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TIIE -SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTXANI, . F EBUXT ART 22, '1914. 11 STEFANSSQN SEES KARLUK SLIP AWAY Explorer Writes Own Story of Perils Undergone and Alaskan Experiences. BEST EQUIPMENT ON BOAT Despite Loss, Adventurer Will Con tinue Work, Hoping to Find Ilia Ship Next Summer Log of Daily Events Given. (Continued From First Page.) fore midnight, August 12, we tied up to some heavy ice about 15 miles off shore. The wind kept varying from southwest, through west to north light breezes and the Ice kept closing: In more tightly each day. By August 17 all the ice was tightly packed and cemented together by young ice strong enough to walk 'on. Karluk Unable to Stir. From that time the Karluk ' was never able to stir an inch, and open water was never closer to us than a mile away. When later easterly winds came, a fairway for ships opened along the land, and as late as the second week' of Setember a ship of any draught could have sailed freely either east or west between us and the land. Had we been a mile nearer land we should, on more than one occasion, have been freed by the breaking of the Ice into cakes, and should have had another chance to advance; had we been near shore we should apparently have had no trouble in that vicinity, whatever might have met us further east. As is was, we drifted helplessly. We had dynamite enough to break out half a mile of ice, but the open water never came near enough to make blasting eeem worth while. First, westerly winds drove us about 60 miles east; then easterly winds drove us a hundred miles west. About September 10 we seemed to get out of the main currents which flow parallel to the coast, and a sort of eddy took us into Harrison Bay. From being about 18 to 20 miles off shore in 20 fathoms, we were driven to only 12 or 14 miles off shore in 10 fathoms, and stopped. For a week we did not move, although at that time the wind blew from various Quarters, and we thought the ship was there to stay for the Winter. Preah Meat Is Problem. All our hopes for the year had now gone by the board; our plans were set back at least a year. Our lives were in no particular danger, for we had at Barrow provided ourselves with three SO-foot skin boats, each capable of carrying more men than a 30-foot wooden boat (whaleboat) can carry. The skin boats are adapted to hauling on sleds, bumping into ice, or being dragged over It from one water lane to another, for, although they are strong, the weight of all three of them together is less than that of one fragile whaleboat. While therefore we our selves were safe enough, nothing else of ours was safe. Our most serious immediate prob lem was to provide fresh meat. - The one contingency we had not provided against was being caught in the ice offshore west of Herschel. We had on board Beuchat, Jenness, McKinlay, Murray and, Wilklns, all of whom were to be transferred to our other ships at Herschel Island. Here were five ex tra men to feed and clothe, whose use fulness lay elsewhere than with us, though Murray and McKinlay could do something in oceanography and mag netism wherever they were. I should have made an attempt to get all these men ashore late in Au gust when we were- off Camden Bay, but the equipments of Murray, Mc Kinlay and Wilklns, without which they could do no useful scientific work, were too heavy to transport across ice that was sure to be in motion and ' loose near shore. It was accordingly only Beuchat and Jenness, with one Eskimo companion, I tried to send ashore August 29. Meat Need Now Vital. Just then, however, we got a spell ofJ a, lew days or warm weather, with light offshore winds. The young Ice became , bo decayed that between the old floes men and even dogs would break through and the offshore wind opened lanes here and there. The attempt to get to shore had, therefore, to be post poned for a day or two only, as we thouscht, as We. : expected the cold weather to lefln again. For the next few weeks, however, we had few hard frosts and the changing winds kept the Ice from cementing together inshore from us, except that Just where the Karluk lay, which was solid enough. It had been my plan to have Beuchat and Jenness proceed in one of our skin boats to Herschel Island, where pro visions would be plentiful, even if neither the Alaska nor the Mary Sacks could get there. , By the time the next chance to go ashore came it was already too late to make an attempt at boating sate and , not late enough for sledging along shore. - Also, we had drifted to the west 100 miles further from Herschel Island. As the only known certain way of preventing scurvy Is to get fresh meat, we had to set about trying to provide for our 24 white men and seven Eskimos. Leader Himself Falla. The only Eskimo who knew any thing about the country was the wife of the deer hunter, and even she had never been east of the Colville River. There seemed no way, therefore, but that I should go myself to try, to get meat and nsh. I alone had experience in hunting and knowledge of the coun try. In 1908 and 1909 I had shot cari bou here and there from Cape Halkett to riaxman island; 1 Knew all the fish ing places and trapping rendezvous of the local Eskimos few of which are easy to find for a stranger and I could possibly not only buy meat and fish from any people we might find, but probably secure the services of useful local hunters and seamstresses when any other member of our expedition raism iaii to ao bo, tor X Know every jjSKimo in tne country personally. Captain Bartlett volunteered to k-o. I took with me Jenness, McConnell and wiiKins to give them a little ex perience in sled travel, and the Point nope r:sKimos, Fauyurak and Asat shak. AVe took two sleds and 12 dogs, and expected to hunt caribou two weeks -inland from Beechey Point and make a trip 40 miles southwest to the flshina; place at which' we had our Winter base in 1908. The young ice between the islands and the mainland turned out to be too thin to make a crossing over seem safe. I decided, therefore, to send McConnell and Asatshak back to the Karluk to get certain things we wanted, but that . night the wind, which had for several days been a moderate northeast breeze, Increased to a gale, and broad strips of water began to appear offshore. It was not, under those conditions, advisable to send any one out on the ice. The gale continued three days, at the end of which there was left only a land- floe of perhaps a mile in width;out- side of this the ocean was as open as in summer, with here and there an ice cake or a strip of ice, but nothing to interfere with the progress of a steam er, or even a sailing, ship. The ice, which I had thought likely to stay all Winter, was gone, and with it the Kar luk probably, unless the ice in which she was imbedded may have broken so as to allow her to get under way. September 26 was thick now and then, with fog squalls and snow be tween periods of clear weather. We had piled up some driftwood to give me a lookout perhaps ten feet higher than the island, which is itself about 15 feet above sea level. I had been for half an hour scanning the horizon with my glasses when it became partly clear to the northwest through the passing of a snow-squall, and I saw a huge cake of ice nearly on the horizon that appeared aa if a man were standing on top of it I had been watching this several min utes when the manlike object suddenly became two, and simultaneously these started moving with reference to the ice, as if two men were walking west ward across the top of the ice cake. A few momenta more and the objects reached the edge of the ice cake and passed beyond It. appearing from an eclipse as the two masts of a ship. At the time, at least, I had no doubt of what it was I saw, although another snow-squall was closing in and begin ning to dim the outline of distant ob jects. While I saw but one tall, black thing that appeared stationary, the ship must have been headed straight toward me or straight away, with hull below the horizon, and with all but the top of the masts behind the giant ice cake; when the objects I saw be came two the ship had changed her course. Vessel Vanishes In Squall. I hurried the quarter mile to camp to get help in making a signal fire. When I returned to the lookout the fog had closed in again. Later the weather became fairly clear, but. al though I saw in an hour after on the horizon to the northeast what looked like an eastbound ship under full sail, there was nothing certain about it. At the last I began to doubt I had ever seen a ship at all, doubting it chiefly because it seemed too goed to be true that the Karluk should get free in the Winter after remaining frozen fast for more than half the Summer. Although I had fully expected to find the Karluk after two weeks where I left her, I had provided against what really happened. Insofar that I. had given Captain 3artlett Instructions as to what to do if the Karluk drifted off. Part of these instructions were based on our experience during the six weeks we had already been in the ice. No matter what the wind, the Karluk had moved either eastward or westward about parallel to the coast, except in the HarriBOn Bay "eddy." If the Kar luk should drift off. Bartlett was, ac cordingly, as soon as opportunity of fered, to send a sled ashore to build a beacon with information for us. We were to travel along the coast on the lookout for these, and thus get news of the Karluk that would likely enable us to rejoin her. I believed that by this time Harrison Bay would be frozen over solidly, and, although I thought I had seen a ship going east (as the Karluk would have done had she the chance) I decided to go west to Barrow before heading east to Her schel. If the Karluk had gone west we were likely to learn it from the watchful Eskimos between Cape Hal kett and Barrow. If she had not, we would at least get some news of the Alaska and Mary Sachs. We had known nothing of them since we left the Alaska behind at Port Clarence. July 27, and got separated from tfie Mary Sachs near Cape Prince of Wales In a storm on July 28. We would also be able to get a suitable traveling outfit from C. D. Brower's whaling station at Barrow. ' Old Equipment Taken. One might think that upon leaving a well-equipped exploring ship like the Karluk we would have been properly outfitted for sled travel, but this was not so. We looked upon our shore going as a two weeks' excursion only. On 'the ship were 14 excellent new sleds and one old one. I took the old sled with the idea that it was good enough for a mere caribou hunt. We had many dogs, tried and found excel lent. I took untried dogs, to see if they were good. We had the best Instru ments that money could buy. I took only the fewest possible and cheap ones, with the Idea that if they got broken there would be no great harm done. We brought no proper Winter clothes, even though we had an abundance on the ship. Our whole out fit had been similarly selected.. We could get along with what we had, hut not with any comfort. on reaching cape Simpson we learned from an Eskimo family there i that a ship had been seen offshore in the ice; the next day.'upon our arrival at Barrow, we got fuller details. Mr. Brower told us that on Sunday, Octo ber 5. a ship had been seen all day in the ice about 12 miles offshore. An at tempt had been made by some Eskimos to get out to her, but, although she had been stationary for a day, she was started off again by a rising northeast wind about the time the boarding party was organised, and soon disappeared to the northwest. We shall, of course, try to make the present Winter as useful as possible. Next 'Wednesday Is Red Letter Day 10 Gold Bond Trading Stamps Free We Are Portland Agents for American Lady, Lyra, Nemo and Gossard Corsets, Butterick Patterns and so we shall attempt the mapping f the Mackenzie Delta. The delta of the Mackenzie is one of the largest in the world. It is unmapped and. prac tically speaking, unknown. The steam ers of the Hudson' Bay Company have navigated the river to within 200 miles f its mouth now for several decades. but none except small boats have ever descended through any of the many delta channels to tidewater. The Mackenzie is the largest river of Can OREGON PIONEER PASSES PORTLAND. 2 IN The Late Mrs. Nancy A. Roberts. The funeral of Mrs. Nancy A. RoDerts, an Oregon pioneer who died last Monday at her home, 1082 East Alder street, was held Thursday. There were services at Sunnyside Methodist Church. The body was buried in Ores ham Cemetery after a brief service in Gresham Baptist Church. Mrs. RoBerts was born in Meigs County, Tennessee, July 8, 1838. She was married to J. W. Roork, when she was 15 years old. On April 10, 1884, Roork died. In 1887 Mrs. Roork married John Roberts. Mrs. Roberts was a member of the Oregon Pioneer Association. The six surviving children are P. 11. Roork, Mrs. Carrie Powell and Mrs. Annie Hale, who live in Gresham; Mrs. Ada Burton, of Sacramento, Cal. ; J. L. ' Roork, of Oakland. Cal., and Mrs. Pearl Hawes, of Port land. 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Your choice OiC $1.50-$1.75 Corsets $1.29 Special sale tomorrow of Women's Corsets, good quality coutil, medium bust,' long hip, 6 hose sup porters attached, excellent values t3"1 f g pr-jrn5! at $1.50 and $1.75; priced at, each Captain Peter Beneard aa sailing- mas ter. The Karluk and Mary Sachs sailed from Port Clarence July 27, leaving the Alaska in the harbor because ot the necessity for certain repairs to her engines. We have not since then com municated with the Alaska, and I do not know when she sailed. The three ships were to meet at Herschel Island, or If the Karluk got there first she was to land certain supplies for the other ada and its valley has natural re- i ships, and then proceed northward sources wmcn are Douna to do aevel- witnout waiting: for their arrival. opea graauany, unless tney snouia oe developed suddenly, as was the case with the Yukon, on account of the dis covery of precious metals. But whether the development comes sooa or late, it will eventually become a matter of th greatest commercial importance to know whether there are any ship chan nels that will enable an ocean-going vessel of say seven-foot draught to ascend the river to Great Slave Lake. We already know from the experi ence of the Hudson Bay steamer Wrlg- ley that a ship drawing? six and one- half feet can navigate without diffi culty over 1S00 miles of the lower Mackenzie. Rifle Supply Food. The main purpose of our expedition was to be the exploration of the re gion lying- west of Banks and Prince Patrick Islands. A glance at the map will show that from the Winter quar ters of our two schooners we are in a position to explore a certain part of this area by sled over the ice in Win ter. No ship has ever been over 60 miles off shore, so far as I know. In the vi cinity of longitude 145. We expect, accordingly, to make a sled Journey north from Barter Island in February or March, going as far north as possi ble. Even should we meet rough ice we ought to be able to penetrate to a point at least 100 miles from shore, or 60 miles into the region at present unexplored. Should we meet compara tively smooth ice, we could, with good luck, make 200 or 300 miles. Even should no land be discovered, such a journey would be of geographic lm portance, for we should take sound ings to determine the edge of the con tinental shelf and the character of the ocean bottom. linder certain circumstances, I may decide to go by sled this Winter to Banks Island or Prince Patrick Island, leaving the vessels to attempt follow ing in the Summer. Such a journey would be made for the purpose of the geological and archeological study of these islands in the Summer while the snow Is away, as well as to complete the mapping of Prince Patrick Island If this journey is undertaken we shall depend entirely upon our rifles for our food, for it Is manifestly Impos sible to-carry pemmic&n or other pro visions such a distance. We are, of course, assuming that the Karluk will survive the Winter and be able to proceed to Prince Pat rick Island next Summer. If this should not be the case the Mary Sachs will take upon herself the work of the Kar luk. If, further, the Mary Sachs should arrive at Herschel Island ahead of the Karluk, and while the coming of the Karluk is still doubtful, she would precede the Karluk to Prince Patrick Island. The Alaska will, of course, try to carry out next Summer the plans with which she sailed this year, that is, she will proceed to the vicinity of Coronation Gulf to establish there base for the work of the following year. The following is part of a letter ent by Mr. stefansaon to Dr. J. soot Keltle, lecre- tary of the Royal Geographical Society, Lon don. England: BARROW, Alaska, Oct. 29, 1913. Dear Mr. Keltie: Soon after leaving Port Clarence the last week of July I wrote out for you a rather full sum mary of the plans of our expedition as it stood then. This summary is on the Karluk and therefore unavailable. will try, however, to go over the same ground mora briefly. When we left Port Clarence the ex pedition had three ships, the Karluk, Alaska and Mary Sachs. The Karluk was under my command, with Captain R. A. Bartlett as sailing master. Dr. Anderson had the Alaska, with Captain Otto W. Nahmens. Kenneth G. Chipman was in charge of the Mary Sachs, with Staff of Vessels Told. The main work of the party aboard the Karluk was to be the exploration or the region lying west of the Parry Islands, and especially that portion ly ing west and northwest from Prince Patrick Island. The Alaska was to proceed east from Herschel Island to a Winter station op tne south shore of Dolphin and Union Straits, in the neighborhood of Lam bert Island. The Mary Sachs was to proceed' to the - foot of Prince Albert Sound to land there certain supplies to form a base for the geological and geo graphical exploration on Victoria Is land In the Spring of 1914. After ac complishing this, she was to devote the rest of the season to oceanographic work south and west of Banks Island. The Alaska is similar to the Mary Sachs In size and equipment. Her crew is the same as that of the Mary Sachs. Her scientific staff was to consist of Dr. R. M. Anderson, commander of the party, who also holds the place or mammalogist and ornithologist. The rest of the scientific staff were to be Kenneth G. Chipman, topographer; J. R. Cox, assistant topographer; J. J. O Neill, geologist; Henry Beuchat and Diamond Jenness, anthropologists; Frits Johan sen, marine zoologist; William L. Mc Kinlay, magneticlan, and George H. Wilklns, photographer. Chioman. Cox. U IN el u, Beuchat and Jenness were de EARLY SETTLER OF" MINNE SOTA DIES HERE. , , , - it . j ..K - J T i t ' ' - - r - S - r&v .J' .: vitr,:.-.. L v . I Lmon Raymond. Luzon Raymond, an early set tler of Minnesota, died at . his home, 114S Belmont street, last Sunday. The funeral services were held at the residence last Tuesday. The interment was - in Mount Scott Cemetery. " Mr. Raymond was born" in Oneida County, New Vork. One of the oldest of a family, he was forced at an early age to care for himself. . In 1850 he married Olive S. Babcock. ' Dissatisfied with their opportunities, they moved to Winona County, Minne sota, where they located on a homestead. Ten years later they sold their farm and came to Port land. . A widow, a sister, Mrs. Cyrus Earsley, of TJtica, Minn, and five children Burvlve. The children are Mrs. A. J. Meacham, of St. Paul, Minn.; Mrs. T. J. Hammer, Mrs. John Clyde, M. A. Raymond and E. R. Raymond, aU of Portland. tailed to the expedition by the Geologi cal Survey of Canada, and are all men of considerable experience; Johansen was zoologist with the Mylius Erichsen East Greenland expedition; Dr. Ander-, son had had four years experience with me on. our last expedition. It is, of course, not possible to fore tell what will happen this Winter to the Karluk. but we can get some light as to the probabilities from the ex perience of other vessels similarly placed. In August, 1888. the bark Young Phoenix was abandoned in the ice off Point Barrow. Before the freeze-up that Fall she was sighted off Collinson Point, but at that time no one went aboard of her. She was next sighted the following Spring in the ice off the Sea Horse Islands. The Eskimos went aboard of her several times, and she floated slowly up the coast, about seven miles off shore, and when she came opposite Cape Smyths she was boarded by C. D. Brower and George B. Leavltt. She was then apparently un injured, or only slightly so, although there was a good deal of water in her hold. After this she was not sighted again. PliSht of Vessels Told. In August, 1898, the steam auxiliary bark Navarch was abandoned about 20 miles off shore from Point Barrow. She was sighted again late in Septem ber about 20 miles off Cape SimpBon. She. was boarded then by Thomas Gor don, and in October, while she was still lying in the same vicinity, C. D. Brower, from Cape Smythe, went aboard again with 22 dog sleds and removed from her practically everything of value ex cept her coal. The following December the Navarch was sighted again, this time coming in from the west with the ice about 12. miles south of Cape Smythe. The ice brought her to within two miles from shore, and then carried her up parallel to the coast until she stopped about three miles from shore three or four miles north of Cape Smythe. After remaining here for some time, she was finally crushed by having her entire bottom taken out and left behind, while the main body of the vessel and some of the cargo were pushed several hundred feet nearer shore. An attempt was now made to land the coal, but some half-mutinous sailors, who did not . relish the hard work, set fire to the vessel and burned her up. It seems likely, then, judging from the experiences of other vessels sim ilarly placed, that the Karluk will be comparatively safe from ice pressure as long as she remains a considerable distance off shore, and will be likely to be crushed if she comes in on the coast southwest of Point Barrow, for this stretch Is exposed to strong gales from the cpen sea and consequent pressure. The coast east of Point Bar row also suffers ice pressure, but to a lar less degree. If the vessel should be crushed in Winter there will, of course, be little trouble about the men getting ashore saieiy, but whether other things can be saved depends upon the distance from shorn and the roughness of the ice. If the Karluk should be crushed the coming Summer the danger to life will be somewhat increased, although it cannot be considered serious, for the Karluk Is equipped with three skin boats, any one of which could carry the entire ship's company (six sci entists, fourteen crew and five Es kimos.) - Eaoh of these boats weighs less than 600 pounds and Is far strong er than a whale boat or other ordi nary wooden boat of similar size. In the event of a retreat, toward shore the party would therefore not be confront ed with the serious transportation dif ficulties which the Jeannette expedi tion had -to face consequent upon the heavy weight and fragile character -of their boats. N. STBFANSSON. Seventeen Teams on Highway Job. KELSO, Wash., Feb. 21. (Special.) Seventeen mule teams have been put to work by the Ambrose-Burdsal Company on Its contract on the Pacifio Highway south of here. A barn 80x80 has been built for the stock. Grading will be pushed as rapidly as possible whenever good weather will allow. The Ambrose-Burdsal Company has been awarded a contract to build a 220-foot steel bridge across the Chehalis River at Chehalis for S 13,387.85. IS CARL R. GRAV STILL ON THE JOB, SATS LOUIS W. BILL. Great Courthouse grounds and plant choice roses and creepers. The club will meet every week and talk over the matter of improving the city. Northern Board Chairman An nounces President Is Not Retiring-, so Far as He Knows. SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 21. (Spe cial.) Carl R. Gray will not leave the Great Northern. He has not been aBked to resign nor has he voluntarily ten dered his resignation to assume the presidency of the Boston & Maine or any of the railroad, corporation or busi ness. On the other hand, Mr. Gray Is more firmly entrenched in the affairs of the Great Northern than before and he has the personal support and backing of James J. Hill, the empire builder and wizard of the Great Northern, and Louis W. Hill, chairman of the board of directors. This is the Information which Louis W. Hill, of St. Paul, brought to Spo kane last night. Mr. Hill, accompanied by Mrs. Hill and the children, passed through the city at 8 o'clock in their private ear en route to Pasadena, where they will pass a month. "These reports are all wrong," said Mr. Hill in discussing the Gray ru mors. "So far as I know, Mr. Gray is not leaving the Great Northern. If I have my way, he will never leave it. "Mr. Gray stands high In the esti mation of my father and I am sure no person regards him more highly than I do. Mr. Gray went away on a va cation and that gave rise to the rumor that he was going to leave the road. This is vacation time on our road. Most of the officials are on vacation now. You can be sure that if the report were true that I was to assume the presi dency of the Great Northern again I would not be going to Southern Call fornla. "Mr. Gray will not leave the road March 1, or any other time, so far as I have any knowledge now. It must be embarrassing - to Mr. Gray and I nope you will correct the report that he intends leaving the Great Northern TOLEDO CLUB TO IMPROVE Courthouse Grounds to Be Beautified aa First Move. TOLEDO, Or.. Feb. 21. (Special.) A mass meeting was. held on the even ing of February 17 to organize the Toledo Improvement Club, and the purpose of the club Is to beautify and clean up the city. Other Improvements ate also to be made. 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