TIIE -SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTXANI, . F EBUXT ART 22, '1914.
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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
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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. Mrs. Roberts also is sur
vived by 18 grandchildren and
six great-grandchildren.
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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.
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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.
The first step will be to beautify the
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