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The Portland daily press., 1898-09-16
In THE FROZEN NORTH.
The Voyage Of the Bsar to Rescue
the Imprisoned Whalers.
LIEUTENANT BERRY'S STORY OF
ARCTIC EXPERIENCES.

The Whalers Escaped With Little suffer
ing--How They Srent Their Time ne
Bear In PeriI-It Was Feared tha1 Che
Rescuer Would BE Nipped in the Ice'
(New York Herald.)
Reports were received October -, 1884,
that eight steam whaling vessels nome
ward bound-the Area, the Jesse Il.
Freeman, the Belvidere. the Rosario, the
Fearless, the Wanderer, the Jeannette and
the Newport, the crews of which num-
bered 265 men-had been caught In the
Arctic ice off Point Barrow and were in
great danger of starvation. On Novem-
ber 81 the revenue cutter Bear. Captain
Tuttle, sailed from Seattle, carrying
relief party under command of Lieuten-
ant Bertholf, who planned to reach the
whalers with supplies, dogs and reindeer
by an overland route. When the Bear
reached the shipwrecked crews she found
them living on this food, only the butter
supply had been exhausted. Lieutenant
John D. Berry, of the United States Ma
rine Corps, tells the story Of the Bears
voyage for the Herald.
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of the camp. AS result the number ol
sick in quarters has increased beyond eA-
rotations and in many of the regiments
the ragimental dispensaries and hos oltais
with nearly a hundred inmates
have been left with WI
medical officer. The truth is that neither
the regirnental dlspensaries nor the d.
vision hospitals are equal to the presenb
emergency, and the system appears 10
have broken down in a vain experiment..
No one familiar with the organization
| of modern armies and their administra-
ton will question the Importance of the
| division hospital as provision for the
| sick and wounded, but in no army are
thew maintained at the expense of the
necessary regimental organizations, and
WI nelieye that in attempting to do SO
hera we have added largely to the difficult
ties and obstacles in the way OF proper
| ni6atiOn.
In conclusion, the board Is OF the opln'
| ion that it is too late to remeuy She pres,
ent conditions by processes Wnlcn snoui9
have been resorted to when malarlal and
| typhoid fever first appeared, ana IL before
| they became at all prevalent. Inc "
phoid fever is now epidemic, ana tne
| board is constrained to recommend as ono
only effective remedy in view OF the iaous,
that the troops be moved for the presenO
at least from CDlCkhInauSh 1 eii u w -
tiles where proper sanitary measures can
he inaugurated and carried ont
Very respectfully your obedient SER
wants,
J.P. SANGER,
Brig Gen. q. 5. V.
CHAS. P. MATTOCKS,
Brig Gen. U. S. V.
CHAS. e. ROE,
Brig. Gen. U S. V.
COL. G. r. PEA BODY, Sth Mass,
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CAPT. EVANS, GETS SHORE DUTY.

Washington, September .ssSapt. Rob.
Icy d. Evans called at the navy depart
men6 and had long talk with Secretary
Long, the immediate result of which
was the issue OF an order relieving hi q
of the command of the battleship Iowa
which is now being repaired at the New
York navy yard. This was done at
Capt. Evans's request. He has served
more than the period of time required by
the re lliations and his next sea service
may be in flag rank.
Ihe next commander of the Iowa will
be Capt. Silas W. Terry, now in con-
nand of the receiving ship Franklin at
the Norfolk navy yard. lie will lake
the ship around south America and over
to Honolulu in company of the Oregon
and somo soldiers.
Secretary Long this aftI rnoon decided
to assign Capt. hyans to duty us mem
ber of the naval inspection board and he
will assume his duties after "a brief va
cation.
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-16
DEERlNG.

At tie last meeting of Hose Co. No
of Woodfords, a vote of thanks was passed
for the general donation of flowers used
to decorate the hose wagon on the occa.
sion of the New England Veterans pa
rade held in Portland in August.
G. j. Clark, the Woodfords painter,
with his crew are busily engaged in
painting this new High school building
at Deering Centre.
There will be special meeting of Hose
Co. No. of Woodfords, at their rooms,
Lewis hall, Spring street, Monday eve
ming at 7.sO O'Clock. A full attendance
of the members is requested.
Mr.. Ralph Rowe, commencing the pres
ent school year, is devoting his entire
time to the teaching of pennanship in
the Deering schools. instead Of dividing
it between Deering and Westbrook as
heretofore. This arrangement enables
him to devote instead of Is minutes as
before, the entige time of a period. Fri
ay will be devoted to the teaching of
drawing.
Mr.. William H. Looney, assignee Of
Walter Partridge, the Woodfords grocer,
has had the stock and fixtures appraised
and will hold an auction sale in few
days.
The commissioner is having Forest
avenue near Coyle's gulley, between
the nacadam and the granite paved Sec
tion, filled in with crushed rock. prepara-
tory to rolling it out and thus complete
the work on the easterly side of Forest
avenue
The house owned by the heirs of the
late e. A. Newman on Spring street,
Woodfords, which was damaged by fire
early in the summer, is now atout to
undergo repairs. The house is to be
moved back some distance on to their
land and then be remodelled and
equipped with all of the modern improve
ments. The front of the yard will then
be graded up and made into lawn. The
house will not probably be ready for oc-
cupancy until early in the spring.
The socials for the fall and winter
season usually held by the members of
All Souls Univorsalst society are to
be resumed commencing with the one
that is to be held this evening in the
church vestry.
The several committees. appointed to
arrange for three days fair in aid OF
the building fund of the Woodfords Uni
versalist society are hard at work making
preparations for the fair which Is to be
held the later part of the month OF
October.
Mr.. Edward j. Fobes of North Deering,
the popular clerk ct Winship's drug
store, Deering Center was united in
marriage on We dnesday evening at Cum
berland to Miss Edith Wilder. They are
to take up their residence in a house
which they are preparing for occupancy
on Leland street, Dseping Center.
Master Donald Martin Foss will enter
tain a number Of his friends on his first
anniversary, this afternoon from to
clock at 25 Glenwood avenue
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-16
J. DOUBLE sCULL MATCH.

Halifax, N. S, September b.-The
do1hia soull match race for the profess
laval championship or Canada to take
n,nce gI here on Thursday next, the open
NO day Of the Provincial fair, is attract
&c Widespread attention. Durnan and
RICE. she Toronto pair, accompanied by
their trpefs eorsa ARE located In their aIr
The LEGAL nleE, the Lynch brothers,
whose riao rs seuliers has bt en- phenone-
nal, are also doing good work. A large
amount OF money is. being wagered on
The result and the Toronto men have
slrong backing in this respect.
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of the way, having been able to 40 notn.
ing The next morning the Newport
came up to help US.
Meanwhile the ice had cleared away so
that we had open water within nifty yar
OF us. The ice had stacked up SO tna1 we
were ready to haul the ship forward
about four fest Then we moved the pro-
peller slowly and finally got 1t clear with
chisels. Then we moved back ana ioreh
in the little passage that we had mace lor
ourselves, charging 1t little by little.
At seven A. II. the Jeannette got clear
and steamed out. Meanwhile we hao q
party out on the ice blasting some OF outer
pieces The Newport made fast TO one Oh
the cakes, tried to pull 1t out, but parted
the line Then we blew it out with gun
powder The Newport was just heaalng
in to ram when the Bear made hnal
effort and pushed her way out into open
water, narrowly escaping being rammeo
by the Newport, which sheereu OH Juso ~
| time Picking up the men on the Ice, we
steamed down and anchoreo near 'ne
Fearless and Jeannette. We got clear OF
the ice Just at noon.
ARRANGING TO PAY NATIVES.
We reached Cape Prince of Wales at
night en- August 90, and W. 7. Lopp
came ON board. As we were in hurry
to get away Lopp and Jarvis worked all
night, arranging to settle up ths accounts
of the overland expedition with the na-
tiyes. Jarvis collected reindeer from the
natives, giving his notes for them. He
bought in this way several hundred In
all. Many Of Jarvis l o U's have not
been presented for redemption. But he
left the trade goods with Lopp, who will
take ND the aC2ountS as the natives come
in.
On behalf of his natives Mr.. Lopp OBJ
| iected to thc scheme Of the Rev. Sheldon
jackson for providing for his Laplanders
this winter. lie declared that the deer
were loaned, not given, to the govern
ment by private persons who owned them.
These people want the use of them this
winter. Ihe government, through DIR.
Jackeon, has thus far returned only lot
deer. These are all inferior TO those
loaned to Jarvis, ana many of them are
sick. There are no S!ed deer among them.
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-16
ITALIAN BARK ASHORE.

CharIottetown, p. e. l., September 10.
The Italian barque Bertino, 67S tons,
Capt. Soheefine, from Pugwash bound
to Cork, with cargo of deals, went
ashore on Rifeiuan Rock, near here, sun
day morning and came off and went on
Stewards Point, near Belle Greek. where
sho remains full of water. On Sunday
night one of the crew was washed off the
bow aud drowned. The barque is
total wreck. The crew were taken of
by Cant. McDougall, of Belle river, in
ais schooner. a strong gale drove the
hnrk aehoro
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-16
JARVIS TOOK CONTROL.

Two captains claimed that they were
wrecked, and that their authority ceased
when they left their vessels. Brewer and
McIlhenny did take charge, but they had
no way of enforcing their orders. The
men obeyed them or not as they chose,
but whom Jarvis arrived he supplied the
missing link in the chain of government.
He Strengthened things oue, made
them work, and made them play base.
ball.
If any of them did not want to play
was promptly hustled off to drag dei
meat and ducks to camp. A few mite.
of this work soon made nm willing Uo
'play ball. Jarvis WAS strio5 wiFh
them, but they all appear to rave Liz
1t. That was just what they needed,
On the e9th che steam whaler Jeannetts
came along and tied up to the ice not far
from us. She had been delayed a long
time at Port Clarence. waiting for a coal
schooner. On August I'd ice closed in
around US and the Jeannette had mean
while changed her position and was In
fairly well sheltered place.
1t did not take more than twleve hours
for the ice to come in. We .:ad whalers
on board, but we were waiting for the
Thrasher that WAS to have reached here
before us.
On the Sd the Jeannette, Newport and
Fearless got through ridge TO the north
ward and steamed down to Cape Smyth,
inside the shore ice, where they lay in
safety, ready to take us down home, II
the Bear was crushed.
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-16
Sunday Excursion
ORR'S ISLAND and SMALL POINT HARBOF

Steamer Madeleine will run on Steamer
Percy v. route Sunday, Sept 1S, leaving
Portland Pier at 10 a. M. touching at Orrs
Island and Small Point Harbor, Ample time
will be given to obtain dinner at the Alliquippa
House, Small Point; leave Small Point. at
2 p. m, Orr's Island, 3.15 p M; arrive in Port
land, 5 p. m. Why not go on this sale and have
it to say that you have seen Casco Bay from
treme points of the bay also have dinner at
the first house bnilt in Maine for summer
boarders. Fare 90 CTS. rouud trp.
Dinner so Cts. sep15d3t
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-16
WATCHES ON INSTALLMEnTS.

Waltnam and Elgin Watches. 4 large stock
of new model Watches will be sold on easy pay.
ments at reasonable nices. All Styles. All
LAX Nh, nc
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language to give it to the civilized worlt'
and hopes to complete his WORK ana puD-
lish it before many years;
According to Father Barnum, the Ian
guage is exceptionally rich, like the
Greek. Its action expresses itself In term
inations, There are no detached adjec-
tiyes or adverbs. The whole thing ap-
pears to 20 into the verb. 70 every verb
there are 3.537 forms, while the Greek
verb runs up to about 400 only. There
are only twenty-one forms in declension
of the nouns, so that anyone who wishes
TO become proficient has only to learn
roots and 3,537 verbal forms, then accus-
tom his ear to the sound of them all.
At Point Hope we saw the midnight
sun for the first time 1t haa been day
light all the time since arriving at St.
Lawrence Island on June 49,, but we had
not seen sun at midnight We left Point
Hope at twenty minutes past four o'clock
p. n., July II. At eleven O'Clock p. IN,
off Cape Lisburne, we sighted ice for the
first time since June in the Behring Sea.
On July IS we steamed through light
scattering ice, pretty we'll softened by
fairly warm weather (forty to fifty de-
greesl, in which it foated. At half past
ten o'clock we got into clear water,
which extended along the coast as far as
Ice Cape.
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INSTRUCTION.
PORTLAND ACADEMY.

Fall Term begins Sept. 18th. at rooms in
Baxter Building. Pupils of both sexes re-
ceived. Private pupils are received afternoons
and evenings. For further particulars inquire
of MISS ETA A. FILES, Principal.
120 Free st.
{ Portland, Aug. q, 1898. aug31d3w
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-16
FIRST WHALER FOUND.

On the morning Of July 10 we picked
up native boat containing Captain a.
G. Sherman, of the wrecked steamer
Orica; j. Drynene of the Pacific Steam
Whaling Company; J. Clark, second mate
of the Jessie Fl. freeman; Erred Nell
son, of Cape Sayth; Captain Thomson,
Anson Roderick, Peter Nelson and Ivan
lit, starving whalers, and two natives.
They had come sdown to get mall from
the ships, but the mail was on the
Thrasher, and she had not got here yet.
Sherman reported all well at Point bar
row.
Finding the ice packed on Blossom
Shoals off Icy Cape, we anchored TO 1he
southwark of the cape on the afternoon
Of the 18th. This is one of the last places
south of Point Barrow for ice to leave in
the summer.
On the Goth we tried to get around out
side Blossom Shoals, but not too for
the ice pack, although we could not dis.
tinguish the pack from the vessel. On
the 2ad Lieutenant Hamlett, A. Svend
son, one of the Bears crew, with j. A.
Clark, Oscar Thompson and two natives,
who came down with Sherman. left In
native boat to take one case OF evaporated
onions to Lieutenant Jarvis and lnc1den-
Uislly 2lt6 a lew LhEo "a AAOtAA W oAAS ~SSA
where at Seahorss Islands. Finally, on
the 26th we went out around the shoals.
EMERGED INTO CLEAR WATER.
On the 2sth we anchored off the DESERT
ed village of Attanka, south of Seahorse,
having tried to get to the northward in
side of the shore ice. That night we
steamed all around outside of the ridge
of shore ice and went merrily northward.
We passed Seahorse and saw the Belvidere
in there, but she appeared to be all right,
and there was considerable ice between
us, so we went on and emerged into clear
water as far as the eye could reach.
The next morning at eight we made
fast to tho outside of the shore ice off
Cape Smyth, and had reached the north
ern limit OF our cruise Lieutenant Jar
Wis came on board as soon as we reached
here. Both he and DR.. Call were in ex.
cellent condition. There was scarcely any
sickness on the beach. Food was still
holding out we'll, with the exception of
butter, which had been used up for over
a week. The herd of reindeer was as
large as when it reached here. The births
had equalled the killings.
Mr. Brewer sent over to the ship hum
dreds of ducks that he could spare, and
the whole ships company, "starvlng
duck ever since What the people here
needed last winter was somebody who
had authority to take charge of them and
thar affairs, and at the same time would
exercise that authority. Neither of the
masters of the wrecked vessels would take
charge, even CT their own crews, and nei-
ther Brewer nor Mcllhenny, though
either was competent to handle the situ-
alton, had any authority to govern the
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BEAR IN A TIGHT PLACE.

That afternoon there was slight move
ment of the ice that parted five lines, all
that we had out forward. and set the ves-
sci SO hard against the spur of shore ice
that the side of the ship was pressed in
about an inch and half, lifting the floor
plates of the engine room about four
inches. The pressure was soon relieved by
cloI ping away corner of the ice spur.
This is not serious of itself, but is an in
dication of what might happen II the ice
really gets down to business.
On the 9th and 9Th we tried to blast a
passage through the grounded ice in Or
dor to haul the ship through into clear
water between the shore and ice, but a
four hours trial on the 7th showed that
the work would take more powder than
we had on all thu vessels, and the at
tempt was abandoned. The ice was fully
thirty feet thick in many places. Yester-
day and the day before we gave the Fear
less twenty three tons of coal. Every
Gay or two the off shore ice moved to
the northward for a few hours, but the
pressure about us had not been relaxed.
On August IA there were indications
that the ice might clear out. The cur.
rent offshore, acted on by moderate south
west winds, began to run to the north
ward at the rate of one or two knots an
hour. BY tho night of the 14th the south
ern horizon looked as if there were water
instead of ice under 1t. On the morning
of the 18th open water reaehed as far as
we could see from south TO north, evan
past Point Barrow, yet the Bear and
Jeannette were packed in as immovable
as ever.
We could see that the ice might be
cleaned out il we could start the outside
pieces and then gradually work in toward
the ships, so the Fearless and the New
mort found passage around the south of
fhe shore foe and tried to haul out some
of the key pieces that were wedged in
unon u.s. Some heavy ice soon began to
break off from the foo and they got out
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-16
CAMP THOMAS.
Gen. Mattock's Report on its Sanitary
Condition and the Hospital Service.

The following is a full text OF the
board appointed to examine into the
sanitary condition of Camp Thomas at
Chickamauga, of which Gen. c. P. Mat
tock's was member:
Headquarters 3rd Division, 1st Corps.
Camp Geo. H. Thomas, Ga.
To the Assistant Adjutant General.
Sir The board appointed by paragraph
l6, special order No. 7, to investigate on
ths sanitary conditions of all camps in
this command has the horor to submit
the following report:
The board visited and inspected all the
camps in the park and the division hos
pitfalls and submitted to each division,
brigade and regiment aud to all medical
officers in charge of hospitals q list of in
terrogatiyes, copies of which are append
ed to the record, as the replies thereto,
from these papers and from the personal
observation the board find that the
spring water which is brought from with
out the limits of the camp, while unpol- :
luted, is not safe for use without boiling.
That boiled water had not been generally
used by the camp up to August lst, be-
cause sufficient kettles for boiling had
not been furnished except in few cases,
and then at private expense, because a
sufficient supply of barrels for storing
and cooling the water after boiling had
not been furnished.
We believe that all the water in the
park is unsafe for use unless boiled, that
some regiments are compelled to purchase
water outside the park, that in some in
stances small bath bouses have been con-
structei by regiments at their own ex-
pense, but that majority of the regi-
ments have no facilities for bathing.
POLICE OF CAMP.
The police of camps is under charge
of regimeDtal officers Of the day, and in
some instances under special police in
spectors and is generally good, sinks ex-
cepted. Garbage and refuse have been in
some cases dumped, and in others burned,
and is now generally burned. Mems and
kitchen sinks are in front of the regi-
mental camps, at q safe distance from
the mems quarters The sinks are gem
orally open. because no lum ber has been
furnished. The camps of nearly all the
regiments are now in open fields and are
we'll drained, but prior to the early part
of August were in the woods.
TENTAGE.
The average number of men in each
tent is six to eight. MANY regiments
have tents which are unfit for use. Not
more than four men should occupy a wall
tent, and not more than ten men conf
cal tent in this climate at this season of
ths year.
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HOSPITALS.

The report of the board as to the condi-
tions and needs of the division hospitals
has already heen submitted and is ap-
pended to this report.
from such facts as the board has been
able to gather it would seem that the ty-
phoid fever was brought here early in the
season by incoming regiments, and has
also resulted from the unsanitary state
OF the camps to which the rapid increase
within the past four weeks is mainly at
tributable and greatly enhanced by the
damp weather. The board found that
the sanitary condition of all the camps,
with but few exapetions is bad. and that
malaria and typhoid fever are alarm
ingly on the increase, that the nature of
the camp sites is such that 1T is impossi-
ble to dig proper sinks on account OF
rock prevalent everywhere, or to Keep the
sinks in good condition from want of
lime and other disinfectants, hich have
been applied for both through the medi-
cal and quartermaster's department, but
without result prior to August lst. That
in nearly all the camps, sinks I'LL with
water, which the soil does not absorb
1t is the opinion of tEe board that much
sickness would have been avoided IL the
tents had been foored and the men raised
from the ground, but this has not been
practicable generally, as no lumber has
pesn furnished for flooring the tents ex-
cspt by the men themselves; that camp
ing the troops in the woods out of reach
of 4 the sun, has rendered the camp
grounds unsanitary; that the water sup
ply and soil of the Park generally are so
polluted as to be dangerous to the health
of even the regiments now enoamped IN
the open fields, and that typhoid 1eVer
has now become epidemic.
We mention these causes of the present
conditions of the camp and the health OF
the troops in order to negative an infer
ence, to which some publicity has Deen
given, that the prevalence OF typhoid fe-
yer is wholly the result of the negligence
of the men and of the officers in 1mmecl-
ate command of them. Doubtless there
has been some carelessness resulting from
inexperienoe, but we are of the opinion
that there as also been some neglect on
the part of the officers largely responsible
for the administration of Camp Thomas
prior to August l.
In further explanation of the situation
the board believes that had the regimen
tai HOSPITALS retained the organization
they had on arriving here, instead of be-
ing reduced to dispensaries, in order to
iroyide for the division hospitals or had
the latter been established on . suitable
basis and made Independent of the regi-
ments for medical officers nurses, attend
ants, etc the sick would have been more
effectively cared for in the early stages of
the disease than they have been; the 900
number of sick could probably have been
largely reduced, and the general sanitary
condition of the regiments kppt under tar
closer supervision. 1t had heen difficult,
if not impossible for the one medical otii-
Ger and the hospital steward on duty with
each regiment to properly examine the
men at sick call, to care for the sick in
quarters and TO look after the curtagion