Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-19

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CAPT BARTLETT know what the other world
is like. sea-faring man, the first thing
he thought of in the way of a landsman's
occupation was stevedoring. And so he's a
stevedore, learning the ways of "civiliza-
ton" as 1t exists ashore.
Royalty has dined and wined him, the Ma
tional Geographic Society has presented him
with a medal; but all that didn't suffice TO
give him the inside view of things that he
knew he lacked. He has entered a new
world. He feels strange in 1t yet At Pier
No. T. North River where the boats of the
American and Cuban Steamship Line load
their cargoes he is taking his first lessons
Already he has been promoted to the post
of foreman of a gang of hard -fsted, hulking
men who toss sugar barrels around as IL
they were empty butter tubs. He can toss
them, too we'll as the next one for no
harder man lives. Indeed stevedoring is
almost the only shore job he knows enough
about to tackle. Presently, doubtless, he
will graduate into something else.
The Captains View of 1t
Captain Bartlett states the case in this
way: II am not in hard luck or anything
like Strengthened circumstances 1 present
the odd case of man who has been out of
that am fitted only for the toughest labor
at present
IL came to New York to take a job be-
cause ! could use that to come back into
the world and learn something of what other
men are doing. l now forty years of
age really young of heart and hope, and
am optimistic, you can imagine.
Il have spent more than twenty years of
my life in the Northern seas-all my life
from that time 1 away to sea aboard
a sealing vessel. Since then my life has
been a roaming one. First I was whaler
and then l turned to the ships of explora-
ton"
Captain Bartlett was born in Newfound-
land of Scotch flsherfolk
The first trip into the Arctic regions with
Peary was in 1s97-sS aboard the windward.
Since that time he has lived in the far North
so much that it became like home to him.
He took part in another expedition in 1901
that known as the Hudson Straits and Hud-
son Bay expedition. and afterward until 1905
was skipper of Newfoundland whaling ship.
When Peary was preparing to go North
again in 1905 and had planned the Roose-
welt, Captain Bartlett was hurriedly called
for and asked to superintend the construc-
tion of the vessel, which was laid down much
like the stanch old Fran. When the ship
was completed Captain Bartlett became it's
pilot and navigated the boat through Kane
Basin, Kennedy Channel, and finally to Cape
Sheridan on the Arctic coast. The summer
Of 1906 found Lieutenant Peary and Captain
Bartlett working their way northward in the
hope of reaching the Pole. They attained
the famous "eighty-seven- six" the highest
ever accomplished by any explorer previous
to the discovery of the Pole. Captain Bart
lett, in charge of the supporting parties, was
the ice 12O days. The Ice broke and the
expedition returned South
Keats a StevedOre's Poet
In 1905 the Roosevelt was again taken into
the North, and Peary and Captain Bartlett
started for the Pole To the eighty eighth par
allel the men battled their way, and on or
ders Captain Bartlett was left behind
while Peary and a colored man, Matt Hem
son, pressed on. In 1910 Bartlett took the
Boethic. with Harry Payne Whitney and
Paul Rainey on board, a hunting expedi-
tion to Etah.
The adventurous voyager was captain OF
the Karluk on Vilhjalmar Stefansson's ex-
petition through Bering Strait. The expert
ences of the party were as narrowing as any
ever told OF the North. In January last year
the Karluk caught by the ice and
crushed. Captain Bartlett rescued seven
teen members of the crew from the perils
which came upon them one after another.
The captain is delightfully."- modest and
avoids talking about himself or his exploits
When he is not bossing the handling OF
boxes, barrels and crates. he is poring over
some book, book that viii help him accom-
plish the greater task upon which he is en-
gagged. He is omnivorous reader. like
many another explorer, and his favorite au-
thor is-well. here's stevedore. whose chief
delight is John Keats