Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-02
|MENTATTON FOR
DGS SLOST IN ARCTIC
ApRING EXPEDITION
Over Loss Expressed
Burt NJ. Mcconnell,
Who Organized Teams for
6tefansson.

iamentation for the dogs that VII
mar stafansson took away with him
the ARCTIC and lost was written
rssidsnts Of Nome, Alaska who knew
>pgs by name and personal traits
M. Mcdonnell, author of the lamen-
On, organised the dog teams for Ste
seon and took two OF them with him
ne first months of the StefAnsson exc
ton.
a was present aboard the schooner
g and wing when II picked up eight
vivors from the statansson exploring
edition at Wrangel Island recently.
"a lamentation over the lons of the dogs
addressed to the editor of The Nome
skly Nugget which printed the piece
spicuously on the editorial page.
watot. Jumbo and Hans were the
Iced dogs of tho second team" Nc
tnneil wrote but Denby of the hrst
I'm was my favorite because Of his
sat size, beautiful coat, and arniabls
position. Jumbo. however, proved to
I've moro brains than any other dog.
was SO badly frozen after my second
D to Point Barrow that Captain Ber-
Z, lrd wanted to shoot him, but Wilkins
srsed him along till he recovered. Britt
hs 30 badly frozen that I was COM
1led TO shoot him.
f'Poor old Jumbol He was the find
the expedition. We had tried every
ind a gee haw' leader until we tried
3umbo Poor devil. he travelled more
Than 1000 miles with me last winter, and
probably 900 miles with others while
I was staying with Captain Martin An
derson, taking an inventory of the North
Star outfit which Stefansson bought from
him.
Snap was my leader on the Ice trip,
and Hans Is one Of the picked dogs now
in the Ice with Stefansson. Bones is
another, but six of the dogs are strang-
ers to Nomeites. Three are from the
Mackenzie and one from Point Barrow.
They were a sight to see as they walked
off from Point Barrow with load of
100 pounds over the rough sea ice.
THE REASON FOR WRITING.
"I am writing about the stefansson
dogs because Scotty Allan, who acted In
an advisory capacity while Stefansson
was purchasing dogs for the expedition,
told me he thought the former owners
and friends of the dogs would like to
know what became of them.
by referring to my diary 1 see that
on September 20 last We started on a
caribou hunt, taking two sleds and IL
dogs. Stefansson had a team composed
Of Snap Qeader), Joe, Buster Charlie,
DENLY and Britt He went ahead to
pick trail over the rough ice. while
fiSdldhdh anu L stayed Win Ine SleQ.
Poor old Britt worked like a horse
Every minute of the trip. Joe was killed
IN fight while Captain Barnard was at
4 whale carcass getting dog feed. Watch
1ied in the barn at Collision Point. I
learned from Louis Olson, who left the
expedition at Herschel Island, that one
IF his dogs-Snowball--had been killed in
/ fight, so 1t seems we lost a propor-
.ionately large number of dogs"
Evidently the Nome neighbors OF Nc
Connell had made things uncomfortable
pr him by asking questions about his
Ibsence from the Stefansson party at
he time it sought out Wrange Island
IS refuge point He added to his in
Innate story OF the welfare of the dogs
Z personal explanation about himself and
is presence at home at a time relief
expeditions were being organized to bring
ack other members of the party.
81 dio not quit the expedition" he
yrote, "and in answer to those who
ave asked II 1 did 7 will say that unlike
30 other members OF the scientific
Eah my commission was for but one
ear, which expired June !. Stefansson
fad in that time expected to have ample
tine to put his scientific data into man
Ecript form, and then I was to return
T. Los Angeles. He has had no oppor-
unity TO do this and now that his
daries and scientific notes for the past |
sveral years are lost, he probably never |
kill as mans recollection, no matter |
nw keen. is not sufficiently reliable. |
h. will be too busy to write, as II Is |
Is intention to search for land west and |
lsrthwest OF a base on Prince Patrick |
and