The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-17
Prepare Relief Ship
 For Arctic Explorers
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l expedition has not been heard from in two years. Clothing. food, supplies l of all kinds as well as sIeds and life boats to aid in the relief will be car ried by the C1uett when she leaves New York on her trip in about three | weeks.
 | A tourney to the Labrador coast even on a mission of mercy such as the Schooner CIuett makes involves con siderable risk and brings to the cap 1 tain and crew who makes 1t, adven- lures both dangerous and exciting i Sometimes on these trips the c1uett faces Arctic gales where the. 1 skill and seamanship of the skipper are put to the supreme test. Again l the vessel is caught in the ice pack l and Old Jack Frost lays his silver | white hands against her sides and ] for miles the black hull of the ship l is the only bit of color in a universe l of white for in the Arctic in the dead 1 of winter even the sky itself is | white.
 It is a peculiar phenomenon that 1 in this region most of the living | things are also clothed in white. The
 bears have white fur, so have the
 foxes and the Arctic deer. There is l an Arctic hare whose fur also is white I and since the human being who lives l in that region must wear the skins | of these animals to keep from freez- l ing to death, why they. too, are l clothed from head to heel in white. 1 White bears grow to enormous size l in this region and every trip Capt
 Cfuett brings back with him a, cargo ! of skins. Some of these are given by the natives. and others in return
 for the assistance the Cluett renders | by dispensing the much needed med
 teal supplies. Others are those of
 animals which the captain and crew
 shoot.
 On his last voyage Capt Pickles
 found himself in his ship frozen in
 the ice for more than a, week. One T morning he went off the side of the
 ship for 3. walk. He was clad from | heels to head in white bear fur and under his arm carried a 45-70 Win
 chester rifle. Thirty feet from the
 ship he saw a portion of the vast
 white ice foe that seemed to be In
 motion. A closer scrutiny disclosed
 a huge white bear. The bear, pos
 sessed of the curiosity which is an at
 tribute of all animals of the Arctic.
 had discovered the strange ship ana
 was coming to inspect it Here was a valuable fur to be procured and
 Capt. Pickles irnm ediateIy fred at the
 animal His first shot struck it full
 in the neck and passed entirely
 through it. With a roar of rage the
 bear started for him Capt. Pickles
 emptied the magazine of his rife, hit
 ting the bear every time, but still it
 came on. He pulled another clip of
 cartridges from his belt, showed them
 into the gun and shot everyone of
 them into the bears body as fast as
 he could pump the rife, but the shots
 didn't stop White Bruin..
 The recoi1 of a 45-7o will knock over ordinary man who is not ac- tcustomed to handling fire arms. When Capt. Pickles saw he was hitting the bear every time with these high-p0W- CT eartridges and still was not able
 to stop it. he concluded a cannon was
 the only weapon that would bring the
 enraged animal down. He turned {, and ran for his ship scrambling up
 the ladder to the deck with the bear ,, close at his heels. The bear couldn't
 about half an hour later by the side t Iof the ship after making several in e teHectuaI attempts to chamber aboard
 Capt. Pickles on one of his trips
 saw an Eskimo armed with a. Savage
 rifle fire Is shot into a huge white
 bear without killing him. The bear
 caught the eskimo and tore him to
 pieces, but died itself about an hour : Eafterward when more than 50 shots
 had been fired into it by white men
 land eskinos.
 f The CIuett cleared from Port Mid
 way, N. S.. on May 2 sailing first to | New York and then back here for re- . pairs She brought with her parts of 2 the wreck of F1uer de Lis, a yacht ' owned by the Grenfe1I association
 which was wrecked last winter off the
 coast of Port Midway Dr. GrenfelI
 fl for whom the association is named is widely known for his explorations and < his philanthropy to the residents of : 1.-the far north.
 : There are a number of white men in Il Labrador Capt Pickles says Some . are hunters who go there to make
 money by collecting furs. Others are ne,e ,er-do-weIls who drift into the coUn- e try to whom the lazy life of the ma : Itives of that region appeals others q l are shipwrecked sailors who settle ! down in the region. Naturally there fare a large number of half breeds z bThey make living by hunting and fishing. They live sns canvas tents in summer time and in snow and ice
 houses in winter They are obliged 7 to depend for many of the necessities t Of life, medical supplies and arms and r ammunition. on trading ships and yes f sels like the Cluett-
 On his next trip. Capt. Pickles Will m touch at the land where Stefanson re- ported to have discovered blond esici- e mos. Capt. Pickles who has made e many voyages to the Arctic and ls
 familiar with the history of many 2. Arctic expeditions, tells that many | years ago a party of Danes made a f settlement on Melba bay in. Green ] land. There they built wooden houses
 and apparently lived in as comfortable circumstances as is possible in that
 cold wild. Trading ships visited them Il frequently and an extensive trade in l. furs. sperm oil and whale bone was 0 carried on from the settlement in n which nearly 200 persons Of Danish 2 birth lived. Late one fall a trading ship put into the bay and the captain
 sent boats ashore. The sailors were astounded to find the settlement en- e tirely deserted Not a living thing s was to be seen among the wooden
 houses of the village. There was evil D dence also that the settlers had I6ft ; in the utmost haste. Weapons and Q cooking utensils. the very things that Q a marty sfartiDer on a ioI1r0ev in fI7ar