The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-26
The CITY
OF KANE: .
WILTON ION tne POSI-


EpIrOE Posr:-
Every American school
hov who reads the daily and weekly
newspapers watches with aprofound
interest the details ofthe Arctic ex-
pioratious aud spccuiatcs, perhaps,
in his boyish excitement upon the
probabilities of his organizing an
expedition TO the polar seas, in the
time to come. In 1913 DIR. Elisha
Kent Kane, an eminent Phlladel-
phia physician and surgeon entered
the United States Navy, and subse-
lucutly when our Government sent
Daniel Webster to China on his mis-
sion to arrange diplomatic relations
between that country and our Own,
DIR. Kane accomp plnied the dis
tiuguishcl | statesman and while en-
route disclosed to Webster his theo-
rics of an open, passable sea in the
North and also urged upon him the
Importance of having the Unit
ed States Government serd an ex-
petition there, in the interest OF
scieptitc aud commercial advance
ment. DIR. Kane undertook his polar
trip and incidentally searched for
Sir John Franklin, an adventurous
Enslishman, who lost his life in the
frigid countries of the North. Kane
returned but Franklin was never
found, and Lieut.. Greeleys Arctic
trip, undertaken IN 1879 at the in
stance of the Federal Government,
was likewise unproductive OF re.
suits except that it proved the alb.
solute futility and perhaps, folly OF
sending expeditions to the North
Pole for either scientific or mercan.
tile purposes. When Greeley re-
turned to the United States i'll July
1884, bringing back i'll metallic cas-
kets. the emaciated remains OF This
brave companions who succumbed
t. the untold rigors of that fatefu
journey, the Philadelphia Ledge,
told in several columns of graphic
reci. al that Congress had up to that
time appropriated 100000 fol
polar explorations with net result
0tHiug. a-buC in the face OF all
experience aud unsatisfactory in
formation, men are indomitable an6
restlessly ambitious and our OWL
Peary is TO day trying to do that
which dozens of his stirring but
misguided predecessors undertook
at the peril of their lives.
DR.. Kane, the explorer, was gen
tleman of high cultivation, having
studied in Paris and London. His
brother, General Thomas l.. Kane
located at Kane. Pennsylvania, and
the veterans of the late war remem
Der him as the commander of that
famous military organization knowr
rs "rhc Bucktails," the most uni
que and daring company of soldiers
which fought throughout the war
General Kane invited corps oI
surveyors to his mountain home oil
the very crest of the Alleghenies
and pointed out to them how rail
road could be built to communicat,
with the lake regions. The roat
came, with it came Kane, thriving
permanent town, with Kane came
the discovery of oil ana with OF
came that wonderful illuminaut o
which we have read since we wer,
babies, natural gas, and with natur
al gas came a network of constant
and dependent communication
with all surrounding towns anC
Kane to-day is the best hghte(
town in America, say its inhabitants
while Jamestown, Buffalo, Sala
manca and other cities in New
York state and many adjacent onei
in Pennsylvania, receive through
pipes, the natural gag from Kane
for light, heat and fuel.
PENNSYLVANIA is the greatest state
in the world. That is very gener
al and bold declaration to make. L
might be termed reckless and un
calculating but who would be 4,
technical hairsplitter with reference
to our vast natural and undevelop
cd wealth when gas and oil and Goa
and iron and timber have multiple,
millionaires in Pennsylvania unit
you grow tired keeping track o
them. Some years prior to the out
break of the Rebellion, about 1885
Col. Drake. a resident of CrawforC
county dug an oil we'll across tn