570 INVESTIGATION OF THE FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OP ALASKA. 



Mr. Claek. Yes. 



Mr. McGuire. Now, in hearing No. 1 before this committee, Janu- 

 ary, 1914, page 415, with respect to the matter called to your atten- 

 tion by the chairman, have you any observations to make, Mr. Clark ? 



Mr. Clark. I was not aware, until the chairman called attention 

 to it, of this statement on page 415. That is, I have not examined 

 every item of this big document. Going back to the record, on page 

 416, the question is not simply whether a typographical error has 

 occurred. On the basis of that typographical error is a deduction 

 which is entirely wrong. It places a statement of Dr. Jordan made 

 one year in contradiction with four statements made by two other 

 men one year later. There is the issue. If Dr. Jordan made this 

 statement on July 25, 1897, after two seasons' experience, it would 

 have been a foolish statement; but if the date is in 1896, after he had 

 been on the islands for about two weeks, it is a natural one. 



The Chairman. But, Mr. Clark, it is explained in the hearing that 

 it is a discrepancy, and that Dr. Jordan is no longer charged with 

 having been there in 1897. 



Mr. Clark. Has this "deadly parallel" depending on the error 

 also been corrected ? 



The Chairman. No. You see the same thing in both quotations. 

 You will find the same thing in both quotations. The only unfortu- 

 nate part of it was that 1897 was printed on page 416, but the hearings 

 will explain that. 



Mr. Clark. Do you mean to say that if that date is corrected to 

 1896, that that statement is a just one — a year apart? 



The Chairman. As I understand it; that is my impression. 



Mr. McGuire. But here he has drawn a deadly parallel, and if this 

 change is made it absolutely knocks the parallel sky west of crooked. 



Mr. Elliott. The same parallel is drawn on the page preceding, 

 and then in 1898 Dr. Jordan confirms all his errors. 



The Chairman. I suppose that is true; suppose you examine it 

 and see whether that is true. 



Mr. Clark. The parallel on page 416 is different. The same state- 

 ment for Dr. Jordan is made in the parallel claimed on the other 

 side, which is for July 11, and no year is given. (Reading): 



July 11. — Zapadnie Rookery, St. George Island: The yearling bachelors are to be 

 seen in little pods of half a dozen or so. * * * Where the bachelor yearlings are 

 at a distance from interference, they play among themselves like little dogs, * * * 

 Similar comparisons might be made for the 2-year-olds, which are bigger than the 

 yearlings. 



The year is not given there, so that you can not make a parallel out 

 of that. 



Mr. Stephens. On the next page you will find the parallel, page 

 416, right-hand column, fur-seal investigation of 1898. 



Mr. Clark. That will fix the date, of course, but 1898 is the date 

 of publication, not of observation. 



Mr. Elliott. On page 341 I have got it all fixed. 



Mr. Clark. I was mislead into thinking it stopped at the bottom. 



Mr. Elliott. I have been pretty careful. I was trying to explain 

 that column. Mr. McGuire, and you would not let me. 



The Chairman. Your explanation is in the hearings. Now let 

 Mr. Clark explain his version of it, and see whether there is any mis- 

 take about it. 



