Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-07-23
HISTORICAL.
Woiprecht's CirCum-Polar Scheme and
tho Expeditions.

Lieut.. P. 81. Ray, the other under
Lieut.. A. w. Greedy for Dis
covery Harbor, Lady Franklin Bay,
81 degrees SO minutes north latitude
and IS degrees west longitude, 500 miles
from the pole. The other ten stations
selected were: Fort Rae, north of Man
itoba, by the British; Cumberland
Island, north of Hudson Bay, by the
Germans; Goodhaab, Greenland, by
the Danes; Jan Mayen Island, by Aus
tria; Spitzenberg, by the Swedes; Boss
kopp, near North Cape, by Norway; a
point near the White Sea, by Finland j;
Nova Zembla, by the Russians, who had
another station at the mouth of the
Lena River, in Siberia; and Dickson
Haven, near the mouth of the Yenisei
River, by the Dutch. The Dutch ex-
pedition failed to reach it's destination,
having been caught in the ice in the
Kara Sea. Observations were made
during the winter, however, and the
party made good their escape when
their vessel sank, on the breaking up OF
the ice the following summer. ALI the
other expeditions were successful.
THE GREELY PARTY.
The Greedy party, numbering twenty
five in all, sailed from st. Johns in
August, 1881, and reached their desti-
nation easily; the Proteus, which con-
veyed them, had no trouble from the
ice either going or returning. The
colony was provided with house, with
boats, and with provisions and stores
for two years. Near them was a bed OF
good coal, so that they were sure of a
plentiful supply of fuel. It was agreed
that relief party should be sent them
the following summer, to replenish their
stores and bring away any that might be
sick. If that should fail to reach them
an effort shonld be made to bring them
all away the next summer, 1883. In the
event that the second expedition should
fail to appear, the colony were to aban.
don the station not later than the first
of September, 1883, and make their way
to Littleton Island, where supplies
would be left them, in case they were
not previously picked up.
FIRST RELIEF EXPEDITION.
The first relief expedition unde,
LieCt. Darlington was stopped by ice
long before it reached the neighbor.
hood of the colonists. It made de.
posit of provisions and stores at Cape
Sabine, near the south extremity o1
Smiths Sound, $50 miles south of Dis
covery Harbor, and returned home. The
attempt made last summer, in two YES.
sells, to reach and succor the oolonists
failed disastrously; one of the vessels
the Proteus, was lost, and no stores
were left for the retreating colonists
when they should reach Littleton Is
land.
THE EXPEDITION NOW OUT.
An the Oath of April last the steamer
Bear of the last relief expedition, whose
efforts have been crowned with success,
sailed from New York. About ten
days afterward the Thetis, got unde,
way and was closely followed by the
Alert as a supply boat. Littleton Isl
and was the objective point of the
feet. The Thetis, the flagship of the
expedition, was in charge of Com
mander w. s. Schley. She was, until
purchased by the government, a Dun.
dee steam whaler, and is an excellent
sea boat and very strong. The Bear
was steam sea!er hailing from Dun.
dee, before being purchased. She is
in comm. I'D of Lieut.. W. II. Emory.
The Alert, the famous advance vessel
of the Mares expedition, was gift from
the British government and is classed
as one of the strongest boats afoat
Being used as q supply boat, she fol,
lowed in The wake of the other ships
She is in command of Commander COT.
fin.
LIEUT.. aREELY.
Lieut.. A. w. Greedy was born in New
buryport, Mass, March 81, 1914. He
is not graduate of any of the military
academies. He entered the war as 8
private in the Nineteenth Massachu.
setts Regiment in August, 1861. He
was afterwards promoted to corporal
and then to first sergeant of Company
B, of that regiment. On the 18th OF
March, 1863, he was made second lie1-
tenant of the Eighty-frst q. s. Colored
Infantry, and in April of the succeed.
ing year he became first lieutenant
He was breveted major on the 18th OF
March, 1865, for faithful and meritori,
GUS service" and on the 4th of April o1
the same year he was made colonel OF
the Eighty-frst Colored Infantry
On the 22d of March, 1857, he was
mustered out. During his term of serv.
ice he was engaged in twenty battles
and wounded at White Oak Swamp
Antietam and Fredericksburg. He was
in New Orleans, and at the close of the
war was appointed cadet from Louisi.
ana by Gen. Grant, and entered the
Sixth United Statessscavalry, serving on
the Southern frontier, and afterwards
was connected with the signal service
end built the telegraph lines, 1,5CO
miles in extent, through the state OF
Texas. In 1881 he was appointed to
take charge of the signal service expe-
ditiOn. ~
PERSONNEL OF, TIE PARTY.