The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-08-18
EXPLORING NORTH.
SUGGESTIONS AS TO HOW THE ARC
I, TIC POLE MAY BE FOUND.
Government Steamers by Short and Rapid
Voyages During the Summer Months
Could Sail Through the Northern Seas
with Little Danger.

Markham mad gone IN the Eng
lish service our countrymen, Lockwood |
and Brainard, planted the stars and stripes
in the latitude of 80 degrees n minutes
north and took possession of that country |
in the name of the United States. Greedy |
and his party had spent most of three |
years near the eighty-second parallel in |
Grant Land, period much longer than
was occupied by any of the earlier colonists
of England in the United States, in the |
settlements at Roanoke, at Cuttyhank OF
Sagadahoc, all of which anticipated James
town. And on the northwestern coast the
long northern shore of Alaska is unde,
the guardianship and law of the United
States OF America.
Has not the secretary of the navy any
feeling Of pride, in knowing that he is the
guardian of these northern watersH Does
he mean to let Austria, or Norway, or Eng
land establish another flag farther NORTH
than the stars and stripes has tloatedS
There is certain superstition about
northern discovery in our time, as Mr..
Heilprin, Mr. Peary, Mr.. Glider and Others
have well shown. Under the cumbrous
theories of the British admiralty, ground
ed perhaps on traditions of Captain Cook
it came to be supposed that you must have
large ships, where in fact you need Tia,
smallest vessels; that you must have many
men, where in fact you need but few and
must make preparations for many years,
when in fact you will do all that is to bt
done in few months. You set two Gle
plants to do the work of one greyhound
When. in fact, the late DR., Rae and
and Messrs. Simpson and Drase traced thu
north shore Of this continent, they did it by
substituting sleds drawn by men for ships
tn.ll t+pE., t..
stance more where the ragged street boy
sitting on the top of a tree, sees the SHOW
which the prince and princess below hin
cannot see because surrounded by bril-
liant staff, who cut off their line of vision
Now it is the business of Mir. Herbert
the secretary of the navy, whom Uncll
Sam has appointed, to see to the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans and in a way to ''peram
bulate them" To "perumbulate" means
that he is to see to their borders aud t.
know who the nCighbors are and what the
are about, A few years ago two spirited
women, Miss Dawes and Mrs Greedy,
brought to the cars of the administration
the news that if somebody did not brin,
OIL our own officer, Captain Greedy, frur
Smith sound, he might starve The
reused the nation, and the nation sent OIL
Captain Schley, one of its naval officers
and he did as he was bid wonderfully we'll
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! Ii docs not necd onv act of contrcss will,
an appropriation, the purchase of vessel
! and The selecting of a lot of scientific men
! II ren,ls thut on Tho Atlantic oidc onI -,
| tho Pacific Side e.ch onr littla ycsseI shouI,t
be fitted MS Srblev,s vessel WINS 10 RIM I'M,
Northern waters nnv summer when III,
chances omen Vol II nac1s that Tia,
vessels shall he mt in chnrg. of t,yo ~,
| those fine Young men nf whom tho may !,
| full who are c,,t,rr to ertand discovor, M,
not sorry 10 win reu,l,ntinn
Toll tIesn ofIicars To watch tba cbonc.,
every summer Ger,.roI GraaI, Nv In
nine and others saw tLnt ia NO., r;i,ai,
route To the noIe il that to tbe west 81
! Frnnz .Tosef land pnrhans n ia 1th"r
peonlr think it is bv Rebring straits Der.
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! Atlantic v.ssaI ard Iientenant Il in ON.
+ Pacific vessel knock mt eYch dno, ny.rr
sunmer--ot tho Frnny Intpf dnnr and ~
4 tLc R,br;,,t, str,it. Jnnr In,,,i,,, ca,
what he can SCI. RccolIrct that it il INT
400 miles from the pnrill.l Of 50 des,rees Ia
the mol. If Inv GOOD h,rk he ain ,trik. an
omen sen so,nG summer, who knows what
he collld do3
Lieutenant A and Lieutepnnt "A ,vorld
he CHARGED moi Ia ,ial vintrring in ,h,.s,
regions, Wiuterino, il, none of their busi
ness But thrv arn To spe ,vhut thny car
soe In their littl. steamers Inc, ,,aan Jnit
aud oct
The man who first rms bie ,itt1a steona,
from Bcbrinu straits Ia Davis str,its he
tween Julv 20 and AM 10 will Inc II,
most fnrnoiIs navigator for all that IL I4ft
Of limo since MAGELLAN rlprr is COR
taip1N n channel there NfcCIure mud II,
men hayp n,,sscf ,brnuob and oy.r /, fr,n
west 10 ,pst 'rbnt wav tbe r,,,.r.nt no,ys
But tbcy wull cd over inf of n ON ,I,r fc,.
W-rrti. o.,n from rIe Jcat,natte was t,Ja,
tbrouph his channel aud found m tn,
coasf of Greenland
Now when .in,,fenant n on some favor
sblr summer in some littIe goynrnrncn,
, vessel named MS fartuuatrly rs tbe Rnsh
pisk,s hrr some fun dpy from nabrin,
straits in Barirf,,s islondSonrn sailin,, IN
9g0 miIrs-tj,.n ,ybnu he End. th,f "a
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wLrn lr foIlnws II tLat dny he and III
/ creyy. will bernrnt lilo fnm,ns men of tltet
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