National Republican., 1882-12-04
ANOTHER ARCTIC SEARCH
To Find Lieutenant GrceIy and His Com
panions.

The United States Government has another
Arctic search on its hands, which will be be-
gun early next summer, and for which an ap-
preparation must be made early in the coming
session of Congress. A year ago last July
First Lieutenant Greedy, of the Fifth Cavalry,
and Second Lieutenants Kislingsbury and
Lockwood, of the Eleventh and Twenty-third
Infantry, with twenty-one men from the Sig
nal Corps and Army, started for Lady Frank
lin Bay in latitude SO 20', longitude $40 So.
Their purpose was to establish meteorolopi-
cal station, Which the government proposed
TO maintain for three years. The station is
the northerlnost ofa chain of stations estab-
hshed by the governments of the United
States, Austro-llungary, Denmark, France,
Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Italy, Nor
way, Sweden, and Russia, for the purpose of
taking simultaneous observations in meteorol-
ogy, magnetism, ocean currents, tides, struc-
turo of ice, density of sea water, &c. 1t is the
first practical and
UNITED EFFORT TO FIND OUT
what the extreme north has to reveal in these
branches of science. The observations be-
gan at the chain of stations which were estab-
lishod around the pole on the LIST of Au-
gust. The other station established by
the United States ut Point Barrow,
Alaska. is about rs far north as any station
established by the foreign governments. The
party Mt Lady Franklin Bay is in d very mac
cessible place. The intention was that it
should he visited every year by relief and
supply expedition, which should take up men
to supply the places Of those who might be ill
or who might have died during the year and
fresh food and clothing. 1t is now over a year
since anything has been heard from Lieuten-
ant Greeley and his party. They had large
doublc-Walled house, supply of provisions for
two years, and they were near u bed of coal.
1t is presumed
THAT THEY ARE SAFE,
but nothing is known about them, because
the relief expedition sent up this year failed
TO reach the station, the ice being impossible.
The experience of the last forty years has
taught the masters of whalcrs that Lady
Franklin Bay can be reached only about once
Ill seven years by water. Congress, indeed,
came very near leaving the matter uncarcd
for entirely, for it was the ed of June before
the appropriation was made, and General
Hlzen was about to engage u vessel and fit
her out on his own responsibility, when Con-
gress recoleoted that the country had twenty
i've men depending on its action for comforts
and necessaries. As it was, the expedition
was delayed week by this inaction of Con-
gress The expedition of next summer is to
get off not later than the 1st of July. While
1t is not expected that any harm has come to
Lieutenant Greely and his party, the expe-
dition is to start out prepared to winter il
the Straits are impossible, and to reach Lady
Franklin Bay with sleds. The Secretary OF
War is taking great pains in the selection of
an olcor to command the party and General
Terry has been asked to namo some of the
younger officers, who have become used TO all
the hGrdships of the weather of the Northwest
They will not come back until they find
Greedy and his party. Congress will be asked
to make the appropriation, about $4,000,
carly in the session.