The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-10-23
BUsISt ss BRIEFS.
Old Probs' Rem ort

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-Gen. Hazen,
chief signal officer, in his annual re-
port, calls attention to the crippled con-
dltion in which tho service has been left
by the last two appropriation acts, and
says that as consequence seventeen
stations Of the meteorological service
nave been closed in order To send men
to telegraph lines. The increasing de-
mand for special predictions in the in
terests OF agriculture, special trades and
commerce indicate in "A measure, the re-
port says, the value and Importance of
the indications divisions of the signal
service, with an improvement in the
wording of indications and more
rigid manner of determining the acur-
acy OF predictions. Gen. Hazen reports
Improvement in the work Of the divi-
sion, and adds that further improve
mont could De made by an increase of
stations, especially in the west and
northwest. The report says no general
storm has passed over the country dur
ing the year without warning. In re-
lation to the Arctic expedition he SAYS,
after referring to the departure Of
the YantiC, after the loss of tho
Proteus from L.ittleton island to
st. Johns without having provisions,
that this abandonment of Greely
aud party to probable starvation by the
officers, whose only mission i'm that re-
gion was to succor them, displayed a la
inevitable disregard of the grave rospon-
sibility. He holds that II Lieut.. Gar
lington had insisted upon leaving
rations from the Nantio, or if another
relief vessel had been sent from ST.
Johns, ms he says he had urged, the loss
of life and the disaster would have been
N ia.
Greedy carried out his instructions lit
orally and the signal bureau
carried out its preliminary
plan. He continues, after re-
terring TO Greoly's relief 10 Cape Sa-
bine and To the success of the relief eN.
petition under Srhley as follows: In
70 the return of the expedition this wear.
| had hoped there would be no occasion
for raising the question Of blame NJ this
or any future time. But new light has
been cast on the project, and with it my
duty becomes plain, and truth, history
and justice To All calls for such impartial
inquiry and author. tativo as a tribunal
broad enough to embrace the whole
question shall Institute and, pronounce,
and congress / maujigatly such tribu-
nal. | therefore, trust this matter of the
Lady Franklin Bay expedition, and the
expedition organized ~. i.s relief, will
DO deemed worthy "a thorough investi-
CATION 10y congress. The general regards
the Greeley expedition gS among the
foremost Of its kind and insists that
Greedy in the Attic and tho signal
bureau In Washington, carried out their
parts otthc pre- arranged plans of rescue
literally ana successfully, la every par.
ticular. lie refers to the failure of Lieu
tenant Darlington, to replace pro-
visions at Cape Sabine, ard
quotes from letter written hv
Lieutenant Greedy to him, April
80, supposiug himself ut the nolnt' OF
death, rs follows: "Elad Lieutenant
darlington carried out your orders and
replaced the 30 rations Of rum and the
40 rations of alcohol in the English
cache here and the 30 pounds ol mouldy
English bread spoiled, English choco
late and potatoes, melted sugar and 9lO
pounds of rotton dog biscuits, we would
without doubt have been saved" Gen.
hazen says Darlington should have left
two-thirds OF tho stores rescued from
the Protous at Ca, g Sabine.