Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-21
EXPLORING NORTH.
SUGGESTIONS As TO HOW THE ARG
TIC POLE MAY be FOUND.

TIC POlk MAY DC rOONO.
Governme.s sseaasrs BY short aad Rapid
Voyages During the Summer Months
Could Sail TAss.sA the Northern ssas
with Little Danger.
Four miles further north than the ad-
venturous Markham had gone in the Eng
ksh service our countrynen, Lockwood
and Brainard. planted the stars and stripes
Ia the latitude Of $ degrees Is minutes
north and took possession OF that country
! in the name of the United States. Greely
and his party had spent most Of three
years near the eighty-seeond parallel In
Grant Land period much longer than
was occupied by any Of the earlier eolonists
of England in the United States, in the
| settlements at Roanoke, AT Cuttyhuns or
Sagadahoc. all of which anticipated James
town. And on the northwestern coast the
| long northern shore of Alaska is under
the guardianship and law of tbs 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 waters' Does
be mean to let Austria, or Norway, or Eng
| land establish another flag farther north
| than the stars and stripes has fioate!s
| There is a certain superstition about
northern discovery in our time, rs Mr..
! HeiIprin, Mr. Peary, Mr.. Glider and others
have well shown. Under the cumbrous
theories OF the British admiralty, ground
| cd perhaps on traditions Of Captain Cook,
il came TO be supposed that you must have
| large ships. where in fact you need the
| smallest vessels; that You must have many
ulen, where in fact you need but few and
must make preparations for many years,
| when in fact you will do all that is TO be
| done in d few months. You set two ele-
| plants TO do the work Of one greyhound
| When, in fact, the late DR. Rae and
and Messrs- Simpson and Drase traced the
| north shore of this continent, they did 1t by
substituting sleds drawn by men for ships
propelled by steam engines, II is one in
stance more where the ragged street boy.
| sitting on the top of n tree, sees the show
| which the prince and princess below INN
cannot see because surrounded by bril-
liant staff, who cut off their line OF vision
Now. it is the business of Mr.. Herbert,
the secretary Of the navy, whom Uncle
| Sarn has appointed, TO see to the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans and in a way to 'peram
bulate them To "perambulate" means
| that he is to see to their borders and to
know who the neighbors are and what they
are about. \ few years ago two spirited
women, Miss Dawes and Mrs. Greedy,
brought to the ears OF the administration
the news that if somebody did not bring
off our own officer, Captain Greedy, from
Smith sound, he might starve. They
reused the nation, and the nation sent out
Captain Schley, one of its naval officers,
and he did us he was bid wonderfully well.
He brought of Captain Greedy, and thus
one of the nOblest officers the world knows.
with his men, was saved for the service of
the world This instance shows what the
secretary of the navy has to rely upon
| when he recoliects what ocean in the north
is his
1t does not need any act of congress with
an appropriation, the purchase OF vessels
and the selecting of a lot of scientific men.
1t needs that on the Atlantic side, and on
the Pacific side each, one little vessel should
be fitted as Schley's vessel was TO run into
northern waters any summer when the
chances open we'll 1t needs that these
vessels shall be put in charge of two Of
those fine young men of whom the navy il
full who are eager to extend discovery and
not sorry TO win reputation.
4 itIl iiltrt bliltttS W tht
every summer General Greedy, Mr.. Hal
pine and others say that the most likely
route to the pole is that to the west of
Franz Josef land Perhaps it is. Other
people think it is by Behring straits. Per
haps il is. Now, let Lieutenant A in our
Atlantic vessel and Lieutenant b in our
Pacific vessel knock at each door every
summer-a, the Franz Josef door and at
the Behring straits door. Let him see
what he can see. Recollect that it is but
40 miles from the parallel of ~ degrees to
the pole. II by good luck he did strike an
open sea some summer. who knows what
ne could dor
| Lieutenant 4 and Lieutenant B would
oe charged not to risk wintering in these
regions. Winteriug is none of their bust
| ness. But they are to see what they can
see in their little steamers between July !
and Oct, /.
| The man who first runs his little steamer
from BehriElg straits 10 Davis straits be
tween July 20 and Aug 10 will be the
most famous navigator for all that is left
| Of time since Magellan. There is Ger
tainly channel there. Mcclure and his
men have passed through and over it from
west to east That way the current flows
But they walked over half Of it on the ice
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