The Indianapolis journal., 1884-07-21
GREELY's BAND OF HEROES.
Gen. Hazen's Response to the Attacks
Made Upon Him by the Critics.
The Distressing Scenes Witnessed by the
Men Who Found the Dying Explorers
Hardships During the Long Winter.
THE GREELY, SURVIVORS.
Future Movements of the Party-Gen. Hazen
Response to the Critics.

Future Movements of the Party--Gen. Hazen's
Response to the Critics.
WASHINGTON, July 10. 9.-Admira1 Nichols, act
ing Secretary of the Navy, issued orders to Com
mander Schley, this afternoon, to remain at St
Johns as long as it is necessary to secure the en-
casing of the dead of the Greely party in caskets
and then to proceed with his three vessels, the
Thetis, Bear and Alert with the survivors and
dead to Portsmouth, N H., whore he will await
further orders, and where the members Of the
Greely party and relief expedition can become
acclinated before proceeding further south.
A telegram from ST. Johns says ''The Thetis
and Bear will sail Thursday night or Friday
morning Lieutenant Greely and his men are
progressing favorably; Greedy less SO, perhaps
than the others. Yesterday he exhibited
symptoms of great fatigue and weakness He
is talking too much. and the constant inter-
viewing operates unfavorably. He was taken
for drive yesterday up the valley to Water
ford Bridge and gloated on the beautiful fertile
summer prospects as in marked contrast to the
bleak sterilities of his recent cabin home
''These trees he said, with exuberant enthu-
Eiasm, '1ook SO beautiful to an eye that has seen
no vegetation for over three years. The green
fields give me new life.' Greely is the guest of
the city. Private houses and carriages are at
his disposal and every attention is paid him.
Each member of the party forms the center of
listening and admiring groups, and goes over
and over the recital Of the terrible past. There
will be memorial services for the dead in all the
churches of the city tomorrow. Commemofar
tive sermons will be preached
GEN. HAzEN's DEFENSE.
General Hazen is annoyed by criticisms which
ment of depot near Cape Sabine upon the
west coast of the channel and has prepared the
following memorandum in respect to the matter:
'sIt was the plan from the first to place the
depot upon the east bank of Greenland, at Lit
tleton island This was Greely's plan, after a
very careful and prolonged study of the whole
subject He not only made the plan before he
started but very carefully reiterated it in writ
ing after reaching Lady Franklin bay, closing
his letter on the subject in these words: No
deviation from these instructions should be per
mitted- Latitude of action should not be given
to the relief party who, on known coast, are
searching for men who know their plans and
orders
1.-THE reasons for this decision were that there
was coal on the east side and none on the west;
it was in the neighborhood Of friendly Eske-
mos, who did not live on the west side; on the
east side there was abundant game,
while there was none ON the west;
numerous camps Of explorers had been es-
tabished on the east side, for the above reasons,
while they are never established on the west
side because the west side was scarcely more
than barren rocks.
''The pledge of the Signal Office to support
Greedy in exact accord with this arrangement
was the most sacred that any man could give.
To have departed from il would have been base
treachery. This was done in every particular
HRetrospectively one may now see other
plans that might have been better; but IN making
personal judgments we must place ourselves in
the position of Greely and of those who were
he left The Tha sigma. Ones was was Condemned by .
court of inquiry because it did not depart from
this agreement SO far as to establish depot
going up instead Of coming down if it failed to
reach Lady Franklin bay, as Greedy had directed
But it seems now that had it been done Greely
could not have reached it, as explained in his
dispatch, for reasons then not foreseen.n