New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-01
GUIDES HAIR, BRUSH TO
MARK EXPLORERS GRAVE
Hubbard Memorial Tablet Lost,
Wallace, in Arctic, Thus
Indicates Spot.
CHISELS AN INSCRIPTION
Then He and Companion Make a
Coloring and Call on Half
Breed-Trip to North
Filled with Perils.

Dillon Wallace, the explorer, and Alfred
Ward Brdsal. a moving picture special
list arrived here yesterday from st
John. Newfoundland. on the Red cross
steamship Stephano Mr.. Wallace went
north in June to mark with bronze tab
let the spot at the head Of the Susan
River. in Labrador, where his companion,
Leonidas Hubbard. jr., persisted on Octo-
her - 1902. Mr. Birdsall. who halls from
Pittsburgh went 10 take motion pictures
of arctic life.
Roth travellers met for the first time AT
Narpatuk. and during their journey 10
New York made plans for an expeaitioIi
which both will take to Patagonia next
year. !,
Mr.. Wallace said; Il believe that
Hubbard and had come down 'ne
Beaver River to Grand Lake, lnsteau Vi
attempting the Susan, he wouio nave
survived; but on my journey THIS uihe l
found that my theory was all wrong oh
this last trip Judge William j. Malone
and went up the Beaver River startihs
an rulv 5. We had two canoes ana lh'ee>
Indian halfbreed hunters with US
"rbo Judge and I and Gilbert Blake
the halfbreed guide. were in one canoe
with our impedimenta and the oro"He
tablet while the other two men were III
the other canoe. We had been gong Only
tuo DAVIS when the latter canoe was cap
sized and smashed 10 bits.
Lost Memorial Tablet
Later our own canoe went out we
saved part of 1t and used 1t as a ca'"e'
Gov our provisions. The tablet we so care
fp,ly guarded went 10 the oo'to" VI INV
Beaver River. il. ca
Tho current was extremely swift 50
svvift in fact, that bag oil Hour was
carried half a mile on the crest u
great wave before it sank
"Afte. sending back two of our men
1,,5,o Malone and i and Blake started o"
= ,birtv-uile hike to the place where
Hubbard died. l believe no one hau 80
800 since we were rescued. founo .he
boughs upon which we hao slep'
I'm about the SAINT place, ana mere an
tbere were fragments Of moccashs' o"''
vas SPOONS and other odds ana ehoS u
the camp. I'm into
..yye had taken along tools to drill mo
tho rock TO fit the tablet IN, ana WIN
these Judge Malone and l carved part
of the inscription. After the letters were
cut into the stone We took some req
ment and grease and made paint lol
col,riug the letters. We got some OF the
stiff black hair of Blake, the haltoreeu
Guide. and with it made paint brush.
The inscription We cut was: Leonidas
IIubbard. ir. intrepid explorer and prac-
tical Christian. died here october 10, 1915
--John iv. a. This chapter from ST. John
was not cut into the rock. We cut only
the reference
Mr.. Wallace, after leaving Judge Ma
lone. in August, went down NORTH 10
Davis Inlet. and at Narpartuk saw a real
Arctic tragedy. Korah, an Esquimau
leader. accompanied by his son Jonas
fourteen years old. and another lad or
the same age. called Metcalfe, arrived at
Narpatuk in canoe.
Tragedy in Arctic.
"Tbe father went from the river bank
IN to the settlement. leaving the two
boys to sleep in the canoe. In the early
morning Metcalfe awoke and, seeting
big lean polar pear StdHuihb oNof JViio0'
ran to the village to tell the boys father.
When the father returned with a rife
the child had been eaten. 1t was the
first time. Mr.. Wallace said, he had even
known of polar bear being famished
10 the extent Of attacking any OF the
Esquimaus.
Alfred W. Birdsal. with his moving
jnicture machine, went as far north as
Baffan Land. lie cruiscd about for seven
DAYS on the Canadian gunboat, Stella
Maria, and later spent twenty-siX days on
the h1oravian mission bark Harmony. The
vessel was blown by a gale three hundred
miles over 10 the coast of Greenland
while on board he made moving pictures
Of an iceberg a mile and half in length
and 600 feet high, the exposure beng
made as the great ice mountain spht IN
half and capsized. Also he made moving
.pictures of the wreck of the schooner ben
'tiur. the crew Of which were rescued by
tho Harmony.