Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1917 — Page 3

MACMILLIAN TRIP ARCTIC ROMANCE

American Explorer In Frozen North Makes Important Discoveries. DIDN’T KNOW ABOUTTHE WAR Party Wn Cut Off From* Civilized World for Four Year*— Rescue Ship Appeared When Food Ran Very Low. New York.—The return to civilization of Daniel B. MacMillan, American explorer, brings to a successful cLose one of the most remarkable stays in the-iceof the roof of the globe recorded In the annals of Arctic exploration. Unusual good and unusual bad luck marked the expedition’s history. No less than five ships were usejj to get the party into northern Greenland, and on the two unsuccessful and one successful attempts to bring MacMillan back home again, but not a single person involved lost his life, and there was no more serious casualty than the loss of frozen toes. This is a unique record for an Arctic expedition lasting four years. Although the enterprise cost about $250,000 and was one of the most, If not the most, costly ever known, scientists of the American Museum of Natural History here are frankly delighted today with the wealth of new information and the specimens of minerals and the fauna and flora of the frozen North which MacMillan brings back. * Worked All the Time. Most uninitiated persons think an Arctic expedition consists of periods of intense labor interspersed with long, aggravating waits in absolute idleness, while the weather prevents traveling far. But this is a mistake. MacMillan was working all the time. Even when forced to stay near his main base at Etah, he kept busy, very busy. That is why, says MacMillan, he found the last four years the shortest of his life. —Many times he went 36 to, 40 hours without sleep, pursuing his scientific studies. And he had cbnstderable-time-to devote to these studies, for actual_ exploring can only be done in three months out; of the twelve. , MacMillan is eager to return to this bleak but interesting region of the north pole and .will undoubtedly do so as soon as he can find sufficient financial backing. • !' Will Fly Over Ice. '> His'next trip will be something entirely novel in Arctic exploration, for he proposes to use an airplane to widen his radius of action. “I expect to do as much in a day with an airplane as I can do in 20 days with the dogs,” he explained. MacMillan was greatly pleased to learn of the progress in aviation which has taken place on account of the great war during his stay away from the world. He thinks airplane construction has now been carried to a point of perfection where he can rely on certain types of flyers as fully as he does on his “huskies" and his snowshoes. MacMillan lcft N.-S., aboard the Diana in July, 1913. The ship was wrecked off Barge Point, Labrador, but was finally pulled off and taken to St. John’s, where the supplies were transferred to the Erik. ' Three Rescue Attempts. In the second ship the party reached Etah, on the west Greenland coast, August 20. It was more than two years ago that the first relief expedition was sent out. Doctor Grenfell’s Labrador missionary schooner, the George B. Cluett, started In July, 1915, for Etah, but was unable to go through the heavy floes of ice encountered. Dr. Edmund O. Hovey of the American museum then fitted out the Denmark, but this ship failed also, and is believed to be still frozen in the ice off the Greenland coast. It was Capt. Robert Bartlett, companion of Peary on the trip when he reached the north pole, who finally succeeded where the others htel failed. He used the staunch sealing steamer Neptune, and by his feat he adds considerably to the reputation he made on his several voyages with Peary. Bartlett says the ice on this trip was the heaviest he had ever met. MacMillan was also one of Peary’s lieutenants on the polar trip. Many of the things MacMillan has accomplished in the far North will be appreciated only by the scientific world. But even the. layman can understand, his work in mapping a great stretch of the coast of Ellesmere Land, across Smith’s sound to the west of Greenland; discovering the second biggest glacier in the northern hemisphere; locating two new Islands and disproving the existence of two more, showing that Crocker Land, seen by Peary from the summit of an immense cliff, is only a mirage, and penetrating many miles over the frozen ocean beyond the point where Crocker {Land was supposed to begin. Reached Just in Tim*. When rescued by Bartlett at Etah, (MacMillan and the members of his party were living on dog biscuit and ’ducks’ eggs, but were in good health. jThey would probably have endured , severe hardships next winter, however, |lf they had not been reached in time. MacMillan crossed Smith’s sound I once every year he spent in the North, and every time came through without a mishap, a remarkable feat Ift itself.

He found rich mineral-bearing rocks and extensive coal fields. The exact nature of these discoveries la not yet entirely disclosed. A complete report will be given out by the American museum. The expenses of the trip were borne by the museum, the American Geographical society, the University of Illinois and various persons Interested in Arctic exploration. With his thousands of specimens so valuable to the scientific world, MacMillan brings back an insignificant tin box, which to one person In the world means more than a hundred nar-whale skeletons. MacMillan told the story of this little box as follows: "I gave this box to a little Eskimo girl, who will cry her eyes out over the loss of it. She insisted upon coming with us up-from Etah. Forty miles from there we had to chase her off the boat, and in her hurry she left this tin box. She can comfort herself with the other treasures priceless tp her. I gave her a little silver watch, a toothbrush, bits of gaudy cloth, a rattrap, some parafln which she used as chewing gum and a piece of soap. I first saw the child when I came north with Peary on the trip When he found the pole.” W. Elmer Ekblaw and all the members of the party gave high praise to Dr. Morton P. Porslld, a noted Danish scientist, head of the Danish government scientific station at Godhaven, Disco island, Greenland. Ekblaw was the first American scientist to spend any time vdth Doctor Porslid, although

OUR TWO LEADERS NOW WITH FRENCH

Intimate Sketches of Sibert and Pershing by One Who Knows Them. -"x—^ —- —■- — : — 1“ : THEIR RECORDS AS FIGHTERS Both Generals Careful Planners and Each Has an Enviable Record for Getting Big Results by Hard Fighting.

By EDWARD B. CLARK.

Washington. —In a recent news article cnbled from the field headquarters of the American expeditionary force 'in France, there was given a study of the temperament, characteristics, methods jand personal attributes of Mnj. Gens. John J. Pfcrslilng and William L. Sibert. Here is one thing that was said of the senior major general: “Pershing is of the qulck-on-tlie-trig-ger style. He is of the dashing type, nervous, always on the go, like a surcharged battery, stirring up everybody he comes in contact with, forcing them along at top speed.” Here Is what is said of the junior major general, who commands the division in the field: “Sibert is a deliberate, methodical, tireless worker, watching every detail, insistent that reports of his young officers be accurate, comprehensive, covering every angle—of the type that is persistent and sure . . . He is an engineer with a training for accuracy that figures down to thousandths of an inch.” —TITir

AN ORDERLY JOB

Miss Hannah Fatterson of Pittsburgh, well-known itiffraglst, Is -the efficiency expert of the woman's section of the council of national defense. When she came to Washington her coworkers were laboring under misfit conditions In an unsuitable building. Miss Patterson In two days had laid out a plan covering the entire work of the committee and quarters were found which exactly fitted the commitneeds. She la executive secretary pro tern for the organization now. She is a civic worker and a suffrage campaigner.

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students from several European countries have been sent to the station for Instruction. “Doctor Porsild is doing work In botany, geology, astronomy and zoology and In the study of Eskimo culture which will gain recognition from the whole scientific world,” said Ekblaw. “He and his wife have been at Godhaven since 1905; their daughter was bom there and has never been out of Greenland. He Initiated his work and the Danish government was so Impressed by Its value that they allow him 10,090 crowns (about $2,880) a year to carry It on. It extends throughout the Baffin Bay region and along the east coast of Greenland. ' “Doctor Porsild Is forty-five years old, but looks older. He has a beautiful home, an extensive library and a well-equipped laboratory. The numerous hot springs at Godhaven render the climate and vegetation similar to those some 600 miles to the south."

Denver Bends Pershing Smokes.

Denver, Colo. —Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of the American forces in France, will soon be puffing “Denver made” cigars. The biggest and best box of “smokes" secured in the Day” offerings will be sent to the general. The “Sacrifice Day” was conducted under the auspices of the local chapter of the Navy league, and nearly S6OO worth tobacco, cigars and cigarettes was obtained for the Sammies. Girls were stationed at every cigar stand in the city and boxes, barrels and other receptacles were rapidly filled by the patriotic smokers. The assortment is being prepared for shipment to France.

Now, in order to show 1 that there isr no thought on the part of the writer that he has appraised these men too lightly, he says this: “There are two big jobs with two big men to fill them. The dashing Pershing and the methodical Sibert make a team that will be hard to beat when their machine once starts.” American military officers from Pershing down to the last second lieutenant realize that this" is a war of method, a methodical war in other words, and that it is also largely an engineering war. The picture that one gets of Pershing from the cabled article is just such as one carries in his mind of Custer on the plains, his yellow hair streaming in the wind, a Colt revolver in his left hand, a dazzling saber in his right hand, charging hendlong, regardless of bullets, into the heart of a Sioux horde.

Tn a war arnjy men say that this djyse*dgjilHtanabtry does not win, and ncbodyknows ft better than Pershing. If the war department had believed that Pershing was “quick on the trigger” in the sense In which that expression usually Is employed, he would not have been sent to France. The campaign which John J. Pershing led against the enemy in the Lake Lanae district in the Philippines was a methodical campaign. It was conducted on strict military lines, and there was no “forcing them along at top speed.” It was this campaign which promoted Pershing from a captaincy to a brigadier generalship. He will not sacrifice American lives In France by a recklessness which is foreign to his nature, and absolutely foreign to modern methods of fighting. Now as for William L. Sibert, I have said what I have about Pershing from a study of his career and from a hundred or more expressions of opinion which, concerning him, have comtf to me from army men who know him well personally.

In the recently printed, and I think misleading, although unintentionally so, description of Sibert’s characteristics as a man and a soldier, he is described ns deliberate and methodical, giving close attention to the tiny things and in fact having a purely and mathematically methodical mind. Bluntly speaking, it makes Sibert ft student rather than a soldier. Now for the truth of this thing. When William L. Sibert was a junior officer of engineers serving In the Philippines he did both engineering and fighting work so well That it called forth the praise of the general commanding, Theodore Schwan. The record of it is in the war department today. General Schwaii said that this engineer insisted on having a place on the firing line at all times. -It was William L. Sibert who stood alongside of Reilly’s battery, the Reilly who afterwards was killed at Peking, at the front of a battlefield in the Philippines, and there stood like a rock" against the. furious close-range fire of the enemy. It was Sibert who under fire on this same battlefield, knelt beside the gallant Maj. Woddbridge Geary, who fell at the first fire and died within a few moments. The methodical Sibert is as quick on the trigger as any man ought to be. He is a fighter of the first rank. Ido not think that contradiction will coma from the war departrneht If I should put into words something which I long have suspected. It Is my belief that a certain military report, a fighting program report which in effect declared that there was no such thing as the impossible where a real military end Is to be gained, a report which It Is said was made by Sibert caused this find junior brigadier general to be Jumped over 1 the heads of eleven men to a major generalship and then sent tp France in command o 4 the first division.

CHRIS MATHEWSON MAKES GOOD AS TEAM MANAGER

Christy Mathewson has made good as a manager. He has accomplished the wonder of wonders in the role of chief skipper of .the Cincinnati Reds, and his success stands out as one of the notable features of the 1917 season. Those' who doubted Mathewson’s ability to make a go of it In Redvllle did pot harbor doubts because they thought he lacked ability, but because of the fact that the Reds have been chronic losers for so long that lifting them out of the ruck looked like an Impossibility without a wholesale shakeup In the team. But Matty has fooled ’em all. He lias developed the Reds from the gutter within a few short months, and has accomplished It without adding a great deal of new talent to the club. Matty has a few new players In Redvilie, but the majority of his players were on the Clncy payroll when he took the reins late last season. When Matty left the Giants to pilot the Reds there was an immediate evidence of new spirit In the playing of the team. He was made manager before Cincinnati invaded the East for the last time in 1916 and the funs in New York, Boston and Philadelphia marveled at the snap and ginger displayed by the erstwhile listless Ohioans. During the winter Matty made a few deals. The acquisition of Shortstop Kopf, Dave Shean and or two others, followed by the signing of Jim Thorpe, marked the extent of his operations in the player market. He said he had confidence in the Cincinnati club because it had showed Its willingness to play ball for him during the last few weeks of the 1918 race and he went quietly on his way, predicting nothing, but expressing hopes that Cincinnati had seen her last of the National league’s basement apartment. Fandonr wanted ter see Matty make good, but fandom was as full of doubts

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as the ocean is- of salt. No one thought for a moment that July 4th would see the Reds climb into fourth place in the pennant race. Seventh place was the very best that was predicted for Cincy. No wonder the bugs marveled. No wonder Cincinnati fans commenced to hold up their heads and take the liveliest Interest in the team that they have evinced for years. All the credit for the showing of the Reds must not be handed to Matty, however. He deserves the big share of it, and he is getting all that is coming to him. But the players must come in for a share of praise, too, for after being used as the National league’s doormat for so long a time they have made a comebuck thut shows admirable spirit. Matty may not irianage to finish in the first division this year. But Matty has pulled the Reds out of the ruck, and he has a ball club that can wallop the ball and put up a corking game in

The old sight-seeing bug has followed oar American boys abroad. When off duty they train it to the nearest big city and “do” it from Hotel de Ville to the last farm on the outskirts. j . The' photograph shows a group off American soldiers enjoying their leave in Paris. They have chosen the bridge of la Concorde as their vantage point and view passing Paris with great interest. They have already promenaded through t: e. superb panorama of the Siene, which runs through the city of Paris. ~ ,

Every man is a soldier in this war. He holds hi* yard of front. H* stands somewhere in the line between Civilization and the rape of the* Prussian Horror. That line does not run from the sea to the Jura ooly-j It is a web over every foot of tha American republic. It runs through} every office, every workshop, every field, every factory. Wherever a man] is standing, today, on allied territory, he is standing in a trench. He is( a soldier with the obligations of a soldier. We have divided into two divisions; the division that is to assemble all our fighting energy and the division that is to assemble all our industrial energy. We have got a mistaken notion. There has been no selective draft The men have merely been divided. And let us not deceive ourselveiM This division has not placed on one class of our men any obligation patriotic duty that does not also equally remain on the other class. Service everywhere must be under the same ideals. We cannot havei two codes of honor. We cannot hold the fighting division of our armyt to the rigid standards of a noble patriotism and let the industrial onal go loose. If one man among us gives his life with no thought of shall not another give his goods? Shall the man who gives to the service! of his country the most valuable thing he has, give it under a harder condition than the man who gives a thing that is less valuable? Shall one man ask no profits for his life and another exact it for his coal and oil, his cotton and potatoes, his iron and ships? Who has drawn a linej of demarcation between these two men, that one shall act upon ideal* fine and noble and the other go free from them? us stand to and look the situation in the face. Are those of us past thirty years thereby exempted from the obligations of an elevated! public service? Does a flat foot exempt us; or a defective eye; or a. protruding abdomen?

the field. The Cincy pitchers; particularly Fred Toney, are showing rival National league clubs a world of stuff, and it looks now as if fifth place will be the lowest berth the Reds will accept this year, while they stand bettep than an even chance to hold a lease on one of the first four places when the race comes to a close.

Teach me your mood, O, patient stars. Who climb each night the ancient sky, Leaving no space, no shade, no scars, No trace of age, no fear to die. —Emerson.

Dainty Frozen Dishes. For children or grown-ups there Is no dessert which appeals to the taste as does an Ice of any kind. Melba. Put a spoonful of vanilla ice cream on a plate, some crushed berries on one side and pineapple on the other, pour over a little maple sirup and top with whipped cream. Dublin Ice Cream. Decorate a mold of vanilla Ice cream with green candied cherries and thin slices of citron arranged in the form of shamrocks. Cover with the cherry sirup. Chocolate Temptation. Pour a chocolate sauce over a mold of chocolate Ice cream, 'sprinkle with chopped roasted almonds, cover with whipped cream and top with a blanched almond. Daisy Ice Cream. Slice half a banana over a mold of ice cream. Pour over it a tablespoonful of strawberry sirup, sprinkle with chopped nutmeats and serve topped with whipped cream. Coffee Ice Cream. Take three quarts of cream, one and a half poilhds of sugar, five ounces of coffee. Grind the coffee after heating well and add to a quart of the scalding cream, stir well, cover and let steep for ten minutes, stir again. Refrom the fire and let It stand In a warm place to settle. Heat the rest of the cream, add the sugar and the strained cream In which the coffee was steeped. Put all through a muslin, cool and freeze. Serve with

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whipped cream. A cupful of cold strong! coffee may be added to a quart of! cream with sugar to sweeten, making a very good flavored cream. 'Hutu* "yVL+i."tttL

HAVE A SMILE

HE KNEW.

The Preacher —I hope you don’t believe all you see in the newspapers? The Merchant —Indeed I don’t, rna an extensive advertiser myself.

Serious Matter.

“What Is your opinion of the warT* “I’ll tell you. I think It’s serious enough now for us to be taking It seriously.” .

Not to Whet Appetite.

She —They had everything you could think of at that “dry” luncheon. He —Did they have anything extra dry?

An Old Acquaintance.

“Do you know old man Rich very, well?” “I should say I do. I knew him when he only had a million.”

Comment.

“He inherited his thirst for liquor.” “Well, I hope his ancestors are proud of him.”

His Principles.

■Miss Brite —I like Mr. Burley’s talk; he has so much dry humor. Miss Dowerite —Oh, you know, be’* a prohibitionist.

Practice Them.

Knicker—What are the two ways at helping Uncle Sam? Bocker—Do and do without —New York Sun.

Doubly Day of Mourning.

A strange coincidence marked the recent air raid in London. It occurred on a Saturday during the time of the synagogue seryices, and there could not have been one Jewish house of worship where alarm was created, where the sinister significance of the day was not recalled. For it was the seventeenth day of the month of Tammuz, the anniversary of the destine- # tlon of the outer walls of Jerusalem by Titus. Legend also ascribes the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar to this day. to the breaking of v the Tables of the Law by Moses, an* ~ the erection of an idol In the sanctuary,lt is one of the days of mourning in the Jewish calendar, one of the four principal fast days of the year. Jews, however, are forbidden to fast on the Sabbath, and when the anniversary falls on that day Its observance Is put off to the next day.

Finding a Sleeping Place.

Robert wanted to stay all night at the place he and his mother were visiting. His mother tdld him there waa no room, he’d have to sleep on thn floor. "Hasn’t your bed got a middle?** be asked his hostess. t