The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-12-19
.s at Point Barrow With
Scientists Who Left
the karluk.
HINT OF QUARREL SEEN
Leaders Explanation Of Trip to
Land StirS Suspicion
Among Many.

Iartlett commando OF the Canadian ex-
plor,ng vessel Karluk. the man who
navigated Peary In his successful expedi-
ton to the North Pole. and his crew
and number of scientists. who Joined
the Stefansson expedition have disap-
reared IN the Arctic and II is feared they
will never he seen again.
vilhjalmur Stefansson. the leader OF
the expedition. with Bert Mcconnell and
several Others with whom he left the ship
shortly before she was carried into the
outside ice. are safe ashore Mt Point
Barrow.
This is the news brought to Seattle this
rorning by Capt. Louis L. Lane OF the
Polar Rear. who. with f;ben Draper. son
or Ex-Governor Draper Of Massachusetts.
lumbar Lockwood and Will l.. Hudson.
nushed from the shores Of the Arctic to
Valdez and then came to Seattle by the
steamship Northwestern.
Hundred ships Lost.
Nobody can -! .or certain that the
THAN 100 S'ips ;hat have been carried into
;c ou,s'dc .cc from Point Barrow only
u,.r. the wntl.r Navard, was ever picked
u. From the others never a word was
n..d. no~ WAS ever one OF the crews
.,rortcd.
"Th" karluk was anchor ed away on
,.o., when the big blow came in Septem-
hr- Others who knew better the treachery
"' thu, coast kept their ships close TO the
g.. of the land The Karluk was car
led into the outside ice, and there, IN the
opinion ~ every whdler and every native
oa H.. Arctic coast. will she find her
iueh Tn" vessel never has been seen
s.urc
"Charsy. an Eskimo boy. who was
gong down to Barrow TO meet Stefansson,
stV the smoke of the vessel eleven days
after she disappeared. He judged she WAS
then thirty-five miles off shore. He made
up his mind that he never would see that
shp again and returned TO Herschell ISL
and.
In all the history Of Arctic whaling
the Navard is the only ship that ever
managed TO get back to shore after being
carried away in the ice, and she was
nc, caught in what is known as the out
side fow.' Her crew left her in two
parties. and some men OF each party
we're lost. The few who stuck to the
ship were saved
Men May Have QuaPPelled.
Just why Stefansson went ashore at
Trnt Barrow seems TO be a mystery to
the men OF the Arctic Stefansson told
those aboard the vessel that he came
ashore to hunt, but he had been along
that coast both on foot and In small
boa. and he knew there was no hunting.
lie was accompanied by the men who had
been his best friends. Some Of the men
from the North think that Stefansson and
bartlett had quarreled, but nothing def
y'tely Is known
capt. Il. ID. Peterson. who was COM
utnder OF the schooner Elvira- which was
onsh"d In the ice who also reached
seattle this morning. as we'll as Olaf
SN"nsen OF the Barneson Stewart Com
rduv owners OF the whaler Belvedere,
Expressed the opinion that 1t is all over
W.'h he Karluk and that Bartlett and his
,ea never will be seen again.
pr. anderson. one of the men with
5.I.u-~uiI. whose boat. the Mary Sachs,
H.. r,port.d wrecked. is safe at Collinson
Iplui. ,rventy miles west OF where the
l.i4r Bear * located for the winter. Both
d., ~nips, the Mary Sachs and the Ala ska
100 good condition.
The B~I~cdcPe IL safe.
nr. Audrrson's crew have good noIses
the winter. Capt. Lane spent four
,a,y with the crew OF the Polar Bes-
a.. l,ports the Belvederc safe In winter
up,rtcrs twelve miles east of the Polar
E'sr
The scientists Dickson and Brooks. rep
rrprrssutiug the Smithsonian Institution
.rd Harvard University, together with a
rJuber of hunters and sportsmen from
toe East, accompanied the Polar Bear
m addition to those who returned with
',rl. Lane this morning We're Samue
.iAt,r. son Of the eminent Boston sur
irpu 'irorgc SIlsby and John Hurd.
The sc."ntists and some of the hunters
'dpt. Lane says his ship IL in per
'otlN sHfr location ard that everything
!. a.raused we'll for Ia" winter.
=. \ctur,hug to Strralssons own letter
ufi"d bctob"I 30 and sent from POin
BARROW, Alaska. telling Of the karlul
r"lug caught in an iro drift, there wer'