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In his mind, he said there wae ..ot th
shadow oil a doubt about &, and b
could see no reason why any intelliger
0 person should doubt it..
| Gen. Greedy said that he did not wan
: to see u war if it could be avoided, bu
ne thought there were some thing
worse than war. He had been Opposes
10 intervention or interference an
) way until the Maine was blow ,.p, bu
) alter that occurred he thought th
United States should no longer hesitat,
10 lake hand. Spain has proven her
sell utterly incapable of managing th,
island. With all of the forces at her
command she could not quell the lew
Thousand insurgents in the field, anC
hau oeen able 70 DO nothing more i'm
portant than to starye and butcher the
non-combatants. The United States
hau been compelled to spend at leas
nali million dollars u year doing DO.
lice duty to keep tilibusters out OF Cuba,
and he thought it was about time that
"a stop was being put to the whole bust
| ness.
Although Gen. Greedy is 81 years of
age ne still has youthful appearance.
but Tor n springling Of gray in his hair
ana beard he would pass for man OF
~. When asked whether be ever fc C
any OF the effects of his sutferings in
The Arctic regions he replied that
beyond the loss of what might be
called spring" he could not say that
ne did. His general health is excel
lent, but he has not the endurance
tnat he had before his expedition to
Greenland.
Whlle young officer, connected
with the weather bureau, which was
at that time under the war depart
ment, Gen. Greely was several times
visitor to Charleston, where, through
the Hon. S. y. Tupper, at that time
president of the Chamber of Com.
merce, he made many pleasant ac-
quaintances. He spoke very pleasant
~ about them yesterday, and inquired
after Col. William l.. Trenholm and
EX- Governor Hugh S. Thompson, both
VI whom he knew in Washington as
representative South Carolinians. 1t
was source OF great regret to him, he
said, that he could not spend several
days in the city and renew the &C
qualntances OF which he had such
pleasant recollection.
The story OF the Greedy expedition
hlls one OF the most interesting pages
In the history OF modern exploration
and adventure. Soon after the war,
through which he served with distinc-
tlon, Grcey was detailed for duty in
the signal service corps, and when in
1881 1T was decided to send an expedi-
tlon into the Arctic reg ions to esta-
bllsh one of a chain of thirteen circum-
polar stations in accordance with the
Hamourg International Conference of
two years before, he was selected to
command it.
The party, consisting of twenty-f five
persons, sailed from ST. Johns, N. F.,
In the Proteus, on the eth OF July, 1881,
ana reached Discovery Harbor, lati-
tude 81 degrees, A minutes, north
longitude; 64 degress 45 minutes, west
on the 18th OF August, 1881. Here the
party remained for nearly two years,
making lttquent expeditions into the
surrounding country, and then In
obedience to orders to abandon the
station, and move south in case relief
ana not reach them by September 1883,
ala So While at this point one party
OF three succeeded in reaching point
iurther north than any previously at
talned. Lieut.. Greedy led two eXpedi-
tlons into the interior of the country
in the summer and discovered a lake
slXty-twO miles long, which he named
Lake Hazen, and two new mountain
ranges, in one OF which the highest
speak Mount Arthur, was five thous-
and feet high.
Two expeditions sent out to their
relief failed to reach them. The latter
was commanded by Lieut.. Darlington,
South Caroinian. But both ex-
peditions left stores at convenient
points.
1t was on the 9th of August. 1883,
that the party under Lieut.. Greedy set
out on It's retreat southwark. The
health OF all up to that time had been
excellent After thirty days adven-
lures they succeeded in reaching Cape
SABINE, having been compelled to aban.
don % their steam launch in the ice. Az
Cape Sabine they established their
winter quarters, and winter coming on
almost immediately their sutferihgs
began. Sixteen Of the party died OF
starvation, one was drowned and one,
Prlvate Henry, was shot by order of
Lieut. Greedy for stealing food. 1t was
the I'D of June, 1884, before any relief
could reach them. Then they were
rescued by the third relief expedition
under Capt. Winfield Schley in so ex-
hausted condition that they would
probably not have survived another
twenty.four hours.
On his return to the United States
Lieut.. Greedy was the hero of the hour.
Lhere was considerable criticism OF
his management Of the expedition,
but his superior officers, who we're in
possession OF all of the facts, upheld
him in everything that he had done.
lie was promoted to q captaincy in
1856, and In 1887, after the death of
Gen. William b. Hazen, was appointed
by President Cleveland to succeed
that officer as chief of the signal service
corps, with the grade of brigadier
| general.
THEY'RE ALL THERE.-Take a walk
through q cemetery alone and you will
pass the last resting place of the man
| who blew into the muzzle of gun to
see il i was loaded. A litsle further
| down the slope is the crank who tried
| to show how close he could pass In
| front of moving train. In stroling
about you see the modest monument OF
the hired girl who started the Fl ire with
kerosene and a grass covered knoll that
covers what is left of the boy who put
a corn cob under mules tail. The
tall shaft over the man who blew out
the gas casts a shadow across the boy
who tried to jump on moving train.
Side by side the ethereal creature who
always had her corset laced to the last
| hnla and tho intalliront ;l;o. ..La