Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-11-01

The Interesting Story Told by q Member Of
,Ef8.i the Relief Party. eA A4Ntr
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III ,EFa. the Relief Party. gNN'iE ~
III Chicago Journal.
III Kohl q Middleton's south side
and west side dime museums never
: enjOy ed such extensi ves patronage
las they do this week. On the side
the Jam is produced by the exhibit
tlon OF the three Greeley rescuers,
Quarterfnaster Jas. IT.. Bnrike, Of
Salem, Mass, Quarterfnaster John
Clark, OF Boston, and Foretop Capt.
Ia Z. Smith, OF Providence, belung.
ing To the crew Of the Bear. They
have On the platform with them
the furs and sleeping baRs which
they used IN the Arctic region, and
crouchei at their feet Is stDlme,"
the Esquimaux dog which they
brought with them on their return.
"A map OF the voyage hangs behind
them, and they delight In explain,
Ing to visitors the nature and events
Of the expedition. "A conversation
with Quartermaster Burke threw a
good deal Of light on the subject.
"Some people wonder,n he said,
show the expedition could ever
have any hope OF finding a handful
OF men who might be anywhere
along an Arctic coast, thousands Of
miles in extent. But Il Is not SO.
difficult after you know "A thing or
two. For great many years there
have existed all along the coasts OF
the sea between Greenland on the
east and Grinnel Land on the west,
number, OF stations at which Arc
tic explorers deposit records and d.
rections for each other. The south
ernmost one Is Duck Island, then
comes Chemical Island, then Carey
Island, Cape York, then LittletOn
Island, all on the Greenland side,
and then Cape Sabin on the Grinnel
Land side. At each Of those pla-
ces explorers nave erected huge
mound Of rocks, and inserted In q
cavity in the mound a tin box,
which serves postotiice for the ex-
plOrers. When any of them pass
one OF these places, they put letters
there describing their condition,
and telling which way they went.
There are no mail robbers up there,
and the letters Will lie there for fi(ty
years, unless the right party calls
for them. At these stations tile ex-i
plorers leave large stores OF provis-
ions, which are sale from
decay. AT Carer Island we found
splendid canned beef and barrels OF
Jamaica rum In excellent order,
left there nine years before by Cap
lain Mares. part0ok of both aud
started TO look for Greeley, all VIC
had TO do was 10 visit these stations,
and that was what we did. We
took them just in the order that
have named them, and found the
Greeley party, not exactly In Cape
Sabine, but at Cooked Hat COve,
five miles further north" 1'
"HOw did Ii happen ?' t..I ...y
"Well, the Bear cast anchor about
two miles north OF the cove, aud
sent four OF us Off i'm the steam
whaleboat to see what we could see.
When we got within a quarter OF
mile OF the score OF the, cove, Ser
geant Long, OF the Greeley party,
who happened to be on n high point
OF ice, 100 yards inland, sighted US,
and soon after we sighted him wav-
Ing black flag, which is, the only
signal that can be seen where there
Is nothing but snow. We Thought
at first that he was bear, but when
we saw that ID was a man, We
steamed-right in, aud Iand a man
named CrOwsburg jumped ashore,
held the boat to the shore by q rope,
and 1 ran towards Long, who ran
10 meet me. The first thing said
10 him was, 'How many Of sou are
deid?', The rest OF the party were
In an old soldiers" tent III q hollow
between the shore and the hill'0n
which we fisst.sPied- -ly0agF@ but We
didn't go near hiHapo We. put Long
on the boat and took him to the
Bear, and then returned, bringing
Captain Emery aud d boat from the
rhetIs. This time we hunted up
the tenty i took the first look Into
II, though stood back 10 let tile
captain enter first. Five OF the
men were asleep in their sleeping
bags, and Greeley was on his knees
in prayer, with his open Bible be-
fore HIM. Il We gave them NIL s0me.,
milk punch, and they begged Us 10
lake them straight home, without
any forms or preliminaries whhtev-
er" a.aE at lfini uiU .al
"If Greeley had not been found
here what would have been done
next ?"
"We were TO Try 20 reach Fort
CoDger, in Lady Franklin eay.
Fort C0nger, two hundred mile, Or,
~ farther north on the Grinnell
Land coast, Is where Greeley was
left 1881 to establish the Signal Ser
vice Station, and from which, he
lespaired Of being visited, he had
made his way, partly by waler and
partly BY land, to Cape Sabine.
But we found the sea full Of tioe-ice
north OF Cooked Hat Covc, aud
would never have undertaken the1i
vail any farther north. We inteDd- =
I'd 10 make the other two hundred
niles IN sIedges." - N' '."p
"Had the Greeley party any
uel ?" r r.f -, t5Gu8m8r Cds
"Yes. At the cove they discover
ii the hulk OF ship, which served
hem for fuel as long AS they were
here. But " they had knIwn
they would have rugged II
Up and sailed In II across 10 Little
on Island, only thirty miles away,
where there was an abundance. m
,hols'e stores, left there years ago
or lost explorers" fit-. .-a1