The Washington times., 1901-09-22
DIR. pEpRIcK NOT MARooNED.
Went Ashore at Etah and Remained
os His own VIII.

| N.
lief expedition, under command of Her
| bert /. Bridgman, of Brooklyn, Which
connected with Lieutenant Peary in the
Arctic region last summer and recently
! returned here, reports a distressing incl
! dent Dr. T. s Dedrick, the physician
who went north with Lieutenant Peary.
was left alone at the Eskimo settlement
of Etah on Smith Sound. where the doc
tor went ashore when Mr.. Bridgman S
ship. the Erik, stopped on her homeward
way
The doctor had resigned from Peary's
| expedit after various disagreenents or
differences with Lieutenant Peary of a
nature not wholly disclosed. Mr.. Peary
and Mr. Bridgman and all on the Erik
believed that the doctor was coming all
| the way home on their ship, when he sud-
| denly left at Etah and declared his inten-
| tion to remain there, defying the members
of the Erik expedition to remove him. Mr..
Bridgman held a conference today with
other members of the Peary Arctic Club
| and issued this statement:
THE press is requested by the Peary
Arctic Club to deny the statement that
| Surgeon T. $. Dedrick was put ashore
from the Peary Arctic steamer Erik at
Etah on August 81 On the contrary. Dr.
wishes of Mr. Bridgman. of the Peary
Arctic Club. Mr.. Wyckoff and DR.. Cook.
who was surgeon of the relief expedition
on the Erik.
''Dr. Dedrick declined to return south
on the Erik, resisting every argument of
the secretary of the club. the surgeon. and
members of the expedition. He insisted
on remaining with the Eskimos at Etlh,
in spite of Dr. Cooks warning that to re-
main in the Arctic might be attended with
serious results for him, particularly in re-
gard to his mental condition.
DIR. Dedrick left the ship fully armed,
none of the officers of the expedition hav-
ing any knowledgA of his intentions, and
after joining the Esquimaux on shore
stated that he would not return to the
ship and insisted that he would resist by
force any attempt to bring him on board.
DR.. Dedrick resigned his position as sur
geon on August q and his resignation
was accepted on August "a He was di-
rected to return to New York on the Erik
and was informed that the club would
pay him the bonus of $50 per month pro-
vided in his contract
THE course he has pursued can only
be accounted for by some alteration of
the mind. DR.. Dedrick was told that the
when next in those waters and he was
urged to return to New York by steamer
or by whaler''
The exact nature of the difficulties be-
tween DIR. Dedrick and Lieutenant Peary
has not been told. but the doctor three
times rendered his resignation. Twice he
was taken back, it is said, at his own re-
quest. by Lieutenant Peary. At last. in
August, came a third tender of the doc
tors resignation. Mr.. Peary accepted the
resignation and ordered him home by the
Erik.
Mr.. Bridgman did not know the cause of
the doctors dissatisfaction but he did
think that he was going to land Dr. De-
drick in New York. When the ship got to
Etah the doctor went ashore to do some
shooting. and sent word that he was GO
ing to remain with the Esquimos. He said
also that although most of his luggage
was aboard the ship he would not return
to her unless under a guarantee that he
would be permitted to leave her again at
his will
DIR. Cook and Mr.. Wyckoff went ashore
to reason with him, and. meeting with no
success, the doctor was invited to come
aboard on the assurance that he would
be permitted to do as he pleased Further
argument on shipboard failed to affect
his decision to stay all winter with the
Eskimos, with whom he said that he
should be altogether comfortable.
1t is said that the doctor strongly re-
sented the confidence bestowed by Lieu
tenant Peary on his old and trusty com
panion, the negro Mathew Henson. under
whose orders DR.. Dedrick declared that
he had been put. IL is also said that the
doctor was greatly annoyed to have Mr.
Peary leave the Windward in the com
fnand OF her navigator, Captain Bartlett
on the lieutenant's last dash TO the north,
and much more displeased because Hem
son. instead OF the doctor, was taken on
that dash by the explorer.