The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-12-22
THE JEANNETIE CREW,
MEASURES PROPOSED FoR RELIEF,
What the Government Has Done for the Assistance
Ofths CrsW-Lsttsr from an aAnSrlsaa Travel.
or POIntIns Out the Host Dsslrahls
ROlt's for the Return st the nsa

Or Pelnting Out the Host DtairAhle
RSuts for the Rsturn0t the asa
WASHINGTON, December 2l.-The secre
taFy ol. State and Secretary Of the Nav,
had conference this afternoon as to thl
best method to be pursued in reference Il
the steamer JeannOtte, and agreed that thC
only thing to be done at present was t.
Telegraph the United States Minister at St
Petersburg to request the Russian Govern
mept to furnish all the assistance in theil
power, pecuniary and otherwise, towards
bringing the survivors toa place OF com.
munication, SO that they might be enabled
to reach home,
The question Of sending the United
States steamer Rodgers, now in winter quar-
tors at st. Lawrence bay, in search Of the
missing crew OF the steamer Jeanette, was
discussed at the Navy Department to-day,
and conclusion reached that such an
expedition would be impractiCable until
spring.
The following was.sent this afternoon:
DETACHMENT OF STATE,
WASHINGTON, December 81, 1881.
To Hoffman, Charge De A9airy, S. Peters.
burg
The President desires you to make pro.
vision for the immediate relief and return
nj tha nffinara and ,nnn nj NI,o ItTno.,.oiI. :. II
Cable, promptly the amount Of credit re-
CURED and 1t will be provided by the
Secretary OF the Navy and myself Also
cable what stops can be taken by this
Government for the recovery OF tho crew
OF the missing boat.1
FRELISGHUYsEN,
Secretary.
George KEENAN,, otthis city who has had
experience Us traveller and explorer in
Northeastern Asia, sent TO the Secretary Of
State to-day tho following letter with re.
gard to measures for the relief OF the sur
vlvOrs Of the Jeannette:
He says: 1t seems to me clear, beyond
even the necessity OF discussion, that the
survivors Of the Jeanette must be brought
up tho Lena river this winter on dog
sledgcs to the city OF Yakoutsk. 1t Is in
the highest degree probable that tho Rus.
sian Governor Of "Premonskoi" "Ablast,"
or sea coast provinces, within whose
Jurisdiction Lieutenant Commander
De Long and his mon now are,
will make or already has made arrange
ments for their transportation TO Yakoutsk
without any instructions from the home
government, but as measure oi preCaution
the necessary orders should be telegraphed
from St Petersburg to the Governor
General OF Eastern Siberia, and money
10 defray the expense OF carrying them into
execution sent by telegraphic transfer to
Irkoutsk.
The survivors OF the Jeanette ought to
beable to reach Yakoutsk, from the mouth
ot the Lena, In month or six weeks. II
they arc physically able 10 endure the
hardship Of an Arctic sledge journey from
Yakoutsk to America they may take any
one of three different routes, First
they may 90 overland to st. Petersburg by
the Imperial Russian Post via Irkoutsk,
Tomsk, 0nlsk, Ekaterineburg and Moscow.
Second-They may be sent eastward
across Sanavia mountain on raindeef
sledges to the sea port Of 0khotsk on Ok.
hotsk sea, and there be called for next
summer by vessel from America. Or
they may 60 up the Lena by post
this winter, or by steamer In the spring,
and thence by post or steamer down the
Amoor TO NikolOeusk, where they may be
called for, as soon MS navigation opens In
the summer by one OF our ships for an
Aslatic station.
Should 1t be necessary, rs It doubtless
will be, to communicate with Lieut.C Com.
mander De Long, after lis arrival at
Yakoutsk, dispatch can be cent to him
by telegraph rs far as Irkoutsk, and by
courier from there, and will reach him Ia
about twenty days. Until the shipwreCked
party arrive at Yakoutsk there will
bc some ground for anxiety with regard
to them OIL account OF the physical
condition TO which they hive doubtless
been reduced by the terrible hartslips
they have undergone. At YOkoutsk, how.
ever they will find everything which they
need torestore them to health and strength,
and the journey homeward from there will
be one Of perfect safety and comparative
ease and comfort.
1H0 mihci CIuaeS ub iOIuWbi L uhVe
taken the liberty oi offering these stig.
gestlons and Of furnishing this information
because hardly anything Is known In
America Of theregion which the survivors Of
the Jeanette must traverse III orlerto reach
their homes, and because my experience
has made me familiar with the towns, route
and travelling facilities OF Northeastern
Asia, hoping that what l have written
may be Of some little service to the gallant
but unfortunate party OF Americans on the
Lena"