The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-24
EXPLORING NORTH.
SUGGESTIONS As TO HOW THE ARC
TIC POLE MAY BE FOUND.

Voyages During the summer Months
Could sail Through the Northern seas
with Little Danger.
Four miles further north than the nd
vcuturou. Markham had gone In the Eng
li.h service our countrymcn, Lockwood
and Braiuard, planted the stars aud stripes
in the latitude OF s3 degrees "a 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-secoud parallel In
Grant Land, n period much longer than
was occupied 10y any Of the earlier colonists
of England in the United States, in the
settlements at Roanoke, at Cuttyhunk OF
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 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 waters2 Does
/ he mean to let Austria, or Norway, or Eng
/ land establish another flag farther north
than the stars and stripes has fl0atedf
There is certain superstition about
northern discovery in our time, as Mr..
/ Heilprn, 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,
1 it came to be supposed that you must have
large ships where in fact you need the
| 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 be
done in few months. You set two ele-
plants to do the work of one greyhound.
When, in fact, the late DIR. Rae and
and Messrs. Simpson and Drase traced the
north shore of this continent, they did it by
substituting sleds drawn by men for ships
propelled by steam engines. 1t Is one in
stance more where the ragged street boy,
sitting on the top Of a tree, sees the show
which the prince and princess below him
cannot see because surrounded by a bril-
liant staff, who cut off their line of vision.
Now, it is the business of MIR Herbert,
the secretary of the navy, whom Uncle
Sam has appointed, to sec 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 a few years ago two spirited
women, Miss Dawes and Mrs. Greedy,
brought to the ears of the administration
/
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 as he was bid wonderfully well.
He brought off Captain Greedy, and thus
one of the nobest 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 recollects 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 is
full who are eager to extend discovery and
not sorry to win reputation.
Tell these officers to watch the chances
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 it is. Now, let Lieutenant A in oui
Atlantic vessel and Lieutenant b in oui
Pacific vessel knock at each door every
summer-at the Franz Josef door and a
: the Behring straits door. Let him Sc
what he can see. Recollect that it is bu
400 miles from the parallel of 81 degrees Il
the pole. If by good luck he did strike al
open sea some summer, who knows wha
he could dor
= Lieutenant A and Lieutenant b would
! ] lNa gha m nj nj atin in hos
regions. Winterng is none of their bust
ness. But they are to see what they cal
} see in their little steamers between July
t and Oct. l.
e The man who first runs his little steame
: from Behrng straits to Davis straits be
g tween July 20 and Aug. 10 will be tn,
= most famous navigator for all that is lief
e of time since Magellan. There is Ger
t tainly a channel there. Mcclure and hi
e men have passed through and over it from
f west to east. That way the current flows
= But they walked over half of it on the ice
i Wrec age from the Jeanette was takel
1 through this channel and found on tn
t coast of Greenland.
. Now, when Lieutenant b, on some favor
able summer in some little government
vessel named as fortunately as the Rush
pushes her some fine day from Behrini
II SIIdllS 10 lSlulu-Optu Sullllb ~
e l,200 miles--then, when he finds that, a
good chances, IA northwest gale has blow
r the ice before him into BafIin's bay, AM
when he follows it that day he and hi
crew will become the famous men of thei
time In 25 or 80 days from Puget SCUM
on the west he will telegraph from 81
Johns at Newfoundland to Secretary Hei
e bert at the Grand Union, Saratoga, that i
!, obedience to permission given in Genera
Ii Instructions No. 800, observing favorabl
conditions of the ice, he has and so forth
and so forth, and SO forth, sailed round til
he northern half of America
% There is but one other such possibilit
Of for fame. That is the possibility for Seer,
tary Herbert and Lieutenant A. 1t wi
be fulfilled when this gentleman shall tel,
graph from New York to announce his a
III rival there Oct. 10, some year, after su,
- cessful run northward.
2, "As permitted by General Order No. 90:
3, ] passed the islands of Spitzbergen Aug.
le and 4 -" Peary's furthest
ID ice-blink masthead flo,
r. crevasses until on Aug. 10, /
id latitude 90 degrees longitude-I la
III the pleasure of displaying the America
r flag on a projecting point of an islan(
a which ! have ventured to name Herbei
: island in honor of the secretary of tn
; navy of the United States. The flag of til
II nation floats ON the north polel" The SCI
T. Rotary of the treasury has an opportunit
N of endearing himselfto mankind. -Edwar
. Everett Hale in New York Recorder
Dana ON the 15iDie.
In recent address Hon. Charles A
I'd Dana of New York said;
almost all books have their use, b,
some are Indispensable to this kind of a
lg education. But of all these the most us
lie full, the most Indispensable the one who,