The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-22

sent ny ouf government 10 HOlnt a
row, in Alaska. When this decision
was announced the other Governments
decided upon a similar course, aud in
April the Polar Commission announced
that all the international expedi.
tons, excepting such as were ice-bound,
would return home by this month.
The Point Barrow party was easily
reached, butthe attempt to get to Lieu
tenant Greely's party at Lady Franklin
Bay utterly failed.
The relief expedition, sailed from st.
Johns, N. F., on June 80, in the Pro-
teus, which vessel was escorted by the
United States steamer Yantic. The
Proteus was a steam sealer of GOO tons,
1913 feet long and % feet wide. She was
built expressly to encounter the ice. rIer
bow was Z feet thick, and was sheathed
from bow to stern with iIonwood, which
by its smoothness and elasticity was
not liable to be torn by the ice as cor
per would be. Besides this she had
a layer of iron plating on her bow.
As finally made up the expedition
consisted of Lieutenant Darlington,
Master John G. Colwell, United States
Navy f; DIR. Harrison, United States
Army Sergeant Kenny, Corporal Eli
will, and Priyates Lamar and Filters, of
the Signal Service +; Privates Moritz and
Murphy, of the Infantry a cook, and
two men hired at st. Johns, exclusive
of the ships company, which were
Captain Pike, who carried Lieutenant
Greedy and party to Lady Franklin Bay
two years ago two mates, three en-
gineers, steward, with sixteen fire.
men and seamen-making twenty-five
in all.
The Greedy Expedition, the attempt
to rescue which from its perilous pos
ition has utterly failed, consisted of the
following Lieutenant A. w. Greedy,
Fifth Cavalry, in charge ; Lieutenant
Frederick 7. Kislinburg, Sergeants
Edward Israel, w. s. Fewell, George
W. Rice and d. G. Ralston, of the Sig
nal Corps ~Sergeants d. L. Brainard
aud d. Sim, and Corperals d. C. Starr
and N. Sailor, Second Cavalry Cor
poral p. Grimm, Eleventh Infantry /:
Corporal j. j.. Ellison, Tenth Infantry /;
Privates Black and Gardiner, Signal
Corps, j. Frederick, Second Cavalry !;
J. Ryan, Second Cavalry I; W. Ellis and
I. M. Connell, Third Cavalry Charles
b. Henry, Fifth Cavalry !; j. Bender,
Francis Long anvW. Whistler, Ninth
Infantry. J. II. Bredbrick, 18th Infan-
try and w. H. Gross, general service.
The expedition was taken out on the
Proteus, which sailed from st. John,
n. F., on July 4, 1881, and landed the
party at Lady Franklin Bay a month
later, returning to st. Johns on Sep
TENDER IL, reporting all the members
of the party well. Since then nothing
has been heard from them. At Lady
Franklin Bay. which is in latitude SIC
Az north, the meteorological station
was to be established, the houses and
scientific apparatus that were to be
used being the same that had been pre-
pared for the abandoned Howgate ex-
petition of the year before. A small
steam yacht was at the service of the
party.
On July s, 1882, an attempt was
made to relieve Lieutenant Greedy by
dispatching the steamer Neptune from
st. Johns, but this vessel was unable
to penetrate further north than 1872 2U,
while Lieutenant Grealy's station was
% 90 further to the north.
Lieutenant Greedy was amply supplied
with stores of all kinds olast till the sum
mer of 1884. When these are exhausted
as they must o o be, it is regarded
by Arctic authorities as possible that
salmon may be obtained at the mouths
of any small streams, and trout certainly
in the lakes, besides seals, so that the
party are not likely to suffer from scurv,
or starvation. Fort Conger, which is
the official name of Lieutenant Greely's
station, is situated on the eastern coast
of Grinnel Land, just north of Lad,
Franklin Bay, in latitude $40 40. 1t
is further north than the wi~nterquarters
of any Attic expedition and of the ex-
petition of Sir George Mares in 1875
The coast of Grinnel Land south of tn,
meteorological station is extremely
wild, rugged and desolate, and for q
distance of at least 800 miles is entirely
uninhablted. The nearest permanent
settlement Of natives so far known, Ii
that of the Etah Esquimaux, on the
other side of Smiths Sound, $50 miles
or more from the station. Lieutenant
Greely's party, therefore, is entirely
isolated from all local assistance, and
must depend for its ~safety-first, upon
its own e~xertions, and, second, upon
the cooperation of relief expeditions
from this country, two Of which have
already failed.
Foreign.
Admiral Sir Richard Collinson, X.
q. B., F. R. G. s., is dead at the age
Of p years.
-Dutton Coax, dramatic and ant
critic, died at London, aged 81 years.
1t has been a~scertained that the
real name of the Irish informer known
as Norsman is Gibney.
The quatre-centenary of Martin
Luther's birth was celebrated at Witten-
berg, Germany.
king Milan of Seryia has presented
to Bismarck the Order of the White
Eagle as a token of good will.
The Paris Patrie reports that the
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