Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-12-24
A MANySIDED MAN.
A Journalist Who Is an Epieure nj
Home hut Can Live on Whatever Of
fers When in the Arctic Region.

fers When in the Arctic Region.
w. II. Glider, the Herald correspond
ent who crossed Siberia in sledges to
carry the news of the burning of the
Rodgers, arrived in New York on We'd
nesday of Last week. He doesn't look,
saws correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Record, as though he had under
gone some of the severest hardships that
ever befell q man. He says, however,
that he is not very welI-that the horse
he ate on the journey had not been fed
and didn't agree with him. To US, who
sat yesterday and the day before around
roaring fires, it seemed Impossible that
q man could live in such climate as
he has been in for the past year. But
even that was not as bad as the year
when he was with Schwatka on the
other side. 1t is not little singulr that
Mr.. Glider, when at home, is the most
luxurious of men in his way Of living.
He is so particular about his food that,
no matter how hungry he might be,
he would rather wait an hour to have 1t
prepared in certain way than to sit
down and eat if prepared carelessly.
He won't drink q cup of coffee unless
the bean has been roasted and ground
since he ordered it, and he will go into
a kitchen of a restaurant and give the
chef exact orders how to grill kidney
or fry a dish of whitehall. He would
rather 90 without the whitehall than eat
it if one of the tiny fish happened to get
broken. have known him to have been
an hour making a salad dressing. Yet
he can rough it as no man / ever met:
When he was in King Williams land
with Schwatka and during this last
Journey he lived on blubber and frozen
seal. I heard him say to-day that the
nearest he ever came to apoplexy from
too high living was on Wrangle Lana.
They had q good Italian COOK on the
Rodgers, and plover were TO be had ior
the shooting, so they lived as well as
they could have in Paris or New YORK;
The plover were the size ofpigeons,a and
as fat as though they had known the
Rodgers was coming and prepared
themselves for the slaughter. But after
the Rodgers was burned all the stores
were lost, and on the journey across 81
IBERIA the fare was pretty bad, and what
was worse to fastidious man, 1t was
not clean, but it was eat that or starve.
The frozen seal was piled up in corner
of the hut, and was sat upon and slept
upon by the entire family. When they
were hungry they broke q piece off and
ate it. Mr.. Glider says that the fat was
very warming, and the fur was not bad
when frozen hard, but when 1t rose up
and tickled the throat it was anything
but pleasant. I asked him il he did
not suffer q great deal from these priva-
lions, and he said that the hardships
themselves were not so bad, that 1T was
the mental worry that told on him:
The native he had as guide was bad
fellow, and was constantly trying to de-
sert him, in which case he would have
persisted in the wilderness. 1t was nee
essary to watch the man night and day,
and Mr.. Glider slept so lightly that
when he got up the next morning ne
was far from being refreshed. And yet
Mr.. Glider wants more of this life, and
would 90 back tomorrow If there was
an expedition going out.