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BUT IT'S NEH> *SB6ST0S HftUS TO HOLS A SUV AS HOT A S VOU IN THE /VMDPL6 OF NO- VOL) SHOULDN'T HAVE WHERE--A GREAT R-ACE TO HO1.B UP/ TAJNT MY NKOIRE TO £ET DISCOURAGED- SOTHISISTEXAS^GNE U'LOL' HORSE IMA HWi! THERE SURE IS ) FftSTUSE LIKE THIS A LOT OF m BAN^L O3ULD BE QUITS NEAR AS BIG _£??&-•» • A JOB! AS HOW MUCH SCEAM\,KID, L0N6ER \Y A BOTHER BEFORE\ YOU'RE CAN'T VOU WORK* Arty FASTER T I . W4NT TO TRY OUT MYMEW BOLLEE HOW MANV HAVE YOU (E<Mie Vogt is on vacation. gtfest columnist today is Dr. Richard P. Bellaire.) This Christinas season brings to my mind, as it has done every Christmas, one of the most unfor- gettable Cbristmases which I have experienced. The tine was Christ- mas of 1914. which, as you remem- ber, was the time of the Batt* of the Bulge. I was serving aboard a hospital train supporting the 7th Army in IVance. Our little organization consisted OP39 enlisted men, six nurses, two officers, and one JSed Cross work- er. We were fortunate enough to have as our Red Cross worker, Madeleine Carroll, the stage and movie star. Miss Carroll made plans for Christmas over one month in advance, and began ob- taining, by one means or another, many small items which could be used as gifts for die 275 patients which we carried on each trip. ' On one of our frequent stops in the country a few days before Christmas, a tree was obtained for each of the 10 patient-cars. Our jack-of-all-trades made battery operated lights for each tree by soldering flashlight bulbs on wire and covering them with colored cellophane. Miss Carrol] induced everyone on the train to open his packages from home early so that sh.S might have, the gift wrappings. Eyery man on the train spent hours cutting out the figures on the. Christmas wrappings and past- ink them on the wails and windows ct the cars. Several were spent *ih evenings _ _ popcorn, donated from packages received Crofoi borne, for both tree decora- tlojtj and car decorations. The forest lands through which we passed also furnished us with greens for decorations. Even mis- [ tlet&e was obtained, by ,v devious mtens, so that the patient-caxs gate one the feeling of Christmas immediately upon entering them. On Christmas Eve afternoon, we loaded 273 men who had been in fox- holes 48 hours previously. We were to take them to Marseilles, a run of some 30 hours. The patients were all given a hot roast beef din- ner, for many the first hot food in two weeks. After all the patients had settled down, all lights in the cars were turned out except for the lighted Christmas trees, and a group of enlisted men and nurses went from car to car singing Christmas carols by candlelight. They were followed by our cook, like all Army cooks somewhat overweight, who had squeezed him- self into one of the nurse's suits of red flannel underwear. A new mop served as a beard and a laun- dry sack as Hie container for tiie gifts, Santa had a gift for every man aboard the train. There was not a dry eye in the car after the ceremonies had end- ed. The appreciation on the faces ot Jhe sick and wounded men was all the repayment that any of us needed for our several weeks of preparation. The commanding officer ol the train made arrangements for the train to stop in a town where there was an Army camp so that the Chaplain could come aboard and say Midnight Mass in one of the cars. He followed tins with visits to each of the other cars to see the men who were unable to attend the service. This, of course, delayed our ar- rival by some two hours, for which Ufcrirontacfe DAILI E.tabll»hed 1894 Member Associated Preis *M Newspapei enterprise AModatlon Phone: Saranao Lake 2. -oBta clasa matter Published Daily except Sundays by .Adirondack Publishing Co. Inc JAMES LOEB JR. ROGER W. TUBBY ._ Publisher and Editor - . Co-Publisher (On Leave) Editorial Department—Jon V. Sherwood, Managing Editor; E. Arthur Rogers, News and Sports Editor: Frances E, Dickie, City Editor and Social Editor; Edward Vogt, Columnist: William McLaughlln, Photographer and Lake Placid Representative: Kathleen Bigrow, Tupper Lake Representative. Business Department—Joseph Evans, Advertising Manager: Margaret L. Wilson, Asst. Advertising Manager; Rose Dest, Bookkeeper; June Meagher,, Secretary. - Mechanical Department—Louis D'Onofrio, • Mechanical Superintendent; Annand Amell, Foreman; Donald Renadette, Howard Riley, David Hunter, Frank Bonettl, Roger Stephenson, By Carrier: One Year, J1250; six Months, J6.50: Three Months $3.50: One Month. J1.25 By the week by Carrier, 30 cents By Mail: One Year, {10.00; Six Months, $5.50: Three Months, $3.00; One Month, {1.29. (Mail service allowed only where there is no carrier delivery.) TWOUE1T Adirondack Country by WILLIAM CHAPMAN WHITE Chapter 1 Adirondack Land (Continued from yesterday) Fish Fauna Fowl Written Adirondack history be- gins with a fish story. In Cham- plain's Journal or his travels down Lake Ohamplaln he wrotei 'There is also a great abundance of-fish, ul many-varietterramong Over this past weekend the community of Saranao Lake lost two well beloved and distinguished citizens. It should be a great consolation to the relatives and friends of both that they lived full lives packed with service. It was not our privilege to know either man well. \Matt\ Munn completed his official duties a few short months after we came to Saranae Lake. Roy Dayton's illness extended back before our arrival. Our comments, therefore, are not in the nature of personal observations gained from personal acquaintance. They reflect he reputations of, these men, what their fellow townspeople thought of them, the impact their lives had on the community in which they lived. Here, then, in a few paragraphs, is what they meant to Saranao Lake. \Matt\ Munn was the personal embodiment, as far as any one person could be, of the spirit of the Village of Saranae Lake, of the townspeople. Although not a native, having been born in Stowe, Vermont, he was of and for and with the people of the community. As far as we can determine, it is accurate to say that no one knew more people in this village, or was known by more people, than \Matt\. He not only knew them; he liked them. He was not only known by them; he was loved by them. As a result of this relationship with people, one good Democratic friend of. \Matt\ Munn commented that he was \the darndest vote-getter this community ever had.\ And the remark was an admixture of political regret and human ad- miration. There was hardly an activity in the community in which he was not an eager participant: the Elks, the Knights of Columbus, the business community, his church, politics. \Matt\ Munn knew the joys of good fellowship and a happy family. Indeed, he was probably related to as many Sa- ranac Lake citizens as anyone else. But he knew personal tra- gedy as few others did, especially during one brief period in the early forties when he lost his wife and his daughter. Perhaps it was the depth of the tragedy which made him so mellow and kindly to his fellow citizens. . Quiet and unassuming, he was the best source of informa- tion in Saranae Lake. This was the quality, above all others, which endeared him to newspapermen. It was traditional that every correspondent assigned to this village was given a sim- ple directive: Get to know \Matt\ Munn. Maybe the fart of having a son who has had such a distinguished career as a correspondent made him understand the newspapermen's prob- lems. In his death, the community has lost a kind o£ personalized institution. He will not he soon forgotten. As \Matt\ Munn represented the spirit of the townspeo- ple, so Roy Dayton personified the spirit of Trudeau, of the health-giving and health-restoring aspect of this community. Having come here for his health in 1908, he found here'a new life, a new career, and, only aHout a year after he came, a- wife who had also come for her health. It has been said of Roy Dayton that Sarana.c Lake gave him back his life, and that he spent that life helping others to regain theirs. Roy Dayton was the \alter ego\ the \man Friday\ the great helper of Dr. Edward K. Baldwin. While Dr. Baldwin, Dr. Brown anjd the other great scientists at Trudeau were busy doing their wonderful medical work, it was Roy Dayton who made the institution \tick\, so to speak. It was he who kept our commanding officer received a I the hooks, looked to the details, was the overall manager did ;he dirty work. One of Ms fondest duties was the Trudeau School. Dr. Francis Trudeau Sr. recalled yesterday his great labors in that special project. Started in 1916, and missing only this past year since then, the Trudeau School was the particular concern of Roy Dayton. He wrote all the letters, took care of the housing problems, received the visiting guests, even kept up the contacts after they had left. Although h« took his work seriously, he was, according tc all who knew him, cheerful and friendly, having a great ca- pacity of making everyone feel very much at home. others, one called by the savages of the country Chaousarou, which varies in length, the longest being some people told me, eight to ten feet long. I saw some five feet 2S long which were as large as my thigh. The extremity of its snout is like that of a swine. The fish makes war upon all others in tiie lakes and rivers. It also possesses remarkable dexterity, as these people Informed me, which U ex- hibited in the following manner: when it wants to capture birds it swims among the rushes reeds, where it puts its snout out of water and keeps perfectly still: so that when the birds come and light on its snout, supposing it to be only the stump of a tree, it adroitly closes it, which it had kept ajar and pulls the birds by the feet down under the water.\ While little like the Chaousarou has been seen in any Adirondack t-4 waters since, some of today's ang- lers might welcome it. It would be a change from the pesky yellow perch and the sunfish. The woods and their riches help- ed attract the first settlers to the Adirondack country. The animals in' those woods and the fish in the lakes and streams were Just as re- sponsible for bringing many a later 'isitor who became a settler. All Adirondack history affirms he truth of the warning about waste that conservationists have preached for a century. No area in America- has had a more miser- able story of ruthless squandering of natural resources, and of care- lessness based on 1he supposition that the stock ol fish and game, as well as trees, was infinite. The chief species of fish that the first etflers found were the speckled or brook trout and the monster lake trout. Some of the rivers were ftill of salmon. The fish were there for the taking, without much concern over bait or tackle. If a fish was not big enough, another larger one would be along immediately. The salmon went fast, as did the trout Today only a few of the fourteen hundred Adirondack lakes have any native speckled trout in them; only a few remote fyrooks have any native \wild\ brook trout. \Fished out\ has been common cry almost from the first years of Adirondack history; it was said first, and rightly, of Saratoga Lake, where the last trout were gone by 1820. After MJO, the stories of fine fishing spread in an era when people were beginning to pay more and more attention to life outdoors. They came to see for themselves. Trout fishing became fashionable in the middle of the nineteenth century, and the city fellers joined the Adirondack peo- ple along the banks of the streams. As trout fishing was practiced the goal was big fish, but that quickly degenerated to fish of any size. One sportsman wrote in 18T3 that on an Adirondack trip he had caught one hundred and thirty- five trout for a total weight of nine pounds, and\ added, \I returned from the woods refreshed in spirit.\ He must have had quite a spirit, that he co severe reprimand. However, he felt, as did the rest of us, that we had all seen something which would live in our memories for- ever and for which any reprimands or time spent m preparation would be ^inconsequential. Have a v Merry Christmas, Eddie, and leave a little bit of New York behind when.you return to Saranae Lake. m u.s. SAVINGS BOHDjJ could be refreshed In a college community, there is often talk of \town ana gown.\ Saranae Lake, in the expression o£ Bill White, was a college town without a college. Tradeau was its \college.\ And so, «m Christmas Day of 1955, \Matt\ Munn, symbol of the town, and Boy Dayton, symbol of the \college\ of Tru- deau, both 72 (Mr. Dayton less than six weeks older than Mr. Munn), both born away from here, both having served this community, in divergent caipa^ities, passed on to their well- earned rest. May Saranae Lake be worthy of their lives of service! J.L. by a mess of fish of average wei- ght less than an ounce, but he was not tfie only one. Species of fish inimical to trout were put into Adirondack waters by design or accident Horatio Sey- mour, governor in 1892, ordered bass put into Adirondack waters as the trout fishing waned. After his order was carried out It waned faster. Another introducfon into Adirondack wafers in the early part of this century -took care of any trout the greedy fishermen, the pickedel, and the bass might have overlooked. This was the yellow perch, probably first brought by fishermen as live bait \minnows\ about and either flumped into the waters or allowed to escape into them. The perch is not particular about his diet; he eats baby bass as well as trout This most nondiscri- minating appetite with tins will turn out eight thousand eggs at a clip, sometimes twice a year. The .trout spawns two hundred to two thousand eggs annually, the bass about as many. With four times as many perch as trout to grab avai- lable food, the trout just haven't a chance, particularly since the baby perch would as lief grab the baby trout. Continued tomorrow Copyright 1954, by William Chap- man White. 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