The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-06
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GREEDY AND HIS COMRADES.
Statesmen and Navel oficcrs Delight to
do them Honor-A Narrative by
Chandler He Gets In His
Work on darlington.


of citizens in the music hall this evening
toextend an official welcome oflho city TO
Lieut.. Greedy and his surviving compa-
MES was largely attended and was char
acterized by unbounded enthusiasm. In
the auditorium were Portsmouths fore
most citizens; on the stage were the
officers of the North Atlantic squadron
and the Arctic relief fleet; in the front
seats in the orchestra sat the crews OF
The Thetis, the Bear and the Alert. The
sailors were enthusiastically received on
entering the hall, as were their officers
who appeared shortly afterwards.
w. T.. Chandler Secretary of the
Navy, Gen. Ha2cn, chief signal officer.
Admiral Luce, Commodore Wells, Gen.
y. +. Butler, Congressman ). j. Ran
dail. Congressman Robinson, GOV. Hale,
Of New Hampshire, and Senator Hale,
Of Maine, occupied seats on the stage.
The meeting was called to order bv
he Rev. w. A. Mckinley; Rev. w. III.
Alder made Il prayer, and was followed
by Mayor Treat, Of Portsmouth, who
read the address, in which he extended
yho hOspilalities Of the CITY 10 Greedy
md his little band.
Rev. Mr.. Mckinley then announced
hat Il committee of citizens had secured
The Hon. w. T.. Chandler to ret as per.
mnncnt chairman Of the meeting. When
secretary Chandler came forward to nd
iresS the meeting he was very warmly
lppIaudod.
lie said that il was due to the efforts
Of >. j. Randall in the House of Repre-.
'entatives, in behalf of the trcclv rGlirf
bill that it passed aud to Commander
and Lieut.. Emory.
The audience become almost wild with
enthusiasm. Mr.. Chandler told the story
pi the organization and tho object of the
freely expedition, and said IN 1883 the
Protens was again employed by tho
'.hiet Signal officer for VOYAGE To- Lady
franklin Bay and placed in charge OF
Aent. darlington, Of the Seventh Tn
ted States Cavalry and the steamer
Gantlc of the United States navy, com
mandcd by Commander Wildcg. WIN
NaS detalledas I, ndor to accompany the
PrOtouS ms far ne ittlofpo : 'arh f'iluf
Darlington wasinformed byIaIletter from
he Chief Signal OllIc,r, .iu'I'.t, ..-.. a.,
the extreme p,ril IT Won't
Greedy and his party. lie was cnioined
10 spare no clturls to push IN, vessel
through to Lady Franklin Island. n,
was instructed rs follows: "Ifit shOuld
become clearly apparent that the YES
els cannot he pushed through. Won viii
retreat ironlyour advanced position and
ana your party and stores ut or near
lIiebOat cove ut LittletOn Island. dis
charge the relief vessel with orders 10
return TO st. Johns, n. f., and prepare
Tor remaining with your party until
relieved next year. Lieut.. CARING
ton was further instructed that he
soon as possible from station,
ut iitteton Island, 60 cndeny-
~ 20 communicate with Lieut..
freely by sledge parties, the men not SO
employed TO lose no time i'm preparing a
house for the whole party, and SECURING
stores preparatory to the arrival of
Lieut.. Greelv. The protcus and the
Gantic wore together at ST. Johns Junp
2dh, anu an agreement was made be-
tween Lieut.. darlington and Com
mander Wildcs contemplating their
separation until August 18th, hut that
the lantic should 90 to I4ittleton island.
which should Ice the Headquarters. and
should not leave there before that dny.
ine GroleuS preceded the NUutic L.
Disco island, and the Nan.ic re-.
lnlheu hrr ana they were together
,here from July - to July IL, nj V,hirI,
latter date the Proteus once more len
The tender, which, after waiting until
July -, again sailed northward, instead
81 proceeding directly in the track OF
nc iroteus. However, she DIVORCED f.
pper NHvlck, and was detained ther,
ny logs from July - to July 3lSt, when
she sailed aud was easily able to reach
Llttluton Island, August 81.
she there found from the record loft
thht inc Protous, July Did, had been
crushed in the ice and had sunl
lust north of Cape Sabine, thnt
Lieut.. darlington and his whole party
mad crossed to Littlcton Island. and on
July 18th had gone south along Green
lana coast in open boats. The Yantir
lhereupoN turned southwark, searchinu
the coast to Cape York and finding no
truck pI me l'roteuS people, went on To
upper Navlck, reaching there August
18th. She left this place August 95d and
reached Disco Island August 18th, whore
she was overtakCn August 3Ist Inv IipIt
j. ;. ColwCll, OF the Initcd
states navy, who had been left nj
'apo York by the pruteus Marty. TO
Wnlrh ne had been attached, and had
reached Upper Navick i'm an Open bont
August I'D, and had on the SAME dav in
a similar boat given up the pursuit OF
the lantlc, The Nantir then rpturned
20 PIPER Navick, found the whole parfv
had saved themselves and arrived and
TOOK them on board, reached 81. Johns
september J., with the cNcc2lion that il
let a few rationS ana some clothing AT
Cape Sabine.
The expedition Of lSS9 as we'll MS that
ol i'm, was q failure,
No attcmpt was made NV either I.ieul.
harrington or Commander Wildcs To
establish relief party n.
littleton Island, for which point
Greedy was under orders to start MOI
later that September LIST. An army
cour1 OF Inquiry, under date of January
10, ISL, reported; 1t may here bo stated
roughly, that from July, lSS2 to August.
lNS', not less than G,OOO ratinns were
loLen IN the steamers Neptune. Ynntic
ana ProIcus up TO and beyond littleton
Island. or that number only nbou,
lu''Wl were left in that vicinity. The re-.
nNluuer were returned 10 the United
states or sunk with the Protous.