The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-07-24
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ARCTIC ACHIEVEx-n4rs.

WHss Has Been AccOmpIieaAt ~ the
Greeley Expedissos.
WAsHIEeToN. July I'M. George
KEENAN,, Of this city, the well known
Arctic traveller and author who has
taken active interest in she Eeceat at
tempt 70 relieve Lieutenant Greeley's
party, and who went before the Arctic
relief board last sprIng to urge the Offer
ing Of such reward As would secure the
cooperation of whalers IN the search,
was asked by an Associated Press re-
porter tonight what he thought of the
news received from IS. Johns. He re-
piled:
1t is story of remark able and heroic
achievement in field clouded by disas-
ter due TO incompetency in Washington.
II Lieutenant Greeley and his party had
all returned In safety 70 the United States
IS they might have done had they been
properly supported, their Arctic record
in point of skilliul management and
success would have been unparalleled.
No other Arctic expedition has ever
spent two consecutive winters and pa. t
of third in such, high latItudes and
achieved such results without casualty
| or single case of serious sickness. II
| Lieut.. Greely had found at the mouth of
he had right to expect there, he would
probably have brought his entire perty
back TO the Unit,d States in perfect
health, after three winters in the high
est northern latitude that has eyer been
reached, and after series of sledging
campaigns which, for boldness and ekill-
full execution, have rarely. if ever, been
surpassed"
"Could the disaster which befeil his
party have been avoided with the knowl-
edge available at the time the relief eX-
petition were fitted oHtP' "Unques-
tionabIy, and that is the pity of 1t. 1t
doubles the grief which must be felt in
face of such a terrible catastrophe to
think that two ships on successive years.
and probably third. were in position
to land stores which would have saved
the lives of those eighteen dead men.
Beebee, in 1882, anchored in Prayer
Harbor, just north of cape Sabine with
ship full of stores. Garlington the next
summer anchored in the same place,
alas, with q ship full of stores, and a
few days later the Yantic with four
months provisions on board was only
| thirty miles away. ANY of these three
ships might have landed stores enough
exactly where Greedy SfteIward made
his winter camp to have carried thai
brave party through But Jnelr com
manding officers were not ordered TO dc
so, and they did not think of It"
"Were Greely's movements those
which it was anticipated he would
| makes"
"They were precisely such as sntIci
pated and published. 1t is TO the caches
made by the British expedition of 1875
on the western coast, that the few sur
viYOrs of Lieut.. Greely's party mainly
owe their lives"
"How Important are the discoveries
made by Lieut.. Greedy ?"
ain the view of an Arctic geographer
they are of first class importance. Lieut.
Greedy has not only taken away from
Commander Markham, of the British
navy, the blue ribbon Arctic discover.
for the highest latitude ever attained Il
any part of the world but he has great
ly extended the limit of Mares explors
lions, both IN Greenland and GrInnel
Land, and has given a severe blow :
Capt. Mares theory that the polar basil
is sea OF immovable ice and unnaviga
Bile. Greely has ascertained the outlin
of Grinnell land and gone one degree {
latitude and ten degrees OF longitude be
yond the furthest point reached b.
Mares. The scientific knowledge gail
tered by the party in two years at Lad
Franklin Bay will be of great value"