The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-03


Wv fred T. Grenfell to Labrador, and more
From grim Cape Clidey the north TO the
Strait Of Belle Isle tho south this intrepid man Is
revercd and lovod by 81 900 patients and parhiouers
and dws,ss hs s0 G. renfe biz T05 * n cn'
IL looks rather imposing, does this formidable array
Medicine. Member of the Royal College of surgeons
and Commander Of the Order Of St. Michael h M and S1
has been conferred him by the people OF ho Ian
rador coast. who know him best It simple one, ons
has to show himself in tho proper mold out OF the
rcht kind of metal to q people who 1--we hard ana
The title. hard to win, is that of M MN; Tor Tor
rare kind of man indeed IIo is also parsou,
magistrate and author of several books IN wbeh ne
now famous Doeger Bank; the cruel apprenticeship
the bitter life the deeds Of courage and Of
Nenfoundland and Labrador.
He has voluntarily given up the comforts OF ctvt' W
moved 10 heroic deeds by the high motive, but
deed. it may be that in ali the world there not
other of the It extends from Cape John OF New
foundlnnd around Cape Norman and into the strait OF
Belle Isle. and from Ungava Bay and Cape Chidley OF
the LabradoT souMard far into the G" Of snoSa st.
which in haste must sail with hs life IN his
hands.
perateIy wrotched. They are the sbo<e fishermen of
the % sGS ne1oT
and the Esaumaux of the far north IL Is to such
these that this man gives devoted ana heroic ser
vcenot for gam there is gain to be got IN those
impoverished places; merely for the love OF uod ana
his fellow men.
II was TO these rough waters and back coasts that
DR. Grenfel went when the need Of the folk reached
his and touched his heart Before he came, IN
1902 in The distant parts Newfoundland and the
coast of Labrador there were no doctors Inc 1olk de
pended for healing upon traditional cures, upon OLD
who worked charms. upon remedies ingenlously
devised meet the need of the moment, upon deuded
persons who prescribed medicines of the most curious
description, upon rough-andreaiy surgery OF tnor
own in which the implements of the kitchen and OF
the ish.s splitting table served a useful purpose
For example, there old fellow who set
himself healer in q lonely cove on the New
foundland coast where he lived as hermit really
believing in the efficacy Of his medicines HIS favorte
for consumption bulls heart, dred and
powdered and administered regularly.
u LSEWHERE there another man, stricken
II with mortal ailmcnt who, upon the recon-
mcndatioG of ncighbor regularly dosed himself with
il-haEored infusion made by boiling cast-of pulley
blocks In water
There was a father who most hopefully attempted
his little lad of diphtberia by wrapping his
throat with split herring OF course, the boy died
Another father-a man OF grim, heroic disposition
whose little daughter chaneed to freeze her feet 10 the
very bone in nidwinter, when he that surgical
operation could not be delayed he cut them oil with
Sea bcils upon the hands and wrists-an afIictiou
which is very common among the fishermen of those
parts-coud be prevented by wearing brass chain
around the wrists; and fisherman who was never
troubled with bos of kind, proudly declared that
cutting his nails every Monday"
While these poor "liveyeres'' and visiting usher
men we're depapding upon the,r own Inventions and
bred Young Eugs shnan, walking the wards of the
London hospitals. He athletic, adventurous
docged unsontimental merry. kind; moreover-aud
most bappily-he used to the sea. and loved it.
II cnauced one night that he strayed into meet
ing in the east of London where Dwight l.. Moody:
listened and WAS impressed with what he heard, As
ne left the nicotine he resolved TO create religion Of