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Dr. John J. Abel of Johns Hopkins
has developed an “artificial kidney”,
a device which can draw all the blood
of an animal or human being1 from a
vein, pass it through a sort of filter
to remove poisons or other impuri
ties, then return it through an artery
without removing the vital corpuscles.
Only a relatively small portion of the
blood is out of the patient at a time,
a# the flow from vein to filter and
back to the artery is continuous.
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Sydney A. Snow, of the Snow
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Company of Oakland, California, who
was a member of the motorship
Herman party, which went to Herald
island, in the; Arctic Ocean, and there
found the skeleton remains of Dr.
A. Forbes Mackey, James Murray,
H. Beauchat and S. S. Murray, who
were members of the Stefansson
Canadian Arctic expedition, gave the
following account of the voyage of
rescue to the Nome Nugget as fol
lows:
“After leaving Nome and bound
for the Arctic acean the Herman
ran into head seas and storms from
the northeast. This made Captain
Lane abandon his* hope of salvaging
the motorship Lady Kindersley and
we left Cape Lisbourne and headed
for Wrangell and Herald Islands. We
had a couple of days good weather
and it was on the second of these
good days that we came upon our
first Polar bear. He was a big
brute weighing, I should say, about
one thousand pounds and all bear.
Captain Lane wanted to know what
I wanted to do and I took the whale
boat but wanted him to act as my
gunman and keep me out of reach
of that big brute’s black-clawed
shaggy white foreleg. We had the
boat manned by white and Eskimo
crew and took after him. I sat up
in the bow of the boat and shot
scenes of him swimming, climbing
out on the ice and running over it
only to dive in at the farther side.
We stayed pretty close to him and
after about twenty minutes chase he
decided to charge. The schooner
Herman came up close and he picked
the smaller of the two boats and I
think, me in particular. He was
swimming fast and furious and in
the next two or three seconds of
film which would be two or three
feet, I got on the silver emulsion as
determined a charge as a bear ever
put up in the Arctic ocean. Need
I mention that the Captain saved
my life just as I was preparing to
make a picture of a bear climbing
into a whale boat?
“I hardly got my magazines re
loaded with film when bear No. 2,
which hereafter will be known as
Sid Wrangell, went strolling along
the main pack, unconscious that his
tormentors were close at hand. It
took a bit of clever maneuvering of
the Herman by the Captain and we
were again on the wake of a polar
bear whose scarred and scratched old
face hooded about eighteen hundred
or two thousand pounds of the tough*
est and strongest flesh and hide that
swims the Arctic waters. This old
fellow proved to be the wonder div
ing bear so far seen in the Arctic,
according to the Captain who is by
far the critic on anrfmal life in the
Arctic ocean.
“Footage soon ran into the hun
dreds and as he tired a bit we pulled
up close to him and soon a clever
throw by the skipper held him fast,
and lasso, a capper cable, came fast
around the groins and after many
a tug and pull the crew on the
end of the line got him fast to the
capstan. A net was lowered and in
two hours and a little over we low
ered him inio the cage, which took
us nearly a month to build while
we lay in St. Michaels waiting the
arrival of our new crankshaft. Then
it was that my heart sank, for the
hour was late and the evenings in
the Arctic darken quickly at this
time of the year, also my cage seem
ed to be made. of burned mandles
and it took my efforts and the mate’s
to keep thi.t bear from breaking free
again. We kept him from breaking
out by making him turn from one
side to the jother. I thought many
a time that the Captain would have
to kill him to save both our lives as
we three were about all that was
left on the deck. When we finally
got the cage down and on the level,
you can bet we strengthened it with
four by fours, chains and wire.
“For days again we tossed around
in winds and swell and finally got
into Herald island, where we layed
at anchor two days before we got
ashore and raised the flag for the
United States. The wind subsiding,
we went from the southeastern end
of the island to the southwestern
and it was while going in this di
rection that the Captain sighted
what appeared to be the skeleton of
a man. We went ashore and there
on the sand spit of that lonely and
far off ‘friendly Arctic isle we
found the remains of at least four
white men who by the outfit we
knew to be the lost party, or part
of them, of the Stefansson-Canadian
Arctic Expedition ship Karluk, which
was lost in 1914 in command of Cap
tain Bartlett, who it will be recalled
was in Nome on the Coast Guard
Cutter Bear this year.
“It was a clear day and I took
four or five hundred feet of film
picturing the whole thing. Four
lower jaws were found, two guns,
a watch, compass, all badly spoiled
by time, a dog sleigh and plenty of
food remained and by the looks of
the camp and other things we judged
that they had not been there over a
month at the time of their death,
and most likely came there in a
state of terrible frost-bitten feet and
hands. No signs of any carrion was
to be found. We left that island and
rolled around some more. A week
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later we returned to get some pro
tection from another northwester
and here this time we had a fire at
twelve at night. The Captain still
hunted for whales but the old, ship
iced down so heavily that the axes
had to be kept going to keep her
from sinking and with running into
a big blue iceberg at night, when
running before the wind with the
engine going, gave us such a scare
that we were forced to turn towards
Nome and get out of that dangerous
Arctic which had already claimed
four boats for the year’s tragedies.
We are now in Nome, and did not
get out of the old ocean without hav
ing to ride out a three-day storm.
“October thirteenth many Nome
itfis visited the bear aboard the Her
man laying at anchor off Nome. One
sightseer says you cannot tell any
one how big he is for they will have
to go and see him.
“I think we will give the picture
going public another big picture
and .though it is entirely different
from the African picture I think in
this sort of country which has been
wrongly termed the “Friendly Arc
tic.” It will show the people in a
way how the animals live and fight
and will show what happens to most
of the wrecked crews up in these
northern waters which are anything
but friendly. The big bear will
find a home in the outside world
that will keep him warmed up as
compared to this stuff up here, but
he will not have to sneak on seals or
battle with a walrus to keep alive.
Just think of how people wlil want
to see how a bear of that size is
captured should we decide to use him
as a show attraction.
“We leave Nome for Kodiak where
we expect to get a real thrill in a
whaling picture and besides that we
expect to go into the glaciers, seal
rocks and other points of interest on
the way home. From a water or
ocean standpoint for pictures, I do
not think there is much left in the
way of photograph.”
An average of nearly 600,000 dozen
eggs are consumed in New York city
every day, or about one for each per
son.
Miss Maud Lindsay, nationally
known kindergartner and writer of
children’s stories, was elected piesL
dent of the Alabama Writers Conclave
at its recent meeting in Florence.
Philadelphia has a new 300-million /
candlepower searchlight, which is to
be used for signalling traffic along
the entire 12 miles of Broad Street in
that city, by a beam projected high
above the street level. The giant light
is mounted in the tower of the city
hall.
L. Hartley, general agent for the
Alaska Railroad, registered at the
Van Gilder over the Sabbath.
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