Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-02
PIN ON POLAR RESEARCH.
He Defends the Usefulness OF Arctic Ex-
plOratiOns Against Naval Critics.
From the Ne,O York Herald.

From the Ne,0 York Herald.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S.-"Apropos of
Lieut.. Danenhower's Illumination against
Polar expeditions" said a gentleman
formerly in a foreign naval service to
your correspondent, ''Iet me show you
communication from my old friend, Bed
ford PIN. The paper is too long and too
full of technical details to be reduced
verbatim, but here are the points in it of
public interest. You see that the old
fellow is as full Of fire as when, while
callow midshipman, he shocked the
etiquette of the Admiralty by his
vigorous efforts to get himself at
tached to the ill-starred expedition Of Sir
John Franklin, mainly induced thereto,
in all probability, by true British obsti-
macy, the authorities having prohibited
midshipmen as too young and undevel-
oped physically to endure the hardships
OF Arctic service. The Admiral plants
himself on the Divine command to subdue
and replenish the earth, and finds no
scriptural warrant for exempting any
part of the globe from its operation. He
refers to the spirit Of enterprise innate in
the breast Of man, particularly in those
races which have pushed themselves to
the forefront OF human power and pro-
gress, and seems to imply that, ii this
spirit cannot find outlets as legitimate as
those of polar research, 1t will waste it
self on enterprises even less hopeful and
inVigorating. He says that of all forms of
sea service that in high ATTITUDES is at
tended with the least loss of human life,
and that the death roll of four centuries
of Arctic exploration is smaller than that
OF many single action, not rising above
the dignity of skirmisn, in modern war
fare.
EXAMPLES OF DARING.
"He thinks that, with the example be.
fore US of what the daring and foresight
of Columbus, the CahOts, Cartier, Fro
bisher, Gilbert, Davis, Hudson, Baffn and
other early explorers have accomplished
for North America, it would be degener-
ate in the men OF the present day, with
their enormous resources in accumulated
experience and scientific appliances for
work and life in the polar regions to
shrink from completing the small re-
mainder of what has to be done to COM
pei the very pole itself to give up its Sc
cret. Referring to his own long and ar
duOus service as an Arctic explorer, he
declares that If anything were. needed TO
crown his already replete satisfaction 1t
Is supplied by the generous act OF Lieut..
Greedy in perpetuating his name and
memory in Bedford PIN leland.
''The Admiral is warm in praise OF the
enthusiasm and achievements OF LietIts.
Ray and Sehwatka, and COMMANDER
Sehley. He promises a great welcome to
Greedy, and has only shade of'Rpzlety
about the future, lest it be reserved to
America instead OF England to complete
the great work and vIndicate ali that has
been and shall be done by making Arctic
navigation safe and-with true Anglo
Saxon utilitarlanism profitable. he
speaks of the expected Hudson bay cattle
route as an example Of the commercial
opng new fields of enterprise aud, look
ing at the subject from the professional
standpoint, declares that polar research
is worth all that IL has cost as n training
school for the navies Of Europe and
America"