Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-10-27

tNt Athhtu uuNlys II NOUk NuINt muNNAa
to patch up the vessel, and fuel and
provisions we're 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 we're OBJ
tanned. The vessel got to Hebrun, n
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 I'm 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, 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 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 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 WrangelI 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 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 a thousand
= miles, and finally received assistance
from Baron Kleist at Emma harbor.
The baron sent him to st. Michaels,
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
I they were brought back to the United
States.
! That wal Captain Bartlett's last trip
| to the arctic regions. Now he wants
! to go back again and see a little more
Il excitement. The life here pals upon
: him. He became so disguised in DC.
tober, 1915, with inactiOn that he went
= to work as u stevedOre ut Pier No. Z
Il Hudson river. He did not have (;
make a living that way, but he liked
active work.
DIR. II. A. Harris of the United States
coast and geodetic survey, Washing
ton, is enthusiastic over Captain Bart
u let's proposed expedition, and has sug
= gested that the following subjects will
y indicate the nature Of the work Of sucl
y n project:
The distribution of land and water
including the extent and character o
~ land yet undiscovered; depths o
- %sOundings of the waters tidal observa
- tons; currents and Ice drifting; ic
= conditions; temperature, salinity ant
=. chemical composition of water at varl
a GUS depths; character Of the sea bot
- tom marine life in the Arctic ocean
other arctic life; geology of arctl
land arctic meteorology, temperature
atmospheric pressure, winds, preciplta
ton, etc. magnetic observations per
) dulum observations; feasibility of lii
Northwest passage; feasibility of OIL
er possible routes.
Scientific Value of Trip.
From these ITEMS" a y DOctc
Harris, 'ft is evident that certai
physical sciences must remain incon
plete until observations have bee
made in the regions now designated
unexplored, viz: %meteOrology, ocea
circulation, the tides, terrestrial maj
netism and ~geodesy.
81 1.-THE probable value of a driftir
in arctic ice depends upon the lengt
of time for which the protector of II
expedition has made provision. A lor
period of drifting generally means lor
distances covered and so unknown W.
tiers traversed, new positions attain6
and greater likelihood of making ge
graphical discoveries. For instanc
the drifting of the Jeanette prove
that very shallow water, less than II
fathoms in depth, extends 300 &c
graphical miles northward from Il
coast of eastern Siberia, while Il
drifting of the Fran upset the pr
viously entertained notions by proviI
that ocean depths occurred in hli
ATTITUDES where the waters were su
r.,gad 20 ha aounnar m n ebo1Iom