The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15
AMERICAN PLUCK
WON WORLD FAME
GREAT DOG RACE MADE UN-
HERO AND IDOL OF WEST
MORE FAMOUS THAN MEN WHOBEATH HIM
: hough Last In Race His Pluck Won
Him First Place in Hearts Of
Millions

Two weeks ago Fred Hartman was
ar unknown, penniless youngster,
eking out an existence among the fur
traders, trappers and p~rospectors of
the Hudson Bay district, where he had
been an assayer since his graduation
from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology at Boston.
Today his name is known wherever
newspapers are read; his fame is as
great as that of ~Steffansson or Peary +:
he has accumulated $4,000 or SO, 900
within a couple of weeks and can garn.
er several thousands more if he ac-
cepts the vaudeville offers awaiting
him; he is the pet of m CT Americas
richest men and the idol of the entire
Northwest.
And all because he has set an ex-
ample for his generation and several
generations to come, an example Of
courage, bravery, determination and
endurance.
Finishing at $50 y. m. Saturday.
February Ord, a hopeless fifth and last
in the Red River st. Paul Carnival
Derby, Hartman is the hero of this, the
most notable test Of endurance in
which either men or animals ever en-
gagged. His name Will live long after
that of the winner has been forgotten.
for his exhibition OF indomitable pluck
and grit made his performance more
marvellous than the mere completion
Of the 509-mile drive.
Albert Campbell, half-brced Cree In
dian, finished first, his elapsed time on
road being $40 hours and 80 soc
onds. William Grayson, a native Can
adian. won second honor, his time be-
ing 30 hours, seven minutes and thirty
seconds. Joe Mctcalf, formerly of An
tigo, Wis, and for four years a pros
rector in the Hudson Bay gold fields,
was third, time, 24O hours, II minutes,
II seconds. and Gabriel Campbell,
Albert's 1~9-year-old brother, was fourth,
time 240 hours, II minutes, 80 seconds.
They started in Winnipeg at noon
Wednesday, January oath.
Hartman crossed the finish line with
four dispirited dogs pulling his sled, al
,.nct Gtro ln1r, "a ftar Albert "a m nho11c
huskies had frisked past the judges
-tand. His time for the distance from
Winnipeg to st. Paul was 244 hours, So
minutes, 80 seconds.
But Hartman walked or ran 4S1 Of
the 500 miles; his rivals rode their
tobogganS from SO to 80 per cent Of
the way. Their dog teams were sea
-oned, experienced and strong, and in
Guided five or six animals apiece. Hart
man started with five green" dogs and
lost his leader at the first night stop,
twenty four miles from Winnipeg.
where his five dogs fought and one was
Killed.
As the race progressed Hartman fell
behind the others. Three Icelanders,
G-h herman from Lake Winnipeg, took
the lead and held it through North Da-
kota and into Minnesota. The Camp
boil brothers, Grayson and Metcalf fol-
lowed them in a group. trailing from
fifteen to eighteen miles behind until
they made a squirt at Fargo, n. D., and
caught the leaders.
Hartman Jagged behind until nearly
400 miles had been covered. only by
pIOdding through the bitter cold and
laundering through deep snow drifts
for nearly twenty hours out Of each
twenty-four could he keep within thirty
miles Of the leading trio but his indom-
table pluck enabled him to overtake
the entire seven when they paused for
a long nights rest at Dalton, MINI.
There he passed them, only TO wan
der out into the country and become
lost four miles from town. 1t was 1:25
a, m. Wednesday, January 81, when he
passed Dalton. and when he awakened
a farmer at 6 a. m. to inquire his
whereabouts he found he was miles
from the Derby course and had lost
the lead to his seven refreshed oppon-
ents.
Determined despite his repeated mis-
fortunes. which seemed to multiply as
he proceeded, Hartman fought through
the bleak winter days and nights until
he again passed his rivals. Mean
while the three fishermen quit the race
and Hartman's four fellow-townsmer