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BABCOCK SAYS
WESTWARD TRIP
IS UNOFFICIAL
DR. GILBERT, NOTED SALMON
AUTHORITY AND BABCOCK,
B. C. HEAD, ARRIVE.
VISIT SEAL ROOKERIES
Westward Journey Made for Person
al Observation Only—News
Dispatches Differ.
While John P. Babcock, head of
the fisheries of British Columbia,
who arrived in Seward yesterday af
ternoon on the Bureau of Fisheries
vessel, Eider, from the Pribilof Is
lands, insisted the trip to the West
ward and to the seal rookeries was
one of personal observation only, it
has been stated the journey was
made in an unofficial capacity for
British Columbia and it also is re
ported he visited the island as a rep
resentative of Great Britain. Under
the terms of the existing seal treaty
between Japan, Russia, England and
the United States, England receives
35 per cent of the kill. The entire
work on the islands is carried on by
the United States government.
Dr. Gilbert on Vessel.
Arriving in Seward writh Mr. Bab
cock was Dr. C. H. Gilbert, a mem
ber of the faculty of the Stanford
University at Palo Alto, Calif., and
for many years a special investiga
tor of the U. S. Bureau of Fisher
ies. Dr. Gilbert, as was published in
the Gateway last month, has been to
the Bristol Bay district, during the
past 30 days, engaged in tagging 2,
000 red salmon. This work was car
ried on in the vicinity of Port Mol
ler, Henenden Bay and the region
north of Bear river. Thru a study
carried over a term of years, Dr. Gil
bert will determine the relative ef
ficiency of spawnings of different
sizes and eventually learn the num
ber of spawning salmon that should
be permitted to escape the fisheries,
in order to maintain the run at its
minimum size. When this is ac
complished, Dr. Gilbert stated, for
-one stream, it will apply to all oth
er red salmon rivers, with necessary
allowances for local conditions.
Dr. Gilbert departed on the Eider
‘Duck’ last evening for Larson Bay
where he will complete investiga
tions he has been conducting in Kar
luk river since early spring. The
experiments at this point will be
completed in September, Dr. Gil
bert stated yesterday, after which |
he would pack up and return to the
south. He expects to pass thru Sew
ard on his wray out.
Rookeries Impressing.
Mr. Babcock had nothing but the
highest of praise for the manage
ment of the island rookeries, Supt.
H. J. Christoffers, whose wTork, Mr.
Babcock stated, show^s marked abil
ity in the care of his thousands of
charges. However, he was under
the impression the seal herd was not
as large, at this time, as he had ex
pected it, but on the other hand it
w'as increasing rapidly.
The seal treaty between the con
tracting countries, expires next year,
in 1926. Providing a change in the
treaty is wanted it is understood un
der the agreement that a protest
should be registered a full year in
advance prior to the expiration of
the treaty term, otherwise the treaty
continues in force as it now stands.
No protest has been received, as yet,
from any of the four countries in
terested, it is stated.
Indians Kill Seal.
Mr. Babcock stated the Indians of
British Columbia and of Alaska are
permitted to kill seal for food pur
poses only. However, off the B. C.
coast the Indians killed 3,000 seal
last year, for commercial purposes.
This condition has developed from
the construction place upon an old
Canadian law, allowing the Indians
of the country to hunt and kill all
game and fish, free of all charges
and taxation. In these killings no
discrimination is made with regard
to sex, the consequence is, reproduc
tion is retarded, for it is known that
the mother seal, foraging for food
for its pup, often swims 100 miles
away, if this mother seal is killed,
not only is its future reproduction
halted but the small pup, back on
the island, dies, for no other seal
will feed it. This is one of the mar
vels of seal history. According to
investigators, it is stated the mother
seal shows absolutely no affection
for its pups. Yet upon returning to
the rookery from the sea, the mother
seal will nose about the hundreds
of thousands of seals and pups until
it locates its own.
The Westward district is a mar
velous region, Mr. Babcock stated,
full of interest and beauty along the
entire coast line. The towering
ranges and mountain peaks rise sheer
from the waters edge—a most im
posing sight to behold. Mr. Bab
cock departed for Fairbanks this
morning on his first trip inside. He
will return to Seward Saturday de
parting for Seattle the following day,
on the steamer Yukon.
VIRGINIA MASON HOSPITAL
DOCTOR SEWARD ARRIVAL
Dr. J. M. Blackford, chief diagnos
tician of the Virginia Mason hospi
tal in Seattle, accompanied by Mrs.
Captain Rood Believes
Seward Best Team
The Seward baseball team have
shown marked improvement in every
game, as was demonstrated last even
! ing in their game with the picked
team from among the tourists and
crew from the Admiral Evans, coming
from behind in the last inning and
winning the game. Captain Rood,
manager of the locals, believes his
team can give the fast Anchorage ag
gregation a good run for their money
and is endeavoring to line up a game
with the Inlet team during their brief
stay here the end of the week and
prior to their departure for Cordova
where a three game series is to be
played.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Batterton and
daughter, Pauline, of Birmingham,
Alabama, tourists on their first trip
to the Territory disembarked from
the Admiral Evans at this port, and
prior to their departure for the Inte
rior, will remain in Seward a few
days. They are guests at the Van
Gilder.
Blackford, were among the promi
nent Seattle citizens making the
round trip to Seward on the S.S.
Alaska. They took the opportunity
of making the trip to Spencer Gla
cier, while the vessel was in port,
returning much gratified with the
short trip from the coast.
Dr. Blackford was a member of
the Mayo Brothers staff for eight
years and is reputed to be one of Se
attle’s most ablest physician and
surgeon. He stated that at various
times, there have been many pa
tients from the Territory at the Vir
ginia Mason hospital, which is among
the noted hospitals on the Pacific
coast.
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BATHS-:-OPEN SUNDAY A.M.
SHAW AND BELLOC DEBATE “WHAT IS COMING”
Shaw, Dramatist Predicts a Higher Life to Come and Says That Without
the Conception of Social Evolution the World Could Only Despair
Belloc, In Humorous Vein, Would Put the Future as Inscrutable.
Among recent outstanding events in London was the brilliant debate
between George Bernard Shaw and Hilaire Belloc on the question, "What
Is Coming?” The debate, held to raise money tor the King Edward Hos
pital Fund, attracted many people—so many, in fact, that the Savoy i hea
ter could not accommodate them all, and the Chairman, J. C. Squire, was
prompted to observe: “We did not realize how notorious these two gentle
men have made themselves. Had we realized at an early date what the
situation was we should probably have taken the Stadium at Wembley.”
Mr. Shaw set himself down as an evolutionist and remarked that the
man who is an evolutionist will say he believes there is something coming
that is different from what has been, and, higher than what has been, and
which lives more intensely than before. He discussed Mr. Bryan, the
Church and its dogmas, the growth of the human spirit, the march of the
human soul.
You do not know what is coming, said Mr. Belloc. \ ou have no idea
what the world is going to be like in 50, 100 or 200 years’ time, but “what
ever is coming is not what you think it is.”
In his introductory remarks Mr. Squire explained that both of the de
baters had been told they were to have the privilege ot speaking second,
but that Mr. Shaw, with his customary “mildness and willingness to com
promise,” had given way. Bernard Shaw was, therefore, presented as the
first speaker.
High Lights In Debate Between Bernard Sraw and Hilaire Belloc
SHAW
/ suggest that one of the
| things that is going to happen
j in the future is that we . . .
! are going to he very much more
I tolerant of one another's faults.
The man who is an evolution
i ist will sag that he does believe
j there is something coining that
is different from what has been,
and higher than what has been,
and which lives more intense
ly than before.
I would quite frankly tell
; Mr. Bryan that what he called
Fundamental ism 1 called In
\ fantilism, in the pathological
j sense.
We speak of "the” Church;
j there is no such thing as “the”
! Church
The question is: “Will the
■ churches repent?”
Unfortunately, the Church
j Church has not enough saints
I to go round.
j Provided the theory of evo
| lution is kept alive .-. I
\ don’t care twopence if all the
| churhcs that ever existed crum
ble and fall.
Even great truths we want to
have presented to us in a new
way.
'j ___
BELLOC
You have no idea what the !
world is going to he like in 50,
100 or 200 gears’ time.
You do not know what gou
gourself will he like in a few
hours now. Something mag
happen to one.
It is very curious that of the
mang things that come off in
this world, propheeg is a thing
that does not.
Whatever is coming is not
what gou think it Is.
Mr. Shaw has called up the
picture of something he cedis
Fundamentalism. If gou give
up heer and wine, anything
mag come.
If we could guess at the fu
ture, I take it there are three
things which mqst men and a
great mang women would like
to know. FirstWhat is going
to win the Derhg next gearV’
Second: “ When are we going
to dieI” Third :(i What will
the weather be on d particular
dag?”
Let me assure gou that to
know ang one of those things
would lead gou to misfortune.
The above artice was reprint
ed from the N. Y. Times.
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laska yesterday on her way west
bound. She will return to Unalaska
some time about the first of the week.
The Admiral Evans departed last !
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