St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-23
OUR SIGNAL SERVICE.
The Report OF Gen. HaZen, Who Calls
Attention to its Crippled
Condition.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-Gen. Hazen, chief
signal officer, in his annual report calls at
tention to the crippled condition in which the.
service has been left by the last two apprO-
priation acts, and says that as a consequence
seventeen stations of the meteorological ser
vice have been closed, in order to send men
to the telegraph lines, increasing the demands
for special predictions in the interests OF
agriculture. Special trades and commerce
indicate in a measure, the report says, the
value and importance of the indications
of this division of the signal service, with
the improvement in working the indications,
and a more rigid'manner OF determining the
accuracy Of the predictions. Gen. Hazen
reports improvement in the work in this divi-
sion, and adds, further improvement could
be made by an increase OF the stations, espe-
eially in the west and northwest. The re-
port says no general storm has passed over
the country during the year without 4 warn
ing. In relation To the Arctic expeditions,
Gen. Hazen says, after referring to the de
parture Of the Yantic. after the loss OF the
Proteus, from Littleton Island to
st. John, without leaving pro
vision, that his abandonment
Of Lieutenant Greeiy and his party TO pro5a-
DIV starvation by officers whose only mis-
sions in those waters was to succor them,
displayed lamentahle disregard Of the re-
sponsibility He holds that If Lieutenant
Darlington had insisted upon leaving ratiOns
from the Yantic. or II another relief vessel
had been sent from St Johns, as he ssys he
himself urged, the loss OF life and disaster
would have been avoided, and Gen. Hazen
says Lieutenant Greeley carried out his in
structions literally ard tie signal bureau car
RED out the preGrraugcd plan Tie continues,
after referring TO Lieutenant Greely's relief
to Cape Sabine and TO the success Of the re-
lief expedition under Commander Schley, as
follows:
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 Las been cast
upon the subject, and with it my duty be-
comes plain, and truth, history and justice
to all calls such IS an i'm
partial injury and authoritative
judgment as a tribunal broad enough TO en-
brace the whole question. therefore trust
this whole matter OF the Lady Franklin bay
expedition, aud the expeditions organized
for its relief, viii be deemed worthy OF
through investigation ~ congress.
Gen Hazien regards the Greeiy expedition
as among the foremost Of its kind, and iu-
sists that both 1t Greeiy in the arctic and
the signal bureau in Washington carried out
thepTearrAgned plans Of the rescue LITERAL :
and successfully in every particular. He
refers to the failure of 1t Darlington to re-
place the spoiled provisions at Cape Sabine,
/ and quotes from q letter written by 1t
] Greedy to him April 30, supposing himself at
/ the point of dezt5, as follows: Had 1t.
! Darlington earaied out your orders and re-
/ placed the 240 rstions Of rum and I20 Of
I alcohol in the English cache here. and 210
pounds Of mOuldy English bread, spo led
English chocolate and potatoes, matted
sugar. and go pounds Of rotten dog biscuit,
/ We would without doubt be saved Gen.
/ Hazlen SAYS Darlington should have left tSo-
thirds of the stores rescued from the Proteu:
al Cape Sabine.