The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-09-23

gentleman in red sweater ran up TO
the group and signalled out the rep
resentative of a Boston paper.
Il read your paper" said he, tell
me how the series between the De-
trois and Bostons stands The ex-
lied fans said he was e. J. Sheldon of
Boston
The newspaper men raced in vain
hope up the erag behind the town
where the spindle pole of the wire
less raises its web to- the grip of the
winds from Greenland There they
found Gordon Shackling, the young
Nova Scotian, who for five days had
slept four hours in each twenty-four,
while giving Peary's message to the
world He smiled and took the cor
respondents copy almost mechanical
".
Out to the ship the rest hurried
counting each minute as freighted with
value never to be had again. On the
foreward deck were the photograph
ers already man-handling Borup and
Mcmillan and Hensen. The willing
three at the request of the camera men
had climbed into their kap-i-tah, their
koo-le-tah and nan-Yvoks, the fancy
names for blue fox-skin and deer
skin coats, white-skin trousers, and
they were posing on the three sledges
that had gone the ninety degrees north
with Peary.
Two wooley husky pups tumbled
about their feet. Behind and around
the men in their hairy garments was
iudescribable confusion and much dirt.
The detritus of the whole voyage
and accumulation of months of shoot
ing had to be removed before the
Roosevelt can look like respectable
explorer.
Inside the ship in the companion
way leading from the forward to the
main deck, there are the marks of
an approach to a tragedy-a neatly
drilled bullet hole, and a mattress still
blood covered.
Young Borup explained those holes
and what had been the result of their
making. 1t was on the night of Au-
gust II, he said, when the Roosevelt
was making down the Bafin land
coast that Peary had ordered one oi
the crew-Borup would not say who
to clean one of the rifles that had
been used in the walrus hunting q
week before.
Mcmillan was asleep at the time in
his bunk on the port side Of the ship
two rooms from that in which the guI
was bsing cleaned He slept on his
right side with his left arm thrown
over his head. In ejecting a loaded
shell from the rifle to be cleaned, the
man who held the rife accidentally
exploded the shell. The bullet passed
through the pine partition few
inches over the head of the man who
was sleeping in the next room, or
through the room and the farther par
tition.
1t struck McMillen's left forearm
where it lay thrown across the face
tore the flesh down the arm to the
arm to the waist, where it penetrated
thence it passed through his righ
shoulder and then through the fingers
of the left hand which were claspinl
the shoulder.
When DR.. Goodsell examined Nc
Millan's wound he found that extra
ordinary luck had visited the Worces
ter Academy professor. Not bont
was broken and no arteries were sev
cred. But he still wears bandages.
From the lips of this quiet spokeI
Unconditional man from Massachusetts
came tales the like of which are rare
ly told. He stood in the center of
group of correspondents on tn
creased deck forward and as simpl,
as he would recite the taking OF
hazard or the toll of mallards in
shooting blind, he told Of findin
relics of men who had given up thei
lives in the pursuit of the aurora
end, and he read from the record
dead men left behind them in the ic
wilderness 25 years.
The correspondents halted in thei
note.taking and boggled their memo
randa because of the spell of hi
words.
McMillan's first tale had to do wit
young Harry Whitney, the NeN
Yorker who went up with the Roost
velt and remained in Etah over wiz
ter and his meeting with DR.. Cool
with the developments that followed
When the Roosevelt carrying the sut
cessful polar party returned to Eta
In the early part of July of hits yeal
Whitney had been found there.
The New Haven man came aboar
the Roosevelt and started down tn
coast with her. He transferred to tn
Peary relief ship Jeanie when the la
ter was met off Saunders IslanC
northbound.
when he came aboard he state
that he met Cook in Etah in April,
said Mcmillan, "but he spoke littl
about the man, saying only that h
had passed through Etah after tw
days stop on his way up to Upe
nayik, on the south coast of Greer
land.
He positively did not say anythin
about Cook having reached the poll
nor did he say that Cook had intrus
cd part Of his data of exploration an
his nautical instruments TO bis keel
| ing,
We were no wiser ON Cooks cIaiI
to prior discovery of the pole after W
had talked with Whitney than befor
we met him. Consequently we nrl