Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-16
5AYRE { NJ0YS
STRENUOUS LIFE
OF FROZEN SEAS
Fiance of Miss Jessie Wilson Is
Companion of DR.. Grenfell
in Labrador.
WILL NOT TALK OF PERILS
IS Friend of Peary, Who Told Him
He Bears Resemblance to
President.
WILL NOT TALK OF PERILS

NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-"Mr. Fran
is Bowes Sayre, Adventurer"-that
might well be the title of stirring
novel of the out doors. describing
Ike two thrilling summers which the
lance of the Presidents daughter.
Miss Jessie Wilson, spent on the Lab
rsdor coast, helping DR.. Wilfred T.
,irenfell in his wonderful work of as
;isting the forlorn fishermen of that
bleak and icebound region.
The man who will soon be Pres
dents son-ip-la is one of those
Young college graduates of grit and
stamina who have been honored by
oeing allowed to act as assistants to
The famous English mlssionary-ph ysi-
sian DR.. Grenfell. will now repay aid
30 received by acting as best man
that silk-hatted relic of what was
once the chief spearsmen in the bride
grooms raiding party-at the coming
CEREMONY in the White House.
Sayre Like Roosevelt.
4 study of Mr.. Sayre shows in kim
more lle CIldl vi hSobOtS
Roosevelt than of Woodrow Wilson.
Ne combines the intense interest in
he affairs of TIE human race with a
love of the wilds which marked Mr..
raft's predecessor.
But to get the assistant of District
Attnrney Whitman to talk of his hair
breadth escapes-that is altogether
different matter.
ooh. yes, I went to Labrador for
NO 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
aave your boat upset in the icy water
II get lost in the wild back country?'
"Adventures?-o yes, adventures
Well we did have some stirring
mes but nothing to tell about"
Couldn't you tell us a little, Mr..
Ssyre? What sort Of dangers did
sou rum"
well. once we ran out of food in
Newfoundland We had pretty
hungry time, but we got out all
right.
by the way, don't you want me
20 tell you something about the bu-
LDdA IDI dtdIIuOIlCd "lNCo anu pS~oASA'
Fhich l rum"
And the adventures are still untold.
Mr.. Sayre does admit, however that
'ta hobby is hunting big game. And
re has been a OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
now pony long before he graduated
rom Williams College in 1909.
Friend of Peary.
Mr.. Sayre is a member of that
limited and selected group of close
friends of Admiral Peary, such as
George Borup, the young Yale cross
country 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 I bore a
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 it ever is
Mr.. Sayre's name will undoubtedly
appear in some prominence. It will
figure with the names of the college
graduates who have taken little, craft
from the States north along the coast
% DR., Grenfell's missionary field, in
order that the often wrecked fleet Of
he good doctor might be replenished.
Lives for Fisher Folk.
OF DR.. Grenfell, little need be said.
lie 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
Harbor. he makes trips of hundreds
Of miles into the frozen North. Unth
ne took up the work, men and women
lived and died in Labrador without
ever so much as seeing a doctor-or
a church.