Charlevoix county herald., 1916-11-10

n sealing vessel off Newfoundland. In
1905 he was preparing to go north
again, and planned the Roosevelt after
the manner of the Fran. He superin-
tended the vessels construction, and
as skipper piioted her In 1905 through
Kane basin, Kennedy channel, Robe
son channel, and finally to Cape Sheri-
dan bn the northeast corner of Grant
Land.
An Epic Of the North.
In the summer of 1906 Peary and
Bartlett started over the polar ice to
reach the North Pole. They attained
latitude 81 degrees 6 minutes, the
farthest north ever reached by a white
man previous to the discovery Of the
Pole. Captain Bartlett was In charge
of the supporting parties, and was on
the Ice 120 days. The ice broke up
and the Roosevelt was started on her
home voyage, but encountered hurri-
cane near Cape Union, between Green
land and Grant Land. The ice piled
up and drove the Roosevelt ashore.
Her rudder was torn out, two of her
four propeller blades were broken and
she leaked badly. 1t took three months
to 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 beam from the
boom to steer by andSran before the
gale four days, finally making the
northern tip of Labrador, where coal,
provisions, water and wood were OBJ
| tanned. The vessel got to Hebrun, a
Moravian settlement, where enough
supplies were obtained to take her to
Main. There food was obtained. And
50, 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 Peary went on with Matt Hen
sen, negro. That was when Peary
discovered the North Pole.
In 1913 Captain Bartlett was captain
of the Karluk, in which Vilhjalmur
| StefanSson 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 u, 1914, when the Karluk was
about 125 miles off Wrangell island
near which is Herald island, she was
crushed in the ice. Captain Bartlett
had fOreseen such a disaster and had
put provisions for two years on the
ice. Eight of his men insisted upon
going in what they. thought would be a
shorter direction to reach land. They
were lost.
The Rescue From WranselI Island.
Captain Bartlett, with II men of
the expedition, two Eskimo men, one
Eskimo woman and two children,
reached Wrangell island March ID.
There he established 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.
He travelled over broken ice, ferried
open lanes on pieces of ice and reached
the coast in the first week in April.
He followed the coast for thousand
miles, and finally received assistance
from Baron Kleist at Emma harbor.
The baron sent him to st. Michael's,
Alaska, where he found the United
! States revenue cutter, Bear, and went
north in her to Wrangell island for
his men. He found them all safe, and
they were brought back to the United
! States.
That was Captain Bartlett's last trip
to the arctic regions. Now he wants
TO go back again and see little more
excitement. The life here pals upon
him. He became so Disguised in Oc-
tober, 1915, with inaction that he went
TO work as a stevedore at Pier No. z,
Hudson river. He did not have to
make living that way, but he liked
active work.
DR.. II. a. Harris of the United States
coast and geodetic survey, Washing
ton, is enthusiastic .ver Captain Bart
let's proposed expedition, and has sug-
gested that the following subjects will
indicate the nature OF the work of such
Il project:
The distribution of land and water,
including the extent and character of
land yet undiscovered depths or
sOundings of the waters tidal observa-
/ tons; currents and ice drifting; ice
conditions; temperature, salinity and
chemical composition of water at vari-
Gus depths; character of the sea DO.
tom; marine life In the Arctic ocean !;
other arctic life; geology of arctic
land; arctic meteorology, temperature,
atmospheric pressure, winds, precipita-
ton, etc.. magnetic observations; pen
, duum observations; feasibility of the
Northwest passage; feasibility of 9TH
er possible routes.
Scientific Value Of Trip.
"From these items" says Doctor
Harris, sit is evident that certain
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