Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-18

their lives to the indOmitabIe energy OF
Captain Schley and Lieutenant Emory.
who, preceded by three and accompanied
by i've whalers, forced their vessels from
Upernavik, through Melville bay, into
north water at Cape York. With the fore
most whaler they gained a yard whenever
possible, and always held it. smiths Sound
was crossed and the party rescued during
one Of the most violent gales | have. ever
known. Boats were handled only at
imminent risks of swapping. Four
OF us were unable TO walk, and could not
avesuryived exceeding twenty-iour hours.
Every care and attention was given us.
We have saved and bring back copies o.
meteorological, tidal and astronomical.
magnetic and pendulum, and other obser-
vations; also pendulum, Yale, and standard
Thermometer; fOrty-eight Photographic
negatives. a collection OF plants and photo
graphic proofs. Eskimo relics and other
things were necessarily abandoned. The
Thctis remains here FIVE days probably.
GREEIY, Commanding.
Lieutenant GresIy's second Dispatch.
He CLAIMS THAT ENGLAND MUST YIELD THE
HONOR OF FARTnEsT NORTH.
WASHINGTON, ID. c.. July 1S.-The fol-
lowing is a second dispatch received from
Lieutenant Greedy by General Hazen to-
day:
:.For the first time in three centuries
England Yields the honor OF farthest north.
Lieutenant Lockwood aud Sergeant Brain
erd. May 18Th. reached Lockwood Island,
latitude 1924. Longitude 44.0j. They saw
from 1000 feet elevation no lad north or
northwest, but TO northeast Greenland,
Cane Robert Lincoln, latitude 1885, longi-
\ Nftrt
ed back in 1888 by open water on the
north of Greenland shore, the party barely
escaping a drift into the Polar Occln. DR..
PAW in 1882. following the Markham route,
WAS adrift one day in the Polar ocean north
Of Cape Joseph Henry, and escaped TO land.
| abandoning nearly everything. In 1882
| made a spring, and later summer, trip
! into the interior Of Grinnell Land. dIscOy-
erinp Lake Hazen, some sixty by ten miles
| i'm extent, which was fed by ice. Cape OF
| North Grinnell Land drains Ruggles river
| snd Weyprecht FIord into Conybeare bay
| and Archer'S FjOrd. From the summit Of
| Aft. Arthur, 5000 feet high, the contour OF
! the land west Of COnger mountains con-
WINGED me that Grinnell Land tends directly
south from Lieutenant Aldriche's fartheSt
| point in 1876. In 1888 Lieutenant Lock-
wood and Sergeant Brainard succeeded in
crossing Grinnell Land, and ninety miles
from Be0triX bay, at the head OF Archer's
Fiord, struck the head OF ford
from the Western sea. temporarily
| named by Lockwood Greedy Fiord.
From the centre OF the ford in
latitude 5000, longitude 1870, Lieutenant
Lockwood saw the northern shore termlna-
lion some twenty miles west, and the south
ern shore extending some fifty miles, with
\ WIN
| distant. apparently separate land from Grin
/ nell Land. | have named the new land
/ Arthur Land Lieutenant Lockwood fol-
/ lowed, going and returning on an lee
/ cap, averaging about one hundred and
/ fifty feet perpendicular face. 1t follows
/ that the Grinnel Land interior is ice
/ capped. with a belt Of country some sixty
mites wide between the northern and
! southern ice capes. In March, 1884, Ser
| geapt Long. While hunting, looked from
| northwest OF Mount Cary 10 llayes's
Sound. seeing OIL the northern coast three
capes westward OF the fIrtheSt seen by
Mares i'm 1876. The sound extends some
twenty miles further west than shown by
the English chart, but Is possibly shut IN
bv land which showed UP across the west
ern end two years.
Station duties, observations, all cXplOra-
tions. and the retreat to Cape Sabine were
accomplished without loss OF life, disease,
serious accident, or even severe POSSIBILITIES.
No,sCurvy was experienced at Conger, ana
but one death from it occurred last WINTER
The Origin Of the Greedy Expedition.
The Greedy expedition was one OF two
eXpeditionS sent out by the United states
TO form an international Polar station. II
consisted Of twcnty-fOur officers and men
chosen from different branches OF the
United States army, and was commanded
by Lieutenant Adolphus W. GreelY. On
August -, 1881, the party was landed
safely at Lady Franklin Bay. The orders
Of the United States Government 10 TIC
commander OF the expedition were that he
/ should not only make a series OF scicntlhc
! observations, but that he should explore a.
| large an area OF the Polar region as he should
| find practicable. He was 70 remain until
| last fall. when il was arranged that relief
| ship should be sent for him. Two vessels.
| the PrOteus and the Iantic, accordingly
| were dispatched TO bring Lieutenant Greeiy
! and his comrades home, but the Pf0teus,
/ which was the advance ship, was nipped
| and crushed in the ice, and all hands on
| board had q narrow escape from death.
! The Gree!y expedition was fitted out and
|
formitv with the plan suggested by Lieu
tenant Kali Weyprecht, commander OF the
Austrian Arctic expedition, on board the
Tegetthofi, and urged in this country by
| Captain HOwgate, OF the signal corps, con-
! formulating the establishment OF a number
OF circumpolar stations for the purpose OF
| scientific observation ana practical explora-
! ton. The project OF Lieutenant Wey-
precht was laid before the Meteorological
| Congress ut Rome, considered iayoraby,
| and referred to an international Polar
! conference held in Hamburg in 1879. \
| permanent Polar Commission was formed,
and il was decided that eight stations at
least should he provided for. The United
States Government pledged itself to estab-
fish two OF the necessary stations. After
various delays, the stations were finally re-
solved upon, rs follows: TIE United States
In Lady Franklin Bay, in Smiths Sound.
and also at Point Barrow; Denmark. at
Gothaab; Germany, in Cumberland Sound,
on the west side OF Davis strait England,
at Fort Rae, in the heart of the Hudson
Bay Territory, near the Great Slave Lake {:
Russia. at the mouth of the Lena and at
EolleY's Bay. Nova Zembla; Holland. at
DicksOn's Haven Norway. at Bosekop,
In the Alien Fjord; Sweden. at Spitzber-
gen, and Austria at Jan Mayen Island.
The Oaicers and Men Composing the
Party.
In June. 1881, preparations having been
made for the United States Arctic colony,
the following.named officers and enlisted
men were assigned 10 duty as the expedi'
uonary force 10 Lady Franklin Bay:
First Lieutenant a. W. Greedy, Fifth
cavalry, acting signal officer.
Second Lieutenant Frederick +. Bisling-
bury, Eleventh infantry. acting signal off,
Ger.
Second Lieutenant james b. Lockwood,
Tweniy.third infantry. acting signal officer.
Sergeant Edward Israel, signal corps, U.
S. A.
Sergeant Edward Israel, signal corps, u
s. A.
Sergeant Winfield S. Jewell, signal corps,
u. $. A.
Sergeant George W. Rice, signal corps,
u. s. A.
Sergeant David c. Ralston. signal corps
u. s. A.
Sergeant Hampden S. Gardiner, signal
corps. U. s. A.
Sergeant William II. Cross, general SER
vice, United states srniy.