The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-10-22
GENERAL GREELY.

The history of the United States Signal Corps in Alaska is complete story of communication in the North It was through the Signal Corps that Aaskans were afforded their first communication by telegraph and today it still provides the most modern of communication. Thus it is with tinge of sadness that Alaskans read of the passing of that grand old of the Signal Corps Gen Adolphus w Greedy in Washington at the age of 91 It General Greedy who headed the Signal Corps when the initial cables and land lines were laid in the North.
 While to the present generation the name may be
 trifle vague but to those of mature years and the oldsters the name of Greedy brings back tales of many heroic exploits. It was Greedy, then young Lieutenant who headed the Lady Franklin Expedition the Arctic in 1881 to gather data that might aid in the discovery of the North Pole Of that heroic party only seven of 25 came out alive and of those Greedy. Last March, 54 years afterward he was awarded Congressional Medal of Honor for his en- deavors in that early day.
 General Greedy veteran of the Civil War, being wounded twice at Antietam and a third time at Fredericksburg. He had enlisted as private soldier
 After the Civil War General Greedy remained in the regular army and was commissioned Second Lieutenant of the 36th Infantry in March 1867 Six years later he was promoted to First Lieutenant and transferred the Fifth Cavalry He attained the rank of Captain in 1886 and year later he was made a Brigadier General when he was appointed Chief Signal Officer of the United States Army
 It was as Lieutenant Greedy that he chosen in 1881 to head the Arctic Expedition. The party was charged with establishing of B international cir cumpolar stations which had been recommended by the International Geographical Congress at Hamburg in 1879 The purpose of the stations was to collect Arctic data that might aid in locating and discovering the North Pole
 Leutenant Greedy and his men reached what was then the farthest north, 83 degrees and 24 minutes Enroute they discovered land north of Greeand and crossed Grinnell Land to the Great Polar Sea The expedition failed to met the ship Proteus which was crushed in the ice, and Greely and his men were forced to retreat to refuge at Cape Sabine. Two relief expeditions failed to reach the party but third under Captain Winfield Scott Schley who later be- came Admiral found the survivors at Cape Sabine. Eighteen of the Greedy party had perished from vation and cold while the seven survivors almost in a moribund condition found under the shelter of their fallen tent Greedy and his six companions had been without food for 42 hours
 The Greedy expedition notwithstanding it's great cost in money and human life proved of substantial benefit to science added thousands of miles of land to the map of the known world and added greatly to the then existing knowledge of the Arctic regions For his accomplishment Greedy received the medals of the Royal Geographical Society of London and the French Geographical Society
 In 1904 General Greedy named a member of the board to regulate wireless teegraphy United States and the year he served on the board to report the coast defense of the United States In 1911 he the official representative the United States and of President Taft at the coronation of King George of England.
 General Greedy member of various scientific organizations and attended many scientific congresses in various countries He author of many books dealing with weather and climatic conditions in var ious parts of the world where he had seen service a Handbook of Alaska and True Tales of Arctic Heroism"
 When he returned from his famous Arctic Expedi- ton he wrote an historical account of polar explora- ons which remained for score of years as the most authoritative and accurate work the subject Gen. eral Greedy in his 80th year when Vlhjalmur Sefansson suggested to him that he revise the book Instead of doing that the General an entirely new book published in 1928, under the title "The Polar Regions in the Twentieth Century Their Dis covery and Evolution"
 General Greedy always retained his interest in polar explorations and with the development of the airplane expressed the opinion in 1925 that routes would prove the best for polar observations. He entered actively into the revived controversy 1926 regarding the claims of Dr. Frederick A. Cook and Admiral Robert E. Peary of having reached the North Pole
 At that time the General said he was convinced that neither Cook Peary had actually reached the pole neither had scientific witnesses to sub- stantiate their claim had Amundsen when he reached the South Pole. In May, 1926 when Com mander Richard Byrd announced that he had ver- fled Peary's observations completely when he flew over the pole General Greedy said:
 It is matter of great qualification to me Y that Americans have carried out what
 instituted by my party when took