The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-05-01
EXPLORING NORTH.
SUGGESTIONS AS TO HOW THE ARC.
TIC POLE MAY BE FOUND.

Government steamers by short aud Rapid
Voyages During the Summer Months
Could sail Through the Northern Sea.
with Little Danger.
-Four miles further north than the ad
venturous Markham had gone I'm the En-
lsh service our Countrymeu, Lockwood
and Brniuard, planted the stars and stripes
| In the latitude OF 50 degrees q minutes
north and took possession Of that country
in the name Of the United States. Greely
and his party had spent most Of three
| years near the eighty-second parallel in
| Grant Land, a period much longer than
was occupied by any Of the eirlier colonists
OF England in the United States, In the
settlements at Roanoke. at Cuttyhunk OF
SaRadahoc, all of which anticipated James.
town. And ON the northwes ern 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 l. the
| guardian of these northern watersg Does
he mean to let Austria, or Norway, or Eng.
land establish another fax farther north
than the stars and stripes has foatedf
| There Is 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,
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 Dr. 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 Ii 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 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 "perambulaten means
that he is to see to their borders and to
know who the neighbors are and what they
| are about. 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 it's 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,
lt.rtth 10 H.. a
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
IL does not need any act Of congress with
an appropriation the purchase of vessels
| and the selecting of "A lot of scientific men.
! II 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 Greely, 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 1t IL. Now, let Lieutenant A in our
Atlantic vessel and Lieutenant B Ia 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. Recolect that it is but
400 miles from the parallel Of 81 degrees to
the pole. If by good luck he did strike an
| open sea some summer, who knows what
| he could dor
Lieutenant A and Lieutenant B would
| be charged not to risk wintering in these
regions. Winteling is none OF their bust.
| ness. But they are to see what they can
zee in their little steamers between July
and Oct. l.
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 II channel there. Mcclure nud lis
| 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
| Wrec age from the Jeanette was taken
through this channel and found on tbs
| coast of Greenland
| Now, when Lieutenant b, on some favor
able summIr in some little governmcu,
| vessel named as fortunately as the Rush
pushes her some fine day from BehrinC
straits to Barng's island-open sailing for
| 1900 miles-then, when he finds that a,
good chances, a northwest gale has blown
the ice before him into Baflin's bay, and
when he follows It that day, he and hi
| crew will become the famous men of then
time. In % or 20 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 iu
obedience to permission given in Genera
Instructions No. 900. oh.erving favorabl,
conditions of the ice, he ..as, and SO forth.
and SO forth, aud 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 aud Lieutenant a. 1t will
be fulfilled when this gentleman she'll tele
graph from New York to announce his ar.
rival there Oct. 10, some year, after u sue
cessful run northward
"As permitted by General Order No. e99,
passed the islands Of Spitzbergen Aug. s
and 4 Peary's furthest
lce-blink masthead foe
crevasses until on Aug 10, IN
latitude 90 degrees !ongitude-l had
the pleasure Of displaying the American
flag ON projecting point Of an island
which ] have yentured to name Herbert
Island in honor of the secretary of tn,
navy Of the United States. The flag Of the
nation floats ON the north poleH' The sec
retary Of the treasury has an opportunity
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