Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1873-05-29
Letter from New York.
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PoLARIs-rAE ARC
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NEW YORK. May %.
THE roLARIs
expedition, It's accomplished successes and
Its gloomy and shrouded failure excites q
world wide interest. The latest facts gath
cred direct from the lips of some of the
survivors seem to increase the mystery
surrounding the end of the expedition. 1t
appears that Hall had pushed his vessel
further towards the North Pole than any
navigator had ever done before, and was
forced backwards with victory In his gra sp.
The Open Polar Sea that was his dream
seemed spreading its tumbling waters for
eighty or ninety miles beyond the PROV Of
the Polaris. There were not five hundred
miles between him and the Pole. II the
wreathing mists, warm puffs Of wind and
heaving waters bore out their promise Of
an unfrozen ocean still beyond and to the
North, he was within three or four days
sail of the Northern end Of the axis Of the
earth. Under these circumstances it was
the fears Of Buddinston, the sailing mas
ter, prevailed upon Capt. Hall to go some
thirty-eight minutes South and winter.
That this untoward opposition to proceed
ing North was q weighty disappointment
to the gallant explorer we may well be-
lieve. The conditions Of Halls death show
how terribly even that black prospect can
be darkened. He drank some coffee and
was taken violently sick, vomiting and lay
suffering four days when his life went out
like the snuff Of CANDLE says Heron. the
Steward. The grave on the shore of Pol
arts Bay to all it's other forbidding sur
roundings adds the my stery that cnshrouds
the death Of him who lies below. How
will 1t be solved:
THE SYNDICATE
business is all the rage ever since Boutwell,
went into II on the New Loan. The latest
in that line is a Syndicate Of eleven Insur-
ance Companies who do business In hu-
man lives This concern embracing q
number OF the weakest and fimsiest COM
panies known have formed under the lead
ership Of company known as the "Equt-
able" and so far rs their published plat
form Informs us they have banded toge Their
for the purpose Of securing favorabiy, and
defeating hostile legislation, brow beating
the Press. or as they style it ''the predatory
press, " and TO block the business of com.
panies who don't think as they do about
the matter. Il is vastly amusing-only
that the subject is n grave one--to see the
style the City Journals speak of the "Cham-
Der OF Life Insurance. the vague and
thinly disguised manner in which they pre-
tend not to see that the great object Of this
unholy combustion is TO make Insur ance
on life dear. II has come TO pass-as a
great company, The Mutual Life of this
city-predic;ed, that there has to be war
over cheap life insurance.
Last winter the Mutual made move for
lower premiums, and, as even with lower
premiums it would still pay large divi-
bends than any other company extant, the
Syndicate" howled piteously, and a news
paper war ragged fercely over the land.
and from that day out these little hangers
on the outskirts OF the Insurance business
have growled aud snarled at everything
which looked like reduction Of rates on
life. The funny part Of it Is that these
three companies doing buriae,s n-Ic,
whose aggregate asserts would enable them
TO buy up the eleven forming the .'Syndi-
cate" and still have $40 .OOO, 900 left, and
none of the solid companies were invited
to join the chamber" and most of the
companies which are most eminent for SOL
idity either were not invited to join, or IL
invited, declined.
TOWN TALK
is Of Stokes, whose next appearance is on
the 26th inst, when it is very generally
concluded the judgment of the court be-
low will be affirmed and he will be hanged.
There is very general demand for cheap
light in cities. Brooklyn probably gets
her light as cheaply as any city in the I'M
ion. but 1t depends chiefly upon the state Of
the weather and the changes Of the moon.
This is owing to the fact that the gasmen
are yet on strike.
a despatch has been received from j. w.
Clendenin, President Of the Acadia Coal
Company, asking for subscriptions for the
relief OF the wounded and those lett des-
titute by the dreadful calamity ut the
Drummond Colliery Pictou. There are
LEFT without support, 30 widows, 30 chill
dren and aged persons, besides wounded
miners. Subscription for their relief sent
TO DIR. Randolph, p. o. Box 3G39, New
4 ork city, will be properly distributed.
Winter overcoats and Arctic shoes are in
season to-day. INSIDE.