RING W. LARDNER GIVES HIS
IMPRESSIONS OF DOG RACE FROM
ST. PAUL TO WINNIPEG
The following letter was published
in the Chicago Tribune written by
King. W. Lard tier of "You know me
Al" fame and other stories whicli
have appeared for years in the Satur
day Evening Cost. He is a writer of
me nrst wler who presents his sub
ject in humorous vein and is ap
proached only by Ohas. E. Van Loan
ill this particular line.
Air. Larilner writes of the dog
race which was gotten up by Louis
Hill it son of tiie late James J. Hill.
This race is from St. Caul to YVinne
jn g a distance of 522 miles for a purse
of $500. \Ve have no account of this
race other than many teams were en
tered none of which were from Alas
ka.
Riverside, Cell. 1.
Friend llarvcy: Well, Harvey, hero
l am back in Riverside and 1 had to
come back before the linisli of the dog
race because I couldn't stand tile trop
ical climate of St. Caul. I would like
to of seen the dogs and especially
their drivers because I have always
been interested in the various forms
of insanity and if you think the drivers
in this dog race are all there, listen
to Wli.it they have to do.
In t lie fu st place the> got to live
with their dogs frora the time they
.•re puppys so the dogs will get used
to them and not bite out a couple of
your vitals every time you get close
enough. And then when the dogs are
old enough to race you got to train
.hem to keep going because their
natural ambition is something like
mint*, to lay down and rest every time
1 get a chance. And you got to train
them to go without food or water for
a whole 11a \ at a time and live oil
nothing onl> the snow tiny can lap
up when they ian’t too busy mushing,
which is dog- race for mooching
along.
After >tiii get them in shape, then
sou look at a sporting calendar and
lintl out boss many races you can en
ter this your and tin* schedule calls
for one big rae. which is 5-- miles
from Winnipeg to St. Paul. The prize
for tin.* svinner is $500 and I can’t
think of no easier svay to win $500
unless it would be to jump off tin*
roof of tin Tribune building on a bet.
Recalls*- the drivci isn’t supposed to
rid* no mol'** of the svay than ho has
lo on account of the weight making
I it hauler for the dogs lo pull tlio
sled. And he's got to do most of his
sleeping in snow drifts and live on
icieles and whatever frozen lish ttie
dogs leave over at tin lish stations.
Well, llarvey, Jon 1.^1 tell how
much they leave over by the friction
licit come off between two dogs on
Mr. Hartman's team on account of
one of the two being revenous. They
wasn't no lish statiun in sight, so
u hat dues lias dog do but pretend
his own team mate is lish and eat
him while he wasn't looking.
Theres live dogs lo a bam and no
substitutes setting along the beach,
so when one of Mr. Hartman's dogs
i at 111 other, Mr. Hartman had to
mush along willi four and that meant
) he couldn't ride a step of the way
because four dogs can't stand tin*
i poll. So lie's been l imning ever since
hie I'li of July, or whenever they
I started and the last tiling we heard
Ih.roro \vt come :iw;i>* was Unit tin*
,|„g that had cat the other Was so
,, K of his I♦ rir.»i11 Umt lie hml In
i,nit iot» ami now limy were e;irr>*
llig him on the sled MU In- gels bet
tel .imt Mi. Hartman's mushing be
hind three dogs.
The racing dogs are nice and club
by with outsiders too and the minute
a man that isn't their master goes
c lose i iiough to them they relieve
trim to one or two arms and legs for
a prael lea I joke.
Weil some people asked Ule would
I get mi a special train with them
and ride up to the North Dakota
lioimd.il> and took at the dog teams
and ■ neourage them witli applause
So | aslo I if it was any colder there
lima Si. Paul and ttiey says only 40
or 50 degrees toil you didn't feel it.
And then t asked it' the dogs was safe
p, go neai them and they says they
wouldn't bite nobody they couldn't
!'' aril.
So hero I am Harvey atid t am
glad to see most of tlie snow melted
oil' I.. < use Mr. Hartman keeps gel
ling lost all Hie time on account
of having t” pay attention to olio sick
dog while In talks universal peace
I,, the three others. And his team
might accidentally mush into liiver
sid, -one morning and tak* us for
nDi i: -an. it.
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Periodically in the hist two and a
half years or, whenever it has seemed
in Washington that new sources of
revenue must be found, intimations
have been given that Panama Canal
bonds, authorized by Congress to be
issued, but in tile main lie withheld,
from sale, would he put upon the
market with the View of replenishing
the treasury. The latest word on this
subject is to the effect that a pro
posal to use $125,000,000 of the issue
to make good the delicit in the reve
nues for 1918, anticipated by Secretarj
McAdoo, will at once go before the
House Ways and Means Committee.
The facts in the case show that an in
teresting problem is involved in this
proposition. Congress authorized in
Panama Canal bonds $240,000,000 more
than have ever been issued, the great
er part of the cost of the waterway
having been defrayed from the ordi
11 Relieve T & RBH of;;
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^ >lnigrin*.
ii.try revenues. In order to take up
this additional burden there was a
constant strain upon the revenues dur
ing the Tuft Administration, but it
Was thought wiser to beat* this than
I to subject financial conditions to the
'disturbance likely to result from an
effort on tie part of the Government,
to Heat a loan at :t per cent at. a time
when tuutto.v was worth much more:
to banks and gen' rat investors.
There was a strong protest from
financial interests, during President
Taft's Administration, against any
move itt tile direction of tloatiug ttiese
hotels, the ground being taken that
in offering them the Government
would lower tile value of invested
money generally, and these protests
were effectual. A year ago, when it
was again proposed to unload this
“cheap" issue upon the market, ob
ject ions were equally numerous and
strong. It is not likely that, should
the Way and Means Committee agree
to the proposal in the present session,
a tiili making it operative can be car
ried through Congress without stub
born resistance from the money inter
ests.
j The latter have a plausible ground
I for opposition. There is no good rea
son why investors should take up a
t'nited States Government bond issue
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SCENE FROM “ THE FORBIDDEN ADVENTURE”
►iVm-AcT MUTOAL MAATKKI'ICTURt
Adm. 25c
■i! per cent when other nations anil |
priv ate corporations are offering much '
better interest rules. If the bonds are
tin;ited, pride of tin* country will, of
course, impel their absorption, iml it .
will la- dillicult to make clear to oilier1
governments, and to bond-issuing cor- J
pi nations borrowing in lie United;
i
Slates the equity in charging them -
nr :j per cent more than the Washing
ton Government needs to pay for the
use of money, im the other hand, it
would appear that the Administration
lias now li allied the point where it,
must either use the Panama bonds or
resort to methods of taxation that are
contrary to Democratic policy and
tradition. The steady increase in ex
penditures for preparedness, fur a
larger army and a larger navy, for the
establishment of a merchant marine,
for paying national guardsmen, for
rivers and harbors, for public buildings
and so on, in other words, a billion
and a half-dollars session makes it
imperative that adllional revenues be I
raised.
The Demoerulie Congress and Ad
ministration arc even now gladly ac
cepting $(10,000,000 in protective tariff
money from sugar, and there is an nil- |
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UUH MV BOATS
Tim first month of the year wit
nessed many launchings of steel and
wooden vessels in shipyards of the
Pacific Const. Three vessels entered
tlie waters of San Francisco Day from
llie plants of llte Union Iron Works
and the Moore and Scott Company,
(in the Columbia Diver, in Grays liar
bur, at Bellingham, Seattle, Tacoma
and Vancouver, It. (’.. many vessels,
both large anil small, took their Initial
dip At the Seattle Construction ami
Dry Dock Company a U. S. submarine
was successfully launched, while the
Luisa Nielson, third of tin- Norwegian
Heel, slid from the ways at the Skin
ner and Kddy plant. The llrst of the
log wooden schooners to lie equipped
witli auxiliary power was launched at
the yards of the Washington Ship
ping Corporation, while fishing boats
.uni smaller crafts added to the num
ber of new vessels, made ‘.lie month
memorable for the greatest total ton
nage launched during a similar period
in the history of the Pacific Coast.
I'Ot tin- second time in San Francisco’s
history two large vessels were launch
ed im the same day from the plant of
| t he 11 nion I t on Works.
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