Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-19
GREELY MEN MEET
Three Members of Arctic Trip
F0regather.
HADN'T MET SINCE RESCUE
"reminiscences of Fateful Polar Ex-
petition Are Exchanged.
ROMANTIC INCIDENT FIGURES
HADN'T MET SINCE RESCUE
ROMANTIC INCIDENT FIGURES
San Jose Man Had Come on to New
York to Meet Sister for First
Time in Forty Years.

The tragic history of the famous Greedy
polar expedition OF 1SS1-4 was told over
again a few days ago In a German res
| taurant along the water front in Ho-
boken when three out OF the original
| seven survivors met for the first time In
| twenty-five years and recalled their ex-
| per1ences. The men were Henry II. Bic
derrick. Maurice Cornell and Francis
Long. Mr.. Biederbick. who is secretary
of the Arctic Club of America. is United
| States customs inspector with offices on
pier L of the Bremen line at Hoboken.
| Mr.. Council is chief Of the United
States weather bureau at San Jose. Cal.
| and Mr. Long is in the same service in
New York There are two other survivors
of the expeditiOn-Gen. A. w. Greedy,
| who commanded it, and d. l.. Brainard
now colonel in the army stationed in
the Philippines, where he has charge of
| the commissary department. Gen Greedy
| is with his family in Florence, Italy.
i Mr. Biederbick and Mr.. Long meet fire.
quently. as both are living in New York,
but neither has met Council since the ex-
petition, or what was left of IL, was
brought back to the United States by
| Admiral Schley. VINO commanded one of
the three expeditions sent in search of
the Greedy party in 1884.
Sent to San Jose.
| Connel was assigned to the Signal
Corps of the army after he recovered his
health. The weather service was in
| charge of the Signal Corps at this time,
but soon afterward 1t was transferred to
the Agricultural Department and Mr..
Connell went with it. He was put in
charge of the weather bureau at San
Jose, Cal, and has stayed there ever
| since.
| His coming to New York a few DAYS
ago involves a romantic incident in itself,
| for he came to meet a sister whom he
| hadn't seen in forty years. Mr. Council
left Ireland when he was a boy, and his
family few years later lost all trace of
| him. His sister did not know he was
alive until she read an account of the
| Greedy expedition a short time ago in a
newspaper The account of the expedi-
ton mentioned the name and address of
Mr.. Biederbick. and she at once COM
municated with him.
| He sent her ConnelTs address and she
came to New York. From there she sent
nell at once came to New York. When
| he arrived he went first to the
weather bureau Office in Broadway and
greeted Mr.. Long. Neither had seen
the other for a quarter Of century, and
there was considerable handshaking.
Finally Long suggested that both go over
to Hoboken and call upon Biederbick.
Receives. Big Surprise.
They found the customs man busy
among a pile Of books. and Connell wait
ed outside the little office as his part In
| the surprise the two had prepared, while
Long and Mr.. Biederbick chatted.
| There's somebody outside who wants
to see you,'' said Long finally.
Lets have a look at him. replied
Biederbick, reaching for his hat.
A minute later Connell and Biederbick
met face to face. They looked at each
other a full minute and then both hands
shot out.
''Morry." said Biederbick.
Harry" replied Connell while tears
started III the eyes Of both and their
hands went up and down like pump
| handles.
Guess we'd better get somewhere
where we can talk it over,' suggested
Biederbick. Il know a coy little place
about block away
The three adjourned to the cafe and il
was late in the afternoon before the
gathering broke up, and then only after
| the three had agreed to meet at Mr..
| Biederbick's house in the evening and
| have dinner together.
Story of the Trip.
| Inc Three iIlcil SIldIcu III
one of the greatest battles against starva-
ton and death that ever took place IN
the north. The tales Of latter.day polar
| exploration read like vacation camp
| stories compared with it.
| twenty-five men under Lieut. Greedy
went north for scientific purposes in
| 1851. Their ship, the Proteus. an iron
! sheathed whaler, was crushed in the ice
and was abandoned early in the year.
| The party continued northward On foot.
| In 1852 a relief expedition was sent after
the men, and another in 1888 Both were
unsuccessful in reaching them. Com
mander Beebe Of the last expedition shot
| himself later through remorse at not
| being able to find the explorers.
On June %, 1884, the third expedition,
under Schley, reached the handful of sur
vivors at Cape Sabine and brought them
back or the original twenty-five eight
| cen persisted before relief came Sixteen
! starved to death, one, an Eskimo was
| killed while hunting game. and one was
| shot to death as matter Of necessity
| by order Of Lieut.. Greedy, who had de-
| teCted him stealing the scanty ratiOns
on which the weak survivors were trying
| to keep alive.
Greedy and his men sounded every
arctic horror. They ate their boots,
munched dry lichens and gnawed the
! remnants of their Sealskn clothing. Ii
was even said that they had resorted to
cannibalsm. but this was stoutly denied.
When Schley found the last seven men,
| bers of the expedition they had given up
| hope and Greedy afterward said that all
would have been beyond need of succor
within forty-eight hours. OF these seven.
two have since died, Sergt. julius K.
Frederick and Roderick r. Schneider.
When ConneI was taken aboard Lieut..
Schey's vessel his life was despaired of.
but he subsequently came back to full
| health.
| On his successful dash to the north pole
| Lieut. Peary came across and brought
| home records of the Greedy expedition
| that had been left in the caches.
II Will"