Travel stories: Edward Burton MacDowell

              TRAVEL STORIES EDWARD BURTON 
MACDOWELL


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COPYRIGHT 1907 BY E.B.
MACDOWELL




ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURES LANTERN SLIDES IN COLORS






Dr. MacDowell's Lecture Engagements are arranged by the CHICAGO-MUTUAL LYCEUM BUREAU, 
Orchestra Building, Chicago






Edward Burton MacDowell
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Panama in Picture and Prose


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A Story of the Isthmian Canal and the Republic of Panama, Illustrated by Original Motion Pictures and Copyrighted Lantern Pictures made during two visits to the Isthmus and showing the progress of two years' work




T
HE
 story of the Isthmian Canal, from the commencement of the work by the French engineers down to the present time, is a romance of squandered millions, incompetency and corruption, which tells like fiction, but a fiction which the American nation is today turning into fact.




Dr. MacDowell has recently returned from the Isthmus where he went for the second time purposely to study and photograph canal work now in progress.




His interesting story of travel will be illustrated by lantern slides which were developed by his own hands, while the motion pictures were also made by Dr. MacDowell with his own motion picture camera; and many of these motion pictures are the first ones made.




The picture story is preceded by a brief historical sketch of the Isthmus.




We first stand with Balboa the Spaniard upon the summit of the mountain admiring the vast blue of the Pacific.





Copyright 1905 by E. B. MacDowell

Right—Pres. Amador, Republic of Panama Left—American Minister Barrett Middle—E. B. MacDowell




Then we are with the treasure-seeking Pizzaro and later we see the French squandering their millions trying to sever the two continents.




Finally we are with MacDowell on his journey from New Orleans across the Gulf of Mexico to Panama.  Our banana steamer plunges and rolls in the heavy sea; the waves dash into foam and spray against her prow.  At Colon we see the sunken barges of the French and their abandoned machinery overgrown with tropical vines.  We travel by rail to the middle of the Isthmus and see the great Culebra Cut gashing the top of the mountains.  In the cities of Colon and Panama we get a glimpse of how the people live.





Atlantic Entrance Panama Canal

Copyright 1905 by E. B. MacDowell



In the heart of the tropical forest, eight miles from the modern city of Panama, the ruins of the original city of Panama furnish an opportunity for meditation; here we are brought back to the days of Spanish and English piracy and we almost expect to see the cruel old Morgan himself, again sailing down the bay, flying his pirate flag, in readiness to destroy the fated city.




In fact, after listening to Dr. MacDowell's interesting story and after marveling at the beauty of his realistic pictures, one almost feels he has been on a journey to Panama.





Cuba



An Artistic Picture Story of Life, Conditions and Adventure, Illustrated by Original Motion Pictures and Lantern Slides in Colors




A
LTHOUGH the Spanish-American war was comparatively short both in number and severity of its battles, yet the humane principles for which the American army fought and won, make it one of the most remarkable conflicts which the world has ever known—a war for the brotherhood of man.




Quite naturally since the war both American capital and tourist travel have been attracted to Cuba in ever increasing proportions.




In other words, Cuba is today in the public eye.




Every American who visits Cuba goes there with a feeling of parental love and interest in this new child republic whose uncertain political future is just now the deserving subject for America's deepest thought and the help of her strong right hand.




Dr. MacDowell has just returned from Cuba with his camera family and his word and picture story about the country, the people and the general conditions which exist there should be interesting to every American.  From Havana, the gay Paris of Cuba,


Moss Covered Tree—Interior

Copyright 1907 by E. B. MacDowell



A Presidential Possibility

Copyright 1905 by E. B. MacDowell



 Dr. MacDowell traveled by rail and small coasting steamer over the entire length of the Island to the distant battle-fields of San Juan and El Caney at Santiago.  And after feasting his cameras along these beaten paths of travel, and in accordance with his reputation for seeking out of the way places because of his great love for 
roughing it,
 he then answered a 
call of the wild
 and began to follow the muddy bends of an alligator stream, the only navigable river in Cuba, far up into the interior forest.  Dr. MacDowell there visited Estrada Palma, the recently deposed president of Cuba, who, with his children and grandchildren, had retired to a lonely cattle ranch that he might more easily bury his crushed ambitions and try to forget an ungrateful world.  From the Palma ranch Dr. MacDowell journeyed farther up the river toward the interior to near the heard of navigation where there is a little grass hut village, which does


Where Hobson Sank the Merrimac

Copyright 1907 by E. B. MacDowell

 not possess a resident who knows a word of English.  A bed among the salt and sugar barrels in the back room of a country store was his resting place for several days.  His story about how he 
got out of the wilderness
 is most interesting and thrilling.




How the rainy season came on suddenly and how a long forced horseback ride was made through the forests and flooded swamps back to civilization.




How the floods had swept away the bridges and how his horses swam three rivers during the trip are among the strenuous adventures which Dr. MacDowell's motion picture camera has faithfully reproduced.




GOERZ-ANSCHUTZ CAMERA USED





Samoa:  The Tropical Paradise of the South Pacific



The Story of a Summer Cruise, Illustrated by Original Motion Pictures and Copyrighted Photographic Slides Colored by a Master Hand




T
HE management takes pleasure in announcing the completion of two new lectures on South Sea Island subjects.  As the result of his extended wanderings in the Samoan, Fijian and Hawaiian groups, Dr. MacDowell, with an equipment of three cameras, secured 40 motion pictures and more than 1,000 negatives of still subjects.  This enterprising traveler has the undisputed right to say that 
his motion picture camera was the first to be operated in either the Samoan or Fiji Islands;
 and that his moving pictures of savage life and customs in these remote lands


Devotees of the 
Banana Habit

Copyright 1903 by E. B. MacDowellare 
today the only ones in existence.
  A sea voyage of 40 days; various interisland cruises by war-ships, small sailing craft and native canoe; long days of foot travel through interior tropical jungle and over volcanic mountain; sleeping at night beneath the thatched roof of some hospitable native chief; as


Cocoanut Lunch—Interior Forest

Copyright 1903 by E. B. MacDowell

 Samoan or Fijian guest, the recipient of odd gifts and the frequent favor of savage dance and song; the earth for a bed, and at times subsisting upon the cocoanut, breadfruit, banana and wild pig of the primeval forest, are among the pleasant memories of this thorough-going traveler.  Since the dissolution


Cocoanuts for the Climbing

Copyright 1903 by E. B. MacDowell

 of the joint protectorate held for ten years over the islands by the United States, England and Germany, and the final division of the group in 1899, between the United States and Germany, Samoa has come to be of special interest to the American people In the southern hemisphere, on the other side of the world and well down toward Australia, is Samoa, the happy land of sunshine, palm and song.  Who has met this mild Polynesian and breathed the soft atmosphere of his island world and even wondered why the late Robert Louis Stevenson so dearly loved his Samoan home?  Or who has heard fall from native lips the gentle greeting, 
Talofa!
  (love to you) and doubted the sincerity of his welcomer?


GOERZ LENSES USED EXCLUSIVELY





Through Arizona Canyon and Yosemite to the Glaciers of Alaska



A Lecture of Great Interest and Merit, Illustrated by Motion Pictures and Superb Hand Painted Lantern Slides





Overhanging Rock, Yosemite Valley

Copyright 1902 By E. B. MacDowell



T
HE story of this journey is a condensation of three separate lectures, and, consequently, the slides represent the selected gems from three collections, which were made very largely from Dr. MacDowell's own copyrighted negatives.  The


Early Morning—Mirror Lake, Yosemite

 motion pictures reproduce such animated subjects as:  Express Train Crossing the Desert—Mule Train and Tourists Climbing Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon—Feeding Time on Pigeon and ostrich Ranches in California—Surf Lashing a Rocky Coast—Waterfalls of the Enchanted Yosemite Valley—Panorama of the Yosemite Mountains—Yosemite Stage Coach passing through the 
Tunnel Tree
 in Mariposa Grove of Big Trees—Bathers Diving and Toboganning—Locomotives Laboring up Steep Mountain Grades—Ocean Steamer in a Storm, Tossing and Plunging through a Heavy Sea—Railway Panorama of the White Pass, Alaska—Klondike Miners Shooting the Perilous White Horse Rapids, etc.


A Small Section of the Muir Glacier, 400 Feet High

 These Moving Pictures are projected by the latest devised animated-picture apparatus, in the hands of a skilled assistant.





OPINIONS



Philadelphia Central Y. M. C. A.


—Dr. MacDowell's finished and unique work is as different from the average illustrated lecture as is the Boston Symphony Orchestra from a little German Band.  Lecture, delivery, personality, slides and original moving pictures, were all most delightful.  
(
Returned five successive seasons.
)




Baltimore Central Y. M. C. A.


—Dr. MacDowell's work takes its place in the forerank of presentations of this character.  We shall not forget him in arranging next season's course.  
(
Returned four seasons.
)




Record Herald, Chicago


—One of the best lectures ever heard in Chicago was given last night by Dr. Edward Burton MacDowell at the Art Institute.




Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution


—Dr. Edward Burton MacDowell closed the Grand Opera House course last evening.  His beautiful lecture on Panama was the best thing of the course.  
(
Returned three successive seasons.
)






Jamaica



Beautifully Illustrated by Original Motion Pictures and Colored Lantern Views




J
AMAICA, 
Pearl of the Antilles,
 home of the ginger, land of high mountains, deep valleys, gushing rivers, emerald seas, tropical fruits, flowers and sweet odors—who has seen this garden of the world and forgotten its charm and beauty?  The Spaniard found it and enjoyed its bountiful gifts of nature for a hundred and fifty years.




Then the English soldier came and set up a colonial government for the black man which has prospered through almost three centuries.




While Jamaica is today one of England's most valued possessions, yet the United States has, during recent years, established such vast commercial interests there that American influence is now a recognized power throughout the Island.  In fact American capital and energy have made Jamaica's banana industry what it is today—a gold mine, whose output gorges the hulls of nearly a hundred steamers, whose black smoke shades the seas, every month in the year, between Jamaica, New York, Boston and Philadelphia.  The United States sends more winter tourists to Jamacia than all other nations combined.  Dr. MacDowell saw, and with his still and motion picture cameras reproduced the beauties of Jamaica's varied charms as only the true artist traveler can.





The Fiji Islands



The Story of a Summer Cruise, Illustrated by Original Moving Pictures and Copyrighted Photographic Slides Colored by a Master Hand




L
EAVING Samoa Dr. MacDowell journeyed on down to the Fiji group, located off the northeast coast of Australia.  Although under English rule, this populous country, so rich in the traditions of savagery and cannibalism, is yet full of interest to the traveler.  The lecture is a comprehensive story about the country and its people, and is told by one whose hobby is travel and whose fondness for the photographic art enables him to graphically illustrate his journeys by the best selections from his own handiwork.  The wonderful moving pictures, the only ones ever taken in Fiji, necessitated the packing on foot of heavy apparatus through wilderness and over mountains, and as the result of his toil and hardships, Dr. MacDowell's motion pictures make the savage Fiji a moving, if not a breathing actuality, surrounded with all the environments of his tropical home.  Before setting out for the interior of the country the Fijian Government provided the lecturer with a letter of introduction which opened all doors before him.





A Fiji Cannibal

Copyright 1904 by E. B. MacDowell




Evening—Jamaica

Copyright 1910 by E. B. MacDowell



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