Dear Editor:
I want to ask you about the seals; do you think the seals will be killed any more? I want to ask you where the seals are caught besides the Bering Sea? And don't you think the bicycle car will be in Baltimore? I am afraid it will be no good. I want to know how a car with one wheel that they call a bicycle train runs. Yours truly,
Charles C.G.
Baltimore, Md., May 14th, 1897.
Dear Charles:
The seal question has puzzled many wiser heads than ours; and no one has arrived at a proper solution of it yet.
We tell you in our paper this week of a new plan that has been suggested to prevent the mothers and puppies from being killed.
Seals are found in nearly all waters, but the seal whose fur is so valuable to us is found only in the North and South Pacific oceans, and not in the Atlantic.
Seals are found in the Mediterranean Sea, the Caspian Sea, along the European shores of the Atlantic; off the coast of Greenland, and off the Atlantic coast of the United States, but these seals have not the under fur we described to you in The Great Round World, and are of little market value compared with the Pacific Ocean seals.
We do not understand your question about the bicycle car. Explain it more fully, and we will do our best to answer it.