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When 33 U. S. sportsmen banded last year to help Government and private conservation agencies protect and restore the nation's wild life, they chose Walter P. Chrysler as first chairman of their American Wild Life Institute. Motorman Chrysler, whose favorite fun is shooting wildfowl on his Great Choptank River estate in eastern Maryland, showed himself a good friend of conservation by serving as an Institute director until last spring, contributing substantial sums to its treasury...
...conservationist, and because he knew how natives envied the rich outlanders who have fenced off their best shooting grounds as private preserves, Agent Steele ignored the letters as long as he could. Then one warm morning last December he set out on a "routine patrol" along the Great Choptank, came to a blind which contained Walter P. Chrysler, his estate superintendent, William Pritchett, and ten dead ducks. "I'm sorry, Mr. Chrysler," said Agent Steele when he had finished his examination, "but this is against...
Although rain was beating down on Cambridge, Md., last week, men enthusiastically lugged into the Choptank River a one-ton steel model of the steel islands (seadromes) which Edward R. Armstrong of Holly Oak, Del., proposes to anchor 375 miles apart across the Atlantic. The model, 1/32 the size of intended seadromes, consists essentially of a rectangular platform. To its underside are attached hollow steel columns, each ending in a circular disk. Air in the cylinders was sufficient to keep the device floating on the Choptank and the platform several feet above the water. Speedboats dashed around the model. Their...
Maryland Jail. Between the bank of the Choptank River and the village green in leisurely, New Englandish Denton, Md., stands the Caroline County Jail. It is a charming place, accommodating some 25 prisoners, 18 of whom are convicted bootleggers. Last week, Sheriff William F. Jackson made comment: "The fellows the Government sends down here are all right and do not cause me a bit of trouble. ... I believe in treating the boys fairly. . . . They are locked in their cells at night and then I let them out in the jailyard to get air. The boys can fish in the river...
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