Adventure, February 1917 — page 219: what you’re looking at

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The Camp-Fire The Sea—Freperrck Witttam WALLACE, Canadian Fisherman, 35 St. Alexander St., Montreal, Can. Covering ships, seamen and shipping; nautical history, seamanship, navigation, yachting; commer- cial fisheries of North America; marine bibliography of U. S. and British Empire; especially, sea- faring on fishing-vessels of the North Atlantic and Pacific banks, small-boat sailing, and old-time shipping and seafaring. _ oe 2. Eastern U. S., Part l—Raymonp S, Spears, Little Falls, N. Y. Covering Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee and Hudson valleys; Great Lakes, Adirondacks, Chesapeake Bay; river, lake and road travel; game, fish and woodscraft; furs, fresh-water pearls, herbs, and their markets. 3 Western U. S.—E. E. Harrman, 2336 West 23d St., Los Angeles, Calif. Covering west of meridian 105; game, fur, fish; camp, cabin; mines, minerals, mountains, desert. North American Snow Countries—C, L, GitMAN, 708 Oneida Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. Covering the canoe and snowshoe country of .U. S. and Canada (the nearer north); methods and materials of Summer and Winter subsistence, shelter and travel, for recreation or business. 5. The Balkans—Artuur D. Howpen Smita, Evening Post, 20 Vesey St., New York City. Covering Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Turkey (in Europe); travel, sport, customs, language, local conditions, markets, industries. Asia, Southern—Gorpon McCreacu, 21 Nagle Ave., Inwood, New York City. Covering Red Sea, Persian Gulf, India, Tibet, Burma, Western China, Siam, Andamans, Malay States, Borneo, the Treaty Ports; hunting, trading, traveling. Russia and Eastern Siberia—A. M. Locawitzxy (Lieut.-Col. I.R.A., Ret.), 1255 Peoples Gas Bldg., Chicago. Covering Petrograd and its province; Finland, Northern Caucasus; Primorsk District, Island of Sakhalin; travel, hunting, fishing; explorations among native tribes; markets, trade, curios, 0 ———————eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEeEeEeE——eEeE STANDING INFORMATION For the Filippines and and Porto Rico, the Bureau of Insu- lar Affairs, War = Fon i 3 For Alaska, the nels Bureau, Chamber of Commerce, Central Bldg., Seattle, W For Hawaii iand Alaska, Dep't of the Interior, Wash., D.C. For Cuba, Bureau Pg Information, Dep't of Agri., ‘Com. 4 and Labor, Havana, C uba. For Central and South America, John Barrett, Dir. Gen., Union, Wash., D. M. P., Comptroller Royal Northwest Mounted Police, ‘Ottawa, ‘Can., or Commissioner, W. M. P., Regina, Sask. Only British subjects, age 22 s ‘30, above 5 ft. 8 in. and under 175 lbs., accepted. 2s Se Zone, the Panama Canal, Wash., D. ‘or “ae oe most foreign countries, the Dep’t of umn. * 8 Sash HE next issue of “Ask Adventure” will carry some typical questions and answers, showing the working of the de- partment and covering subjects of general interest sure to be asked sooner or later. _By the issue following there will have been time for regular questions to begin coming in. Of these we shall print each month those of most general interest, thus giving ‘Ask Adventure” a twofold value—prompt, di- rect, personal replies to questions, and, in its magazine pages, a constantly increasing reference book of illuminating and practical information that will become invaluable as time goes on. This month, so that all may. know the actual qualification of the various depart- ment editors and experts of ‘‘Ask Adven- ture,”’ each of them has been asked to talk to you direct, briefly setting down an out- line of his experience. Most of them are ‘already known to our readers as authorities in their respective fields. As new depart- ments are added in the future, their editors, too, will tell their personal stories. First, Mr. Wallace, editor of the Cana- dian Fisherman. ‘The sailors among you have already proved and approved his nautical knowledge as shown in his sea stories for this magazine: The Sea [Tt IS a pretty big contract to become a nauti- cal oracle, but the skipper says I’ve to come forward and spin a “say-so” as to my qualifications, so here goes! 217° I was born of a seafaring family, my father being — a master mariner of fifty years’ sea service in British- American, Canadian and Italian sailing-ships, and latterly in a well-known transatlantic line. My cousins and uncles on both sides are mostly sea- farers in the mercantile marine and the navy, My earliest recollections are of the sea and ships. The early years of my life were spent in Glasgow and London and the docks and shipbuilding-yards were my P laygrounds in leisure hours. When eight years old I made my first transatlantic voyage with my father—both out and home, and, having the cS choo ecom (E@ —_* —