River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-10-30
GREEDY WAS HUNGRY.
His Pitable Condition When Found-News
Papers in the Arctics News of Garfie1d's
Assassination in a whaler's Cache.

An interview with Lieut. Triel Sc
bree, of the relief ship Thetis, pub
lished in the Kansas City Journal,
brings out some additional facts of in
terests in regard to Greely's condition
when discovered, and other facts rela
ting to the party. He says: " Hunger.
suffering, mental distress and the hope
lessness begotten of abiect despair, had
unhinged Lieut.. Greely. and made him
Irresponsible He and the rest of 'em
seemed to think of nothing but some
thing to eat, and when not supplied
according to their cravings. they
did not hesitate to daal out abuse. Edu-
cation has mighty little show to curb
the animal in man when his nations are
locked to the degree that these poor
| fellows were. Illustrative Of what he
meant, the lieutenant went on to say
"Now, there is Lieut.. Greedy; he is a
scholarly man, refined in his tastes, and
possessed of great will power, or he
never would have survived tie rigor to
| which he was exposed He, however,
| could not curb the animal in lin. Hum
ger and greed for something to eat
overcame all sentiment and every other
desire with him. None of the party
seemed to be oyerjoyed at their rescue,
except for the one reason they would
get something to eat. Assoonas Lieut..
| Greedy was brought on board he was
carried to the officers cabin, being too
feeble to walk. The steward was put
to making him some beef tea, and he
eyed the process with eagerness. Think
! ing he would like first to hear OF his
| family, / told him how they had been
left we'll six weeks ago, and handed him
picture of his wife and children taken
six weeks previously. He glanced at
the picture, glanced only, for he could
not keep his eyes off the steward and
the beet tea, and said nothing.
1.-THE doctor fed him at short inter
walls, but more was his constant cry. To
| further illustrate how ravenous man
can become, / noticed the doctor hand
him thin piece of raw meat. He cut
off a piece of it and grabbed it in his
teeth, but while doing this he held to
the other piece and furtively looked
around as if he feared some one would
try to take it away from him.
He ate more than any of us when he
got so he was allowed to indulge his ap
petite. One day he remarked:
Gentlemen, as great an eater as |
seem, my wife used to say | was the
smallest she ever saw"
Then Lieut.. Greedy after moments
pause said very soberly and without
any semblance of joking:
People do not think enough about
i
to give more time and thought to it. 4"
"Poor fellow, he did not sleep for
thirty-six hours after he came aboard
the Thetis. The first thing he asked
for was his bitters. and insisted upon
having them, but was deprived of them
for time. lie then called on us to tell
him the news.
"What, he said, "has taken place in
three years? Tell me"
GAS q matter of fact. the first thing,
of course, that rushed to our minds was
the death of Garfield, and we told him
of it."
'"I know that" he said, and we ex-
claimed, how in the world did you
know"
"Then it turned out" said Lieut.. Sc
bree, that in cache they had found
which had been made by Beebe
on the first unsuccessful effort to relieve
the Greedy colony, were two dozen lem
ons, and around each of these scrap of
newspaper had been wrapped,
and from these scraps the col
ony had learned of Garfeld's
death; and it was surprising too,
how many other things they had learned
from these scraps of paper. They had
read and reread them 1t afforded
them diversion. and to further divert
their minds, Lieut.. Greedy. as long as
he was able, would lecture to the men.
They say his memory is perfectly won
derful, and he says everything that he
had ever read or heard returned to him
wildly while in the arctic solitude"
"Lieut. Lockwood's death was very
sad. Weeks before he died he became
queer. The men first noticed, when
Lieut.. Greedy or others of the party
We're relating some experience to divert
the minds of the suffering little band
from the contemplation of the dreari-
ness and hopelessness of their desola-
ton, Lieut.. Lockwood would morosely
sit by, pay no attention, but suddenly
interrupt by calculating:
Roast beef, mashed potatoes or
something of that kind"
HE died maniac. He it was who
went nearest the North pole, and was,
in fact the sturdiest man of the com
mand, though he was the second one
who died of starvation"
Lieut. Greedy was a hard looking
citizen when we found him. He had
not washed nor changed his clothes for
eleven months. His whiskeis were long
and matted, hair the same, and his
face and hands were grimed with dirt
He was so weak he could not walk, and
his flesh hung III flabby folds on him
He operated rapidly, and when he
reached st. Johns he could eat any
thing. He went ashore to the Ameri-
can consul's house, and on leaving the
ship the doctor cautioned him about
eating too much. and especially said he
must eat no veal As i'll luck would
have it, his hostess on the second day,
not knowing, of course, had Z splendid
roast Of veal, and Lieut.. Greedy just
gorged himself The result was that
he had the almightiest bellyache a man
ever and came near dying"
OF 125, 900 miles of railroad in the