Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-16
Fiance of Miss Jessie Wilson Is
Companion of DR.. GrenfeII
in Frozen North.
WILL NOT TALK OF PERILS
Is Friend of Peary, Who Told Him
He Bears Resemblance to
President.

NEW YORK, Nov. 15.---"Mr Fran
ois Eowes Sayre, Adventurer'-that
might well be the title of stirring
novel of the out of doors describing
The two thrilling summers which the
dance Of the Presidents daughter,
Miss Jessie Wilson, spent on the Lab
rador coast, helping DR.. Wilfred T
C,renleu in his wonderful work of as
sisting the forlorn fishermen of that
bleak and icehound region.
The man who will soon be a Pres
dents son-ip law is one of those
voting college graduates Of grit and
stamina who have been honored by
being allowed 70 act as assistants to
the famous English missionary physi-
sian. DR.. GrenfeIl. will now repay aid
so received BY acting as best man
that silk hated relic of what was
once the chief spearsmen in the BRIDE
erooms raidins party-at the coming
CEREMONY in the White House.
Sayre Like Roosevelt.
i study OF Mr.. Sayre shows in Vim
more the characteristics of Theodore
Roosevelt than of Woodrow Wilson.
lie combines the intense interest in
he affairs of TIE human race with a
love of the wilds which marked Mr..
Tafts predecessor.
But TO get the assistant of District
Attorney Whitman to talk OF his hair
breadth escapeS-that is altogether a
Ciffereu- matter.
"Oh yes l went to Labrador for
.wu summers with DR. Grentell--
worked on board the Strathcona. one
Of the doctors ships-did hospital
work mostly-kept us pretty busy"
But. MI Sayre, didn't you have
some adventures Didn't you ever
raye your boat upset in the icy water,
or get lost in the wild back countrv?'
Adventures oh, yes, adventures.
Well we did have some stirring
mes. bnt nothing to tell about
"Couldn't you tell us little, Mr.
Sayre? What sort of dangers did
You RUM
We'll. once we ran out of food in
Newfoundland We had a pretty
hungry time but we got out all
BY the way, don't you want me
Ito tell you something about the bu-
reau for abandoned wives and babies
which I run?"
And the adventures are still untold
Hobby Is Big Game.
MIR Sayre does admit. however that
his bobby is hunting big game. And
he has been a cowpuncher-rode a
COW pony long before he graduated
from Williams College in 1909.
Friend of PearY.
Mr.. Sayre is member Of that
Emitted and selected group of close
friends Of Admiral Peary, such as
George Borup, the young Yale cross
country runner who was Peary's Of
icial photographer on the dash which
resulted in the discovery of the Pole.
md who was later drowned in the
sound Borup. scent some time in
Labrador as q Grenfell aid. Sayre
came back from Labrador with Peary
aboard the Roosevelt.
And it is a curious fact" says Mr..
Sayre, in recounting this last fact,
iI7t the Admiral told me | bore A
strong resemblance to President Will
son. Peary was the first to note this,
out not by any means the last
When the story of Grenfell and his
rerds on the northeast coast ia
finally written in fulfil it ever is
Mr.. Sayre's name will undoubtedly
appear in some prominence. 1t will
hgure with the names of the college
graduates who nave taken little craft
rom th" States north along the coast
% Dr. Grenfell's missionary field, in
order that the often-wrecked fleet AZ
The good doctor might be replenished.
Lives for Fisher Folk.
OF Dr. Grenfell, little need be said.
lie Is well known by his own books
aud lectures, for one thing. 1t is
no." many years since he first left
fisher folk
From his headquarters at Battle
Haroor, he makes trips of hundreds
81 miles into the frozen North. Unit.
ne took mp the work, men and women
hVed and died in Labrador without
ever so much as seeing a doctor-or
church.