The San Francisco call., 1897-11-22


year and a half, during which he has
made two cruises to the Arctic in the
Bear.
Second Lieutenant John G. Berry, WHO
will act as special correspondent OF 1HE
CALL, was born at Portland, Maine on
February y, 1866. He entered the n 'val
Academy in 1882, was graduated In 1886
and was honorably discharged IN 1905
After four years in civil life as civil
engineer he entered the revenue cutter
service as third lieutenant April %. 1892.
He was promoted TO second lieutenant
on June 6, 1895. In the navy he served in
South America in the revenue maine
three years on the eastern coast and the
last three years on the Grant in the Ber-
ing Sea- During the sealing seasons OF
1896 and 1897 he was stationed on Attu
Island in charge of the temporary Gus.
tom house esta blished there for the super
vision of sealers coming from the Japan
fisheries. His rule on the island was
strict, and although some of the sealers
complained that they could not have as
high time as they we're used TO having
in that port, he was well liked by them.
He had been stationed on the Grant and
volunteered to GO north on the Bear.
Lieutenant Berry is the son of Stephen
Berry of Portland. Me.
Another officer of this expedition is Sec
ond Lieutenant Bernard H. Camden,
nephew of ex-senator Camden of West
Virginia. Lieutenant Camden went north
on the Bear last summer as third lieuten-
ant and was promoted to second lieuten-
ant on August of this year. subject TO
examination.
He is now in Port Townsend undergo
ing this examination. He was born on
April %, 1869, st Parkersburg w. Va, at
tended the Naval Academy for three
years and left there to accept situation
rs civil engineer on railroad work in West
Virginia. He entered this service as
cadet in 1894 and was commissioned third
Lieutenant in 1896 spending that year in
the Rush, in the Bering Sea and San
Francisco.
Second Lieutenant Harry G. Hamlet is
the son of Captain Oscar c. Hamlet, now
com manding the revenue bark Chase, the
schoolship of the service. He entered the
service as cadet, and was promoted al the
same time as Lieutenant Camden. Lieu
tenant Camden went north on the Bears
in the Berng Sea on the Rush and Grant.
As soon as he heard OF the proposed ex-
pedition for the relief of the imprisoned
whalers he volunteered to be one Of the
party He was born August 81, 1874, at
Eastport, Me.
Like Captain Tuttle Chief Engineer H.
c. Whitworth has an excellent war record.
He was wounded while serving on the
cunboat Commodore Jones when she was
blown up by torpedo, and three officers
and twenty-sev men we're killed. He
was born at Laurel, Nd, in 1945, lett
school in Baltimore TO enter the navy in
1868, and was honorably discharged with
the thanks of the Navy Department in
1866. He was appointed assistant engineer
again, and served until 1859 on the
Pacific Coast III the Lackawana. He was
in the blockade off Charleston from 1864
to 1866. He entered the revenue cutter
service in 1874 as assistant engineer and
came out to San Francisco on the old
Rusn, now the whaler GTamnus. He was
promoted to be chief engineer on June g.
1895.
First Assistant Engineer H. n. Wood is
q graduate of Cornell University and
his freshman year and in his sopho-
more year, until be broke his collar bone
in that gentle sport. He was commits
stoned second assistant engineer in 1894
and promoted TO first assistant engineer
February 5, 1896 Mr. Wood was born at
Butler, n. Y, August %, 1863 During
the several years past that he has been
cruising on the Bear he took many ex-
cellent views of the northern country. As
photographer for The CALL he will furnish
the general public with many views of
great interest in connection with the ex-
pedition.
The two other members of the engineers
force. Second Assistant Engineers II. K.
Spencer and John l. Bryan. are also COL
lege athletes Spencer having been in the
Cornell University baseball team and
Bryan on the football eleven of the Ken
tucky State College. Both were commits
stoned in 1896. Mr.. Spencer was born in
Milwaukee, Wis, February %, 1868. After
graduating from college in 1890 he was in
charge of the electric street-railway plant
at Ithica, n. Y.
Assistant Engineer Bryan was born De-
cember %. 1871, at Lexington, KY. He
College in 1898, and took a postgraduate
course in mechanical engineering until
1895.
DR.. S. J. Call, the Bears surgeon, is we'll
known in San Francisco, but still better
in the Aleutian Islands and the Arctic.
He has acted as surgeon for the Alaska
Commercial Company for nine years. has
been one year on the revenue Gu ter Rush
and has been to Point Barrow three times
already on the Bear. No man knows the
northern country better than he. He is
an enthusiastic sportsman and has a num-
Der OF polar bears TO his credit
DR.. Woodruffs who was secured by THE
CALL to accompany the overland expeni-
lion, was born in San Francisco on A ApriI
q, 1859, and consequently is now in mis-
thirtyseighth year. In 1884, when he was
% years of age, he graduated from Har-
ward University. Six years later, in 1890,
he graduated from McGilI Medical Col
lege, receiving a diploma as doctor of
medicine and mastery of surgery. Di-
rectly afterward he went 10 Europe, where
he gained much valuable experience in
the hospitals OF London and other large
cities. OF late years he has been prac-