The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-10-26

I she leaked badly. 1t took three months
10 patch up the vessel, and fuel and
provisions were running low.
Crossing the Cumberland gulf in Oc-
tober, she was hit by another gale, and
her jury rudder was carried away. Cap
tain Bartlett swung Il beam from the
boom to steer by and ran before the
gale tour days. finally making the
northern tip of Labrador. where coal,
provisions, water and wood We're oh
tained. The vessel got TO Hebrun, n
MOravian settlement, where enough
supplies We're obtained to take her +"
Main. There food was obtained. And
so, getting small supplies of food and
fuel, the vessel finally reached Nova
Scotia.
Again the Roosevelt, with Captain
Bartlett in command went to Cape
Sheridan in 1906 and Peary and Bart
lett started for the North Pole. Cap.
tain Bartlett was taken To the SSth
parallel, and ordered To remain there
while Pcary went on with Matt Hen
sen, negro. That was when Peary
discovered the North Pole
In 1913 Captain Bartlett was captain
of the karuk, in which Nilhjnlmur
| StoianSS0n went to the Arctic ocean
| through Boring strait. After Stefans-
son was landed the vessel was caught
in the ice and carried from Point Bar
| row toward the Siberian shore. ON
|
January -, 1914, when the kurluk was
about 12l miles off Wrangel island,
near which is Herald island, she was
crushed in the ice. Captain Bartlett
| had fOrCSecn such Il disaster and had
pu! provisions for two years on the
| ice Eight of his men insisted upon
going in what they thought would he Il
shorter direction to reach land. They
| were lost.
The Rescue From WrangelI Island.
Captain Bartlett, with II men of
the expeditions two Eskimo men, one
| Eskimo woman and two children,
| reached Wrangell island March Is.
There he established ii camp, and then
with an Eskimo boy eighteen years
old, one Sledge and seven dogs start
ed over the ice to the Siberian coast,
more than one hundred miles away.
lie Travelled over broken ice ferried
open lanes on pieces of ice and reached
he coast in the first week in April.
He followed the coast for n thousand
miles and finally received assistance
from Baron klei$t at Emma harbor.
The baron sent him to 81. MichaoI's
Alaska, where he found the United
States revenue cutter Bear, and went
north in her to WraugeIl island for
his men. He found them all safe. and
.,hoy were brought back to the United
States.
That was Captain Bartlctt'S last trip
to the arctic regions Now he wants
to 90 back again aud see Il little more
excitement. The life here pals upon
him. He became 50 disguised in OC-
tubcr, 1913, with inaction that he went
To work as Il Stclcdore ut Pier No. :.
Hudson river He did not have to
make a living that way, but lie liked
active work.
DR.. X. A. Harris of the United States
coast and gcodcric survey, Washing
ton, is enthusiastic over Captain Bart
lelts proposed expedition, and has Sug-
gcSted that the following subjects will
indicate the nature of the work of such
project:
The distribution of land and water,
including the extent and character of
land Vet undiscovered depths or
SoundingS of the waters; tidal obServa.
lions; currents and ice drifting ice
conditions; temperature, Salinity and
chemical composition of water ut yuri-
Gus depths; character of thu sea bot
tom; marine life in the Arctic ocean
other arctic life; geology of arctic
land; arctic metcoroIogy, temperatures
pressure, winds, prccipi,a- |
tion, etc; magnetic observations; pen !
dulun observations; feasibility of the |
Northwest passage; feasibility of 9th |
or possible routes
Scientific Value of Trip.
From these items" says Doctor |
Harris, iii is evident that certain |
physical sciences must remain iucom- !
pIete until observations have been |
made in the regions now designated MS |
viz: meteoroIogy ocean
tn tides, terrestrial mag
netism and gcodesy.
The probable value of a drifting |
in arctic ice depends upon the length
Of time for which the protector of the
expedition has made provision A long
period of drifting generally means long
distances covered and so unknown wa
lerS trayerscd, new positions attained
and greater likelihood of making geo
discoveries. For instance,
The drifting of the Jeanette proved
rarhoms in depth, extends 300 geo
graphical miles uOrthWard from the
coast uf eastern Siberia, while the
drifting of the Fran upset The pre-
liOuSl" entertained notions by proving
hal ...au depths occurred ia high
auuGdcS where the waters were sup
posed 10 be comparatively shallow"
Some idea Of the estimation in which
captain Bartlett is held 10y goograph-
'rs may be- obtained from the fact
hat he has received medals from geo
graphic societies in America, England
md italy But he is too modest 10
ak about such things. He cares moth.
NJ about past performances now. All
le WINS is a chnmce 10 got fnr inln