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6 The Semi-Weekly Journal. Katared at tba Atlanta rwtofflc* aa Matt Mat- Ur ot tka Second Claaa. JAMES R- GRAY, Editor and General Manager. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. fwaira •IS StotM - Ttraa BMtto * The Be<nl-Weekly Journal *• F ohl J? h J? raaadaj acd Friday, and to saaitod t» m« “ >ort eat route* for early dellrery. It coataiaa sews from aU <ww tbe world. kroa*ht by epecial kaaed wires tat® ft Ua a staff ot dlMlagulaked with atrucg derart&aota ot special valos to tbs bom and tbs tana. agesta wanted at every poatafflcA. CJLwal eoanralsaloo allowed. Otnnt tree. Tko saly trawling representatives »• are J. a. Bryan. B. F. alottoo, C. C. Cojlo and M. H. GUrsatk. Wo will be responsible aab toe mosey paid to taa above na=ed travel tag representatives. H*•••*••••••’* 1 * ** ♦ NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS* _____ ♦ ♦ Ths label used for addressing ♦ ♦ your paper shows the time your ♦ ♦ subscription expires. By renewing ♦ ♦ at least two weeks before the date ♦ ♦ on tide label, you insure regular ♦ ♦ service. * . ♦ In ordering paper ehanged, be ♦ ♦ sure to mention you old. as well as ♦ ♦ your new. address If on a -ural ♦ ♦ route, please give the route num- ♦ ♦ bsr. ♦ We cannot enter subscriptions to ♦ ♦ begin with back numbers. Remit- ♦ ♦ tance should be eent by postal a ♦ order, or registered mail. ♦ ♦ Address al’ orders and notice* ♦ ♦ for this department to THE SEMI- ♦ ♦ WEEKLY JOURNAI. Atlanta. Ga ♦ weaaoooeooeeeoeee e e e e e »♦ Friday, October 15, 19C9. Last call for low-quarter shoes. There Is really nothing to It—Ty Cobb will have to go on the lecture platform. •■ . When it comes to public sympathy. Detroit seems to be the Dr. Cook of base- — v Minister Crane probably realises now that silence is golden, talk sometimes ex pansive. Baid the president of the United States to the president of Mexico —but pinch the thought. No great business revival can confi dently be expected until after the world series is over. Lucky is the man who didn't pawn his overcoat for more than he can now spare to take it Out. Judge Gaynor and Hearst are having a , controversy of their own as to who dis covered the mayoralty. Who says China Is not awak?ninr. when her displeasure results in the recall of an American minister. News story says that Ty Cobb is coming to Atlanta on a visit. Detroit had better be careful. He might stay. A snbatltute for radium Las been dis t covered, something, it is claimed, that is Just as good as the $1,000,000 an ounce brand. _. Joe Johnson Furnishes Fun for New York Sun The numerous friends of Joe Johnson, at oae time a member of the Atlanta Journal's staff, will find the following story from Monday's New York Sun. in teresting: i At 11 o'clock this morning the Acorn Musee opens at 25 Union Square, just i two doors from the lacteal exhibit cf the committee of WJ». and those looking for fua of a livelier than bovine variety ought to take a peep at Great Oak Joe I Johnson and his three real animals. No painted ship upon a painted ocean for the Great Ache of the Acorns, neither J for him a wooden cow nor a grass goat. He has there a goat, which he calls the Fusionlsts* goat, but It is a live goat, very busy about a goat's business of eating * everything in sight or at least within reach. The goat’s reach is limited, he being tied, more than can be said for his neigh bor the elephant, which at the rehearsal ] for today’s opening, held’ last evening, chased Republican reporters out of the ’ room. It is only fair to say that this ] was a first mistake on the elephant’s part, for the elephant, which Jke the goat 1 ta a live one. had been friglienttf by a . lashllgh* photographer who was makinw a picture of the museum or menagvrio ; It to promised it won’t occur again. The museum is intended as an answer ’ by the Great Oak. on behalf of Tammany ( Han to the exhibit of the 100 two doors •way. The Acorns declare that it to < under the slogan “Home Rule.’ which may account for the elephant’s undertaking to do a little home ruling on ; his own account last evening. The cards os our walls,” thus spoke the Great Oak V "have been prepared with great care, and where statistics are presented great pains Mv* been taken to have them stain the facts.” In the Acorns’ museum many things are great. Among the cards on the walls is ; this one paying respects to a great insti tution: i . "How to spend other people’s money— latent book from the Public Service Com mission's publishing department—Ex plaining the most scientific way to get rid Os large sums without effort or results— Holds the record of the world for extrav agance and utter usetessness ** Nearby to this one traducing a great citizen who Is scarcely named: "Palmistry —the great Zingart Gypsy Tiny Tim—won derful Brooklyn clairvoyant—Born with seven waistcoats." “There is so much of mere mudslinging and ratification in our neighbors’ show,” said the Oak. “that the citizens are invit ed tp scrutinize our signs carefully be cause we are confident they form a com plete refutation of the placards of our friends at the s’gn of the Papier Mache Cow." By the way. at noon today at the Acorn Muaee John W. Keller. Maurice Deiches, B. T. Mahler and Dudley Field Malone are to do some talking, with a musical eatertainn.ent by Acorns thrust in here and there for good measure. For those interer* d iu noonday entertainments it may be said that judging from last even ing’s foretaste, the entertainment part of the program may be expected to be good Maybe the rest will be also enter tain Ina Those attending who may wish to get upon speaking terms with the elephant may be interested to know that his name Is Herbena Hearst. The goat's name is •till a secret, as is the monkey's; the monkey is just ahead of the elephant as one enters the museum, and he. too. is •live, kicking and altogether monkeyish. Just what part he Is to play when the ■perches begin has not been announced, but there la a tin cup handy. THE CASE OF MORSE. The United States circuit court of appeals has decided that Charles W. Morse was legally convicted of the crimps charged against him in the Ibwer federal court and has affirmed his sentence to fifteen years in the federal prison in Atlanta. From this decision there will doubtless be an effort made for an appeal to the United States supreme court, but under the evidence disclosed at the trial it is hardly likely that the appeal will be granted. Therefore it is reasonably certain that Morse will serve his sentence in the federal prison in this city. One cannot regard this notable case in a dispassionate way without wonder and astonishment. Morse was one of those men who trafficked in the fortunes of others as freely and as easily as a peddler deals in his wares. For a time he was the petted creature of fickle fortune. He was carried by luck and daring to the highest point of financial success. He established a trust that controlled the ice manufacturing industry of New York. He organized an immense combination of ocean steamships. He secured control of various banks through which he manipulated the stock of bis various enterprises. It was charged and proven that he caused these banks to make false entries of the transac tions which he carried on, that he caused individuals in their service to buy the stocks at spurious values, that he used the money belonging to the banks for the purpose of buying control of other corporations and that he otherwise conducted a series of transactions reeking with fraud in order that he might control the product of numerous enterprises and also manipulate the stock of these enterprises in the market: He had accumulated an enormous fortune already, but, blinded by his success and ambition to acquire still greater power, he ventured too far. The same fickle goddess, by whom he had been lifted to the dizziest heights, suddenly and without warning, hurled him headlong to a prison cell charged with crimes innumerable, an abject and apparently a penniless man. In spite of these misfortunes, however, it is said that since his conviction, by speculation and otherwise, he has made an enormous sum of money and paid off a large part of the indebtedness against his ill-gotten stocks. No doubt he was led to expect that his conviction would be brushed aside and that he would be again given his freedom. His humiliation, therefore, must be very great since the courts have decided that he must wear a felon’s stripes and must spend what is probably the remainder of his life in a penitentiary. The world, and especially the large financial centers, are too full of men of the type of Morse. It is undoubtedly true that the panic of 1907 wAs largely due to the stock jobbing speculations and crimes of Morse and men of a kindred spirit. The evil influence of such characters cannot be measured by any human standard. Probably they are necessary in the world’s great economy to teach conservatism to others, and thereby preserve an equilibrium, but the courts are doubly criminal when they undertake to palliate or excuse the crimes of men like Morse. His conviction reflects the greatest credit upon the federal system of punishing those who, under the franchise of national banks, undertake to gamble with the funds of others to advance their own personal importance. The case of Morse is known throughout the country, and without regard to the personal character of the man, the country will applaud his conviction and punishment. OUR ROMANTIC VEGETABLES. There must be a dash of Arabian magic sprinkled somehow through Atlarta’s soil. How else can we account for those fantas tic, weli-nigh romantic vegetables that present themselves in the gardens hereabout regularly year after year and bob up in the cook’s market basket as amazingly as a troll or even a demon? If turnips shappd like a shotgun or cabbages bearing a marked resemblance to the dainty Queen Wilhelmina came once or twice in a decade their phenomena might be allowed to pass with a word of casual interest. But the fact is that in Atlanta such prodigies have taken a fixed place in the year’s fiafendar. Observant persons will recall that not a season of the twelve months has passed without its miraculous beet or dumbfounding onion. Only yesterday there transpired in the western stretches of the city a pumpkin yam sweet potato that looked enough like a goose to lay eggs, if given half an opportunity. Had the average housewife beheld it she would probably have gone into a duck fit, and so the cautious groceryman into whose possession it came thoughtfully presented it to The Journal. That yam is a wonderful thing, but not a whit more so than the shoe-shaped radish which drifted into The Journal office last May, or the horse-like squash which followed in June, or the pea pod which turned up a fortnight later as a graphic imitation of an old woman smoking a pipe. These oddities give the city a distinction which has not been sufficiently noted. Other cities have gardens, but where else on the wonder-working old earth do vegetables grow like these? Jack’s bean stalk or the apples of the Hesperides are their only peers. WHAT PEOPLE READ Thousands today are reading, not what the president says to re ception committees, not what ! Peary will say to Cook, not even what the Wright brothers are planning, but what Tyrus Cobb and Hans Wagner are doing in the world’s baseball series, now on its finishing lap. Was there ever such ball playing? In this contest the sympathies of most are with Detroit. Wliy this should be there is no explanation, for public sentiment is generally i without reason—is instinctive, rarely logical. It is easy to under stand why it should be so in Geor gia. where Cobb was born and reared. It is not so easy in other localities. But the comparison works no injury to Pittsburg. Both teams are playing great ball. The exhi bition is free from objectionable professionalism. There has been no hint that the score is neatly balanced with the gate receipts. There are no exhibitions of ruf fianism; and the players go at it with the enthusiasm of college boys in football. Reading the ac count of the game in the extra, you are taken elean out of the day’s dull routine. For the mo ment you are Ty Cobb at the bat with three men on bases and no one out! WHERE TALK COSTS In some cases talk is expensive, as Mr. Crane, United Slates min ister to China, may now realize, on his virtual dismissal from his post, because, it is reported, he let himself be interviewed too freely on conditions in the Far East. Mr. Crane, among other things, t was quoted as saying that certain con ditions in the orient were antiqua- THE ATLANTA SEMI- WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1903. ted, and needed a remedy, he being the doctor. It is not to be wondered that China became offended. The min ister blames it on the reporter, whom “he treated better than the reporter did him.” The incident will hardly have a momentous ef fect, except perhaps on Mr. Crane himself. It shows, though, that China is awakening the respect of the nations. She is improving. She is building railroads and regulating the traffic in opium. Provincialism is giving way under western ideas. The young Chinese are being educated abroad. Such enlightenment is better than armament. Oh the other hand foreigners are being made to realize that in some respects Chinese civilization is as great as theirs. At any rate she is entitled to tact in the for eign representatives she receives. It is better, too, that Minister Crane should have made his “break” before taking the post than after. The Delirious Kind Exchange. H. K. Adair, a western detective, waa being complimented in Grand Rapids, says The New York Tribune, about an absconding banker be had run to earth. "Oh, the man gave himself away," said Mr. Adair. "He shied too much. Everything seem ed. In his morbid mind, to point suspicions at him. He was like the old ‘widdy’ woman. “An old ‘widdy’ woman went to an under taker's to order a coffin for her deceased hus band •• He was very, very good to me,’ she said, 'and I’ll have a coffin of the beet yellow pine ’ ** ’Yes. madam. That’ll be |l4,’ said the un dertaker. ‘And what kind of trimmings will you have on the coffin?’ “ ‘Trlmmia’s?” cried the ’widdy’ womau. ’And right well ye know, ye spalpeen, that I’ll have no trlrumiii's at all, when It was rlmmln'a that the poor lad died of. bad iuek te ’em!* ’* He Took the Prize Exchange. An Englishman was asked to speak at the Al Fresco Dining club. He arose, stuck his monocle in bis eye and told this story: “I was in Chicago at a dlnnah, you know,” said he. ‘‘wheah they were to give a prize for the best story. One fellah got up and told a ;.tory and sat down, another told another storv and sat down, don’t you know, then they asked me to tell a story. I arose and began: ** ‘I am an Englishman with a sense of humor!* "And to my amazement they gave me the prize before I could say another word. You see what I mean?" PEARY MAKES KNOWN HIS‘PROOF’AGAINST COOK, WITH MAP PURPORTING TO SHOW LATTER'S ROUTE Declares Doctor’s Eskimos To ; d Him Their Master Never Got Near the Pole, and Laughed at His Story. SHOWED IN CHART THE WAY HE TOOK Questions Directed at Natives and Their Answers are Set Forth in Detail, as Well as Advent ures Encountered. (By A undated Frew.) NEW YORK, Oct. 13—The following statement of Commander Robert E. Peary, which he submitted, together with the accompanying map to the Peary Arctic club in support of his connection that Dr. Cook did not reach the north pole, is now made public for the first time. The statement and map have been copyrighted by the Peary Arctic club. (Entered according to act of congress, in the year 1909, by the Peary Arctic club, in the office of the librarian of congress, at 'Washington, D. C.) INTRODUCTION BY PEARY. Some of my reasons for saying that Dr. Cook did not go to the north pole will be understood by those who read the following statements of the two Es kimo boys who went with him, and who told me and others of my party where he did go Several Eskimos who started with Dr. Cook from Anoratok in Febru ary, 1906, were at Etah when I arrived there in August, 1908. They told me that Dr. Cook had with him, after they left, two Eskimo boys or young men, two sledges and some 20 dogs. The boys were I-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah. I had known them from their childhood. One was about 18 and the other about 19 years of age. On my return from Cape Sheridan and at the very first settlement I touched (Nerke, near Cape Chalon), in August, 1909, and nine days before reaching Etah, the Eskimos told me, in a gen eral way, where Dr. Cook had been; that he had wintered in Jones Sound and that he had told the white men at Etah that he had been a long way north, but that the boys who were with him, I-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah, said that this was not so. The Eskimos laughed at Dr. Cook’s story. On reach ing Etah, I talked with the Eskimos there and with the two boys and asked them to describe Dr. Cook’s journey to members of my party and myself. This they did in the mrnner stated below. (Signed) R. E. PEARY. SIGNED STATEMENT OF PEARY, BARTLETT, M’MILLAN, BORUP AND HENSON. IN REGARD TO TES TIMONY OF COOK’S TWO ESKIMO BOYS. The two Eskimo boys, I-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah, who accompanied Dr. Cook while he was away from Anoratok in 1908 and 1909, were questioned sepa rately and indepenr ntly, and were cor roborated by Panlpah, the father of one of them (I-tookJa-shoo), who was per sonally familiar with the first thtid and the last third of Hheir journey, and who said that the rotite for the remaining third, as shown by them, was as de scribed to him by his son after his re turn with Dr. C'dbk. Notes of their statements were taken by several of us, and no one of us has any doubt that they told the truth. Their testimony was unshaken by cross examination, was corroborated by other men in the tribe, find was elicited neither by threats nor prom Ires, the two boys and their father; talking of their jour ney and their experiences In the sam* way that they would talk of any hunt ing trip. To go more Into details: One of the boys was called in. and, with a chart on the table before him. was asked to show where he had gone with Dr. Cook. This he did, pointing out with his finger on the map, but not making any marks up on it. BOY QUESTIONED. As he went out. the other boy/came In and was asked to show where he had gene with Dr. Codk. This he did, also without making any marks, and indicat ed the same route and the same details as did the first boy. When he was through, Panfkpah, the father of I-took-a-shoo, a very intelli gent man. who Was in the party of Es- Klmos that came back from Dr. Cook from the northern end of Nansen’s strait, who is familiar as a hunter with the Jones Sound region, and who has been In Commander Peary’s various expedi tions for some 15 years, came in and in dicated the same localities and details as the two boys. Then the first boy was brought in again, and with a pencil he traced on the map their route, members of our par ty writing upon the chart where, ac cording to the boy’s statement, they had killed deer, bear, some of their dogs, seal, walrus and musk oxen. The second boy was then called in and the two went over the chart together, the second boy suggesting some changes as noted hereafter. Finally. Panikpah, the father, was again called In to verify details of the por tions of the route with which he was personally familiar. The bulk of the boys’ testimony was not taken by Commander Peary, nor tn his presence, a fact that obviates any possible claim that they were awed by him. Certain questions on Independent lines from the direct narrative of the Eskimo boys were suggested by Commander Peary to some of us. and were put by us to the Eskimo boys. Still later. Commander Peary asked the Eskimo boys two or three casual questions on minor points that had oc cured to him. \ COOK KEPT SILENT. During the taking of this testimony, it developed that Dr. Cook had told these boys, aa he told Mr. Whitney and Billy Pritchard, the cabin boy, that they must not tell Commander Peary or any of us anything about their journey and the boys stated Dr. Cook i had threatened them if they should tell I anything. The narrative of these Eskimos Is ,as follows: I They, with Dr. Cook. Francke and i nine other. Eskimos, left Anoratok, ‘ crossed Smith’s sound to Cape Sabine. I slept in Commander Peary’s old house iin Payer harbor, then went through | Rice strait to Buchanan bay After a i few marches Francke and three Eski ’ mos returned to Anoratok. Dr. Cook, with the others, then pro i ceeded up Flagler bay, a branch of I Buchanan bay, and crossed Ellesmere I land through the valley pass at Ihe head of Flagler bay. Indicated by Com mander Peary in 1898, and utilized t»y I Sverdnup in 1899, to the head of Sver- Idrup’s "Bay Fiord” on the west side of Ellesmere land. Their route then lay out through 1 this fiord, thence north through Sver- g a -y—y e 1 M “ £ -.JT- fl 1 \ \ \x z * Z * Z ** \ S A T. / CLjTL. \ ,-ArZh, V’ B '////IK 1 I /mIHI / / I " / —-I I / I'l v L *- a 1 o* CcZk* /«<rrv f I k BtSj / Vis!* ft ) \ / • V-****U(| I T I -l j * ‘ \ '• /■' J * -S ' //• - \ I * / • / ef® \ V s (SaHrrd •ocorSiaz to Act »f Coucna, to tl» year the Peary Arave dab, ia tka atoae a< tka Übcanaa of Concrete at Watoiacw > '.MAI* OF THg ARCTIC RtaiON AND ANNOTATIONS THEREON SUBMITTKD BY COMMANDER. PRARYa ■ ._. . CONCERNING PR. CQOK'B ROUTE. drup’s "Heuerka sound” and Nansen strait. On their way they killed musk-oxen and bear, and made caches, arriving eventually at a point on the west side of Nansen strait (shore of Axel Heiberg land of Sverdrup), south of Cape Thomas Hubbard. FIND A CACHE. A <)ache was formed here and the four Eskimos did not go beyond this point. Two others, Koolootlngwah ana Inughtto, went on one more march with Dr. Cook and the boys helped to build the snow igloo, then returned without sleeping. (These two Eskimop brought back a letter from Dr. Cook to Francke, dated the 17th of March. The two men re joined the other four men who had been left behind, and the six returned to Anoratok. arriving May 7. This infor mation was obtained not from the two Eskimo boys, but from the six men who returned and from Francke him self, and was known to us in the Bum mer of 1908, when the Roosevelt first arrived at Etah. The information is Inserted here as supplementary to the narrative of the two boys.) After sleeping at the camp where the last two Eskimos turned back, Dr. Cook and the two boys went in a northerly or northwesterly direction with two sledges and twenty-odd dogs, one more march, when they encountered rough ice and a lead of open water. They did not enter this rough ice, nor cross the lead, but turned westward or southwestward a short distance and returned to Heiberg Land at a point west of where they had left the cache and where the four ihen had turned back. Here they remained four or five sleeps, and during that time I-took-a-shoo went back to the cache and got his gun wh! h he had left there, and a few items of supplies. When asked why only a few supplies were taken from the cache, the boys re plied that only a small amount of pro visions had been used in the few days since they left the cache, and that their sledges still had all they could carry, so that they could not take more. After being Informed of the boys’ nar rative thus far, Commander Peary sug gested a series of questions to be put to the boys in regard to this trip from the land out and back to it. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. These questions and answers were as follows: Did they cross many open leads or much open water during this time? Ans. None. Did they make any caches out on the ice? Ans. No. Did they kill any bear or seal while out on the ice north of Cape Thomas Hubbard? Ans. No. Did they kill or lose any of their dogs while out on the ice? Ans. No. With how many sledges did they start? Ans. Two. How many dogs did they have? Ans. Did not remember exactly, but some thing over 20. How many sledges did they have when they got back to land? Ans. Two. Did they have any provisions left on their sledges when they came back to land? Ans. Yes: the sledges still had about all they could carry, so they were able to take but a few things from the cache. From here they then went southwest along the northwest coast of Heiberg Land to a point indicated on the map (Sver drup’s Cape Northwest). From here they went west across the ice, which was level and covered with snow, offering good going, to a low island which they had seen from the shore of Heiberg Land at Cape Northwest. On this island they camped for one sleep. ISLAND TOO LARGE. The size and position of this island, as drawn by the first boy, was criticised by the second boy aa being too large and too far to the west, the second boy caking the attention of the first to the fact that the position of the island was more near ly in line with the point where they had left Heiberg Land (Cape Northwest) and the channel between Amund Ringnes Land and Ellef Ringnes Land. This criticism and correction was ac cepted by ths first boy, who started to change the position of the island, but was stopped, as Commander Peary had given instructions that no changes or erasures were to be made In the route as drawn by the Eskimos on the chart. From this Island they could see two lands beyond (Sverdup’s Ellef Ringnes and Amund Ringnes Lands). From the island they journeyed toward the left-- hand one of these two lands (Amund Ringnes Land), passing a small island which they did not visit. Arriving at the shore of Amund Ringnes Land, the Eskimos killed a deer as In dicated on the chart. COVERS COOK’S TIME. The above portion of the state ment of the Eakimo boys covers the period of time in which Dr. Cook claims to have gone to the pole and back, and the entire time during which he could possibly have made any attempts to go to it. The answers of the Eskimo boys to Commander Peary’s series of independent questions, showing that they killed no game, made no caches, lost no dogs, and returned to the land with loaded sledges makes their attainment of the pole on the trip north of Cape Thomas Hubbard a physical and mathematical impossibil ity, as it would demand the subsistence of three men and over 20 dogs during a journey of ten hundred and forty geo graphical miles on less than two sledge loads of supplies. MAYBE HE GOT "MIXED.” If It Is suggested that perhaps Dr. Cook got mixed and that he reached the pole, or thought he did, between the time of leaving the northwest coast of Heiberg land at Cape Northwest, and his arrival at Ringnes land, where they killed the deer, we must then add to the dale of Dr. Cook’s letter of March 17, at or near Cape Thomas Hubbard, the subse quent four or five sleeps at that point, and the number of days required to march from Cape Thomas Hubbard to Cape Northwest (a distance of some 60 nautical miles), which would advance his date of departure from the land to at least March 25, and be prepared to ac cept the claim that Dr. Cook went from Cape Northwest (about latitude 80 1-3 de grees north) to the pole, a distance of 570 geographical miles, in 27 days. After killing the deer they then trav eled south along the east side of Ring nes Land to the point Indicated on the chart, where they killed another deer. THEIR FURTHER ROUTE. They then went east across the south part of Crown Prince Gustav Sea to the south end of Heiburg Land, then down through Norwegian Bay, where they se cured some bears, but not until after they had killed some of their dogs, to the east side of Graham Island; then eastward to the little bay marked "Eid’s Fiord” on Sverdrup’s chart; then south west to Hell Gate and Simmon's Penin sula. Here for the first time during the en tire journey, except as already noted off Cape Thomas H. Hubbard, they encoun tered open water. On this point the boys were clear, emphatic, and unshakable. OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE. — f r£Ll YOU / swonr . OfF IT THAT I WON'T \ TAKF A DRINK! t \ DON*T WANT ANY /NSisTiN(s OR about /t S 1 a I They spent a good deal of time in this region, and finally abandoned their dogs and one sledge, took to their boat, crossed Hell’s Gate to North Kent, up into Nor folk Inlet, then back along the north coast of Colin Archer Peninsula to Cape Vera, where they obtained fresh eider duck eggs. Here they cut the remaining sledge off, that is, shortened It, as It was awkward to transport with the boat, and near here they killed a walrus. j The statement In regard to the fresh elder duck eggs permits the approximate determination of the date at this time as about the first of July. (This state ment also serves, if indeed anything more than the Inherent straightforwardness JQ and detail of their narrative were n eeded, to substantiate the accuracy and truth fulness of the boys’ statement. This lo cality of Cape Vera is mentioned in Sver drup's narrative as the place where dur ing his stay in thu.t region he obtained t elder ducks’ eggs.) WENT TO JONES SOUND. From Cape Vera they went on down in to the southwest angle of Jones Hound, where they killed a seal; thence east along the south coast of the sound, kill ing three bears at the point noted on ths map, to the peninsula known as Caps Sfarbo on the map, about m dway on the south side of Jones Sound. Here they killed some musk-oxen and. continuing east, killed four more at ths place Indi cated by the pack ice at the mouth of Jones Sound. From here they turned back to Cape Sparbo, where they wintered and killed many musk-oxen. After the sun returned in 19>» they start ed, pushing their sledge, across Jones Sound to Cape Tennyson; thence along the coast to Clarence Head (passing in side of two small islands not shown on the chart, but drawn on It by the boys), where they killed a bear; thence across the broad bight in the coast to Cadogan Fiord; thence around Cape Isabella and up to Commander Peary’s old house in Payer Harbor near Cape Sabine, where they found a seal cached for them by Panikpah, I-took-a-shoo's father. From here they crossed Smith Sound on the Ice, arriving at Anoratok. (Signed) R. E. PEART, U. 8. N. ROBERT A. BARTLETT. Master S. 8. Roosevelt. D. B. M’MILLAN. GEORGE BORUP. MATTHEW A. HENSON. Cleveland Plain Dealer. •‘How much do I owe you?’’ growled tlie man as be arose from the barber’s chair. "Only a quarter for the shave, sir,” replies the tonsorial artist. "I won’t charge yen any thing for plastering op the place where I cut * yon ”
