Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
FIELD EXPEDITION
STARTS TOMORROW
Abyssinian Trip to Begin as
Heads Leave Chicago;
to Hunt Secret City.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, September 4.-The
scientific. big -game hunting expedition
of the Field Museum of Natural His.
tory. the Chicago Daily News and the
North American Newspaper Alliance,
of which The Star Is a member. into
mysterious Abyssinia will get under
way tomorrow with the departure
from Chicago of DR.. Wilfred Osgood
and Alfred NJ. Bailey of the museum
staff.
DIR. Osgood, who is to lead the ex.
petition. will pick up Jack Baum. re.
porter of the expedition, and the other
members of his party between Chicago
and the port of Jibuti, in French
Somaliland. whence they are to strike
of into the little-known mountain EN-.
pire over which the Queen of Sheha
once ruled. there to hunt strange
animals. including the strange nyala,
known as 1.-The Queen of Sheba's an.
telope'
Waiting for them in Adds Ababa
tho inland capital of Abyssinia. the
explorers will find two and one-h a II
tons of equipment and supplies, ship.
ped from Chicago weeks ago.
.All.American Equipment.
There will be no corner stores to
run TO in the wilderness which the
expedition is going to explore. Food,
medicines. camp equipment, pack
train gear. guns, ammunition, scion
tifIc supplies--all had to be purchased
in advance and shipped with care.
The expeditions equipment is per-
haps the most thoroughly American
stock ever carried on an African eX-
ploration. 1t is probable that no other
important expedition ever went to the
black continent''-the continent OF
lions and rhinos and croco 'iles--with
none but American guns. Ponderous
English elephant guns have until now
been considered a necessary part of an
African explorers gear, hut DR.. Os-
good and his companions will do all
their shooting with rifles and shot
guns made in this country.
Kermit Roosevelt is contributing
one of the big guns. 1t is a Hoffman
S75 that he carried on the memorable
Simpson Roosevelt Field Museum eX-
petition after the owls poi.
Next to the guns on which the lives
OF Osgood and his companions may
depend in the big-game country, the
Photographic equipment commanded
the greatest care.
Suydam Cutting Photographer.
Suydam Cutting. millionaire sports.
man and court-tennis champion of
America. is to be the expeditions Of
fetal photographer. assisted by the
equally expert Bailey. He will carry
a. still camera and the fine Akely
motion picture machine with which
he made his stirring record of the
Roosevelt brothers owls poll trip. A
rejecting camera with a 15-inch tele-
photo lens. for photogra phing distant
game with closeup clearneSS, is part
Of the equipment. Then there will
be a hand camera for each member
of the party. and an automatic flash
light apparatus for night photog-
raphy.
With all that equipment serving
them. readers of The Star can count
on stirring photographs of Abyssinian
game and scenes. along with Baum s
stories of the expeditions adventures.
Quitting the party involved an in
teresting footnote to American his
tory. The American pack saddle.
which shared honorS with the covered
wagon In the conquest of the West.
has all but passed into the historical
museum stage. DIR. Osgood decided
right at the start to include "a pack
saddles in his equipment. so that he
wouldn't have to depend entirely upon
took weeks of work. There were
none in Chicago or st. Louis or Den
ver the erStwhile Quitting places of
Western expeditions. Ii a Kansas
City firm hadn't dug some out of a
back corner DR. Osgood might have
had to hire saddlers to make the
needed gear from old models.
Camp chairs and cots are among
the things shipped out to Adds Ababa
African travellers aren't able to do
without such furniture, after the
American fashion. The Abyssinian
tungles are full Of deadly snakes with
a liking for human bedfellows; the
wise traveller sleeps well off the
ground. Voracious tropical ants must
the expeditions furniture will be OF
steel. and all canvas will be treated
with chemicals unappetizing to ants.
Must Carry Much Food.
While game abounds. other foods
will not be available, so The expedition
will carry into the wilderness about
half the food the five white men of
the party will need in nlne months of
exploration.
The expedition is to spend six
months or more in the wildS of Abys.
sinia, hunting the rare fauna of the
country. exploring regions never visit
ed by white men and looking into such
reported mysteries as q remote walled
city and a disappearing river. Dr.
Osgood has hopes of finding creatures
unknown to science.
Louis AgassiZ Fuertes of Cornell
University, one Of the foremost orni.
biologists Of the day. will he a mem
her of the expedition. He will study
and paint the birds of the region
while DIR. Osgood and Mr.. Bailey catch
and classify the animals.
Jack Baum. a reporter with a rare
skill for telling stories of adventure
will be the reporter OF the expedition
BY courier. telegraph, cable and by
short.wave radio. too. he will keep
readers of The Star informed of the
expeditions progress.
Baum Is now in Paris. DR. Osgood
and Mr.. Bailey will join him there.
DR.. Fuertes and Mr.. Cutting are to
pick up the main party in New York.
The Ave will sail together for Jibuti.
They will be in Adds Ababa some
time early in October. ready to start
on the nyala's trail.
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