The Washburn leader., 1916-11-17

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. It 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 a beam from the
boom to steer by and ran before the
gale four days, finally making the
northern tip of Labrador, where coal,
provisions, water and wood were OBJ
tained. The vessel got to Hebrun, a
Moravian settlement, where enough
supplies were obtained to take her to
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 88th
parallel, and ordered to remain there
while Peary went on with Matt Hen
sen, a 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 Bering strait. After Stefans-
son was landed the vessel was caught
row toward the Siberian shore. On
January IL, 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 disaster and had
put provisions for two years on the
ice. Eight of his men insisted upon
going in what they thought would be
shorter direction to reach land. They
were lost.
The Rescue From Wrangell Island.
Captain Bartlett, with IL men Of
the expedition, two Eskimo men, one
Eskimo woman and two children,
reached Wrangell island March 13.
There he established a 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 disgusted in Oc-
tober, 1915, with inaction that he went
to work qs stevedore at Pier No. z.
Hudson river. He did not have to
make living that way, but he liked
active work.
DR.. r. A. Harris of the United States
coast and geodetic survey, Washing
ton, is enthusiastic over Captain Bart
lett's proposed expedition, and has sug-
gested that the following subjects will
Indicate the nature of the work of such
a project:
The distribution of land and water,
including the extent and character Of
land yet undiscovered; depths or
soundings of the waters; tidal observa-
tions; currents and ice drifting; ice
conditions; temperature, salinity and
chemical composition Of water at vari-
GUS depths; character Of the sea bot
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
dulum observations; feasibility Of the
Northwest passage; feasibility Of 9th
er possible routes.
Scientific Value Of Trip.
"From these items" says Doctor
Harris, ut is evident that certain
physical sciences must remain incom-
plete until observations have been
made in the regions now designated as
unexplored, viz: meteorology, ocean
circulation, the tides, terrestrial mag
netism and geOdesy.
1.-THE probable value Of 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
tiers traversed, new positions attained:
and greater likelihood Of making geo
graphical discoveries. For instance,
the drifting of the Jeanette proved
that very shallow water, less than lou
fathoms in DEPTH. extends 800 geo
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