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HENRY A. HOWARD.
The Airedale terrier was first bred in the valley of the River Aire (tributary to the Ouse), in England. The old English Terrier, a strong, fearless dog, good for vermin and dead game, lacked a good sense of smell. So the people of the Aire valley crossed it with the Otter Hound, making it keen-scented and giving it better watermanship. Other crosses were made to improve the breed. The dogs were first known as Waterside Terriers. The Airedale Agricultural Society, at a farm show, held the first exhibition of this class of dogs in 1879, and decided to give them the name Airedale in honor of the event.—ED.
From an Ex-Captive
TIME, New York, N. Y.
San Francisco, Calif. Mar. 10, 1925
Gentlemen:
As you seem to get a "kick" out of the letters of criticism and praise that are sent you by your readers, I'll add my little contribution. In your account of the Lincheng bandit outrage of May 6, 1923 (TIME, Mar. 2, 1925, Page 10) there were a few inaccuracies. It was the Tientsin-Pukow express and not the "Peking-Shanghai" express that was derailed. Not nearly 300 Chinese were carried off into captivity. Nearly 30 would be nearer the truth. And the 24 foreigners captured were not all taken to their impregnable lair. All of the women captives were released on the very day of their capture except the young Mexican bride who refused to leave her husband, and two of the men made their escape on the same day. That left a balance of only 18 who made the journey into the mountain lair of these bandits. Miss Aldrich did not lag behind and eventually so far behind that she was enabled to escape. She was set at liberty by her captors before she had been in their hands 24 hours, together with the other women captives, as before stated. The only ones who lagged behind so far that they were enabled to escape were the wives of two Army officers, who were the last of the foreigners to leave the train, Mrs. Robert Allen and Mrs. Roland Finger. These inaccuracies incline one to doubt the accuracy of the statement that Miss Lucy Aldrich had $50,000 worth of jewelry which she buried in the ground and so miraculously recovered. Would any sensible woman be traveling anywhere with that much jewelry on her person?
One of the captives,
ROBERT A. ALLEN.
Dartmouth's Place
TIME, New York, N. Y.
New York, N. Y. March 18, 1925
Gentlemen:
In column 3, Page 16 of your issue of Mar. 16, I noticed that you state Missouri took third place in the intercollegiate glee club contest at Carnegie Hall recently. Such was the result announced over the radio that evening. But, according to a newspaper account subsequently published, a New York Herald-Tribune reporter, on looking over the judges' lists after the contest, found that the official announcer had made an error and that Dartmouth, not Missouri, won third place. Which is correct?
A. E. HADLOCK JR.
Dartmouth was third. All thanks to Original Subscriber Hadlock, Dartmouth graduate!—ED.
Screech
TIME, New York, N. Y.
Fremont, Neb. Mar. 16, 1925
Gentlemen: