Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-20
S. Schley, on his relief expedition Ser
out for the purpose of rescue.
A Voice From the Dead.


''Fluttering about the camp was slip
of paper that had been taken from the
f1yleaf Of notebook. II was a voice
from the dead Written as the introduce
ton to speech at a banquet that the
expedition had evidently arranged to kill
the monotony of the long winter, the
| words were in the nature of chatting
| of the various members of the party. The
author little knew at the time that he
! pencled his words that they would be
found almost a generation afterWard, the
simple story of a tragedy of the arctic
| Here l also found other papers and
magazines. Carefully placed between the
pages of magazine were several photo
graphic plates that had been taken by
George w. Rice, who was the official Pho
| tographer of the expedition. The maya
| zine was still readable, despite the fact
THAT it had been the plaything of the ele-
! ments there for twenty-elght years. the
| plates however, were ruined, and l was
! unable to discover to just what extent
! the expedition had penetrated into the
arctic.
| lone of the treasures concealed by the
leaves of the magazine was a photograph
of Gen. Greedy. The features were still
distinct One of the relics was the fyleaf
of book. 1t had written upon it. Lieut.
Frederick Kisslingbury. To my dear
| father, from his affectionate son. Harry
Kisslingbury. May God be with you and
return you safely to us
! The f1yleaf had been torn from text
book that had evidently been passed from
enc student to another. The names OF
| several persons, evidently students, had
| been written, but pencil mark had been
drawn through them. The first name at
the top of the page was Henry Satreau'
Underneath was Victor Cloutier Assump-
| ton College. These had been scratched
out and under them written Harry Kiss
lingbury, Fort Custer, Mont, now at AS
sumption College. Sandwich. Ontario. jan
uary 10 1881.
1.-The fate of kisslingbury is tragic. He
had become estranged from Gen. Greedy
! at Fort Conger and resigned his position
! in the army. He ran for the shore to
! board the Proteus, intending to return to
| America but just as he reached there he
saw the smoke of the steamer In the
distance. He had arrived too late.
! "Kisslingbury returned to the camp, did
| not ask for reinstatement and lived with
| the expedition as a private citizen. He
was among those who persisted later.
| Another Of Kissingburys possessions
which / found was a temperance hymn
| book, on the fly leaf of which was writ
ten: To Lieut.. Kisslingbury. Z: S. A.
| from his old friend and we'll Wisher, the
| author George w. Clark, Detroit, Mich,
| 1881 Lying in the stores was an ocar-
ina, a musical instrument, which was still
| good Carved on it rudely with knife
| was the latitude at which Fort Conger
had been established. Stick pins and
| other articles of jewelry l found scat
| tered around.
Food in Excellent Condition.
1T was surprising to find the stores in
such excellent condition. 1t only goes to
show the wonderful preservative quail
ties of the arctic climate Coffee 1 made
! often from the abandoned Greedy stores
One of the most striking relics found
hnro hat cl,o tIa lJ1yt
ties of the owner. was a record of all
the horse trotting events of the time In
| America. 1t had been written In the
owners hand. and embodied descrip-
| ton and record of all the trotters and
trotting marks in the history of the
turf.
1T seemed that l was to be fortunate
In discovering the abandoned camps OF
previous expeditions: L went farther a
| little later and came across the camu
| that had been established by Commo-
dore Hall in 1871. This party had been
r brought north blythe t. S. S. Polaris
| Like the Greedy steamer, the Polaris was
also crushed in the ice at Littleton Is
land.
Here found wooden house sixteen
feet by thirty-five. which had been erect
| ed as winter quarters. The house was
still standing.
After the Polaris had been crushed
nineteen of the party took to the ice
These were picked up by the Tigress of
Newfoundland after they had fioated to
the coast Of Labrador. not a hundred
miles from here. The other members
were rescued by the Ravenscrag of Dun
dee. Scotland. I found all the ropes
sails and clothing that had been ADAM
doned in most excellent shape. The sails
| were like new. On another sledginS trip
ran across the headquarters of Sir
George Mares and Markham. who made
an expedition in 1875 and 1876. found
| crOckery. coal bags. wood and cartridges
some of which were loaded.
Tracks in Sand Still Visible.
"A peculiar thing about my discovery
here was that l ran across hand push
cart in which this expedition used to
carry supplies from the ship to the camp