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

NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-"Mr. Fran
49, Rowes Sayre. Adventurer"-tha
NIGHT well be the title Of stirring
novel of the out of doors, describing
..r rvo thrilling summers which the
r4nce of the Presidents daughter,
Miss Jessie Wilson, spent on the Lab
,ador coast, helping DR., Wilfred T
,irenfeu in his wonderful work Of as
.fsting the forlorn fishermen Of that
bleak and icebound region.
The man who will soon be Pres
dents on-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
he famous English missionary physi-
sian Or. 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
aroom's raiding party-at the coming
CEREMONY in the White House.
Sayre Like Roosevelt.
study of Mr.. Sayre shows in rim
more the characteristics of Theodore
Roosevelt than of Woodrow Wilson,
He combines the. intense interest in
he affairs of TIE human race with a
owe of the wilds which marked Mr..
ra3ts predecessor.
But to get the assistant Of District
Attorney Whitman to talk of his hair
breadth escapes-that is altogether
different matter.
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40 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
nave your boat upset in the icy water,
" get lost in the wild back country"
"Adventures?-oh yes adventures.
Well. we did have some stirring
ines but nothing to tell about"
Couldn't you tell us a little. Mr..
sayre@ What sort of dangers did
,ou rum"
We'll. 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
.o tell you something about the bu-
reau for abandoned wives and babies
which I rum"
And the adventures are still untold.
Mr. Sayre does admit, however, that
is hobby is hunting big game. And
We has been a cowpuncher-rode
acw pony long before he graduated
rom Williams College in 1909.
Friend of Peary.
Mir. Sayre is a member OF that
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friends Of Admiral Peary, such as
George Borup the young Yale cross
.ountrY runner, who was Peary'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 it is a curious fact" says Mr..
Sayre, in recounting this last fact,
that the Admiral told me | bore
strong resemblance to President VII
son. Peary was the first to note this,
out 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 will 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 Of
he good doctor might be replenishei.
Lives for Fisher Folk.
OF DR.. Grenfell, little need be said.
He is we'll 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
farbor, 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