New Britain herald., 1916-09-22
ESKIMO RETURNS ID
 BROADWAY 1GLOOS'
Says He Has Valuable Story on
 Pole to Sell

l New York, Sept. 22-Mene Keeshoo, son of a chief ot the most northerly tribe of Eskimos in Greenland, who i was six years old when Rear Admiral Peary brought him here in 1897, where he studied and returned to his people seven years ago, arrived in New York yesterday on the Steamship
 Stephano of the Red Cross line from
 St. Johns, N. F., and announced that he held the secret of whether the Mort Pole had been discovered by Admiral Peary or Dr. Cook, or both. During his seven years in the Arctic KeeshoO, or Wallace, as he prefers to
 be known, because William Wallace,
 former superintendent of the Amer
 ican Museum of Natural History was
 his guardian, lived with the natives,
 adopted their dress, and hunted with them the walrus seal, and nOrW;al Tor
 his food, and fur bearing animals and
 birds for his clothing. After careful ly wrapping his native costume which included white and blue foxsl<in coat and polar bear trousers, and placing them in a storeroom of the McAlpin hotel for safety, Wallace took a bath with a lump of ice in it, donned cool clOthing and inspected Broadway.
 1T have lived so long in an 1gloo- Greenland ice house, you know, that I'm glad of the change,' he conflded to a reporter. Meme further admitted that the 'igloos of Broadway the memory of which he had carried pack with him, had made his evenings somewhat dull in the ''icehouses," with smoky oil lamps for light. But Broad- way was not the only lure of Amerl- can civilization.
 Many times I would have given a s2 fur piece for a cup of coffee with sugar in it, he said.
 Wallace, who speaks like an educat- ed American, says he did not lemeH- Der more than a dozen words of his native language when he returned to the Arctic He had to learn the lan- guage of his tribe, and in turn taught some of them English His stories ct the great world was continual source of entertainment for the tribe, he said, after he had learned and was able to describe things to them in their own tongue.
 According to Wallace, he had little except the clothes he wore when he reached the place of his birth to which he had travelled on the steamer Jean1c a Peary relief ship, in 1909. To return here Wallace said he had walked day and a night from the headquarters of his tribe at North Star bay, Green land, to Parker Snow bay or Cape York, where he found the schooner George B. Cluett of the McMillan Crocker Land expedition ready to sail He was taken on board as Q. sailor and worked his way during the two months trip to St. Johns. Sailors gave him spare clothing. With the money thus earned he came to New York as a passenger.
 My father died here, and when I went back to North Star bay wanted to find the only two or three le!a- tives had reason to believe were still living" continued Wallace. "I was unable to speak Esquimo, and I ap- pealed to a missionary to help me.
 "Who is to pay your board?" he asked. I couldn't guarantee that, so I immediately sought out the old tribe of my father. They welcomed me. Was I satisfied with the crude life there? Yes and no. The climate suit ed me and my health was better than when here. But the conditions under which they live is very monot- onous to one who knows of the high state of civilization here.
 For my own part I could have been
 
 there were times and I still nave the that it would have been better for me had I never been brought to civilization and educated. It leaves me between two extremes, where it would seem that I can get l nowhere"
 Mene says he will go back to the l Arctic, and when he goes he expects to l carry many things to contribute to the | mental improvement and entertain l ment of his friends and neighbors He l wasn't sure of his future plans at 1 North Star bay, but thought .le might | go into trading there. Then he might 1 marry, he admitted.
 "You can support a family cheaply l there, and at night there Is no place ] to go but home," he added
 Wallace says he has no grievance against Read Admiral Peary with whom he had a quarrel before he went back to Greenland. However, he has talked with the Esquimaus who ac- companiod both Peary and Dr. Cook. has studied their stories, and checked 1 them up in the long evenings in the ig1oo and has reached the conclusion that he has something of value bearing on the North Pole subject, which he wants to sell to the newspapers or present to some scientific organiza- ton.
 Wallace will remain at the hotel for several days until he can reach some ] of his former friends, including MT. Wallace, who witk the late Morris K. Jesup, befr1ended him and paid for his tuition here.
 JOKER CAUSES SCARE.