COL. FURLONG SPEAKS ONCE MORE AT UNION

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Wellington Eurlong will give an illustrated lecture in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 7.30 o'clock on "The Wild River Lands of the Guianas". Colonel Furlong has spoken at the Union several times. His subject last year was "The Passing of the Old West".

Furlong Has Done Almost Everything

His career as an artist, author, soldier, and explorer is colored with experiences all over the globe. In Tripoli harbor, he discovered the wreck of the United States frigate Philadelphia, where it had been sunk a century before by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur of the American Navy. In South America, in 1907 he made extensive explorations, and collected valuable material which was afterward presented to the American Museum of Natural History, and the Peabody Museum of the University. In 1912, Colonel Furlong turned his attention to the Western part of this country and won the world's rough-riding championship by riding the bucking bull, "Sharkey". Several foreign governments decorated him for distinguished service during the World War.

Will Tell of Penal Reform

His lecture tonight is on a topic that brought him into prominence before the war, when one of his articles describing life in the Penal Colony in French Guiana gained notice from the French government and led to agitation for reform of the terrible conditions which he said existed there. The war halted these attempts at reform, but now they have been resumed and may lead to the abolition of the colony. Colonel Furlong will tell of a trip, by cattle boat from Trinidad to the penal colony. On this trip, he stopped at Demarara, in British Guiana, and thence continued on to Cayenne, where he observed the tragic life of the French convicts. From there he crossed the Maroni River to Albina, the frontier of Dutch Guiana, where he visited the villages of the Carid Indians and the primitive bush negroes. With the negroes, he travelled by canoe through the heart of the tropical forests of Dutch Guiana to the Cottoca River, and on to Paramaribo, the end of his trip. His speech tonight will be full of reminiscences of his stirring experiences on this expedition.