The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-31
THE SIGNAL SERVICE.

Annual Report of General Hazen, Chief of
the Bureau-LieutenaRt Darlington Held
Responsible for the Loss of Life in the
Greedy Expedition.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.-General Hazen,
the Chief Signal Officer, in his annual re-
port, calls attention to the crippled condition
in which the service has been leftby the last
two appropriation acts, and says that as
a consequence seventeen stations Of
the meteorological service have been
closed in order to send men to the
telegraph lines. The increasing demands
for special predictions in the interests of
agriculture, special trades and commerce
indicate, in a measure, the re-
port says, the value and impor-
lance of the indication division of
the Signal Service. General Hazen re-
ports improvement in the work of this di-
vision, and then adds that further improve
ment could be made by an increase of sta
tons, especially in the West and North.
west. The report says that no general
storm has passed over the country during
tlIO JCdl WlUllOuG hdd1Il1lS'
The report deyotes considerable space to
the Arctic expeditions. 1t says, in refer
ring to the departure of the Yantic from
Little Island to ST. Johns without leaving
provisions. that ''this abandonment of
Lieutenant Greedy and his party to prob
able starvation by officers whose only
mission in those waters was to succor them
displayed lamentable disregard of grave
responsibility" If Lieutenant Darlington
had insisted upon leaving rations
from the Yantic, or if another relief vessel
had been sent from St. Johns, as he says
he himself urged, the loss Of life and dis
aster would have been avoided General
Hazen says Lieutenant Greedy carried out
his instructions literally, and the Signal
Bureau carried out its prearTanged plan.
Darlington should have left twO-thirtls of
the stores rescued from the PrOteus at Cape
Sabine. The report then continues:
''Up to the return of the expedition this
year had hoped there would be no occasion
for raising the question of blame at this or
any future time. But new light has been cast
upon the subject, and with it my duty becomes
plain, and truth, history and justice to all
calls for such impartial inquiry and authori-
tative judgment as tribunal broad enough
to embrace the whole question shall institut to
and pronounce, and the Congress of the
United States is .manifestly such tribunal.
! therefore trust that the whole matter of the
Lady Franklin Bay expedition and the eXpe-
ditions organized for its relief will be deemed
worthy of thorough investigation by Con
gress."
General Hazen asserts that both Greedy in
the Arctic region and the Signal Bureau at
Washington successfully carried out their
parts of the plan in every particular, and
gives quotation from letter written to
him by Lieutenant Greedy when the latter
supposed himself at the point Of death. The
extract is as follows:
Had but Darlington carried out your orders
and replaced the $50 rations of rum and 100 of
alcohol in the English cache here and 30
pounds of moldy English bread, spoiled En-.
glish chocolate and potatoes, melted sugar,
and 2l0 pounds of rotton dog biscuits, we
would without doubt be saved