The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-19
Esouilnau Brought Here by
Peary Seems to Have Been
Utterly Abandoned.
is ILL IN HOSPITAL.
Attack of Pneumonia Brings
Friends, and He May Be
Sent Back.

Ali New York seems to be interested
whose life, menaced by pneumonia,
hangs by a slender thread at the Ford
ham Hospital All day the telephone Is
kept busy with inquiries, but the hardy
patient is making brave ayht and has
o chance to recover.
1t is probable II he gets well he will
return to his far Northern home as
soon as possible, for 1t is agreed that
after the attack he could not long sur
rive in this climate. which caused the
death OF his father and five other Esqui-
maux who were brought here in 1895
by Commander Peary.
Meenie wanted to return to his homo
,on Smith Sound, the farthest point
north at which man IS found. when
Commander Peary started on his pres
emit Arctic expedition, but was told
lShers was not room for him.
mo Room for Him."
'"rhere was plenty of room to bring
me down here" he confided to some
of his friends; "to bring me and the
others who soon died. But they don't
seem to care how I get back" So he
had to remain.
Evelyn B. Baldwin. the Arctic ex-
plorer who was with Peary when
Meenie and his companions were
brought here. said to-day that II Meenie
gets well 1t Is clearly the duty OF this
Government to see that he gets back
home as soon as possible, as It will be
ertain death for him to try to live in
this climate any longer.
'Ie could have gone with Peary had
there been ROOM said Mr. Baldwin,
~6ut there is another way. He can
toin a whaling fleet that sails every
..Tng from Dundee. Scotland. and be
landed at Cape York, in the Melville
BAY region. where his people go every
summer All that is Qecessary is to
raise enough money for his passage and
TO take care of him until he can reach
them, and / shah be glad to take I'D
the matter. as ! feel in d measure re-
sponsible for his welfare. although I
had nothing directly 10 do with bring
ing him to this country"
Boy Is Despondent.
Ole OF -heellle 8 greatest nan dlCapS IN
his fight against the malady from which
me is suffering IS his dependency. He
haunted the Roosevelt for a week be-
fore Peary left last summer in hope
that they would find a place for him at
tie last minute. but he was disap-
pointed and bitterly bewailed his mis-
fortune.
They don't care anything about me
now. They wouldn't even let me have
my fathers body TO bury, but put his
skeleton UP in the museum for every
body 20 look at" he declared in fit
OF melancholy resentment.
He caught cold while fishing in Pei
ham Bay a few days ago. and when
taken TO the hospital was found to have
Q very malignant case OF pneumonia.
He has said that II he pulls through he
will do anything TO get back North.
Meenie is the only one OF his race
aeft IN this country. He seemed TO have
been entirely forgotten until his illness
became known by the hundreds OF
scientists and thousands of others who
paid to see him and his companions
Dor months after Peary brought them
10 New York. After he was adopted
by william Wallace, former superin-
Kendent of the American Museum Of
Natural History. he was given a good
education at the Mount Hope School,
m the Bronx