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GLACIER

GADABOUTS

The second mile, ascending from the plateau

Hundreds participate in annual August mountain climb in Colorado

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By ROBERT R. KULL

Do you think that all mountain climbers

are a special breed of supermen who dangle

perilously on the face of sheer mountain cliffs?

Then go to Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday,

August 12, and watch an enthusiastic crowd

of 250 average citizens make their way up the

mountain slopes to Arapaho Glacier. You can

join them if you like. Completion of the climb

will entitle you to membership in the "Ancient

but Honorable Order of Glacier Gadabouts."

Members are of all ages, from all walks of

life, from many parts of the country, and

there are a few from abroad. Many of them

have never set foot on a mountain before, and

many of them work and sweat more while

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making the climb than they have during all

the rest of the year. But they get what they're

after the satisfaction of mastering a moun-

tain, a slide down Arapaho Glacier, and a

good, long look at the world from above

timberline.

The climbers in this mass mountaineering

venture travel in an automobile caravan to an

altitude of 9,500 feet. There, they swap

horsepower for foot power and climb 3,000

feet, over a three-and-a-half-mile trail to

The Saddle. Those with breath and energy

to spare climb another 1,000 feet to the top of

South Arapaho Peak, from where they can

see Boulder, Denver, Mount Evans, Pikes

Peak, and what appears to be all the moun-

tains in Colorado. Others slide down the

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glacier, the largest in Colorado, believed to

be the only glacier owned by a municipality.

It is the main source of Boulder's water

supply.

This mass mountaineering project is

sponsored by the Boulder Chamber of

Commerce and has been going on since 1938,

when a University of Colorado hiking group

interested the Chamber in sponsoring the

hike for average citizens. The Chamber hoped

for a mere twenty-five the first year, but

186 neophyte climbers made the trip.

Since then, it has been a regular feature,

providing the easiest possible way for the

uninitiated to enjoy a mountain climb. A fee

of two dollars pays for guide service, break-

fast, and dinner. Here's a brief description

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A girl in colonial dress stands on the deck of

the flagship Arbella at Pioneers' Village

PIONEERS

VILLAGE

Kettle used for making soap

Crude early colonial settlement is reproduced at Salem

PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR

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By WILLIAM PRESTON

WHEN

HEN next you are in

Massachusetts, take Route

1-A, which runs along the

coast through picturesque

cities and towns steeped in

historical lore. Such places

as Salem, Marblehead,

Gloucester, and Rockport,

settled more than 300 years ago, still retain

some of the atmosphere of an earlier day.

One never-failing source of interest to

visitors is the Pioneers' Village at Salem, a

reproduction of the settlement in the wilder-

ness which was Salem in 1630.

A tourist tests

the pillory

The village was reconstructed in 1930 as

the city's contribution to the observance of

the 300th anniversary of the founding of

the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the arrival

of Governor John Winthrop with the royal

charter from Charles I.

Pioneers' Village proved to be such a

popular attraction that the city of Salem

has cooperated with a committee of citizens

in maintaining it every year since it was first

opened. An authentic reproduction of the

Arbella, a merchant ship of the early seven-

teenth century, which served as Governor

Winthrop's flagship, is a recent addition.

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The village, itself, built after painstaking

research, is completely authentic. Here, the

visitor is transported backward 300 years to

austere days of America's beginning. You see

the "English wigwams," adaptations of the

Indian wigwams of the time. In these the

settlers lived until they had the time and

means to build more substantial dwellings.

The wigwams, built with ax, knife, auger, and

chisel, were covered with rush matting and

tree bark. There were no floors. The buildings

were approximately sixteen feet long, ten feet

wide, and eight to nine feet high. The chief

improvement over the Indian version was a

stone fireplace at one end of the wigwam

instead of a hole in the roof to let the smoke

escape.

The town also has examples of the inter-

mediate steps in building homes taken by

the colonists. There are dugouts, cut into the

sides of low hills, with roofs covered with sod.

There are crude windows with oiled paper

serving as "glass."

In the village is a log pit, a facsimile of

the first pit where the colonists sawed pine

trees into planks-all by hand. From these

boards they made pine cottages, thatch-

roofed like the homes they left in England

with chimneys of logs and clay. The village

exhibits several of these cottages with the

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Beach at Ocean City

Rambling roads follow Atlantic shore,

linking resorts and beaches

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By CHARLES V. MATHIS

YOU like your trips well seasoned with

recreation and seashore vistas, try the Jersey

Coast Ocean Drives. They follow the Atlantic

shore for mile after mile; never far from the

sight and sound of the surf.

Between celebrated Sandy Hook and his-

toric Cape May, there are routes that link

towns, resorts, and sandy beaches whose main

mission in life is offering visitors opportunities

for rest and fun.

Leaving Atlantic City, one drive passes

through residential Ventnor and Margate to

Longport, then crosses the tip of Great Egg

Bay to Ocean City, a sports-minded family

resort adhering strictly to principles laid down

by its clergymen founders.

Beyond Corson's Inlet Bridge is Sea Isle

City with a beach front deeded to be kept per-

petually open for free use by the public.

Avalon stretches across several dune-studded

miles. Then there's Stone Harbor, which has

seven inland basins and likes to compare itself

with Venice.

Farther on is gusty Wildwood-by-the-Sea,

dubbing itself "liveliest resort on the sea-

board" and inviting you to see for yourself by

riding its canary yellow tramcars down the

three-mile boardwalk lined with amusement

centers, restaurants, and shops. The silvery

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beach here, one of the best, is 1,000 feet wide

from the high-water mark to the boards.

Fishing is fine too, from pier, surf, or boat.

Beyond is Cape May city, which boasts of

being the oldest resort on the Jersey coast. It

served as a summer home for seven former

presidents, including Lincoln. Activities here,

as in so many other Jersey communities, are

concentrated along a beachside boardwalk.

At the southernmost tip of the state is Cape

May Point, where, according to tradition,

Captain William Kidd filled his casks with

Lilly Lake's fresh water and cached treasure

in the dunes near the pond.

Traveling north from Atlantic City, you

find other routes that like to cling to the shore.

One stretches the length of Long Beach Island.

Another clings fairly close to the coast line

from Seaside Heights to Atlantic Highlands,

on Sandy Hook Bay. On this latter route

are strict Ocean Grove; Asbury Park, with

its world-famous boardwalk; fashionable

Deal; busy and lively Long Branch; home-

like Highlands; and a number of other

communities with appealing beaches and

waterfront attractions.

They are all roads that lead to treasures

far greater than any hidden away by Captain

Kidd-fine sandy beaches, opportunities for

healthful recreation, and welcome sea breezes

that cool off the broiling summer sun.

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ngerlings stay in hatchery tanks until three months old;

e fed only fine ground horse meat

Rearing Bigger Rainbows

Plantir

in the Madisc

Breeder at Montana hatchery solves a fishing problem

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By DALE WHITE

HARRY W. (BILL) BAKER, JR. has been

ace high with trout breeders and fishermen

ever since he combined common sense and

fish know how to produce a hatchery-bred,

pound-size rainbow in one year for planting in

western Montana's streams.

The welcome shingle is out at the U. S.

Fish and Wildlife Service hatchery near Ennis,

Montana, and Baker and his staff hold open

house for visitors who want to tour the spot-

less hatchery and network of rearing ponds to

see how it's done. The hatchery is reached by

following Montana Highway 1 from West

Yellowstone or by cutting south from U. S.

10, between Butte and Bozeman.

The results of Baker's trail blazing in the

field of fish culture are evident now in the

current trend of federal and state hatcheries

toward producing legal-size trout for planting.

Heretofore, hatcheries have met the pressure

of fishermen clamoring for more trout in their

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rearing and planting one-

and-one-half-inch to three-inch fingerlings,

whose rate of survival and development to

pan-size delicacies are tallied at ninety-five

per cent wasteful.

Fish culturists, conservationists, sports-

men, and hatchery officials from all over the

country are flocking to the federal hatchery

at Ennis to observe and study the methods of

a man who was a fisherman long before he

became a fish breeder. Simple and low cost,

the secret of the system is selective breeding.

Instead of using "native" stock taken

"wild" from certain streams, Baker uses eggs.

from "domestic" trout under his control. He

uses only eggs stripped from rainbow with

fast-growing characteristics. From these he

has developed an excellent brood stock. Off-

spring of this special stock, raised in pure

spring water and fed only fine ground horse

meat, develop into pound-size in one year,

with twenty per cent of the crop running two

to three pounds.

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CAPITAL OF

Canada

There is much for the tourist to see and do

north of the border in lively Ottawa

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Air view looking north,

showing Canadian

Parliament and other

government buildings

on the banks of the

Ottawa River

By BERT PENNY

THINKING of a trip to Canada this sum-

mer? You might like to follow the footsteps

of some trail-blazing Yankees. They journeyed

up there about 150 years ago and founded

Ottawa-Canada's capital.

These hardy pioneers were Philemon

Wright and Nicholas Sparks, of Woburn,

Massachusetts. In the Canadian wilderness

above New York state, they carved out home-

sites on the Ottawa River, chief tributary of

the St. Lawrence.

Philemon settled on the north bank in

what is now Quebec Province. Nicholas chose

the south, with its cluster of low hills in

present-day Ontario. In a natural clearing,

he built a sturdy stone house that you can

still see. Now flanked by small shops, it faces

on Sparks Street, one of Ottawa's principal

thoroughfares where many of the city's banks

and commercial headquarters are located.

Around the old stone house has grown a

thriving modern city of more than 188,600

population.

Since it is a national capital, it is far more

lively and colorful than many other cities of

this size. You will see the flags of many coun-

tries flying from handsome embassy buildings.

You will encounter many of Canada's glam-

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orous, red-coated Mounties, for this is their

headquarters. All around, you will sense the

stir and excitement that seem to characterize

capital cities everywhere.

Your first sight-seeing objective undoubt-

edly will be the Parliament buildings atop

Parliament Hill. These majestic gothic build-

ings occupy three sides of a great square. They

were built in 1860, destroyed by fire in 1916,

and since restored. Here, the House of Com-

mons and the Senate hold their sessions.

From the center of the group, the Peace

Tower soars to a height of 293 feet, topped by

a thirty-five-foot bronze flagpole. Electric

lamps on its tip light up whenever Parliament

is sitting. The tower houses a Memorial Cham-

ber and an Altar of Remembrance in tribute

to Canada's war dead.

From the tower, too, you will hear the

majestic tones of Canada's greatest carillon

-fifty-three bells, the largest 100 inches in

diameter, weighing 22,400 pounds.

The Parliament buildings are open to you

every day from nine to five. From the parapet

of the Peace Tower, you can look for miles

over scenes of thrilling beauty.

To the north, you will see the great ranges

of Laurentian Hills, broken by the picturesque

valley of the Gatineau River. Nearer, you can

trace the Ottawa River to a point where the

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Solemnly beautiful

Memorial Chamber in the Peace Tower

honors Canadian troops who gave

their lives in World War I

Peace Tower makes an interesting

background for tourists' photos

The Rockeries,

famous gardens in Rockcliffe,

a residential suburb

Along placid Rideau Canal

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Elk herd pauses to inspect a group of visitors

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REFUGE IN THE ROCKIES

Visitors get close-ups of animals

at wildlife park in Wyoming

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By TOM MCHUGH

HERDS of big game roaming through rich

grassy meadows! Western pioneers saw this,

so why shouldn't we? That is the reasoning

that led to the establishment of the Jackson

Hole Wildlife Park. Located on U. S. Highway

287 near Moran, Wyoming, it is stocked with

our most famous wild animals: buffalo,

antelope, mule deer, whitetail deer, elk, and

moose.

No moats or bars keep animals and visitors

separated here. Instead, people drive and

walk through the same huge enclosures with

the animals. The odd part about this is that

neither the big game nor the visitors realize

they are surrounded by more than six miles of

steel fence, for this barrier is "invisible."

Concealed behind hills or amongst trees, it

remains almost completely out of sight. The

fence is so long it allows the beasts to roam

freely, yet it still keeps them in view for

tourists.

In short, it is the perfect answer to count-

less vacationing motorists who wish to see

wildlife. Of course, American big game

animals can be seen in any city zoo. But there

they are so obviously confined that any

illusion of natural surroundings is lost. Just

the opposite exists in our national parks and

national forests; there, wild beasts are

abundant, but they are seldom seen because

the areas are so extensive. The proper balance

has been achieved in the Jackson Hole

Wildlife Park.

The park is open without charge to visitors

from the middle of June through most of

September. A nonprofit organization, it is

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Lake Chelan

Mountain

Long, blue basin reaches

far into a roadless wilderness

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