Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-10-30

washington, d. c., Oct. %, 1S97.-All
the forces OF exploration are being
massed for the icy north The proceeds
~ Nausen's lectures in this country
will 20 into new expedition to reach
the north pole Lieutenant Peary has
his fund of $4,000 made up. and Is
making his arrangements to start on
Ave years race from northern
Greenland. Wellman, the newspaper
man, has one hundred dogs in training
in Norway, and his expedition will be
ready to start In the spring. In the
meantime the man who has perhaps
done more than any other now living
10 increase our knowledge of polar
matters is working quietly away here
at washington, attending to his official
duties at the war department and de-
voting his leisure to writing books on
a variety of subjects. l refer to Gen.
A. W. Greedy. whose party made the
land point farthest north that has yet
been attained. Nansen drifted nearer
the pole, but he was upon the water
and for practical results his observa-
tons are of little value. For three
long years General Greedy lived al
most under the shadow of the pole, If,
indeed, the pole can cast shadow.
Surrounded by ice and snow he studied
polar conditions amid polar surround
ings. He had the finest scientific in
struments His library contained the
best works OF former explorers, and
his knowledge of the arctic regions
were soaked into him, as 1t were, in
such way that today his authority
upon polar matters is unsurpassed.
HOW GREEDY SUFFERED.
General Greedy is now SO years of
age He is tall. straight and fine look
ing. his black beard and hair just be-
bnning to show their first gray
strands Looking at him you would
not imagine that he had gone through
some OF the most terrible experiences
known to man. He was ~ when he
was started for the pole to be gone two
years He went with the understand
Ing that he was to be relieved at the !
close of that time, and he took with
him only stores for twenty-seven
expedition. The party then started
southwark to find place for winter
quarters until the following summer
could bring ship. They drtfted in
the arctic waters of Smiths sound for
thirty days on an ice foe. and when
they went into Cape Sabine they had
only six weeks provisions to last them
for six months. AS time went on their
rations got lower and lower. They soon
became so small that only the hardest
could survive. There We're twenty
five In the party when they sailed from
81. John In 1851. Only seven were left
when the We're rescued by Captain
schley In 1888, and these seven were so
FAR gone that had Schley arrived two
days later all would have been dead
During their last days the men lived
by boiling their sealskin boots and
and clothing. They ate moss and
snrlmps and OF these were allowed only
enough to sustain life. The diary of
that starving time has been given to
the world, and General Greedy has told
now his men died one after another
and how one OF them had to be shot
by his order in order to save the lives
Of the rest.
HOW PROLONGED COLD SAPS HU-
MAN VITALITY.
] met General Greedy in the library !
OF tha war department yesterday. The ,
subject OF Pearys new scheme came |
up and | asked Gen. Greedy as to |
whether white man could stand five |
years OF arctic exposure. saying that I ,
supposed that he would be less able to |
resist the intense cold from year to |
year, Gen. Greedy replied:
:, rive years Is long time on the |
SHORES OF the Arctic ocean, but / think '
man could stand II that long, al /,
Shoggh ] believe he would be able to
20 less work rs time went on. We |
were not so strong the second year as |
We were the first. Still we had learned |
now TO use our energies better by the !
experiences of the first year. and |
through that knowledge were able to
o quite MS much the second and the
uiru years of our stay as the begin
ing, From the point of experience /
Lieut., Peary's forth and fifth years
aalsht be worth quite as much as his
INST and second"
We're you able to work all the time /
eral?"
Yes, as long as our food held out.
Duilng the last few months we We're
weak that no one could do much.
AZ, Sas very systematic In my work,
,1I tried to make my men so. ] had
keen them busy, In order to prevent
s @sh from getting sick. had to study
@es man and to see that those who
neeaed exercise got 1t. Some of the
tsn We're rather lazy. I could not
W.. mem that ! wanted them to work
Itttely Tor the sake of exercise, for II
;b nad done so they would have thought
n,o., mere was already something the
raa!eT With them. ! simply gave dl-
c..9hs TO the officers to give them
IN NJ Kinds of work out of doors, and
Condition. so'' pay ''e''
LEE r,,.
L UNDER THE SHADOW OF
THE POLE.
Al. zen me general, how you managed
sn5ul sleeping during the arctic nights
tai uaSs How could you arrange to
a. uIlly so much sleep when IL was
b6g lnt -FOUR months at time, and
WIN When the sun shone for months
Uncut setting?"
rarimle hld regular times for sleepinr
va ~ Gen Greedy. "Our retiring hour
one ~ o'clock. and by that time every
N =, supposed to he In bed. Some
drer i"eh acted good deal like chill
Ia 81 W such matters. They wanted
inp ay up and when the time for rIs-
bed ny they wanted to remain in
AZ During the second vear 7 ,ss,at,
Ing IN t prohibiting the men from w.
We 81, between s n. m. and 3 d. m.
than ~, more during the second year
from a., nrst, my officers sleeping then
As for ~, Teen TO sixteen hours a day.
! fon,,I he, ! slept only nine hours. INF
mn trouble in doing So
04o NOT CRAVE CANDLES OR
M, CASTOR OIL.