The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-05-01
EMPLOYING NORTH


,aaId shu rutaatb us sotthefu seas
won tItus bsnrsr
T..r uf. mru.r north chan che 1l
l.u.Hr.u NfI. HIm hrI gone Iu ihe Eu
! .. service ur OumuymUu. Lockwood
nuI Ifa.HId. planted ihe STAR. aud Stripe.
iu fHa latitude of 3 degrees 20 minute
NORTH and TOOK possession 0f That country
Boo th. Name Ut The United States Greedy
and Hs party had spent most Of thru,
wears uUar the eighty second parallel boz
Grant Land. % period much longer than
vu. occupied hy amy of the EARLIER colouist.
oft England BOO tine United States in the
settlements zoo Roanoke, Dt tuttyhuuk on
SogldaHac, uU ofwhich anticipated Juues
town And Ou tine northwestern coast The
long northern shore of Alaska is under
tine Guardianship and law of the United
States of America.
Has mot the secretary uf the navy any
feeling Of pride, boo knowing that he is the
guardian of these northern waters. Does
he mean Co Ipt Austria, ur Norway, or Eng.
land establish another flag farther north
than the stars and stripes has foated'
There is certain superstition about
northern discovery On our time, as Mr..
Hcilprin, Mr. pcary, Mr. Glider and others
have well shown. Under the Cumbruus
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 the
smallest ycssels that yuu must have many
men, where in fact you need but few and
must make preparations for many years,
when iu fact YOU will do all that is 20 be
done in few months. You set two Gle
plants 20 do the work Of one greyhound.
When i'm 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 10y men for ships
propelled 10y steam engines. 1t 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 him
cannot see because surrounded by a 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
Sam has appointed, to see to the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans and in a way to 'peram
bulate them To "pcrambulate' means
that he Is to see to their borders and to
know who the ueighbors 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
the news that if somebody did not bring
off our own officer, Captain Greedy, from
Cr,ith so,,rd ba ,,ight st.,.ye Tbey
,.,ns.d tho nation and tbe NATHAN sant out
ra,t,t,, Sill. ana of its nn,,aI oGicor,
o,'5 ,liJ a., ~ ,,.a I,id ,,,orJ.rr,,II,. Vii
H. H. tiroTl,Gt oT Cantaiu GrsoIv and inns
~ ~, ,,,tIogt ,,,toars tIo, ,orId l,,r,,,s
/ with his men, was saved for the service of
ou,,,,,,, % 49,, 49,, Los to r,I,, r,r,,
r., h.. racoIIoct, ,,h,t oceo,, in the nnrtI
ia Iis
/ IL does not need any act of congress with
an onnropriafion. the uurcha,e of vessel,
/ and the s.lectine, nf a Inr Of scientific men
IT. 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
/ nortbern ,y.tprs amy summer when In.
chances omen we'll 1t needs that these
vessels shah Inc mt i'm charge of two OF
those fine vounp men of whom the navy i.
fnII who are rager TO extend discovery and
NOT sorry ia win reuutatiou
TaII these officers tn watch tbe chance.
o,,s,v summon General Greelv Mr. Hal
niuaond others saw that fine most IikeI,
ro,ta tn tho nole is TINT to the west nj
Franz Josef land PERTAINS if is Other
,conle tbinl, e. is Inv Behring straits PEI,
hans IL is Now. let Lieutenant A in ON
Atlantic vessel and Lieutenant b in GU,
Pacific vessel knock at each door ever,
summer-at the Franz Josef door and "A
the Behriug straits door. Let him Sc
what he can see. Recolect that it is bu
400 miles from the parallel of So degrees t
the pole. If by good luck he did strike AT
open sea some summer, who knows VIVA
he could doY
Lieutenant A and Lieutenant B would
be charged not to risk wintering in thes,
regions Winteiiug is none of their bust
ness. But they are to see what they cal
see in their little steamers between July
and Oct. l.
, The man who first runs his little stcame
from Brbrinr straits TO Davis straits be
tween July 20 and Aug. 10 will be tn,
most famous navigator for all that is lief
of time since Magellan. There is Ger
taiulv n channel there. Mcclure and hi
men have passed through and over it from
west to east That way the current flows
l But they walked over half of it on the ice
Wrec ace from the ,Jeannette was talIel
through this channel and found on tn
! coast of Greenland.
o. Now. when Lieutenant B. on some favor
able summer in some little government
vessel named as fortunately as the Rusl
= pushes her some fine dav from Behrin
l straits to Balinp's island-open sailing fc
LOO miles--then, when he finds that, d
b good chances. "A northwest gale has blow
v the ice before him into Bafin's bay, an
e when ne follows IL that day. he and nj
: crew will become the famous men of the
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