The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-24
GENERAL liAZEN
Mnkea HIS Rcport-Ths darlington Arctic

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WAslIlNdroN, Oct. 23.--General Huzen
Chief Signal Officer, in, his annual report,
calls attention to tho. crippled condition
In which the,servico has been lcit.by the
last two appropriation acts, and says tla.
rs q Consequence seventeen stations Of the
Meteorological Service have beon closed
In order to. send men to telegraph lines.
The increasing demands for. special pre-.
dictions in the Interest Of agriculture, apc.
cial trades, AID commerce, indicate ii, a
measure, the report says, the value and
importance of the indications OF tho diyi.
sions OF the Signal Service with the i'm.
provemcnt in the wording Of indications,
and a more rigid manner Of determining
the accuracy Of predictions. General Hi.
zen reports improvement in the work Of
this division, and adds that further i'm
provemcnt could be made by m increase
nt stations, especially In tho West and
Northwest. .g+.-3. ,gE & ~ JI5S +:
The report says that no general storm
has passed over the country during the
year without warming In relation to the
Arctic expedition General Hazen, SAYS,
after referringto tho departure OF the Yam
tic after tho foss OF the proteus from Little
ton Island to. st. Johns without leaving
provisions, that this abandonment Of
Lieutenant Greedy and his party to prob
abe starvation by the officers whose only
mission on those waters was to succor
them, displayed q lamentable disregard
OF grave responsibility. He holds that il
Lieutenant Darlington had insisted upon
leaving the rations from the Yantic. or If
another relief vessel had been sent from
stJohns, as he says he himself urged, the
loss Of lie and disaster would have been
avoided. General Hazen says that Lieu
tenant Greedy carried out his instructions
literally, and the. Signal Bureau carried
out the fpre.arranged plan. He con-
tinues, alter referring to Lieutenant
Greely's relief to Cape Sabine and
TO the success Of athe relief expe-
dition under Commander Schley, as fol.
lows: "Up to the return OF theexpedition
this year, had hoped that there would
be no occasion for raising the question OF
blame at this or any future time, But
new light has been c,.st upon the subject,
and with it my duty becomes plain, aud
truth, history, and justice to all call for
such impartial inquiry and authoritative
Judgment as u tribunal broad enough to
embrace the whole question shall. Institute
and pronounce, and tho Congress Of the
United States is maaifestly such tribunal
! therefore trust this whole matter tof the
Lady Franklin Buy expedition and the
e;xpeditions organized for its relief will be
deeme ! Worthy athorough Investigation
by Congress-. z ~ *. & \ ~ Z
General Hazen regards the Greely expe-
dition as "among the foremost: Of its
kind" and insists that both Greely in the
Arctics and the Signal Bureau in Wash
lng.on carried out their parts Of tie pre-
arranged plans and rescue literally and
successfully, in every particular. = -
He refers to the failure OF Lieutenant
Ga,lington to replace the spoiled proyis-
ions at Cape Sabine, md quotes from d
letter written by Lieutenant; Greedy to
him on April 80, supposing himself at the
point Of death, as followa: Had CARING
ton carried out your orders and replaced
the 240 rations Of rum, and l2O Of alcohol
in the English cache here and 2l0 pounds
Of moldy English bread, spoiled English.
chocolate and potatoes and melted sugar,
and 2l0 pounds OF rotten dog biscuit, we,
without doubt, would be saved"
General Hazen says that Darlington
should have left two-thinls OF the stores
rescued IRON the Protens at Cape Sabine