[86988] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
SWAT team carries this special tool. Now you can too!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ShadowHawk Flashlight)
Wed Aug 17 08:31:28 2016
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 10:26:44 -0400
From: "ShadowHawk Flashlight" <shadowhawk_flashlight@littlesagoparty.com>
To: <mit-talk-mtg@charon.mit.edu>
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<p>Were I musically inclined, I could very appropriately sing, "Dar=
ling, I Am Growing Old." The realization of this fact, as unwelcome as=
it is, is from time to time forced upon me. On Friday, November 10, 1911, =
I went to the Westminster Gun Club, in an open machine, through wind and st=
orm. Got up the next morning at 5 o'clock, had a duck shoot, drove back thi=
rty miles to Los Angeles, arriving there at 11:30 a. m. At 1 o'clock I drov=
e to my home, and at 2 o'clock was off for Ferris Valley on a quail shoot. =
Had a good outing, with much hard labor. The next day I got home at half pa=
st five, completely done up. As I went to retire, I had a good, stiff, nerv=
ous chill. So you can well see that I can no longer stand punishment, and a=
m "growing old." As I lay there and shook, I said to myself, &quo=
t;Old fellow, you will soon be a 'has-been.' Your gun and fishing rod will =
soon decorate your shooting case as ornaments, rather than as things of uti=
lity." Ah, well, let it be so! The memory of pleasant days when youth =
and strength were mine; days when the creel was full, and game limits came =
my way, will be with me still. I would not exchange the experience I have h=
ad with rod and gun for all the money any millionaire in the world possesse=
s. On my trip to the grounds of the Quail Valley Land Company, some thirty =
miles below Riverside, two members of the club and my wife accompanied me. =
We were in one of my good, old reliable Franklin cars, and from Ontario to =
Riverside we bucked a strong head wind that was cold and pitiless. It neces=
sarily impeded our progress, as we had on a glass front, and the top was up=
, and yet we made the run of seventy-six miles in three hours and a quarter=
without ever touching the machine. In fact, none of the party got out of t=
he machine, from start to finish. The big, open fireplace at Newport's home=
, and the bountiful, well-cooked supper with which we were greeted, were we=
ll calculated to make us happy and contented. The long drive in the wind re=
ndered all of us sleepy, and by 9 o'clock we had retired. I never woke up u=
ntil 6 o'clock next morning. Shooting Grounds. After breakfast we proceeded=
in our machine to the shooting ground. The sky was heavily overcast with w=
atery, wicked looking clouds. Rifts in the sky, here and there, let some fr=
ozen looking sunbeams through, but there was no warmth in their rays. We ha=
d our first shoot on the edge of a grain field, but the birds quickly flew =
to some high hills to the west. Rounding the pass through these hills, I ne=
ver saw the Perris Valley more weirdly beautiful. The clouds were high. On =
the north Mt. San Bernardino loomed up, grim, snow-capped and forbidding. T=
o the east old Tahquitz, guardian of the passes to the desert, reared his s=
now-capped head, far above the surrounding country. To the south Mt. Paloma=
r stretched his long, lazy looking form, with his rounded back and indented=
outline, from east to west. His distance from us made him look like a line=
of low, outlying hills, instead of the sturdy old mountain that he is. All=
of these mountains bore most exquisite purple hues. The same coloring was =
assumed by those groups of lesser hills that, cone-like, are scattered over=
the easterly edge of the Perris Valley, and which separate the Hemet and t=
he San Jacinto country from the rest of the valley. The coloring of the flo=
or of the valley itself was particularly exquisite. There was just enough l=
ight, just enough of sunbeams struggling through the sodden clouds to illum=
inate, here and there, an alfalfa field, or here and there a grove of trees=
, so as to bring them out in startling contrast to the somber colors of the=
shaded portions of the valley. But with it were signs of the dying year, a=
premonition of storms to come, storms unpleasant while they last, but revi=
vifying in their effects. Many Quail--Too Cold. In the fifteen years during=
which I have shot upon these grounds, I never got up more or larger bands =
of quail than we did that morning. The day was too cold for good shooting. =
Give me the good old summer time, with the thermometer about 80 degrees, fo=
r good quail shooting. In the cool days the birds run or get up and fly a h=
alf mile at a time. They will not scatter out and lie close, so that you ca=
n get them up one by one and fill your bags. On the cold days they also bre=
ak cover at very long range. They led us a merry chase up the steepest hill=
s and down the most abrupt declivities. All of the time we were slowly maki=
ng good. Lloyd Newport was there on his buckskin horse. Now you could see h=
im way up on a hillside, then again down in some deep valley, running like =
mad to check the flight, or turn the running march of some band of birds th=
at was leading those of us on foot a double-quick run. Shooting as he rode,=
now to the right, now to the left, then straight ahead, he got his share o=
f the birds. Little Fred Newport, only 14 years old, was shooting like a ve=
teran, and long before the rest of us had scored, he proudly announced that=
he had the limit. The final round-up found us with 109 birds for seven gun=
s--a good shoot, under very adverse circumstances. We had the satisfaction =
of knowing that we left plenty of birds on the ground for next year. The qu=
ail shooting of 1911 is at an end. Only the memory of it remains. I shall c=
herish the memory deeply in my affections, and let it stir my enthusiasm fo=
r the out-of-door life when the world seems all balled up, and things are g=
oing wrong. The Rattlesnake. While proceeding along an unfrequented road, w=
ith sage brush on each side of it, we ran across a rattlesnake, about four =
feet long, and of good circumference, twisted up into a most peculiar posit=
ion. Investigation found that, notwithstanding the coolness of the day, he =
was foraging for game, and was engaged in swallowing a good-sized kangaroo =
rat. The tail of the rat protruded several inches from his mouth. The snake=
glared at us, but made no effort to escape or fight. He seemed dazed, prob=
ably half choked by his efforts to swallow the rat. We straightened him out=
on the ground and blew his head off with a shotgun. We then disgorged the =
rat, which was at least four or five inches long, and an inch and a half in=
diameter. The snake was then quickly skinned. He had eleven rattles and a =
button. Snakes eat the eggs and the young of the quail. In view of the rava=
ges by snakes, hawks, weasles, skunks, wildcats and coyotes I do not see ho=
w there are any quail left for the sportsmen. The fight of these marauders =
is constantly going on, while the sportsmen's efforts are at present limite=
d to a very short period. At a quarter after two we left Newport's for home=
We took in a little gasoline at Riverside. This was the only stop made on=
the home run, which was accomplished in three hours and a quarter (seventy=
-six miles) with a perfect score so far as the machine was concerned. Natur=
e at Her Loveliest. We did not encounter the cruel wind in returning that b=
uffeted us on the outward trip. I never saw the San Gabriel Valley more bea=
utiful than it was that afternoon. As we bowled along the road this side of=
San Dimas, the entire valley lay before us. To the west were the rugged Si=
erra Madre Mountains; on the east, the San Jose Hills. They connected with =
the Puente Hills to the south. West of these came the hills of the Rancho L=
a Merced, running from the San Gabriel River westerly, and still west of th=
em come the hills, which run east from the Arroyo Seco, north of the Bairds=
town country. From our position these hills all seemed to connect without a=
ny breaks or passes in them. Thus the valley before us was one mountain-and=
-hill-bound amphitheater. The sky was overcast by grayish clouds. The sun h=
ung low in the west, directly in front of us. How gorgeous was the coloring=
of the sky and valley! How the orchards and vineyards were illuminated! Ho=
w the colors lingered and seemed to fondle every growing thing, and paint e=
ach rock and point of hill as no artist could! The sun hung in one position=
for quite a time before taking its final dip below the horizon. The clouds=
assumed a golden tinge, turning to burnished copper. Through breaks or irr=
egular rifts therein, we got glimpses of the sky beyond of an opalescent bl=
ue in strong contrast with the crimson coloring of the clouds, all of which=
were intensely illuminated by the setting sun. Underneath this vast sea of=
riotous coloring there was a subdued, intense light, which I can not descr=
ibe or account for. It brought every object in the valley plainly into view=
, lifted it into space, and illuminated it. After we had passed Azusa we ch=
anced to look back at "Old Baldy" and the Cucamonga peaks. They w=
ere in a blaze of glorious light, purple, pink, crimson, fiery red, all min=
gled indiscriminately, yet all preserved in their individual intensity. Oh,=
land so rare, where such visions of delight are provided by the unseen pow=
ers for our delectation! As I surveyed this vast acreage, evidencing the hi=
ghest cultivation, with princely homes, vast systems of irrigation, with or=
ange orchards and lemon groves in, every stage of development, from the pla=
nts in the seed beds to trees of maturity and full production, I congratula=
ted myself on living in such an age, and amid such environments. Let us app=
reciate, enjoy and defend until our dying day, this glorious land, unswept =
by blizzards, untouched by winter's cruel frosts, unscathed by the torrid b=
reath of sultry summer, a land of perpetual sunshine, where roses, carnatio=
ns, heliotrope, and a thousand rare, choice and delicate flowers bloom in t=
he open air continually, where in the spring time the senses are oppressed =
by the odor of orange and lemon blossoms, and where the orchards yield a ha=
rvest so fabulous in returns as to be almost beyond human comprehension. An=
Auto Trip Through the Sierras. Tule River and Yosemite. I have been in Cal=
ifornia fifty-four years. During all of this time I had never visited the Y=
osemite. Before it was too late I determined to go there. We started in Jun=
e, 1911. Accompanied by Mrs. Graves, my son Francis and a friend, Dr. A. C.=
Macleish, we left Alhambra, June seventh of this year at seven o'clock a. =
m. We passed through Garvanza, Glendale and Tropico, and were soon on the S=
an Fernando road. The run through the town of that name and through the tun=
nel, recently constructed to avoid the Newhall grade, was made in good time=
and without incident. Newhall. At Newhall we procured and carried with us =
a five-gallon can of gasoline. A short distance out of Saugus, we turned in=
to the San Francisquito Canyon road. Shortly afterwards a brand new inner t=
ube on the right rear wheel went completely to pieces. It had been too high=
ly cured and could not stand the heat. We replaced it with another one, and=
were soon crossing and recrossing the stream which meanders down the canyo=
n. Constantly climbing the grade, we were whirling from sunshine to shadow =
alternately as the road was overhung with or free from trees. Old Memories =
Aroused. I could not help recalling my trip over the same road with my old =
friend, Mr. A. C. Chauvin, on the third day of October, 1876. The road was =
fairly good. Our machine was working nicely, the day a pleasant one, and th=
e trip enjoyable. In a few hours we reached Elizabeth Lake. I pointed out t=
he very spot at which Chauvin and myself camped thirty-five years before. A=
h, the fleeting years! How quickly they have sped! What experiences we have=
had! What pleasures we have enjoyed! What sorrows endured in thirty-five y=
ears! Well it is, that then the future was not unfolded to me, and that all=
the enthusiasm and hope and ambition of youth led me on to the goal, which=
has brought me so much joy, as well as much sorrow. Momentous events have =
affected not only my own life, but the life of nations in these thirty-five=
years.</p>=20
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