Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1926, Page 62

b S el S . deck, packed in bags, sacks and sheets, 7 the decl R'S N 3 BT R of e o in her moc't" ke Nm inge x‘\l 8t 1¢ 1 5 t) i nm'n“: 5 nation. 2 r?fun 9 ‘ore; t gl S Bk T g . objective. but ‘were 10 seemingly we doo} to l;fl. ‘won glory Wr 'fi ure. or he tramic tafe of'the Hanes, more Hess e o Bl o, or men. the Ted: shtadfing We hacked into the masses of fice ich plled up over our supplies with axes, spades and shovels. We had to shift blocks weighing tons before we came to the cache which had been crushed into formless lumps. It was a sorry sight. Here were a couple of men streétched out on the ice trying to scrape loose flour together with their bare fists. Others were di5ging out rye biscuits with jron hooks, still others were hauling tim- ber, most.of it fortunately unbroken, out' from under'the ice bldcks. ~ ~ To get at the rest of the supplies we e |'had to pull off the sails with which surrou; frftig" witn " the . 1, the ‘writer of the follow- accompanted th "u‘g'&mm"’ S5 Rewapaner o has recounted other in- BY KAI R. DAHL '] T was a mighty small bit of open | ‘water in which we lay on Sep- tember 5, and during the night the ice .gathered completely aroynd the ship before we had been able to find a better anchorage. There was ice, ice, ice, everywhere, the barometer was falling, and a stiff breeze blowing from north-northeast. Although the ice lay close around the ship's side, there was no sign of actual nipping as yet, but the situa- tion was sufficiently threatening for the captain to give or to unload supplies and provisions 0 the ice. I woke about 4 o'clock, aroused by unusual activity on deck, and tumbled out to see what was going on. Sailors and hunters were pulling and tugging at big flour barrels, cases of canned goods, bread, etc. ‘We were unloading the supplies for | | the stations on Scoresby Sound and Denmark Harbor—-in all, supplies for eight men for two years. And we were also getting off the coal that lay we had covered ' them. . This could only be done py tearing off small ple;:u 4t a tim@ before. we could dig under. About 8 ¢'clocki Wé had palled out everything that. was ‘still .in . condi- tion to use, We had lost a full half of the supplies for three stations, 50 bags of coal, and the greater part of our personal freight pagkages. What was left was now in a cache on the big fleld and was supplemented durihg the course of the day by 50 more bags of coal. . ey W But our tribulations were not yet over. ‘There was worse in store. Whep-the weather began to-clear up during the forenoon we gilcover-d to our mlarm that we lay“closé under the land. Tall, snow-covered hilitops glittered through the haze and soon the whole coastiine lay clear. We were lying under & big island surrounded by & broad inlet. KFarther to the south we saw a wild rugged rocky coast stretch. ing as far as ; could see. Could it be Liverpool , dreaded by all polaf navigators? * kR GAINST all expectations we had . drifted toward the land abreast of the hard northwest storm which we Had hoped would set us out into open, water. Now we understood the continupus pressure of the last days. But still we could not quite see why the ibe, which ordinarily is influenced by the lightest breeze, had gone its own way this time. The only answer was the ell known caprice of the heavy ice, and on deck, our scanty store of lumber, a kitchen stove and a few extra sails ‘which could be used for a tent. It began to snow early in the fore- noon, but the storm did not become really serious until about noon, when the ice began to crash against the ship’s side, For several hours we had " been watching the floes twisting and turning around us. They were not happy, and the tension among them increased as the wind stiffened. Soon they began to wedge them- selves into one another or to climb over each other's backs when the ressure from beyond was too strong. R’m big floes which for several days had been lying peacefully side by side would suddenly fly at each other in mad fury, tearing great blocks from each other’s flanks, which flew up into the air and settled down again on the . ‘arger pieces like small bergs. ile the ice was scraping against the ship’s side so that you could scarcely get a knife between them, it nad not yet threatened serious fim sure. But now it got to work in earnest. It was as if the pleces near- @st us did not really want to be about this\dirty work, but the pressure trom behind was irresistible. We could see -2 big floe in the second rank shoulder- ing itself forward to find room. x K ® % ND . then the advance guard charged with bands playing. The poor Teddy creaked and groaned and rattled and cracked until ws thought we were smashing to kindling wood. Bvery now and then thére would be a olse like a rifle shot down in the ld, That was.the heavy oak rein- | forcements, boards two feet in. thick- ness, which bent and readjusted them- selves in their -bearings under :the strain. as - The ice quieted down late that after. noon, although there was still. some pressu The storm kept at it, and was a mighty uncomfortable place to be. But, to tell the truth, we ‘were not very much more comfortable down in our berths, where the timbers ereaked and jed in the “bare cabins. All our belongihgs were up on ready to be thrown on the ice at a moment's warning. The next afternoon it looked as if the storm were about-to slacken. The wind had been worse than ever, and we sat and waited for the Teddy to go through her usual treatment. But, to our astonishment, it did not happen. The ice did not begin to move until between 12 and 1 o'clock. Then we experienced the worst pressure that we had endured thus far. Without any warning, the ship was suddenly .flung about and raised up forward, to be wrenched back a couple of lengths fmmediately afterward. It all came about so swiftly that we aft heard only a violent rasping and crashing as the ship shouldered her way through the ice. Then suddenly all was still. It was so dark that it was impossi- ‘ble for any one to get a clear view of what had really happened. Fortu- . matély, the Teddy did not seem to have suffered any serious damage and we could await the dawn calmly. About 4 o'clock it was finally light enough for us to judge the night's events. Our moorings to the ice fleld s had all been broken or torn loose, and our surroundings were as different as . possible. The ship had been flung so far astern that a couple of huge ice blocks, which the day before had been & good bit aft of our position, now lay - under our bow. ‘The Teddy seemed to have taken no serfous. harm, but where, oh, where was our supply depot? It was no- where to be seen, so that at first we believed the floe had drifted off. Then / 'we caught sight of & bread box just beyond a huge mass of twisted pack ice. When we went to investigate we found pleces of lumber sticking out here and there among the ice, one corner of a sail was visible, and coal "IE TE.DD-Y WAS FLUNG FOR. WARD VIOLENTLY THE WHOLE FORWARD PART OF ‘THE SHIP LAY UP ON A ICE FLOE, RAISED MORE 7 FEET INTO THE AIR.” . lay strewn about like. hectic black spots on the white surface. Then we understood what had ¢ happensd to our costly stores. < We * stood and stared at one another in be- " wildered shock. How long would our reserve mpfly last for 21 men? Until’ then we felt so rich and so securs that no matter what happened' to us ‘we would always have enough to eat. Should ol now have to endure hunger no one has yet explored the many currents in these seas, varying ac- cording: to the season and conditions of ice. It must, indeed, have bgen & rushing river that carried us along with it. In the past nine dayi we vere abreast of Hold-with-Hope, we had drifted nearly 100 miles, Four the next two or three days there was no notable disturbance, and we began to hope that the new ice was dlready strong enough to prevent any great movement in the heavy masses outside. .And there was an-| other bright spot on our horizon. ~The big ice fleld to which we were anchored turned toward the sun as it drifted, so that while at first we had been lying onh its westerly side we were new At the northwest point, where we were less open to opposin, pressure from the we thought, but we had reckoned without our host. = September 13 had a surprise in store for us which nearly cost us the Teddy and more besides. We had clear frosty weather that day and the crew was busy sawin, the deck house in two, as it was eas fer to transport it that way if nec- essary. Shortly after the noon hour the pressure began again, but we did not-pay much attention to it, for it did not seem at all bad. Suddenly the ice around us waé set in violent motion. As far as we could see it was an absolutely local disturbance with a radius hundred yards around us. ment or two a spot of clear er opened a ship's length or so from the Teddy as if the ice had been flung aside by a maelstrom. & This was a fittle too -much for the floes immediately around us, which had long been caught'as in a"trap with no leeway to move. They be- came wildly excited and flew around like mad. Every now-and then a large one would fly off at terrifie speed as if happy at theescape from: its comrades’ iron embrace. Our unfortunate ship.got it from all sides. Once it had . Then eamé a new slackening in the ice, a big floe got elbow room and came rushing at us like a wild animal. Before we knew how or what, the Teddy was flung forward violently. her bow out of it which insisted on for our good shij an to climb up on going forward, top of the floi * e % to after this the whole for- ip lay up on a | Th little ice floe, raised more than seven feet into the air. A length of the keel, two to three yards at least, hung out over the ice and the ship, which naturally could scarcely keep her bal- [} When the TII-Fated Danish Expedition Was ina Perilous'Situation—St doted to Shu- - pendous Pressure and Battered by Angry Floes—Destruc tion of Supply Depot—A Night of Terror—Torn Loose From Moorings in a Violent Storm—In a Badly Leaking Vessel, With the Ice Brigade Making a Charge. T §i R : : the rail, but with the least jerk ‘We slid oft ‘hopelessiy. g ‘We worked like mad, expecting the ship to cdpsize any moment. was ‘opeh water to atarhosrd, and if |'we had more list or a floe struck us particularly hard, ‘we were likely to turn turtle. . But' suddenly faith- ful old Teddy began to straighten | herself up, ‘Her cracking timbers trembled. ‘We held our breath to see what would come next. i And then, as it she had been .pre- destined to climb around on ice cor- nices as a daily occupation, she slid gently back from the floe where she had hung for at least 10 minutes, and janded in the water right-side up. T knew how much a bit of land or his own country can mean to a man, but T had never realized how oné can come to love.a ship. Ilearned it then' and there. It is an old saying that misfortunés never come singly. But that day, the 13th of September, Y“rovnd o us that one plece of good luck can bring another. While we were 8o absorbed in .our own affairs we had had no ht for our cache on the.ice fleld. ad drifted two or three hundred away from it and now we saw that the floe had developed a fissure right through our depdt. A couple of men hurried over the fca and we stood staring at them in excitement. But they called to us to sav that nothing was lost, alth several cases were balanced on ot the i A few pieces of board had fallen into the tub, that was all, As the ice closed up . compistely’ again, we did not succeed In getting over to the big fleld, but had to e up next to & le of small floes about 30 yards here and took rely after the tribulations of week. Looking back on tl followed, they seem like & p! Summer yachting tour, for, though in the grip. of the ice, we wers still arifting at a fairly ‘good speed. The sunlight from morning till northern lights at night to about 10 and 12 ‘degrees. We glided along to the'south on an aver- age of four to five miles a day. For & day or two we drifted to the south- east; thereby lessening the danger of being driven on shore, but_for th most part our direction was to the south. * ok ox brigh evening, frost. Rtloast 86| [JURING the next two or thres weeks there was virtually mno change in our immediate vicinity. Then one morning, when a piping storm blew up, the ice scattered sufi- clently for us to sail out into & big clearing leading to the east. . About ‘1 or 2 o'clock we began to feel the main force of the storm. It was next to impossible to hold the Teddy's bow up into the wind with thé efigine power we had at our disposal. The ship fell off continually, but, for- tunately, there was space enough ward the east in-the right direction. We dashed along at a rattling pace. - As the afternoon waned we began to that we were running a race with the darkness. If we could reach the open sea before evening, we would feel that we were safe, If we did not succeed, we would have to.ride out the |k rm amid these ice fields, which wers as hard as rocks, but wers ‘flung around by the storm as if they, were chips. That was all right as long it was light, but after dark—-! At & o'clock it was already dusk, so that it was difficult to gauge the ice ahead of us. At-5:30 o'clock sallin was a risk. The captain was ohh:os to stop and try to bring the vessel up against an icefleld. Theré was noth- ing else to do, and we were fortunate that we could do that. The bow snuggled up to the i¢e so. that the whole ship sang and whistled. So far so good. But we looked for- ward to the night, with fo 3 Our premoénitions were realf It was a night of terror—one about which few of us who experienced it like to talk. The storm increased around 7 o'clock. Thus far we had been fairly well able to. hold the Teddy's bow. against the icefield, but néw she began to fall off. ‘When the gusts hit her the whole ship trembled and was flung astérn. at was more than any mooring could endure.’ The ice anchors slid out from their hold or else tore whole pleces off the icefleld, #o that the ves. 8¢l was soon adrift. Under the lee of the ice the water was smooth, but out t | lightened a little, we had at to- | 80 to the depot on the ice. And now'it was up to us to jump over onto the ice and make fast. The anchors hung ready from the bow- :&m and finally all was made clear, hough. several times that evening the ship was flung astern by the force of the storm. E THE night was hard on all of us, but worst for the sailors. They stood at the helm with no chance to ssek shelter. Their «clothes stiffened to boards, and their faces froze like coats of mail between. the of their caps and collars, The storm neared its height shortly past midnight, and the boat was flung around like a feather. Toward morn: ing the wind flattened out a little, but the situation was still unchanged. The ice drove to the south at.a mad pace. We had no longer the slight- est chance of being able to sall fur- ther. The ice lay closely packed to the east and in toward the land there was no water to be seen, so that we had to stay where we were. Some of us -‘t together after sup- per discyssing the situation.. There was much to comfort us; we still had our ship, and' we were far enough away from the land to expect less vio- lent pressure. The ice around the ship had been ‘uneasy at first, .but we hoped that it would soon quiet down. Suddenly a shudder shook the ship | throughout her length. “The ice again! We lay with the stérn between two | heavy hummocks which were putting ‘sach other to the . They took hot the slightest notice of the fact that the Teddy was in the way, but tiy Lo I, ¥ " The pressure grew stronger, and there were several minutes when it looked as it the ship -would be crushed, All hands sét about savinj the supplies, the timber, and what- ever else had on board, and get- mg it out onto the ice. y midnight, when the .pressure east two- ah.xrdn of our supplies out.on the ice 1d. The Teddy leaked a deal more than before, but she did not seem to have taken worse harm. As we had so much of our stores out on the ice, the hunters-offered to keep watch over it. They asked that one of the navigators should be with them in case the ship and the floe should be driven apart, but we had not settled that question by 1 o'clock. Then the ice took a hand in it, un: asked, and the hunters'” wish was granted. . As suddenly as before, the pres- sure began and in the twinkling of an eye our heavy oak rudder was smashed as easily as If it had been a bit of kindling wood. The old Jeak aft sprang open again and a few other places, not discovered betors, lot the water in in streams. it was impossible to investigate the extent of the damage at that mo- ment, the captain gave orders that ~ve should leave the ship at on nd ‘We put out the lamps in our cabins and sprang overboard. g 1 have seldom experienced a worse confusion than when 11 men went hurrying over the white ice and set about finding -a place to- sleep- In the bear and musk-ox skins that we ew' lay there. .. But. unfortunatel we had quite forgotten to reckon wit! the hunters, who had aiready settled down there an hour earlier. * % e w IT was so dark that it was impos- sible to see what we were step- ping on. If wé found s nice plece it generally seemed stuck fast to the ice, which was quite bellevable. because of the hunter who was hanging on for dear life to the bear's other end. At last we found a little coverlet of musk-ok, so that we could get' some rest. ‘It went down to 10 below that night, and it was not surprising if some of us were a bit cold, But it taught ‘us that one can be quite. com- fortable scanty means. - - J As the Teddy was unma: ible after the loss of her rudder, and also leu“l’:s badly, it was now. definitely dec that we should stay on the ice and set up a dwelling place there. ‘e had been expect{ng this sooner or later, so that there was no discussion about it. * And even when I searched my mem- ory, or my notebooks, I can find no evidence of there having been excite- ment on our part. In fact, most of us felt more comfortable on the ice than on the Teddy, which harlly had enough power of resistance to endu many more such -nights. does not mean that we had attention, » | 1926 ou&t!c’i‘mfig‘ as Vthe dark horse, she was Flying Physicians. USTRALIA may: be the first con try to institute a regular service of flying physicians and dentists, The National - Commission on Health is considering a scheme . by. .which the airplane mail lines might assist in bringing rapld medical aid to any one dangerously fll in the remote bush areas. The Australian Inland Mission of the League of Red Cross Bocjeties is seeking to install a sim- Ple. standardized type of wireless ap- m:tu: !l‘l;l may b;n‘workod effec- v by y non-tec] in the “black blocks.” o8l vomwat Physicians at present have to do mueh of their diagnosis and treat- ment by telegraph. Often the sick person has many miles to travel to reach a telegraph station from which he can solicit skilled advice, When he has related the symptoms and the rugs and simple surgical teppn-nnu are kept at the scattered Pair posts and police stations, having arrived at one of th sick man follows the ph: ders to.the best of his intelligence, Many perplexing cases need personai examination for' proper - treatment, and the inland n is mapping out districts in central Australia m‘g‘bown:« by physicians trans: of-200 mlm,r over -nu‘ with radit “THE CAPTAIN GAVE ORDERS THAT WE SHOULD LEAVE THE SHIP AT ONCE” Time Required for Circling the Globe Has Been Reduced by Successive Tours. BY ALICE ROGERS HAGER, HILEAS FOGG' had done it! ‘With everything luln:l him in the ‘way ‘of wind and weather; with trains that re- fused to go and boats missed: With stopping 1o rescue a widow from the funeral pyre in India and her servant from marauding Sfoux in the United Btates; with having to burn the wooden superstructure of his final ship for fuel. and at the end winning when he th t he had lost, because of J he had m.:lnod in Fogg had won hig bet and the ‘globe iny-80 days! nd 1 gen- um novel in 1872, much ai; as a in ‘any‘onw's ubilty 1o tapubte any one's into. terms of; m’&m - M . said nothing anid Bided gu time. And u\:“ Iea: new. and startling story. had spent “Ten PA&; k;mg. Mad House” to see for her public how the insane were treated. She ‘had posed servant, and {n varfous other But hu‘o, ought nown some one would some day is record. Her editors thought she couldn’t do it, being feminine and ‘much baggage and an equal amount of “‘protection. Nellie wasn't any t0o .sure herself, but she was termined to try. Finally they let her g0, and she tells about her experiences in a forgotten Victorlan volume that g‘ almost ag exciting as the ‘Eighty Firat, she had a dress made by a t | New York tdlior on one day's notice that should serve as her only trav- nlm be—she had made up her mind .to. prove that a woman coul travel light as well as any man. And then. she put into her one bag such an amount of equipment as merits re it, please, with a traveling caps, three veils, a pair of slippers, a complete set of toflet: 8, an inkstand, Nellle Bly left New York the morn- ing of November 14, 1889, at 9. a.m, Her routs, not including y St P2 Ll o e, 55 e, request, 4 way ot London, Calatr, Brindist, Port Said,| Ismailia, Sues, Aden, Colombo, Penang, Singapore, Hongkong, Yoko- h‘fin. San Francisco and New York n. ‘With the exception of minor incon ‘veniences of - traveling, she had - no “‘adveritures,” except that missed gvo boats, and ldué ;w.lt in cowmnbo. long ‘Kong and Yokahama, each, five d?- for her connections. & n Hongkong, a grouchy steamship company's officer told ‘her she was al- ready beaten, as ‘another ) was on i evidently either-a fiction, or else dropped out of the race. . .. - v e she left Yokohsma on vessel. . Every one was % it began to be on: A ice. floe, even with | iy Snd decided she would try to beat | de- | bee: 80 | Green AMERICAN GLOBE RACER! THE TR transferring her. Her special | had n made up in 24 hours, which was & record in itself, and its time across the continent to Chicago was 69 hours. In oné place they did 250 miles in 260 minutes, and in another 13 miles in 11 minutes. At every station where they stopped, cheering crowds were waiting to see Nellie and give her fruit and flowers, and telegrams came to her continually, 1d | addressed simply to.''Nellle Bly, Nellle Bly's Train.” ‘here was one remarkable happen- ing that bears telling also.. Fogg's train, ih the Verne story, had gone over a bridge that fell as soon as it LINTON WELLS AN D 1P FROM PARIS TO THE 21,740 miles. Her average speed had been 28.71 miles per hour. She had lost 16 days, 17 hours, 30 minutes by delay. The date of her return was January 25, 1890. Nellie Bly later became Mrs. Nellie Seamans.. She died in 1922, Her title remained undisputed until August 27, 1908, when Henry Fred- erick, an American publisher, finished a trip he had begun on July 2 of the same year, making it in 54 days, 7 hours and 20 minutés. This was m‘n lor to the Russo-Japanese war, and r. Frederick came back, the first circumnavigator in search of a record tq go by the Trans-Siberian raflway, i with tales of the war prepara- did | tions in the two belligerent countries. His route started in New York as '{had Miss Bly’s but went by train and oft the minute she reached Je ', 88 officially her -trip ended m-'p:."’afi. fumw nstructed, and immediate- Y the in the battery and at Fort out She had made the trip in 72 retur days, 6 hours and 11 minutes, covering Mqamu civilization s very proud | order to ftsell tso\- its achiévements :{:- mm steam shovel ‘io' “the. .tool \mainsprings f :d‘v?n:fi”m‘m-::n th-ngmlo;w ers of centuries ago. unscient!! ; But an’ . scien! recently. the things wherein . old mmm'u:?lwfi ven thousands 2g0, and the st is a revelation. . Bricks ' furnish ' perhaps lhz mogt ago. s ' making . thass 3 d of ‘her | years, from Paris to Dalny in China, taking 18 days, instsad of by the train to - Mht’: .t:d the lo: ll. slow b}::tl?dc o tropical seas. His time um'rou “the n‘fi:w Sea was two days: two days more by reil across Jnm:: His oneé slip was in missing his at° Yokohama by ten hours, causin; days, and the nece: There is rather indefinite and un- 1l A humble thistle is #till the best tool with which to raise the nap of woolen' cloth, the n? being the ex- ternal ‘covering . ine ‘short fiberd| f ver, that the o) 3 {a regular ticket. EDWARD S. EVANS.:IN BERLIN.. THEY MADE GERMAN CAPITAL BY AIRPLANE. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. certain record of a race by -a French- man, Gaston Stiegler, supposed - to have gone around in 63 days, before the completion of the Trans-Siberian. Then came Andre Jaeger-Schmidt, a writer for the Paris Excelsior, who made the try for a 38-day tour, and actually got in, in 39 days, 19 hours, 42 minutes, 38 seconds. His itinerary was: Paris, Viadivbstok, Japan, Van. couver, Montreal, New" York, Cher- bourg, Paris; his distance, 19300 miles, with an average of 480 a day, or 20 miles an hour. His penses are given: $596 for railway other transportation, $600 in tips, in hotels, $160 for food and $50 Yor underiinen, as he stopped to have no | washing done. This was in 1911, The year prior to'the World War, John Henry Mears, Ametican, “stage * manager for John Drew, agreed to' make a try at a new record for th New York Evening Sun. - Starting’ few minutes before 1 o'¢lock on July 2, 1913, he made the circle in 36 days, 21 hours, 36 minutes, and coyered al. most 2,000 miles more than Jaeger- Sch!r}ldl. doing 21,066. His rate 587 nilles a day, or 24% miles an hous, and his expenées were -about 1?# Like, the Frenchman, he bought hi clean linen as he needed it, and h also. found that a gratuity was fre- quently a greater 'IMBI ucer than n 3 delayed by a wash-out on the Russiam rallway for 18 hours, but by using'&. the telegraph and by a certain amount of “‘palm: 2 ‘Was able to get~ another train through and make up g nine of his precious hours. Then, when 3" is ship lost itself in a dense fog just g:uld& of Victoria; British Columbia, ; e 1lie smoothly all in one direction. |’