome and Siberian regions, having entered the Siberian trading game, along, along with Joe Bernard and Alexander Allen, all three of them
 having won fame as Arctic naviga- tors. Captain Bernard is perhaps bet ter known as the famous skipper of the Teddy Bear; Captain Allen is still in the Nome district with his
 schooner, the Donaldson; Captain
 Madsen owned several schooners the most recent being the Sea Wolf, r which he had built in Seattle. When asked how he came to name his vessel the Sea Wolf, Captain
 Madsen said he met Alec Mclean, the hero of Jack London's story, in Victoria in 1908, and Mclean asked
 him what he was going to name the
 craft so he told him that he would name it after the title Jack London
 gave him, the Sea Wolf. Two years
 previous to 1908, Captain Madsen
 recalled he brought down to Seattle
 from the Arctic 100000 pounds of
 walrus hides for the Hibbard4Stew.
 art Go.
 Twenty days after the World war
 broke out, Captain Madsen decided to abandon the Siberian coast trad
 ing so after making few trips in
 the Nome vicinity, with his schoon
 CT, he located out to the Westward ! where for four years he served il
 several official capacities for the
 government. He then moved to Ko
 diak, then four years ago, to Kama
 talk, where he and his wife an(
 five children have resided since. MT
 Madsen conducts large genera
 mercantile establishment. MT. Mad
 sen has been a business visitor il Il Seward since the first of the. weel
 and plans departing tomorrow nigh
 for Valdez, where he has been sum
 moned to appear as a governmen
 witness. He expects to return to Sc
 ward prior to November IT, in orde
 to make connections with the Star
 for Kanatak.
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