Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1926, Page 66

When the Schooner Teddy Was Crushed Many Miles Off the North- castern Coast of Greenland, the 21 Men of the Expedition Were at the Mercy. ‘of Shifting Ice—How They Anxiously Watched the Break-Up of the Floes as They Occupied a Block No Larger Than -2 City Lot. ¢4y Under commission of the ‘e/Danish government to estab- e=dish two fur stations on the = east coast of Greenland and to 1% explore that coast for possible * 7reolonization by West Green- sdanders, the ~schooner Teddy, wastes of the Arctic' Ocean. But soon after ‘reaching that body of water, disaster overtook it when the engine proved un- . equal to the test of battling the frozen mass. » . Last week Mr. Dahl, who ac- companied the expedition as a newspaper correspondent, de- scribed the vain effort of the - gallant ship to fight its way to open water after it bad been decided to_return to Denmark. Locked in the embrace of ice, the ship and .its crew drifted helplessly with the moving flelds. Finally after _being criahed by mevage presmite.of crusl savage pre: of the ice, which developed wide seams in the vessel's side and smashed the rudder, the mem- bers of the expedition were compelled to jump overboard and take refuge on an adjoin- ing floe. Further dangers In the il fated journey, are recounted by Mr. Dabl in the following ar- ticle and & llleeeodll.g one, and in his book, “The ‘Teddy’ Ex- pedition.” BY KAI R, DAHL. EDNESDAY, October tenth our third day on the floe, | ocean. was a red-letter day. We had staked eyerything on finishing our house that day and we did it. Ineide the house, “twenty-one new berths were built, covering all four walls. They were bulilt after the bookcase, or if you will, the fabbit-warren sys- tem, one over another by threes. Only one wall, that with both doors in it, had one row of shelves. The others each had two. ‘We were mighty proud of our new home, and when I looked in during the afternoon, I had the same feeling' that I used to have on Christmas Eve as a, child, when I peeped in to have a look at the tree. Our tinsmith, Svend Hansen; had made a pipe for the little stove which ‘was set up in the middle of the room. A long table, which was a flat board laid over some big provision barrels, and benches around it (more boards resting on our mail boxes)' filled most of the room, which got its light from thé portholes and the skylights in the old roof. .« That evening we had our first Iittle - party in our new house. The steward treated us to seal steak and many other ‘goed things, not to = forget schnapps and cigers,, ‘Next day, October 11, Chief Engi- neer 'Rostgaard and . his workmen ‘went about bullding hand sleds. We bad already arranged that as soon as the expedition should start our com- pany would divide into seven teams of three men each, of which each gave up a man a-day to drag the boat. ‘We should therefore need seven sleds for the teams, besides one for the little white motor yawl, the en- gine of which was taken out to lessen the weight. On Saturday, October 13, our eight sleds were as good as finished, and we made a little trial trip with the boat on the special sled that was bullt for it. 'The test was successful, but our ice floe was so0 level and the track so good that it did not giye us a trust- ‘worthy picture of conditions we might meet later. * ok % % T ‘was on the afternooh of October 15 that we noticed the first unmis- takable signs of our position. We felt: the océan swell. ‘The ice suddenly hegan to rise and fall, so gently at first that we paid little attention to it, but little by little the movement grew stronger. At regular intervals the floes drew about a yard or so, to sweep back and be sucked together with the sound of ' deadeped hammer strokes which thundered through the silence. I have never seen a stranger sight. There was nothing firm for the ice to rest on; ev heaved and sank up and down. Great flelds rose fathoms high, to drop back thun- dering into the trough of the waves. Not even the icebergs cauld hold their position. They lay dipping like ducks in the surf. The waves quieted dovwn after about an hour’s time. . When we came to examine our ice fleld, we discovered that one corner -of it had broken loose and that the squtherly part was cracked. No damage was done to. the side of the floe on which our house layqbut we 'bad seen enough of the feiz Eiil i ; g i gfl‘ £ 32 g ! | 3 8 g E ; Z g g i E ;E h i od i g %@i e § i T £ £ o £ . P i £ | s § 5 K2 i i i i Esse i geé ; g i3 £ g 4 [ 1 eieel] ikt 7 “A BIG FLOE RIGHT AHEAD OF US ROSE UP._ON EDGE AND THEN CAPSIZED. SHOULD WE FER THE masts of which were a couple of thin streaks on the southern sky. We |jeft came nearer and nearer to the mo- ment when we-must leave our house to get to the shore. & ‘When Capt. Bistrup got our po- sition the next day, he Fave the order to prepare for the start at once. SUF- SAME ’| eurrent, which 5 i et | &8 Although we had long since made |ing . | hui whic] the ges 80 that there fell many a hard word that morning in the snow- storm. Shortly after the start Capt. Bis- o hidden mole, an odd, fantastic sight. They would spring up under our feet when we least expected it and the fortunately had car- the land. As nearly drift since our ship was first beset, there must be approximately 276 land miles while we were on the |- ‘Teddy. lished in be’seen, the speed of ‘our drift on the ice was three times- as great as while on the l.hlp'. ] 1 Talt u:l#mtko! Ulgerdiesuak Sior- 'u open wal m o and the entire zoul.h of ‘was full of drift ice, which the in the looked eagerly for some trace of our house floe or the ship, but all in vain, * ok Rk 'HE stars came out early that ev: ning and a ringing frost came up during the night, so that the weather t. There was no prospect of what we mpst dreaded; h weather that would blow the ve orders to alckly as possible and begin o march. We all hoped that we could do the three or four miles in one but we were sadly disappointed though the .r‘nund was uneven and was very hard on the sleds. » tion trip, informed us that not more than 600 to' 800 yards to go and the last bit of it over smooth in- land water ice. This knowledge save. us the strength of ' ng the sleds over the along shore, on which the tenant first set foot. ‘When we were all on shore 1t ‘was | e who found the expression of our 5531.44 siiiggig st 5 : g # g [ 8 ,I e S ] ] i 5‘ E? e mate. difficult 1 E. B | ; mood by bringing out & rou ““Three cheers for Greenland!" and in. deed our love for this great, beauti- ful land was not diminished in spite of all it had offered us-hitherto. Then, as a general feeling of thanks for his splendid work, the captain suggested “Three cheers for the leutenant!” which was as heartily as .| was the other toast. (Copyright. 1926.) Microscopic Will. R the first time in history, clerks “ in the civil-court of N& Orleans, La., were forced to obtain a micro- scope before they could read the will left by Mrs. Marie Preau.. The docu- ment was written on both sides of a .| paper 2. inches in area. .The will dis. posed of a small amount of jewelry. Tea Must Pass Muster in Exhilaration In Order to Be Admitted by Government Ay 5 EA, like liquor, in this country law unto {tself, but for reason. and - cracking of the ice | bling below us warned us that at any mo- ment we might be sent aloft or to the bottom. precious provisions sleep! qver the edge of volcanoes might erupt at any moment! But luck was with us and we got over to our floe without loss. *xER and | vein. Once Mitchell goes into private con! i fams s o A tea nts, are 'with him on the United States Board of Tea Experts. In his office, Mr. Mitchell, not too tall, slender and light haired, immacu- dressed, looks as if he party. talks htly, though informatively, about Igl ‘,u-. quite in the tea-time office, It is an ini teresting the o | shelves piied high with tea samples, lives at all if we were our stores. I woke up between 6 and 7 o'clock that morning and about icel T was not interested sed myself sufficl flbt:‘ ke arouseéd m en poke m; head out. In the JMMM head after an- came o witer ahd-a. ouple of BUgS ioe 0] or a o between 'g:l‘: our fl:‘o‘ was , even through t sight of a couple Yy ‘we really eyes, drifted onto the land’ the cabinets bulging with tea litera- ture, which overflows untidily onto Mr, Mitchell's desk and covers it com- heard them talking | is leaves. From fMco Mr. Mitchell ad- e ot the land. 7 5 A number of glad voices shouted s the answer; then. I, oo, r.| measure due to a GEORGE F. MITCHELL, UNCLE SAM'S SUPERVISIN(;M‘,I'EA the fact that we are not a tea-drink- declared Mr. Mitchell. itor does not think much of American discrimination in) now, either. ‘“We get tograph by Bachrach. uary or February in New York, to set the standards for the following tea year. We set the minimum standard of purity for all teas entering the United States. How much above the says Mr.| standard it is we don't care, but it finally petitioned Congress to regu- s passed 5 v providing that the .a law of the Treasury should en- presents the whole trade of the country,” sald 'Mr. Mitchell. - “Before the meeting, other tea merchants who are mot on the bfll’fll.-.m vhg l:; interested, send l’ln sampl ‘whicl ey suggest as the Government standards. Teas differ so much that we have to have six stand- at|ards. They are all on the same parity, 2 Eg?fi} [HAT thiere {4 a definite shortags of quinine, and that this Is in great is proved beyond doubt by the report of the experts who were appointed as a - subcommittes by the muon of the m{u of Nations, saya the lhdi‘:l Pu-nma el Mu‘ their re s S its liberal use but represent different kinds of teas. of the most important duties of this office’is to standardize the tech- nique of the examiners. “Under the present law, there is a permanent board of tea appeals, com- posed of three members of the De- partment of Agriculture. This board calls in witnesses whenever there is m-xmd, and acts itself purely in a Jue capacity. And the best of it is,” declared Mr. Mitchell, “that the questioned tea. The witnesses are tea They are called in and asked tea, declared Mr. Mitchell. “In the first place,” he asked pertinently, “do you know what is a good cup of tea? ‘Well, a good cup of tea is one with the greatest amount of stimulant and aroma and the least amount of tannin, the harmful substance in tea. -So the best thing to do is to bring the water to a boil and boll it for several min- utes to expel the air. Pour it on the tea placed in a previously scalded earthenware pot, using an even tea- spoonful of tea for each cup. Never let it stand more than three minutes. Then decant or strain it into another pot and serve—anyway you please. “Nature fixed it for us so that tan- nin is not as soluble in boiling water as is caffene, and as is the aroma. By ;l::fl:":"g":l wlnter and not letting the nd too long, you can separat the good from the bad.” o Mr. Mitchell knows tea from the ground up, here in the United States, and in all the tea-growing countries of the East—Japan, China, Sumatra, Ceylon, India and Javad.. He started in on tea when poor health forced him to give up his studies at the Medical College of South Carolina. He went to work on the tea farm of Dr. Charles U. Sheppard, who was operating in co-operation with the - Department of Agriculture. During the Summer Mr. Mitchell grew tea, manufactured tea, studied the . pro- cess of curing, and experimented with the development of . labor-saving machinery for factory and field work. During’ g;.:. wmi‘"fiv&:’fix Mitchelt 10 -come up to ugton to m'}: the laboratory. In 1912, the Secretary of- ‘Treasury needed some one to.manage the tea law. So Mr. Mitchell was transferred to the Tregsury.. Tea did not move out ‘of. the 'l‘r&uur};‘lnto’ the Department of Agriculture mg with the rest of th food laws \mtfi 1920, 7 In 1917, the Government sent. Mr. Mitchell to all' the tea countries, su that he might be- better fitted for -his job. This trip was like a. climgx to his 14 years’ experience. He saw dur- ing that trip all the processes of growing and curing as practiced in the Oriental countries, and made a special study of the different teas as affected by manufacture. In the little room off his Bureau of Chemistry office, Mr. Mitchell is con- ducting an_experiment. of his own devising and for his own satistaction He is starting in to test the value of the different containers used for packages of tea. The shelves, extend- ing from floor to ceiling, are gradually being filled with all kinds of contain. ¢rs—tin, wood, round, square, friction- upm strip-cover topped, and num- ?:,r" . oln}elrt vmet,l;;:h There are each type. package is dated. 5'3 months after it was put up, the first package in each group is tested in comparison with the same tea in a check package. Six mdnths l:::r, the seco: urlld m;: will come down, S0 on, until each type of container has been' tested over a period of two years. Then Mr. Mitchell will compile his results, he will be able to tell ::s :h-x kind of a container tea keeps The United States imporetd 92,000,- 000 pounds of tea. lst. year, accordin, to Mr. Mitchell's "“sThat was experts. to state which of the two teas before | spqs- them is better. It what is the. took us 500 analyses best way to brew a cup of function is, at least. That organ is the spleen. The English physiologist Barcroft pointed out recently that its use' is & mystery to us even now. The ancient Greeks, he said, are said to have their Palice Signal- Bombs. PBOMB hurlers, “pill - boxes™ radio siginal system have mow be- come the commonplace of the police force in Memphis, Tenn. An fnner and outer protective belt have bgen formed in the city, and six miniature brick t, bomb and two tele- device, and a series of (aerial explosiong warns the men mo- toring over thelr territory. $ ] ¢ ’