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Whitney Museum. U. S. painting and sculpture only, with particular accent on contemporary work, is collected in Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's salmon stucco repository at No. 10 West 8th Street in Greenwich Village. Best known pieces: Bellows' Dempsey-Tunney Fight and The Blue Clown by Walt Kuhn...
What had roused the warden were reports sent down from central Idaho's wild Salmon River and Sawtooth Mountain country. One hunter wrote that he had found a dozen sets of lambs' feet in one golden eagle's nest, three sets of goats' feet in another, seen eagles kill a 2-year- old mule deer. For years Idaho has paid a $1 bounty on golden eagles. Now Warden Eckert ordered his predator exterminators to begin a systematic campaign against them...
Discovering an employe earning $3.20 per month and identified only as "Minnie" on the payroll of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey's Bayonne plant, an auditor investigated last week, found that Minnie is a cat which gets $3.20 worth of salmon and milk every month for keeping Standard's testing laboratory free of rats and mice...
...arisen. Thirty-six men have been killed in accidents, the last two on consecutive days in March. To slow down this fatality rate, the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation has instituted safety-first and first-aid instruction for the 6,000 employes. To quiet fears that the Columbia River salmon run would be ruined, plans for hatching and artificial propagation below the dam have been formulated...
Navigation, however, is not the chief problem involved in the administration of the new dam, nor are the fish problems. Two salmon ladders were built-cascades with steps one foot high and 16 ft. wide. Six salmon "elevators" or fish locks were also provided. These are chambers 20 by 30 ft. into which the salmon may swim; then a gate is closed and a grating, similar to an elevator, rises until the fish can swim out into the reservoir above the dam. These devices have not yet been tested, for salmon are still able to swim between the piers...