Adventure Magazine Cover, December 18, 1919 — page 201: what you’re looking at

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_ A Free Question and Answer Service Bureau of Infor- mation on Outdoor Life and Activities Everywhere and Upon the Various Commodities Required Therein. Con- ducted for Adventure Magazine by Our Staff of Experts. the expert in charge of the department in whose field it falls. So that service may be as prompt as possible, he will answer you by mail direct. But he will also send to us a copy of each Y se ogee) question and answer, and from these we shall select those of most BS len general interest and publish them each issue in this department, Fine thus making it itself an exceedingly valuable standing’ source of practical information. Unless otherwise requested, inquirer’s name and town are printed with question; street numbers not given. When you ask for general information on a given district or subject the expert will probably give you some valuable general pointers and refer you to books or to local or special sources of information. Our experts will in all cases answer to the best of their ability, using their own discretion an all matters pertaining to their departments, subject only to our general rules for ‘‘Ask Adventure,” but neither they nor the magazine assumes any responsibility beyond the moral one of trying to do the best that is possible. These experts have been chosen by us not only for Q) tie expert should be sent, not to this office, but direct to we Awe SN .— * . WAY; mARIAY HALE MANN) + Seg Sa . their knowledge and experience but for their integrity and reliability. We have emphatically: assured each of them that his advice or information is not to be affected in any way by whether a given com- . modity is or is not advertised in this magazine.. j 1. Service free to anybody, provided stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed. Corre-. spondents writing to or from foreign countries will please enclose International Reply | Coupons, purchasable at any post-office, and exchangeable for stamps of any country in the International Postal Union. 2. Send each question direct to the expert in charge of the particular department whose ‘Bermuda. field covers it. He will reply by mail. DO NOT send questions to this magazine. 3. No reply will be made to requests for partners, for financial backing, or for chances to join expeditions. ‘‘Ask Adventure’’ covers business and work opportunities, but only if they are outdoor activities, and only in the way of general data and advice. It is in no sense an employment bureau. 4. Make your questions definite and specific. ® State exactly your wants, qualifications : and intentions. Explain your case sufficiently to guide the expert you question. 5. Send no question until you have read very carefully the exact ground covered by the particular expert in whose department it seems to belong. 1. * Islands and Coasts 4 CapTAIN A. E. DINGLE, Cove Cottage, Pembroke West, Islands of Indian and Atlantic oceans;-the Mediterranean; Cape Horn and Magellan Straits. Ports, trade, peoples, travel. 2. The Sea Parti. BeriAu Brown, Seattle Press Club, 1309 Fifth Ave., N. E., Seattle, Wash. Covering ships, seamen and shipping; nau- tical history, seamanship, navigation, yachting; commercial fisheries of North America; marine bibliography of U. S. and British Empire; seafaring on fishing-vessels of the North Atlantic and Pacific banks, small-boat sailing, and old-time shipping and seafaring. ’ 3. % The Sea Part 2 Capratn A. E. DinGte, Cove Cottage, Pembroke West, ertain to the sea, ships and Bermuda. Such questions as be sent to Captain Dingle, men local to the U. S. shoul not Mr. Brown. 4. Eastern U.S. Part 1 “Se RAYMOND S. SPEARS, Little Falls, N. Y. Covering Missis- sippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Michigan and Hudson valleys; Great Lakes, Adirondacks, Chesapeake Bay; river, lake and road travel, game, fish and woodcraft; furs, fresh- water pearls, herbs; and their markets. 5. Eastern U.S. Part 2 ; HapspurG Ligse, 6 W. Concord Ave., Orlando, Florida. Covering Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and N. and 8. Carolina, Florida and Georgia except Tennessee River and Atlantic seaboard.- Hunting, fishing, camping; logging, lumbering, sawmilling, saws. | 6, Eastern U.S. Part 3! Central Street, Bangor, Maine. Dr. G. E. HATHORNE, ! unting, canoeing, guides, outfits, Covering Maine; fishing, supplies. , 7. Middle Western U.S. Part-4 Capt.-ApJ. Joseph Mi.its HANson, care Adventure. Cov-~ ering the Dakotas, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas. Hunting, fishing, travel. Lspecially early histery of Missouri Valley. 8. Middle Western U.S. Part 2 Joun B. THompson, P. O. Box 1374, St. Louis, Mo. Covering Missouri, Arkansas and the Missouri Valley up to Sioux City, Iowa. Wilder countries of the Ozarks, and swamps; hunting, fishing, trapping, farming, mining and range lands; big timber sections. 9. Western U.S. Part 1 . E. E. Harriman, 2303 W. 23d St., Los Angeles, Calif. Covering California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Nevada, Arizona. Game, fur, fish; camp, cabin; mines, minerals; mountains. ; 10. Western U.S. Part 2 and Mexico Part 1 J. W. Wuireaker, Cedar Park, Texas. Covering Texas, Oklahoma, and the border states of old Mexico: Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. Minerals, lumbering, agriculture, travel, customs; topog- raphy, climate, natives, hunting, history, industries. a 1. pike Part 2 Southern DGAR YOUNG, care. Adventure Magazine, Spring and Macdougal Sts., New York, N. ¥. Covering that part of Mexico lying south of a line drawn from Tampico to Mazatlan. _Mining, agriculture, topography, travel, hunt- ing, lumbering, history, natives, commerce. 12. North American Snow Countries Part 1 Shy R. S. SPEARS, Little Falls, N. Y. Covering Minnesota and Wisconsin. Hunting, fishing, trapping; canoes and snow shoes; methods and materials of Summer and Winte~ subsistence, shelter and travel, for recreation or business. * *% (Enclose addressed envelope with 5 cents in stamps NOT attached) Returs postage not required from U. S. or Canadian soldiers, sailors or marines in service outside the U. S., tts possessions, or Canada, . ; ~ 3 ; a 5 ee > comicbookszcor rast a ? * *. > re ¥ al <7 te ‘ od oa r ; e + " aa ¥ H } > 3 ® a a 3 es a ys Pa 2 oe. Pe ae ee | Rete Bea eee St 4 ‘ : at cd a8 ae ‘wa Pisa 8 cag _ | . oe