Evening star., 1926-03-09
CAPITAL MAN WILL BE STEWARD
WITH BYRD'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION
L. A. HewsOn to Add New
Chapter to Long Ca.
reer on the Sea.
Clipping From The Star
Aids His Request for
Post in Party.

! Thomas A. Hewson of this city, vet
on TIE high seas and in far-fiung
| parts of the globe has signed up for
| his supreme adventure. trip to the
| Far North with comdr. Richard r.
Byrd's Arctic expedition.
Mr.. Hewson has just been appoint
ed chief steward OF the expedition, in
charge of the important duty of pro
vidinC the members of the party with
food to nourish their bodies during
their long soiourn in the land of ice
and snow. He left ashinGton yes.
terday afternoon for New York. where
he will make. preliminary prepara-
tionS.
Mr.. HewSon lives at 523 Eleventh
street He was steward of Sylvanus
Stokes yacht. the Genesse e. recently
wrecked off the coast of Florida. and
was awaiting Mr.. Stokes return from
abroad when he volunteered as a
member of Comdr Byrd's party. a
clipping from The Star of January
is, 1920, describing a narrowing cruise
in storm swept seas undergone by Mr..
HewSon is said to have been a clinch.
ing argument in favor of the local
mans application, although a letter
y
ing that Hewson had applied too
late" for the job of provision cheief
with that explorers expedition to the
North Pole. was helpful factor in
his favor also
Known Widely Here.
Mr. Fiewso1. who has resided lin
Washington more than 80 years, is
well known in National Guard circles.
having been mess sergeant of Com
pany d. old Sd Regiment. ID. G. n. c..
during the campaign on the Mexican
border He has had long service on
the sea in many ships. one of which
carried him within 200 miles of the
North Pole before that point had be-
come the object of general scientific
search.
He has been chief steward of the
s. S. Vanada to Genoa. of the S. S.
Domino to the North Cape Land of
Norway and Sweden, and aboard
ships plying to the West Indies, Guam.
tanamo, Guadalupe, Havana, San
tiago, Barbados and manv other trop.
ical ports.
Mr.. Hewson also was steward with
Commodore c. II. Colt on the ocean
going yacht Dauntless and on the cup
defender Vigilant.
L.
Hewson experienced the thrills of
shipwreck. The account given
in The Star of the trip points out that
the Nanada. when two days out from
New York for Genoa ran into hur-
ricane which continued for 81 days.
I'm the early part of the great
storm" the article relates. two of
the Vanada's four propeller blades
were broken off. She 'wallowed in the
trough of the seas and did other
things peculiar to disable ships on a
stormy ocean. Finally the Vanada
reached the Azores. Repairs could
not he made there. and she continued
on her way. still racked and buffeted
by tempetuous weather. She reached
Genoa, where her propeller was mend.
ed and left there in water ballast No
vember q.
Struck Another Gale.
Two days out from Genoa a gale
struck her and the ship ripped off
two propeller blades. She limped
into Gibralter and was repaired. On
December she sailed from Gibral-
ter for Philadelphia, but the storm
devil still pursued her, and two days
at sea broke off one propeller blade.
leaving her three. A storm of hur-
ricane intensity continued and the
Eanada sought shelter at Bermuda.
No repairs could be made there, and
in a furious gale she headed north.
The Vanada made headway as far
north as Hatteras. but was blown
back as far as Bermuda three times.
On the fourth attempt to steam north