The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-02-04

madam born, American brought up
and Harvard educated. lie is "A
scholar. all right. and a very well in
formed young man and "A very care
ful thinker, talker and writer, lie
is serious n never jokes, 1 believe
this is "A peculiarly characteristic of
explorers and scientists. one of my
jokes nearly disrupted n Of u
social half d%iscourses, of which we
had many, and an whi2h myself and
the scientists took the Principal part
All through our d~iscourses ! had ex-
pressed the gravcst doublS about the
scandinavian origin OF Stefnnssons
blonde Eskimus," which be claims.
10 have discovered north OF Corona
ton buy. / detailed To- him how my
infant years were spent beside "a
scotch shoemaker as "a n%cighbcr, who
had spent six years one time. u
seven years another ssl inside the
Arctic CIRCLE. Ia the employ OF Lady
Franklin in "a search Tor Sir John
StcfansHun nas read almost every line
that has ever been written about Arc
tic expeditions. and has ~memorlzed
the names of almost every command
en- and sailor that ever took part IN
any OF them, and so Of course he
knew Of old man William Hepburn,
the shoomaker-sailor neighb0r OF
mine. who was a very Old man when
was "a small child. ] detailed how
this old man had mlnutely described
the Eskimos ai.d their and
customs. as wen as the country In
and around Coronation hay to us
children as We played arounc his
~ahoemaker's bench and waxed bis
shoe thread for him. etc. | did this
with considerable detail, and told how
large tho crew of scotch M other
%suilors were hat composed the eNpe-
dltlons. Then / Told how short a
time IL tool the average lonely pros
poctor or musher ina The Arctlcs to
become "a squaw man, and yentured
la suggest, that 80 far as / was o
cernod. ! could see many reasons for
their being blonde Eskimos'' in and
around Coronation bay without hav-
Ing to bark back 60 any lost tribe Of
Greenland scandinavians 500 years
ago as a reason for their existence,
The merrlmont OF the crowd OF sour
dough" miners In the social hall
rather embarrassed poor stefanssun
bL he atlli stuck 10 his claim that
ne really has discovered blonde Ea-
klmos in "a place where none OF the
Franklin searchers ever intruded
etc.
The merchants OF Nome felt ~
good because uf the large amount ol
supplies %stefansson bought from them
that they invited us an 70 put up ter
dollars apiece 20 give him "a send-ot
banquet before his party left for tht
extreme north, ana Wc aid. n wa.
AS line q banquet as one would attend
anywhere, and had the speeches beer
preserved history ana Literature
would certainly profit hy IT, u wal
Ian intellectual treat Co me. ana ! hops
the few remarks J made myself wer'
not entirely Improbable 90 The dis
~tinsuished company. BESIDES stcfans
son himself and his company OF sci
ontists there were present Bishol
Rowc ct the Alaskan diocese Of IN
Episcopal church and many cducatc'
mining superintendents and others
AZ last stefansson's whole party so
uway To- The north from Teller. AM
aii the women of The party, stenogra
pher siris and other persons VIII
could not go the limit Of the trip, 10
turned to Nome, aud lett FOR IN
states con- subsequent lAssengcf steam
crs. His outfit must have coneisteI
OF seven OF eight go0a-sized powe
achoonsfs or small ships, all of iigh
draft These boats 81 course wer
loaded with q great variety Of sup
plies. which included steam or saso
iicne launches ana small hoaia Of al
binds
ones a year tho government 90 IN
United states sends "a revenue cutie
ncrth from Nome 10 Point barrp'
with supplies, and 10 look over IN