Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1923, Page 5

] @h Hopes of Finding Wrangel Island Survivors Are Dashed Botile With Proclamation Taking Land for Britain Discovered by Noice Res- cuing Expedition to Arctic. 1s a dim shadow. We cut down the ngine's speed to a quarter and care- fully felt our way along. We had to keep close to shore for fear of pass- ing the people we were seeking, or evidence of them. And at the same time there was danger of our getting caught on a sandbar if we ventured too close. Reach Rodgers Harbor. . As we crawled aleng eastward we z came to a harbor and this I assumed Adi Rinckiack, ki |0 be Rodgers Harbor, the place of Nome. Alaska, were fo | Where the party had been landed in 0 Wrangel Isisad fo 1921, and where certainly some evi- *,2hip would be sent to ther relel. | dence of them. past or present, would T i ! T5}ed |Pe found. The exasperating foam nd. Thus | Made matters very difficult. However, We anchored in three fathoms and Second Engineer Jack Williams and I with several Eskimos went ashore in the skiff to investigate, but we could find no indications of any one hu\_‘XnE been there. So we returned to the ship. hove anchor and proceeded on our way again. Slowly we nosed along the shore, keeping in fairly close as now re e allment of wis | the beach shelved off quite steeply. story ti1d of his hattle with the | We were thus able to keep a close s incidental to engine lookout and the danger of passing and fog and of hix Gt sight and | our objective was greatly lessened. ion of Wrangel Island. b Suddenly a ship's dory took form BY HAROLD NOICE, |through the fog. It was drawn up & 4 a| D the beach, about forty yards from ommander of the Wrangel Island | the water, I immediately rang down Relief Expedition. | full speed @stern and brought the (Copyright. 1923, in United States and € Donaldson to a stop. by American Newspaper All ance. | was low d and I was paddled NOME, Alaska Seatember ..,A_“-,\ldxhuni, A\{\ f?lrllngs at this moment R S Rant .imay be imagined. After weeks of 'd been ekirting the grim. forbid- gt enyous endeavor, bucking the pack ding cliffs of Wrangel Island during {and thread Ng a tortucus passage Lthe short arctic night. and our sur- | throush vast fields of floating Icc, en- roundings had tinged our feelings! Veloped a great deal of the time in a s adiitingnd o _'fhjm-,m- pall of fog, I was about to un- v pessimism and gloom. But w {ravel the mystery which had en- breaking of day the character of | shrouded the little party on Wrangle the shore line changed. Gravel and | [sland 8and beach took place of frowning Found Signs of Habitation. Precipices, and we saw, much to our| ‘hat would I find. I almost shrank Gelight, a broad expanse of moss- from the very imminence of reality. covered prairie reaching up to melSnon I v-'oulld kno A Dene i i Pt in |return to the outside world, bringing steep peaks of the mountainous in-|iph me the gnllant voung ferlows terior. The landscape looked 80 |whose friends and relatives had come bezutiful that our erstwhile gloomy | waiting word of them for two rese 5 REA Ll ce | ¥ears, or whether I must return with ;’I f"f,'“ nts faded away, and Wejsp, qorails of u further tragic chapter €It full of ontimism azain {in the long A herd of walrus suddenly appeared | tion. However, the time was ill- edge of the ice pack, and !chosen for introspection. We 3 rear and grunt in angry on the beach and our unwelcome intrusion 'undoubted evidences all that was needed to put ' tation. in a good humor. To an!| There through the fog. we could lelds are never green.|see on a little ridge the sites of tw ation peoples other lands camps apparently abandoned. his ow 1 all sorts of ter-|could see nothing that indicate lways very skeptical [cent occupation. One of the ty of getting food had evidently.been used as a sutamu Whenever he induced to wander |or fall tent site, and the other ws Very far from his familiar haunts. ia sort of a half d Eskimos’ Hope Revived. | Ih »nsiderable trouble with | the i the “The following fs the second installment of the exclusive personsl story of Huiold Noice, commander of the Wrangel Island welicf expedition. wlio returned to Nome. Alaska, August 81, after hix dash into the Bretic in the hope of relieving four white men a sk mo woman, marooned there since the fall of 1621 The parcy was sent to Wrangel by Yillijalmur Stefanssen to raise the British flag nud claim the island for Canada. The myembers, consisting of Allan R. Crawford 0. Lorne E. Knight of MeMinn- o remain lonely arctie -t for succor. @ former member of fc_expedition of 191318, urned from a further xo. four vea the arctic, wax ad th's year's expedition. with to reach Wrangel Island at of human habi- ing the outco But this herd of w: s proof to | them that Wrangel was al & good country like Alaska and the rest of their limited world In spite of the fact that our engine came to a dead stop again just then, gn umiak, or walrus hide ski vas C owered and some of the E tg d paddled off h glee to indulge U Qan hunting nstinct and also to ‘w ounds replenish our supply of dog feed. | shot two walrus and towed the | ses to a nearby ice cake to| vait our arrival | Meanwhile, the engineers were busy | = on the engine and got it going again i Zonite destroys the germs without much delay. We then ¢ ed . . which cause blood poison- ing and other similar forms of infection. It also short- ens the process of healing and greatly reduces the us- ual pain and inflammation. to where our Eskimos were waiting on the ice cage with their kill and | hoisted it and them aboard H Chant Walrus Song. At the sight of the carcasses the | Test of our natives began to chant the walrus song which was taken up by the others and soon there was aimost an air of festivity about our ! little ship we chugged along the | coast of Wrangel Island that beauti- ful dawn. 1 We were now coming to that part | of the coast where some sign of the | missing party might reasonably be expected. All who were not actuall needed to work the ship were keenly | on the lookout. some in the rigging and the rest on deck. I gave the steward orders to prepare a_special dinner for the margoners when we should reach them, for with the fine weather and the pleasant aspect of the countryside my earlier forebod- ings of tragedy had become largely dispelled and I felt much more opti- | mistic, and that in a very short time now the question should be settled one way or the other. % But the day’s early promise did not| hold. As the nforning progressed a fog swept down upon the island and \ding ocean. We could see tly and the shore only onile INON-POISONOUS IOt oAU ] Graduate 1 Eyes Examined ok Medical e etiors Glasses Fitted Dr. CLAUDE S. SEMONES 10th and G Sts. N.W. Phone Main 721 Suburban Gardens America’s finest colored amuse- ment park. Open daily through Sept. Amusements, scenic_railway, | aerial swing, dodge-em and merry- go-round, mammoth_dance pavilion. | 100 minor attractions. Dancing; Complete Relfef Guaranteed in 24 Hours Through | New Discovery. | | A wonderful new scientific treat- | ment has been discovered which | banishes every single symptom of | Quickly the skiff | whether 1 should | ory of Arctic explova- | roundabout were | | ‘==$="l THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D At first we were not sure whether] which had probably been covered in the object really moved or whelh:rl winter with a tent, and on top of this a layer of snow blocks, Littered about, as if the camp had |been vacated in'a hurry, was a col- \lection of traps, snow knives, dog ipacks, ax handles and a_ variety of other objects. But there were no footprints or other indications that !human beings had been there within {recent months. This was evidently | their original camp site. Sees Signal Mast. Then I saw lying on the ground a long pole with guy ropes attuched to the top. Apparently it had once been used as a signal mast, but the thaw- ing ground had assigled the wind to topple it over. On the ground near the fallen pole discovered a small oblong box cov- Iered with mul. In it, \mgoaed in ajAbraham’s pocketbook containing $25 bottle sealed with tallow, I found the (and a diamond pin probably was following record: saved by discovery of the burglar by ““Proclamation: Mr. Abraham before the work of ran- “Know all men by these presents|Sacking the premises was finished. that I, Allen Rudyard Crawford, a| AR examination of the premises native of Canada and a British sub. |disclosed that the uninvited caller had iject, and these men whose names ap- | been in several rooms in the house. y ¢ members £ He had taken the watch and chain pear below, members of the Wrangel | from the room in which Abraham was Island detachment of the Stefannsen | L - S raie ot artic expedition of 1921, on the advice | 851¢eP. where ho als £of 2 PA'T 07 [and counsel of Vilhjalmur Stefannsen, | Sife "alo had searched Mrs. a i { Foom: i Gonsideration of lapses Of . forsigh | Abranam's work basket whle in the of foreign | evide seeking val- claims and occupancy from March 12, | bathroom. evidently seeking 1914, to September 7, 1914, o fthis is- | ' Jacob Heros reported the theft of land by the survivors of the brigan- 335 last night from the cash register tine Karluk, Capt. R. A. Bartiett, |in his store at 2016 P street. commanding. the property of the gov- | An examination of the store today ernment of Canada, chartered to op- | disclosed also that forty packages of erate in the Canadian artic expedition | cigarettes were missing from a case. { of 1913-1918 of which survivors Chief ) Going to the rear of the store he found | Engineer Monroe, a native of Scot- | hinges had been taken from the door land and a British subject, and raised | and the door removed. it was but a wralth—like figment of the fog. But as we drew nearer we saw that It was indeed a human figure. It moved slowly down to the beach and held out its hands toward us in dumb supplication. BURGLAR LEAVES BEHIND TELL-TALE FINGER MARKS Fingerprints left by a burglar who was surprised at his work in the resi- dence of Abe Abraham, 4812 14th street, early today, may lead to his capture. He stole a watch and chain, $8 and a package of cigarettes. Mrs. 1;he British_flag, declare this land | - known as Wrangle Island to be the {just possession of his majesty Kin, - WS. George of Great Britain and Ireland, ITALY’S TRAFFIC GRO the dominions beyond the seas, Em- ]E;ernlr }?r Indllu. etc, and a part of the |Railways Show Increased Revenue | British empire. e | meSigned and deposited in this monu- Past Six Months. | he Senr Sof our Lord 135rcmPer In| 4 notable improvement in Italian (Signed) rallway administration has been ac- ALLEN CRAWFORD. commander. | complished in recent months, accord- LORNE E. KNIGHT, second in|ing to official reports reaching the command. ‘Ttalian embassy in Washington. The MILTON GALLE. service is regular and fin F. W. 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