The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-30
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The Arctic Expedition.
Sailing of the PoIaris.
General TTOChu and the Assembly.
Inside History of the war
The Great German Pageant.
Etc, ETC., ETC., Etc, Etc. Etc.
Sailing of the PoIaris.
General TTOChu and The Assembly.
Inside History of the Wa
The Great German Pageant.
OFF FOR THE NORTH POLE.
Departure of the PoIaris-The Farewell
Greetings.

Departure of the PoIaris-The Farewell
Greetings.
The steamer Polaris left the Brooklyn Navy
Yard about o'clock last evening. She will
proceed direct to st. Johns, Newfoundland,
and thence to Drisco, Danish settlement on
the coast of Labrador, whence she will sail to
her wintering ground, wherever that may be
found. The last stores and instruments were
placed on board early yesterday. Orders had
been received from Washington for the expedi-
tion to sail at 6 A. NJ, but it was deemed
inexpedient to leave before evening,
and considerable additional delay was also
caused by the difficulty of finding pilot.
About 1890 the Government tug Rocket
steamed into the Wallabout channel and took
line from the Polaris. The leave-takings we're
hastily concluded between the sailors and their
wives and friends; the hawser was cast off from
the pier, and the Polaris swung slowly out into
the stream in tow of the propeller. She was
then conducted to the buoy at the entrance of
the Navy Yard, near the receiving ship Vermont
where Captain Chandler, in the Rocket, took
formal leave, and was thrice saluted by the dip
ping of the colors at the peak of the Polaris.
At l o'clock, Captain Chandler went
aboard again in small boat, and the Po-
laris, casting loose from the buoy, proceeded
up the East river to settle her cargo and to test
her engines. Constructor Delano, who was
standing en- the bulkhead as the vessel steamed
up the river, remarked that she was Sin every
respect a very seaworthy boat" The trip as far
as the lower end of Blackwell's Island was soon
accomplished. The officers expressed unquali-
hed satisfaction with the working of the
steering apparatus and the engines and
the vessel returned at to her anchor
age off the buoy. She was saluted by numerous
propellers, and, on passing the ferry-boats,
crowds gathered along the guards to get last
look at the Arctic voyagers Small boats Piled
between the shore and the Polaris, conveying
small packages of presents from anxious friends
to those on board Captain Hall was busy to
the last moment experimenting the drawing up
Of the ships boats and the slowing away of
everything movable.
The visiting boats had all tax en- their depar-
ture, the business of the Navy Yard had ended
Tor the day, and the long lines of workmen had
left their shops, when the Polars raised her
anchor, and in the quiet of the early evening
headed up the East river for He'll Gate, the sun
set gun at the ordnance dock booming soli-
tary farewell. The pilot hoped to pass the gate
before dark and intended to accompany the
Polaris as far as Block Island. Captain Hall has
expressed his desire from the beginning to
delay the departure until the LIST of July, aud it
is Iumored that he intends to stop at New Lon
don, Conn.,, and spend some time there before
his final departure Tribune tO-ddV.