Adventure Magazine, April 10, 1924 — page 185: 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. | Agente expert in charge of the section 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 question and answer, and from these we shall select those of most general interest and publish them each issue in this department, 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 may give you some valuable general pointers and refer you to books or to local or special sources of information. OQ ener in. should be sent, not to this office, but direct to the ; rey, SEA Gong a ir ne * hE Goes their own discretion in all matters pertaining to their sections, eubject 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 their knowledge and experience but with an eye to 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 commodity is or is not advertised in this magazine. 1. Service free to anybody, provided self-addressed envelop and full postage, not at- tached, are enclosed. (See footnote at bottom of page.) Correspondents writing to or from foreign countries wili please enclose International Reply Coupons, purchas- able at any post-office, and exchangeable for stamps of any country in the Inter- national Postal Union. 2. Send each question direct to the expert in charge of the particular section whose 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, qualification and intentions. Explain your case sufficiently to guide the expert you question. &. Send no question until you have read very carefully the exact ground covered by the particular expert in whose section it seems to belong. 1. TheSeo Parti American Waters Travel, history, customs;. adventure, exploring, sport. Our experts will in all cases answer to the best of their ability, using : BERIAH BROWN, 1624 Biegelow Ave., Olympia,Wash. Ships, seamen and shipping: nautical history, seamanship, navi- gation, yachting, smail-boat sailing; commercial fisheries of North America; marine bibliography of U. S.; fishing-vessels of the North Atlantic and Pacific banks. (See next section.) 2. VheSea Part? British Waters CAPTAIN A. E. DINGLE, care Adventure. Seamanship, navigation, old-time sailorizing, ocean-cruising, etc. Ques- tions on the sea, ships and men local!’ te the British Empire go to Captain Dingle, not Mr. Brown. 3. Tine Sea Part3 Statistics of American Shipping Harry E. RIESEBERG, 3633 New Hampshire Ave., W., Washington, D.C. Historical records, tonnages, names and former names, dimensions, services, power, class, fig, builders, present and past ownerships, signals, etc., of all vessels of the American Merchant Marine and Government vessels in existence over five gross tons in the United States, Panama and the Philippines, and the furnishing of infor- mation and records of vessels under American registry as far back as 1760. 4. Islands and Coasts Partl Islands of Indian and Atlantic Oceans; the Mediterranean; Cape Horn and Magellan Straits CapTAIN A. E. DINGLE, care Adventure. peoples, travel. (See next section.) 5. Islands Part2 Haiti, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, Virgin and Jamaica Groups CHARLES BELL EMERSON, Adventure Cabin, Los Gatos, Calif. Languages, mining, minerals, fishing, sugar, fruit and tobacco production. Part 1 6. & New Zealand; and the South Sea Islands Tom L. Mitts, The Feilding Star, Feilding, New Zealand. Ports, trade, Cook Islands, Samoa (Postage two cents. 7. South Sealslands Part2 French Oceania (Tahiti, the Society, Paumoto, Marquesas); Islands of Western Pacific (Solomons, New Hebrides, Fiji, Tonga); of Central Pacific (Guam, Ladrone, Pelew, Caroline, Marshall, Gilbert, Ellice); of the Detached (Wallis, Penrhyn, Danger, Easter, Rotuma, Futuna, Pitcairn). CHARLES Brown, JR., P. O. Box 308, San Francisco, Calif. Inhabitants, history, travel, sports, equipment, climate, living conditions, commerce, pearling, vaniila and coconut cuiture. 8. *® Australia and Tasmania FRANK Morton, care Triad magazine, 19 Castlereagh St., Sydney, Australia. Customs, resources, travel, hunting, sports, history. (Postage ten cents.) 9. Malaysia, Sumatra and Java Fay-Cooper Core, Ph. D., Field Museum of Natural His- tory, Chicago, Ill. Hunting and fishing, exploring, com- merce, inhabitants, history, institutions. 10. * New Guinea L. P. B. Armit, Port Moresby, Territory of Papua, via Sydney, Australia. Hunting and fishing, exploring, com- merce, inhabitants, history, institutions. Questions regard- ing the measures or policy of the Government or proceed- ings of Government officers not answered. (Postage ten cents). li. Philippine Islands. Buck Connor, L. B. 4, Quartzsite, Ariz. History, inhabi- tants, topography, customs, travel, hunting, fishing, min- erals, agriculture, commerce. .. Hawaiian Islands and China F, J. HALTON, 714 Marquette Bldg., Chicago, Ill. Customs, travel,natural history, resources, agriculture, fishing, hunting, % (Enclose addressed envelop with tex cents in stamps NOT attached) 183 : (C@ = a DOOKS. CO