Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1923, Page 10

10 Battled Ice and Polar Bears In Wrangel Island Haunts ?Stefansson Party Experienced Life Like Fenimore Cooper Romance, as Re- vealed Through Diaries. have whooped until threw the firewood, come in. from side to side, julces were drippin of his tongue. gry all right. gan to throw piec from the stove. the bear retreated from the camp. “Crawford was away. Crawford did not explode. Ci cited, but the bear was golng too fast. pened. The fellows scared stiff. the bear cared. Then the started to throw things. and pans and finally the dishes. No Stopping for Blows. “Of course the bear was hit sev- eral times, but he was determined to {dark “water-sky” (a dark streak on His old snoot was working 1 guess he was hun. At last the boys be- es of burning wood While eating breakfast a strong ga! After a little of this, He started off at a gallop. *Maurer came out, and he followed i Playing poker for a ways, but by this time the bear hour after the adventure had hap. it, of course, but I'm sure they were The woman is working like a Trojan and rose this morning fellows at 6 o'clock to bake bread. The dogs First, they are inside and comfortable. Nothing vots o do until the bloy is over. December 22. Blowing still this am., so stayed at camp. When got- | Ung dark the wind stopped and we cut several days' wood. Just before eternity for all , then the a cloudy sky Indicating the presence of open water beneath) appeared to and the gastric the southwest of camp. The woman from the end |i8 doing wonderfully well. & . I ‘December 24. Arose early this morning. _Galle intending to visit his traps and I to g0 to the other camp. o arose from the Lot rifting snow. Had to stay inside. a short distance Galle Is working on a wind gauge. The woman is baking, cooking, wash- dressed warmer ‘ing dishes and sewing. Clear over- with thickly than Maurer and he rushed out first head. and grabbed his gun. the bear was about a hundred yards | dropped ground and took steady aim. pulled the trigger, but the cartridge iwe are not hungry. By this time ! Christmas Spent Eating. the ! “Sunday. Xmas. Spending the day He doing nothing but eating, although Potatoes a la O'Brien, cake, bread and butter, cof- fee. We finished up the evening ] for smokes. Clear. {Light breeze from north.” Reading Knight's dlary, T see them itting around their rough table, \ feasting on potatoes O'Brien and cof- ee, regretting their lack of appetite, on rawford got ex- got excited too.! I got there an would not admi; of appetite but their lack of food to appease thelr hunger. Continued in The Star Tomorrow. (Copyright 1928 in U. 5. and Caoada by North American Newspsper Alliunce, (Copy. right British lIsles by Endnn Daily News. Copyright Australia by Melbourne Herald. fo&]fl[ht South America by La Naclon. All rights reserved.) Society (Continued from Ninth Page.) georgette, heavily beaded, with hat to match. Her bouquet was of bride roses and lilies of the valley. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Ruth’ Fleishell, as maid of honor, who wore a gown of blue georgette over silver cloth, with hat to match, and carried an arm bouquet of pink Co- lumbia_roses. Mr. Bradley Thornett, brother of the bridegroom, was best man, and the ushers were Mr. Sharp Hayden and Mr. Joseph Oulahan The ceremony was followed by a reception at the home of the bride, after which Mr. and Mrs. Thornett left for a wedding trip to New York and Atlantic City, the latter travel- ing in a dress of beige satin, with a ‘THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 out a terrible war whoop. He could out today. y . 19 turned to the city, having made an extensive tour throagh the Canadian northwest and California. They have moved from the Dresden to 1339 Con- necticnt avenue. ! The first of 2 series of monthly dances for this season will be held at the College Women's Club on Satur- day, October 27, from 9 to 12 o'clock pm. Mrs. Howard G. Nichols is chairman of the committee on ar- rangements. Marriage Licenses. e licenses have been issued to the H Marri followin, Walte Richmond, John P y of Hanover, P L. Hesmer of Marshalltown. Towa. Charles H. Giben and Mabel G. Spitzer. Alexander D. Dayhoff and Ruth H. Haynes. Clifford L. MaArthur of Antwerp, N. Y., and Rowena_Phillipe of this city. { John Flood and Amy Johnson, ! William J. Luck and Madle Vick. Willle Keuler of thls city and Florence | Reaves of Greenshoro . THerbert Mase of this city and Rosetta Hol- lins of Colonial Beach, Va. : Dick Brooks and Georgia Lee. Jerome F. Joues and Lilly V. Dunaington. Victor Frazier and Margie E. Tyler. Samuel A_ Young and Minnie H. Gordon. Rudolph Drury of this city and Nelly L. Tootsie of Fairmont. W. Va Edwerd C. Hutchins and Ethel Cooke. Harper and Cora Cully, both of : and Emma —_— Charles H. and Dorothy E. Ed . | arles H. and Dorothy Iwards, gl i Deaths Reported. \ James F. and Marguerite Manaing, Jr., glrl. The following deaths have beea reported to Jumey E. and Delores Scott, boy. John A. aud Lilly Bmith, boy. X > | the kealth deparcment in the last twenty-four vogrs: William H. apd Ruth Kopplalks, boy. James B. and Hazel A. Lyle, girl. Michael O'Flaherty, & i d Gertrude C. Mann, glrl. [ oy Toattki 7 ¢ ) o8- T B Weldters nd Anne Iiving, boy. | ppiiarry M. Asbton, 57, Home for Aged and nfirm. and Mary T. 0'Donnell, boy. nd Alice Thorp. girl. Annie 0'Conner Sullivan. 77, 114 Gth st. s.e. 1 . "and Lenora M. Offutt, girl. George Hinkel, 64, Gallinger Hospital, Eugene and Charlotte Ford. boy. Louls Meline, 77, B1: t. se. James and Edna Peyton, girl. Carl G. Wawnum! 18, 415 K; John H. ana Mamie Wililams, boy. Lafe Pence, 05, 1407 James iI, and Henrietta B. Williams, boy. Elizabeth J. rod) Wilson F. and Annie V. Brown, Sarah Hon Thomas and Minule Stone, gl | . Iutant of lliam H. and Louise A. North, boy. 11104 T st e Frauk and Louice Williams, girl | Mary Streets. 73, 304 E st. s.w. Francis E. Gllbert, 39, 440 O st George and Roselena Thornion, girl. | John and Sarah Contee, girl Carrie W. Lowe, 43, Gallinger Hospital. . nw. . 1733 19th st. th st oo, 10 minutes, Lorne Knight after a successful day’'s hunt. rescuers reach: BY HAROLD NOICE, Leader Wrangel Island Rescue Expedition. on Wrangel nd winter must have seemed to the of the Stefansson party like a F Cooper romance come to 1 fmaginations were fanned to flame. They had journeyed into th north from a southern land. They h cut themselves off from their own kind, had left clvi ation behind them. To Crawford and -Galle it was the first} great breath of adventure. 1 The polar bears, the fce pac the ! biinding snowstorms—they had been | but names to fire their mf they w ving realities to challenge their manhood; actual enemies against | h to pit their strength. They were feeling for the first time thq greatest of all thrills—the thrill that ¢ when | a_man is in danger and sure of his ability to meet it. The thrill of facing | the almost unsurmountuble obstacle ; Just as it about to be surmounted. | Knight had been in the north before. things were commonplace him, vet in his diary 1 can sense the mood of the part Imagine Crawford, for instance, fre from the Toronto University and the protection of a cul- tured home, meeting his first polar bear face to face. Experience for Galle. Imagine young Galle, who had never even seen a fox except in a zoo, sr.v.ung! out in the early morning to visit hls: trap: { 1t is a mood in which strong bonds | arc forged, either of friendship or enmity. From Knight's dlary it is evi- | dent that he and Crawford, such oppo- €lte types, were cementing an attach- | ment. Far from doubting their ability 10 survive the Wrangel experience, they wero already planning new conquests together. 1 “Crawford is a coming man and one of the smartest young or old men I have ever met,” writes Knight, adding: | “He tries his best to hide it because of modesty.” “We are planning to spend a winter on Melville Island.” he continues. *“All that is likely to stop us is money, but Crawford is a geologist and has some ! high connections with the Canadian | geological survey and he is confident . that the government will be willing to send us there.” The slow approach of winter that year i gave them ample time to prepare win- ter quarters. They made themselves as comfortable as they, in their inexperi- ence, knew how. They were elated over their achievements, not for a mo- ment suspecting how inadequate these ‘were to prove. Experience would have taught them to build Immediately a house of drift- wood and moss, warm and _secure sgainst any kind of weather. Instead, efter pi that first 1 boys | nimore | Their a high| snow biocks, they waited for the winter to provide them & roof. In Need of Smow. “All we need now is snow for the walls and roof,” Knight writes in the Teginning of October. _“Our steamstress is working_diligently and has our win- ter boots about finished.” Almost fmmediately the shortage of | dog meat became a problem. An early entry reads: “I have been feeding the dogs on cracklings brought from Nome, but they | | are almost gone and so I had to cook | for them today rotten potatoes, of | which there are quite a few, and crack- ling crumbs. There is no_ sign of ice and the prospect for seal looks rather | gloomy until the ice does come.” The lack of a skin boat also_began o [be felt almost immediately. Knight writes: ““There are a few seals about, but || they stay a long distance from shore, and the surf is so heavy and the dory so hard to pull out that it is not ad- visable to go after them." ‘When they began to check up on the supplies ordered In Seattle they found that some of them had not arrived and | | that others had spoiled. “A box of prunes we opened today was maggoty. Rather a poor thing to do to a party going north,” Knight comments. The problem of dog meat was tem- porarily solved by the timely arrival of the first inquisitive polar bear. “He was a full-grown male with a rather good skin, which we carefully saved,” writes Knight. “The carcass was cut : up and cached, to be hauled home when the weather permits. We took only enough to feed the dogs.” Other Foods to Come. They did not suspect, then, that the time would come when there would be no serving of bearskins to make fifeside rugs or museum pelts. Yot | all were destined for food eventu- ally. ;rom that time on, for a while, the ! bears were so thick that the boye | could not concelve a shortage of bear steaks or dog feed. Knight says, of the days immediately following: “The bears were so darned thick that we could see them in all direc- tions and at all times. Ve did noti Xkill as many as I wish ‘'we had, as there was no way to get them to® camp, for the ground was bare and sledding impossible. Now that the ogean is frozen over the bears are . ali-out on the ice. and the question of dog feed is mow the issue of the | day. One of our best dogs died thel other day, so now there are only six! dogs to feed.” The life of the boys in camp as! the winter came on is pictured in a} typical comment under date of No-| vember 7: "Supper is over and there is not & at deal to do, so I will write a little. Gallgrcaught a fox today, Here “But this is not all. That night T got back to our camp, after dark. Galle had just come home from his trap line. When he got close to the camp he saw a bear snifing about, | undisturbed, for I had taken the dogs | with me. He killed the bear, but: when he went inside the house he found Ada half dead with fear. She was so frightened she hadn't even put any wood on the stove and consequently the fire had gone out and she was nearly frozen. Although we lost one bear that day we got an- | Other Encounters Noted. ! Later entries in the diary show other encounters with polar bears, but they seem never to have been so venturesome as during this particular period. i With the meager means at hand | Ada Blackjack prepared to make a Christmas. Earlier entries pictur the kimo girl as lonely and de- pressed, so far away from her own people. Shae misses her “sonny” and {the more lively life of Nome. Th: boys realized then, if they had not, done so before, that it was a mistake | not to have brought an entire Eskimo | family, even with the additional cost |of_the' larger “grub stake.” | But by Christmas Ada had adjusted | nerself and seemed more cheerful. | {On December 20 Knight records that | {she is very industrious and has been very gay all day, especially after she | {learned that Crawford and Maurer { would come from their trapping camp | | for the holiday | Al of them made a gallant attemp! jat gayety as Christmas approached. In_Knight's own words: “December 21. Blowing a strong (2T ¥ TSHOW le are shaking dice for chewing ! gum. Crawford {s reading. 1 am/ 4 UPSET STOMACH, Knight died before the ed the island, min, Just finished building | 7 our excellent o Shortly after this the party divided, | according to Stefansson's orders Al trapping camp extablished ten | mil st and Crawford and Maurer | moved down there, Ada Black i d the two others remaining behind. Crawford and Maurer were to usc: their camp as a_basis of operations for trapping and Knight and Gal were to cover the vicinity nearest | them, From the first, Galle, youngest | | and least experienced of the party, ems to have been the best trappe Though they were ten miles apart the four men saw each other fre quently. Bears Become Inguisitive. As December wore on, the bears, though less plentiful. became even | more inquisitive. The day before | Christmas, Knight paid a visit to | the trapping camp to bring the other | othe i . YW 3N WINTER COATS 1 Only that day Crawford and Maurer {had had a close call from a hungry invader. The boys' quarters at the trapping camp were composed of an eight-by | ten-foot tent, stretched inside a snow ! bovs back with him for the holiday. | GAS, GAS, GAS Chew a few Pleasant Tablets, Instant Stomach Relief! ching their tents and building crude framework over them to support | | house, and a small storm shed. The front door was the only outiet. They awoke to find it completely full of | polar bear. Knight writes of this| experiencs *This morning. while the fellows ere eating breakfast, Maurer, who as sitting nearest the door, rnised‘ the tent flap to look for something inside the storm shed. Lo and be- hold, what had his head in the out- side door but a great big bear! He was doing the sniffing stunt, and did not seem to pay any attention to Maurer. The rifles were all outside. Maurer called a retreat to the back of the tent, where he and Crawford held a consultation of war. “About this time the bear, seem- ingly, smelt something inside the storm shed that he thought he would like. He started to come in. but his | head: shoulders were too broad to go e moment you chew a few' through the door. The snow wall of | «: 2 5 e . : so was the bear. It was up to Craw- | S{OMac - ford and Maurer to keep the bear | digestion for a few cents. Pleas- out where he belonged. "ant! Harmless! 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