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

his bunk and returned with worn
sheet Of paper, bearing the Roosevelt
letter-head, II read:
april 2s, 1909: MY Dear MTcMil-
LAM Arrived on board yesterday.
Northern trip entirely satisfactory.
There is no need of Greenland depot.
Captain Bartlett came aboard the
oath; concentrate all our energies on
tidal observations and line soundings
north from Cape Morris Jessup. Use
intended supplies for me for this pur-
pose.
(Signed) Commander r. e. Peary."
"You can imagine how happy that
letter made U.S." Mcmillan continued,
although it left so much unsaid.
How successful had Peary's northern
trip been? Did he mean that he had
reached the pole? We hardly dared
to believe it although we had both
left him with conditions favorable for
the Achievements.
1--WE returned from Cape Morris
Jessup to the ship as quickly as we
could after completing our observa-
tions.'
/ Here Mcmillan struck a new lead of
narrative. He had smoothing funny
Ito tell, although he didn't know how
the correspondents we're going to get
it in the papers. 1t was about Up-U-
Pee's baby.
1t was the custom of the Eskimos to
build a new igloo whenever they
expected a visit from the arctic stork
and the arctic mother usually moved
to this igloo liz time to have the fresh
ice walls shelter the baby.
We'll, this Up-U-Pee heard the
rustic of the stork wings during the
wintering arctic on the Roosevelt,
and her husband went out on the ice
and erected the lying-in-igloo. Thither
Up-U-Pee was moved, but the arctic
bird of cheer tarried. Up-U-Pee was
taken back to the Roosevelt forward
on the quarters. Again a bit latef
she had to hurry to the igloo and stills
again the stork had the joke on her.
Finally after Up-U-Pee had
been thrice removed ana thrice re-
turned to the ship, the bird violated
al Eskimo ethics and landed the babe
on the Roosevelt. CuD
"One of the Eskimo ladies who bore
the title Springfield Jack" was deep
ly scandalizedj at the occurrence.
"Oh, by the way haven't told you
what found at Fort Conger, have II"
he continued. well, you may find
that interesting"
Mcmillan began as prelude to his
tale.
II was in November of 1908 when
the Roosevelt was in winter quarters
; at Fort Sheridan that he and Borup
had started south on hunting expe-
dition. When ninety miles from the
ship in latitude 5000 they had come
on the basis of the Greeley expedition.
Fort Conger it is called and here it
l was that the expedition had establish
ed a base of being landed from the
, Protius. The relief ship had been
crushed in the ice and the conse-
} quent tragedy of slow starvation at
Cape Sabine is common in the annals
! of Arctic exploration.
> The two hunters came upon tho old
stronghold of the Greedy e -
r in the middle of the Ard anu eie
sometime in January. The ST .ne eenlL IL
: with it's twenty-seven years -
blanketing still stood as it{present al
left the day that the sorelyVI also
, men of the Protius had forsaKTy.
y to turn southwark. Just a monunperi
to the lure of the northland thereY
alone in the mystery of dead world.
MACMILLAN oi
, place after cutting through the snow,
/, banks blocking the door They made,
! light and then they began to exj
anime the relics of men who had died
in the misery Of Cape Sabine's shore
or escaped death only by grim mar
gin of safety.
One thing they found was an empty
trunk with the name of David Brain
I ard on the cover. This McMillanl
} dragged out of the hut and used to-
| protect himself while taking observa,
) tions.
) Then in carefully written p Nes they.
found General Greeley's repe4s IF the
4 food caches he had made throughout
: the vicinity of Lady Franklin sound.
: All very methodically and carefully
| entered yet ironicai test faony to the
= fruitlessness of the INFO t%lation there4
I in set forth. Il
In chest they found General Greer
, ley's dress uniform, brass button
, and gilt epaulets untarnished, an
: the navy cloth unfretted by moths. te
The dress uniforms that other m4o
had carried north with them in tha
vanity reposed in otner chests Tho al
4 4 were also cuff links, scarf pins and Tits
what-not of mans toilet Over hy
one corner was school text book, n
! identity boys book which had s far
r much use. In boyish hand on. 7
t hy-leaf were written some words, (
d as Mcmillan had the page open l,tI.
n correspondents copied: ~
: Lieut.. Fred Kislingbury, 10 my d
d father, from his affectionate son. M,
/ God be with you and return you saf
n to us. Harry Kislngbury,
q Lieutenant Fred Kislingbury
one of the seventeen who slo
p starved to death at Cape Sabine.
h On an opposite leaf were the nant
of several students, evidently at AZ
!, sumption college, Sandwich, Ontsrf
: and the address, presumably of Harp
Kislingbury, which was Fort custE
p Montana, Another OF the dead lift-
{ tenants books lay nearby. II was
u hVmnal Of famnaranCa aon0Q and