Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1884 — Drunkenness and Laziness on the Jeannette. [ARTICLE]

Drunkenness and Laziness on the Jeannette.

In the Jeannette investigation at Washington, Fireman Bartlett testified that he had frequently seen Lleuts. Danenhower and Chlpp, Engineer Melville, and Dr. Ambler intoxicated on board the ship and during tho retreat. They drank a Russian drink called “quash.” He saw Melville drunk probably a half-dozen times. The survivors, ho said, were within six days’ journey of where Do Long and Melville were found, but remained inactive three months before organizing a relief expedition to search for the missing .ones. Ed Stokes, who killed Jim Fisk, will run the Rockaway Beach Hotel this season.