The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-27

Major-GeneraI Ado1phus Washing ton Greedy, U. $. A., who begins his seVentieth year of life to-day, is best able of all living men to understand the awful horror of the Antarctic tra- gedy which recently wrung the hearts of men. The veteran soldier has himself been face to face with just such situation as confronted the i'm trepid Scott, and it was from a heart over1owing with pity and understand ing that he wrote this message to L ord Curzon, president of the Royal Geographical Society:
 f'In the name of the survivors of my command, permit me to pay hotn age to your antarctic dead. Their sense of duty. their persistence of &C., ton, their accomplishment of purpose, their acceptance of disaster, their sol idarity of spirit, and their fearless ness of death reflect credit not only on their country but also on mankind at large.''
 Gen. Greedy, who has lately been touring Europe, and will represent America at the International Geo. graphical Congress in Rome, was born at Newburyport, Mass, March 27, 1844. He served in the civil war, be- ing the first volunteer private to reach the grade of brigadier-genera1, and afterward constructed 2,000 miles of
 military telegraph in Texas, Montana. and the Dakotas. In pursuance of a recommendation of the Information al Geographical Congress, held at Hamburg in 1879, a United States ex- petition was organized to establish one of a chain of thirteen circump o1ar stations, and Gen. Greedy was placed at it's head. The party of twenty five set out in 1881 = two-thirds of them to their death. Gen. Greedy discovered new land north of Green
 land and crossed Grinnel Lend to the Dol ST,i i-c fo rfI I1o oaf north record. As in the case of Scott's expedition, cruel nature played havoc with the best-Iaid plans. Two re- lief expeditions failed to reach the Greely party, which retreated south to Capt Sabine. When at last they were found by Capt. Winfield S. Schley, all but seven of the twenty-five had perished of exposure and starva- ton. Schley found Greedy and his remaining companions in their sleep ing bags, weak, worn and ravaged by disease, calmly and stoically await ing death. So Scott and his com panions waited, but to whom there came no Sch1ey. Well has Gen. Gree ly said that mo man better than the Lady Franklin Bay expedition survt- vors know the terrible misery of body and anguish of soul through which these heroic Britons passed in the last days of their 1ife.''
 The Schley rescue party reached Greely and his men, just in the nick of time, in the stout Scotch whalers, the Thetis and the Bear, and the Alert, which was contributed by the British government. The two first named vessels are still in active commission in the United States revenue cutter service.
 Coming alive out of the very jaws of death, Gen. Greedy has distinguish ed himself in other lines, and now, at the beginning of his seventieth year, is still hale and hearty man, active in mind and body. His last years of military service were devoted principally to the construction of tel egraph lines in Cuba, China and the Philippines, and to the installation of cables and wireless telegraph sys- tems. He superintended the inau- guration of the wireless system from Nome to St. Michael, the first suc- cessfu1 long distance wireless operat- ed regularly as par of commercial system. Gen. Greedy was in com mand of the Pacific division and in charge of the relief operations for the San Francisco earthquake sufferers in 1906. He retired from active service in the army five years ago to-day, and has since devoted himself to geo. graphical Investigations.