Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — TO AID ICE-BOUND MEN. [ARTICLE]

TO AID ICE-BOUND MEN.

Movement to Send tlie Cutter Bear to Point Barrow. There was a conference at the White House in AA’ashingtou Monday, attended by Secretaries Gage, Long and Alger, Commodore Melville and Commander Dickens of the navy nnd Capt. Shoemaker, commander of the revenue marine service, to consider measures for the relief of the American whaling fleet said to be icebound in Bering sea. It was decided to send the revenue cutter Bear to the relief of the whalers. She is now at Seattle, AA 7 ash., having just arrived from Alaska. Orders have been issued to put her in commission for the voyage at once, and Capt. Shoemaker says she will be ready to sail as soon as she ean be provisioned, which will take but a short time.