Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-22
Observation-Disclosures
Delivered by Mr. c. r. Savage and H.
" ChamberliD. on "Life in Arctic Seas and
Some Utah Diatoms," respectively.

lecture delivered by Mr.. C. IT, Saw
age before the Microscopcnl society
Friday evening. January Il, 1888.
"Many who may listen to the read
ing of the Index have but little time
to read or think of the mighty EFFORTS
that have been made to learn what the
northern polar regions are like. There
has been belief that some OF the zen
tribes were somewhere in that region
in fact there was once a popular mo-
ton that at the North Pole there was
an immense depression, SO great that IL
was inhabited. and the internal neat OF
the earth helped to make such ioca-
t,on bebitnble. This delusion was
chilled "symmes's Hole, "aDd had n good
many believers in its possibility for
several years.
The desire to know the character OF
the frozen region has been great from
the earliest ages; the seagoing men VI
the coasts OF Sweden and Norway WIN
the Dutch and English, have LOT CEN
turtles had their eyes upon poihr en-
ploration: all sorts Of propositions nave
heen offered as to the northwest pas
sage by way Of Greenland. Inc reah-
cation of hopes such has never ma
tured. Some travellers have tod US ol
an open polar sea, and l have reau vi
mon who saw cumulus clouds that are
only visible where the atmosphere IL
warm and summer-like, ana supposeu
that away beyond their utmost vision
there would be free sailing possibly TO-
wards the Pole, and there are now
many propositions being made TO reach
this goal yet unrevealed-one OF the
last great secrets OF the geography OF
our earth. Peary now proposes to reach
It by establishing stations wei pro-
yided with provisions, and to reach IL
Nv means OF sledge travel with uoss.
This, In my judgment, Is feasible II
there is land tnat reaches the aesIre s,,
haven. But when upon the ice he VIII
he carried by the great Arctic currents
out of his way and may not succeed
IA brief epitome of what has been
accomplished in the past before we
come to the last great effort Is neces-
sary: m ,,.
As minutes north by means OF sledges.
MARKHAM In 1866 reached " de-
grees 20 minutes north at enormous
cost and exertion.
"I.ieut Lockwood of the Greedy ex-
petition reached SO degrees "a minutes
the highest point trodden by human
feet. This was an American expedi-
ton, the previous explorers being prih-
cipally English.
''In 1907, Henry Hudson tried to reach
the pole by sailing along the east coast
OF Green land but could not reach a
point higher than 10 degrees north. he
then assayed TO go farther north near
20 minutes OF north latitude.
.:Payer in ~ and "a reached So de-
grees minutes north on an island
which he named Crown Prince Franz
Joseph land.
Another American expedition I'M
der Lieut.. DE Long sailed for the pole
by way of Boring Strait and was
frozen in latitude Il degrees 35 min
utes north, and drifted for two years
in a northerly direction. when the
Jeanette fcundered In latitude n de-
grees 10 minutes north. and 145 degrees
50 minutes east longitude.
1.-THE failure Of the Jeanette expe-
dition laid the foundation for an effort
that proved to be one of the greatest
successes of the century. and 1t was
brought about as follows.
1.-THE Jeanette founderedJune 12,1s91.
The seamen then made for the mouth
Of the Lena river In northern Siberia.
Many of them persisted and had a
frightful experience.
I'm 1884 some Esquimos found on the
coast of Greenland. 1900 miles from the
place where the Jeanette foundered,
some relics belonging to expedition,
among them being some manuscript
and pair of oilskin breeches. bearing
the name of one OF the crew of the
III "a a l.lt p he'd
the fact that the ice foe upon which
the discovery was made must have
been floated clear across the Arctic
ocean, and also that the current showed
the absence of land across the dreary
waste. as 1t took 1.IO0 days to reach
the coast upon which the relies were
found. We are informed that the