Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-07
ANCIENT GREENLAND.
\ Pleasant Evening Party Connected
 the Trip From Which pr. Cook Has

A Pleasant Evening Party Concocted the Trip From Which pr. Cook Has Returned with Honor
 Yesterdays Boston Herald has an inter esting article describing the arrival at Gloucester of trim fishing schooner of that port, the Carrie ". Babson, on the deck of which, as she neared the dock, "stood young man of short, compact stature, whose pleasant smiling face was covered with short, brown beard, was seen surrounded by a number of dogs, clearly of different specie from those seen upon our streets. From the compar- ionwsy psered two short, olive-skinned, black haired and black eyed persons, one boy and the other girl.
 The brown bearded man, by Lis dress and bearing, was clearly not one of the crew, and such turned out to be the fact, for when the Herald correspondent ap- preached he announced, in answer to in auiries, that he was Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who was the surgeon of Lieutenant Peary's first Arctic expedition, and that he was re- turning from an independent exploration to northern Greenland, laden with valuable information and specimens.
 Much of the information which Dr. Cook brings Is entirely new, and will have an important bearing on scientific re- searches, especially of the ethnology of the | Eskirnos, the feature of Lieutenant Peary's expedition of which the doctor had sole | charge.
 The two natives of Labrador whom Dr. Cook brings with him are the purest type of T.lrj ha haa annth Nf Cape York. He will keep them In this country through the winter, using them occasionally to illustrate lectures he in tends to make, and will send them home | in the spring.
 At Dr. Cooks houee in Brooklyn in the | spring, in company with Messrs. Benjamin | Hoppln of New Haven, son of Professor James M. Hoppin of Yale Art school, Rob- ert Perry of Braintree, Mass and A. H.. | Southard of Bsddick, o. B., was formu- lated the idea of the expedition from which he has just returned. The idea of the voyage was to Illustrate that summer trips | to Greenland are perfectly safe and feasi- ble, and to allow the members of the party to collect information of general value to | science.
 The expedition WAS backed by no insti- | tuition or enterprise, the members paying their own expenses, and was made purely | for the love of science and as pleasure l trip. The party went to Halifax, where they chartered the IA ton schooner Zsta, | Captain Hebb.
 While in Greenland Dr. Cook collected some very valuable data for his ethnologi cal investigations. He took complete | measurements of about one hundred pa tives, and from these, together with the data he secured on the Peary expedition he had adduced these average statistics, bsing only few principal ones out of many: Average height of men, 5 feet 1! inches; average weight of men, 135 pounds; average height of women, 4 fee, 5 inches; average weight of women, 12O pounds. It will be noticed that the aver. age weight is greater proportionatsly tc the height than among Americans and Europeans. The color of the Eskimos ii an olive yellow or brown, with straight coarse black hair. Besides the measure ments, Dr. Cook has taken thousands oi photographs of the natives.
 At the head of the ford Dr. Cook and his companions found remains of the orig inal Greenlanders, the ancient Scharlings in graves or mounds, and it is believed that they are the first scientific, if not the l first white men to see them. In the graves which Were moulded up above the surface on the ground of stone well laid, were found the bones of the ancient inhabitants They were in au excellent state of preser vstion, having been frozen for probabl, over 8 thousand years.
 Tha skeletons showed they belonged tt beings of about the same size as the pres ent race of Eskimos.
 Beside the bones were found many rud implements of the chase. There wer principally of stone and ivory and bone There were stone arrows, ivory harpool heads, bone knives and wooden paddles The implements were fashioned with grea skill, and compare fevorably with the fin arrow head of North American Indians The discovery shows that the origina Greenlanders used stone for their htrpoon as our Indians used flint for their arrows These men had no civilization, and wer ) in about the same condition as the unmiy ed tribss above Cape York are now. Dr Cook brings two barrels of these relics, in cluding the bones. At the head of tn l ford were also found immense beds of bi luminous coal. Imbedded in the coal. an above and below the strata, were the foss remains of ferns and semi-tropical plants showing that Greenland once enjoyed semi-tropical climate. There were also tn fossils of shell fish, showing that st on time the level of the sea in that territor was soma 300 feet higher than at present Among the fossils were small pieces o
 Robbery in Mt. Carmel.
 Ths house of Wells Dickermsn in Mi Carmel was robbed of $10O in cash las evening. The theft, 1t is supposed, ws committed by woman named Lotta Ds vey, who has since disappeared.
 A Royal Supper.
 New Haven lodge, D. of R., had roys oyster supper last evening at the home o Brother Parry on Ferry street. The oye ters were superlatively fine, so the lodg all voted, and the gathering was much en joyed
 i Pioneer Council, o. U. A. M.
 Pioneer council, No. 1, o. U. A. M., hel, most enjoyable social entertainment ol Thursday evening. There were severa visitors from New Hampshire present Among those present were Giles Clark an, Brothers Taylor and H. T. Mix, who cam from Washington council, No. 7, and large number of other friends.