Evening star., 1922-09-10

look each other In the face. day. after
day and month after month. A man
fs ssS IN oSed sSesy sna Ms
'srs. Tss psrsonnsi. 1s as ns s. finally selected.
was az follows:
Jonathan Cook Small. unattached.
born In Provincetowh, Mass, 1875: be-
gan sailing In small boats out of his
native town at . youthful age; had
been In the ife-saving service at
World End. Provincetownt had been
mechanic and boat builder from 1898
to 1919; had been engineer on n boat
plying between Boston and Labrador
during the summer Of 1917: had been
land expedition TO Etah. North Green
land. from 1918 to 1917; and
had been fishing out of Province.
town from 1s19 to 1ss1i. He had
known '"Jot" from r. boy, and
knew him to be a valuable boy I'm
every way, as was demonstrated to
trips.
Engineer From Maine.
Harold whltehouse. engineer, born
in Llniken, Me-. 1881, married; occu-
patton, installation Of marine en-
gines, and 1910 TO 1918 an employe
Of the east coast and coast ship
building plant; 1890 and 1921. Med
iterranean' and Dardanelies. Egypt.
After armistice went to Cologne with
the famous geth British Division.
six years Of deep water seaman.
vile, Newfoundland, 1850. 'unmar-
ried; began to go to sea at the age
Of ten, nine seasons fishing on the
Labrador and the Grand Banks. two
winters out OF Gloucester. served In
late war with LIST Royal Newfound-
land Regiment, three years twenty
British exped!tionary force.
q. Dawson Howell. jr., 1l9 Beacon
street, Boston; born at Friendship
Hill, Fayette county. Pa, in 1898.
Graduated at St Marks School. 1911
,, b. A. Trinity College. 1915; captain Of
dent Of student body at college. In
1915-1916 travelling secretary of
Alpha Delta Fraternity: February /
1917, to July II, 1919. holding sue
cessively the ranks of ensign (T),
lieutenant JG), (Tl and lieutenant
transatlantic convoy duty and in
North Russia. Occupation prior to
| Joining expedition, vice president of
Ferrel Gasoline Company. Charles
ton. w. Va.
| D,
Conn. Grandson Of Capt Smith, a
famous whaling captain out of New
| London; grandson Of George II. God
| dard of sixty years of sea service
son of Ralph H. Goddard, marine en-
gineer, thirty years in the United
States lighthouse service. Served in
| the United States Navy during war
as a quartermaster commissioned en-
! sign; graduated from Dartmouth
| College in June 1921.
| Abraham Alfred Bromfield. jr.. IN
| terpreter, born Jack Lanes Bay. Lab
rador, 1879, unmarried. Descendant
of Joseph Bromfield, who came ou,
from Plymouth. England. for the
fishing and trading firm of Hunt
and Hentley Of Labrador He has
been as far south as Battle Harbor
! Labrador. Served as interpreter &c
! DR.. William A. Nixon, an American
doctor in the employ of the New
rador; cook of the launch Dayro
with Mr.. Rowland in the summer ot
| 1912 on a cruise to Cape Wolsten
Labrador; occupation fishing, trap
ping and hunting.
damned to the Hatches.
! After passing Monhegan. an islant
Off the coast of Maine, which, by the
way. was a thriving fishing port be
| fore Plymouth, Mass, was entered by
the Mayfiower land l could relate in.
| teresting history about Mn. HigginI
we continued under full speed anG
with a little apprehension over the
/ safety of our deck load of lumber
lubricating oil and kerosene ant
| gasoline drums.
The Bo. wdoin, of only fifteen ton:
net. was loaded to the limit. far be
| low the Plimsoll line. had there beer
one on her. Her iron. put on ex'
pressly to receive the buffets of th'
arctic Ice pack. was six inches below The
| the water line. thus seriously negativ'
| ing its purpose. | hoped. however
| that with her daily consumption oi
| fuel. food and coal. she would bs
! materially liehtened before reaching
| the ice pack in the vicinity of Hud-
! son strait. so degrees n. latitude.
| The hold was crammed full to tn.
| top at the hatch. How Jot ever sue
| ceeded in getting SO much into it re
mains a mystery to the onlookers or
! the Wiscasset dock. For weeks anC
| months we didn't know what was be.
to arctic men. There were dolls for ths
[ Eskimo kiddies, fruit cakes, cake
| chocolate, salted peanuts, chewing
| gum, fruit punch and countless other
| commodities.
Trip to Halifax.
NV narrative would not be complete
unless / touched upon my trip tc
Halifax from the time L rounded tht
| Maine coast. Ordinarily the trip tc
| Halifax from the eastern boundarie:
! of Maine is not difficult one. bu
| on this particular trip l was con
| cerned about the behavior of Tho
! Bowdoin under a heavy deckload.
| Forty-four years before ! had sailet
! into Halifax, but far too Young I,
| remember courses. headlands. the ap
| pearance of the city or even wher'
| my father anchored with foremas
! gone and under jury rig.
Nevertheless, "Jot" Small encoun
| tered considerable difficulty in pick
| ing up the landmarks during tht
heavy fogs that prevailed during oul
! trip through the Bay of Fundt. Wt
! finally dropped anchor in HalifaH
harbor and we were the first Ameri'
. can arctic expedition to call at tha
| port for sixty-one years, the last be
| ing Dr. Isaac I. Hayes, in the
| schooner United States.
The "saucy little schooner" Bowdoir
| attracted considerable attention ano
| her description and what we pur'
! posed to do were dealt with at length
| by Nova Scotia publications. To my
surprise. ! learned l was not al
American, but a Canadian. and tha
| my father and mother had lived il