The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22
In the Arctic Regions.


The Views and Experiences Of Glider, who An
aouneed the Loss Of the Rodgers.
e w. Il. 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. He doesn't look rs though he
had undergone some of the severest
hardships that over befell man. He
says. however, that he is not very well
that the horse he ate on the journey
had not been well fed, and didn't agree
with him. To US, who sat yesterday
and the day before around roaring fires,
it seems impossible that a man could
live in such climate as he had been In
for the past year. But even that was
not as bad as the year he was with
Schwatka on the other side. 1t is not a
little singular that Mr.. Glider, when at
home is the most luxurious of men in
his wsy of living. He is 80 particular
about mis- food, that no matter how hum
cry he may be, he would rather wait an
hour aud have it prepared in 8
certain way. than to sit down and eat
: it If prepared carelsssly. He won't
drink cup of coffee unless the bean
has been roasted and ground since he
ordered it, and he will 60 into the kitch-
ON of restaurant and give the c6efexact
orders how to grill kidney or fry q
dish OF whitebait. He would rather go
without the whitebait than eat it if one
Of the tiny fish happened to get broken.
have known him to have been an
hour making salad dressing. Yet he
can rough it as no man I 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 Land.
They had good italian cook on the
Rodgers, and plover we're to be had for
shooting, 80 they lived as well as they
could have in Paris or. New York. The
plover were the size of pigeons, and as
fat as though they knew the Rodgers
was coming and prepared themselves
for the slaughter. But afterthe Rodgers
was burned all the stores were lost, and
on the Journey across Siberia the fare
was pretty bad; and, what was worse
to fastidious man, it 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 a piece off
and ate il. Mr.. Glider says the fat was
very warming, and the fur was not bad
when it was frozen hard, but when it
rose up and tickled the throat it was
anything but pleasant. 1 asked him if he
did not suffer great deal from these
privations, and he said that the hard
ships themselves were not so bad, that
it was the mental worry that told on
him. The native he had as a guide was
bad fellow, and was constantly trying
to desert him. in which case he would
have persisted in the wilderness. It
was necessary to watch the man night
and day, and Mr.. Glider slept so light
ly ESQ as to hear the rascal If he moved
in the night) that when he got up the
next morning he was far from being re-
freshed. And yet Mr.. Glider wants
more of this life, and would go back
tomorrow if there was any expedition
going out.-N. 2. Cor. Philadelphia
Record.