The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-11-21
EXPLORING NORTH.
SUGGESTIONS AS TO HOW THE ARC
TIC POLE MAY BE FOUND.

-Four miles further north than the adj
venturous Markha had gone in the Eng
fish service our countrymen, Lockwood
and Brainard, planted the stars and stripes
in the latitude of SO 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 parallel In
| Grant Land, a period much longer than
was occupied by any of the earlier colonists
| of England in the United States, in the
settlements at Roanoke, at Cuttyhunk 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 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 watersS Does
he mean to let Austria, or Norway or Eng.
land establish another flag farther north
than the stars and stripes has foatedS
| There is a 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,
1t 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 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 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
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 as he was bid wonderfully we'll
He brought off 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 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 well. 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. PEI,
haps it is. Now, let Lieutenant A in our
Atlantic vessel and Lieutenant b in our
Pacific vessel knock at each door every
summer-at the Franz Josef door and at
the Behring straits door. Let him see
what he can see Recollect that it is but
400 miles from the parallel of So degrees to
the pole. If by good luck he did strike au
open sea some summer, who knows what
he could do?
Lieutenant A and Lieutenant would
be charged not to risk wintering in these
regions. Wintering 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 Behring straits to 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.
WrecE age from the Jeanette was taken
through this channel and found on the
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 Behring
straits to Baring's isand-open sailing for
1900 miles-then, when he finds that, as
good chances, a northwest gale has blown
the ice before him into Bafiin's bay, and
Wnen ne 1QllOWS IL that DAY, he and his
crew vii become the famous men of their
time. In 25 or 80 days from Puget sound
on the west he will telegraph from ST..
Johns at Newfoundland to Secretary Her.
bert at the Grand Union, Saratoga, that In
obedience to permission given in General
Instructions No. 900. observing favorable
conditions of the ice, he has and so forth,
and so forth, and so forth, sailed round the
northern half of America
There Is but one other such possibility
for fame. That is the possibility for Secre-
tary Herbert and Lieutenant A. 1t will
be fulfilled when this gentleman shall tele-
graph from New York to announce his ar
rival there Oct. 10, some year, after a sue.
cessful run northward
"As permitted by General Order No 800,
passed the islands of Spitzbergen Aug. 8
and Peary's furthest +"
ice-blink . masthead = foe,
crevasses until on Aug 10, in
|. latitude 70 degrees-no longitude-I had
the pleasure Of displaying the American
flag on a projecting point of an island.
which have ventured to name Herbert
island in honor Of the secretary of the
navy of the United States. The flag of the
nation floats on the north polep' The sec
rotary of the treasury has an opportunity
Of endearing himselfto mankind Edward
Everett Hale in New York Recorder,