Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — TO AID ICE-BOUND MEN. [ARTICLE]

TO AID ICE-BOUND MEN.

Movement to Send the Cutter Bear <« Point Barrow. There was a conference at the White House in Washington Monday, attended by Secretaries Gage, Long and Alger, Commodore Melville and Commander Dickens of the navy and 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, Wash., 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 can be provisioned, which will take but a short time.