Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-13

TOWING THROUGH THE ICE, lGnO-
 IFrUm Gcrrit de NCrr's 'Vrayc Dcscripiion-''l None of them. nor of any of two or thrCc overland parties. succCc'lcd in finding any traces of the missing Sir John or his men
 In 1850 ten vessels in seven cxpctli- tions went in further search, but there is not space at command to speak in de- tail of tho men who commanded them, the ships they sailed or the harlShips they suffered. The latter wcrc many and trying. and morn than one uf the vessels and many human lives wCrc lost. One of the parties, headed hy Captain RulNrt l.. MCClur,, who went from the Pacific. pushed far enough east tO cou- meet his discoveries with thn$c of Parry made 20 years bcfor,. Thus the pa,s.aa,c was found at last. but it Was an empty discovery. after all. for il k closed so much of tho time every wear and often all th" wear ruuudl hy ice aS [" h, un- available commercially In fact, Me Clurc himself had tn abandon his ship. the Investigator. and ,~CIIss with his men as bS=~I he could
 Some uf these expeditions found traces Cf Franklin. and several of them made important additions tO the maps uf the arrtic regions. hut it wAS not till I>5" that the fate uf the brave old English man and his men was fully determined The expedition that succccdesl in per forming this service was headed by Cap tain F. l. McClintoch. who smiled un the steam yacht Fox. The expense of this expedition was borne partly by tho British government nnd partly by Lady Franklin Scveral boats and the skele- tons of n number of the men wcre dis covered, and ESkimos who saw them when alive were talked with Accord ing to the testimony of the latter. the poor fellows fell in their tracks as they were walking over the snow and ice and died 4 complete written history of their adventures and hardships tO April s6, iS4S, was also found Franklin him self died June II, lSI7. but when the history was written there werc still los survivors
 No mention hns been made here of the heroic and valuable arctic work done by Grinnell and Kane, Americans. and scores of Englishmen during the years that were devoted to the search for Franklin. nor is there space for moro than this brief allusion. Since then Dr. Hayes. De Long. Grecly and later northern vuyagcrs have penetrated far ther north than any 0f the earlier ex- plurt.rs, and now. as all readers of news papers know, several expeditions arc at the north They arc all striving for the pole as their predecessors strove for the passagc and some of them may win out this year. Who knovsf
 Their vessels are far better equipped ! than wore the early ones All arc fur nished with steam power. and their sup plies arc greatly superior. Sono idea of the ships that went north in the seyen- tcenth century may bo obtained from the accompanying cut from an ancient publication. CHARLES APPLEREK
 Corbctt says that his next battle will positively bc his last appearance in tho l ring, but if he whips Jackson. Bob Fitz. i simmons will still be a very talkative ob 1 stacle in the path of the champion's pro posed rstircment.
 Jake Schaefer has leased two billiard halls in Paris and will stay thcro indeil nitoly. Ives and Jake haye joinnd issues