Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-16
5AYRE { NJOYS
STRENUOUS LIFE
Of FROZEN SEAS
FianCe of Miss Jessie Wilson Is
Companion Of DR.. GrenfeIl
in Labrador.
WILL NOT TALK OF PERlLS
Is Friend of Peary, Who Told Him
He Bears Resemblance to
President.
WILL NOT TALK OF PERILS

NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-"Mr. Fran
lis Bowes Sayre, Adventurer''-that
might well be the title Of a stirring
novel of the out Of doors. describing
me Two thrilling summers which the
uarce of the Presidents daughter,
Miss Jessie Wilson, spent on the Lab
rador coast, helping DIR. Wilfred T
Irenfell in his wonderful work of as
sisting the forlorn fishermen Of that
bleak and icebound region.
The man who will soon be a,Pres-
dents son-in-law is one of those
Young college graduates Of grit and
stamina who have been honored by
being allowed to act as assistants to
The famous English missionary physl-
sian. DR.. Grenfell. will now repay aid
so received by acting as best man
hat silk hated relic of what was
once the chief spearsmen in the bride
groom's raiding party-at the coming
CEREMONY in the White House.
Sayre Like Roosevelt.
4 study of Mr.. Sayre shows in kim
more the characteristics of Theodore
Roosevelt than of Woodrow Wilson.
lie combines the intense interest in
The affairs of tie human race with
'oye 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
different matter
"Oh. yes I went to Labrador for
.wo summers with DR.. Grenfell-
worked on board the Strathcona. one
Of the doctors ships-did hospital
work mostly-kept us pretty busy"
But. Mr.. Sayre, didn't you have
some adventures? Didn't you ever
have your boat upset in the icy water,
" get lost in the wild back country? p
Adventures oh, yes adventures.
Well, we did have some stirring
times but nothing to tell about"
Couldn't you tell US a little, Mr..
rayre? What sort of dangers did
you rum"
well. once we ran out of food In
Newfoundland We had a pretty
hungry time, but we got out all
right.
by the way. don't you want me
To tell you something about the bu
eau for abandoned wives and babies
Ehich I run?"
And the adventures are still untold.
Mr. Sayre does admit, however, that
rs hobby is hunting big game. And
he has been a commandments
aoW pony long before he graduated
from Williams College in 1909.
Friend of Peary.
Mr.. SayTe is a member OF that
limited and selected group of close
friends Of Admiral Peary, such as
George BoTup, the young Yale cross
nountry runner. who was PeaTy's Of
fetal photographer on the dash which
resulted in the discovery Of the Pole,
and who was later drowned in the
sound Borup spent some time in
Labrador as a Grenfell aid. Sayre
came back from Labrador with Peary
aboard the Roosevelt.
And 1t is a curious fact" says Mr..
Salre, in reCounting this last fact,
chat the Admiral told me / bore a
strong resemblance to President VIII
son. Peary was the first to note this,
but not by any means the last"
When the story of Grenfell and his
friends on the northeast coast is
finally written in fulfil 1t ever is
Mr.. Sayre's name win undoubtedly
appear in some prominence. 1t will
figure with the names of the college
graduates who have taken little craft
from the States north along the coast
o DR.. Grenfells missionary field, in
order that the often-wrecked fleet cf
The good doctor might be replenished.
Lives for Fisher Folk.
OF DR.. GrenfelI, little need be said
He is well known by his own books
and lectures, for one thing, 1t is
now many years since he first left
England. to devote his life to the
fisher folk
From his headquarters at Battle
Harbor, he makes trips of hundreds
Of miles into the frozen North. Until
ne took up the work, men and women
lived and died in Labrador without
ever so much as seeing a doctor-or
a church