Adventure Magazine Cover, March 20, 1925 — page 204: 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. Ask_) Adventiiy. UESTIONS should be sent, not to this office, but direct to the 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 rcquested 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. Our experts will in all cases answer to the best of their ability, using their own discretion in all matters pertaining to their sections, subject only to our general rules for “Ask Adventure,” but neither they nor the magazine assumes any responsi- bility 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 attached, are enclosed. (See footnote «t bottom of page). Correspondents 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. Be sure that the issuing office stamps the coupon in the left-hand circle. 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, 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 section it seems to belong. 1. The Sea Part 1 American Waters randa, Oriente, Cuba. Geography, industries, people, cus- Ber1AH Brown, 1624 Biegelow Ave., Olympia, Wash. Ships, seamen and shipping; nautical history, seamanship, navi- ation, yachting, small-boat sailing; commercial fisheries of orth America; marine bibliography of U. S.; fishing-vessels of the North Atlantic and Pacific banks. (See next section.) 2. The Sea_Part2 British Waters Captain A. E. DINGLE, care Adventure. Seamanship, navigation, old-time satlorizing, ocean-crui , etc. Ques- tions on the sea, ships and men local to the British Empire go to Captain Dingle, not Mr. Brown. 3. TheSea Part3 Statistics of American Shipping Harry E. RigSEBERG, Apartment 347-A, Kew Gardens, Washington, D. C. Historical records, tonnages, names and former names, dimensions, services, power, class, rig, 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 Part 1 Islands of Indian and Atlantic Oceans; the Mediterranean; Cape Horn and Magellan Straits CAPTAIN A. DINGLE, care Adventure. Ports, trade, peoples, travel. (See next section.) 5. Islands Part2 Haiti, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, bis and Jamaica Groups CHARLES Bett EMERSON, Adventure Cabin, Los Gatos, Calif. Languages, mining, minerals, fishing, sugar, fruit and tobacco production. 6. Islands Part3 Cuba . WALLACE MontcomeEry, Warner Sugar Co. of Cuba, Mi- toms, hunting, fishing, history and government. 7. * New Zealand; and the South Sea Islands _ Partl Cook Islands, Samoa Tom L. MILLs, The Feilding Star, Feilding, New Zealand. Travel, history, customs; adventure, exploring, sport. (Send International Reply Coupon for eleven cents.) 8. & South Sea Islands Part 2 French Oceania (Tahiti the soe 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., Boite No. 167, Papeete, Tahiti, Society Islands, South Pacific Ocean. Inhabitants, history, travel, sports, equipment, climate, living conditions, come merce, pearling, vanilla and coconut culture. (Send Inter- national Reply Coupon for eleven cents.) 9. x Australia and Tasmania PHILLIP_NORMAN, 842 Military Road, Mosman, Sydney, N. S. W., Australia. Customs, resources, travel, hunting, piirbag history. (Send International Reply Coupon for eleven cents, 10. Malaysia, Sumatra and Java Fay-Cooper Coreg, Ph. D., Field Museum of Natural His- tory, Chicago, Ill. pay err fishing, exploring, com- merce, inhabitants, history, institutions. It. x New Guinea L. P. B. Armit, Port Moresby, Territory of Papua, sia Sydney, Australia. Hunting and fishing, exploring, com: merce, inhabitants, history, institutions. uestions re- garding the measures or policy of the Government or * (Enclose addressed envelop with International Reply Coupon for eleven cents.) 186 CORnNICLOe (C©