FAMOUS ARCTIC EXPLORER
NOW NEW YORK STEVEDORE
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Capt. Robert A. Bartlett, who saved
17 of the Karluk’s crew after the ship
had been crushed In the Arctic Ice,
and who has been nearer to the North
Pole than any other white man except
Robert E. Peary, Is working as a steve
dore at Pier No. 7. North river. New
York, where the freight boats of the
tmerlcan and Cuban Steamship line
load their cargoes.
He darted in there three weeks ago
and now is foreman of a gang of hard
listed, hulking men who toss sugar
barrels around as If they were butter
■ubs. He can toss them, too, and does
it because, he says, it Is the only
thing he knows how to do, except
force a vessel through ice floes, eat
blubber and drive Eskimo dogs
Capt. Bartlett Is not In hard luck
or anything like straightened circum-^
stances. He presents the odd phase,
of a man who has been out of touch
with the living day so long that he
is titled only for the roughest labor
at present. He came to Now Yerk to
take a Job because he could use that
to "come back into the world and
learn something of what other men
ire doing," as- he expresses It. He Is
now 40 years old, young of heart and
hopes, and his optimism Is as simple
and bland as that of a child. He. has
spent more than 20 years of his Ufa —
all of hl9 life from the time that he
first ran away to sea—aboard a seal
ing vessel, whaler or ship of explora
tion.
Most of his formative years have
been spent In the Arctic, and he de
clares It Is time now for him to he
learning something, because there Is
so little chance of making a livelihood
In the Arctic nowadays.
The Arctic has been like a home to
him and he has made many Journeys
Into the region of upper Greenland'
first going with Peary In 1897 and
1X98 aboard the Windward. He wen'
on another expedition to Hudson
straits and Hudson Bay In 1901, and
from that year to 1905 was captain of
a sealing ship off Newfoundland. In '
1906 Peary was preparing to go north
again, and he manned the Roosevelt j
after the manner of the stanch old
Fram Captain Bartlett superintended
her construction and as skipper piloted
the vessel up In 1900 through Kane
Basin, Kennedy cliaunel. Hu besot,
channel and tinally to Cape Sheridan
on the Arctic coast.
In the summer of 1906 Peary a ■
Capt. Bartlett started out over the
Polar Ice to reach the pole. They u
talned the famous "eighty-seven six."
the highest ever accomplished by any
explorer previous to the discovery of
the pole. Capt. Bartlett was In chan;,
ol' the supporting parties and was on
the Ice for 120 days. The tee broke u
and It was the desire to get back t
this country.
To a casual person Capt. Bartlett Is
a delightfully modest person, avoiding |
talking about himself or his exploits j
And when he Is not swinging boxes J
and barrels and crates he is poring j
over a book, the editorials of the news,
papers or a magazine. He is an omnl- ;
vorous reader, like ail explorers, and
says he loves to read Keats by the
hour.
BUCK IS PASSED TO
ALASKA DEMOCRATS
Washington. 1). C.. Nov . 28.—It hai j
bean brought to the attention of the
administration here more than once
that there are still six presidential po
sitions In Alaska filed by republican?
which belong to the democrats.
These are at Juneau, Cordova. Nome
Seward, Skagway and Valdez.
President Wilson has consistently
refused to interfere with these, but
owing to continued agitation for th<
replacing of republican* with demo
crats In AiaHku, a statemnt has been
made that these offices will be filled
with democrats whenever the demo,
(-rats can agree among them*elves ovei
the appointments.
It is a well known fact here that
there has been a fight made upon ev
ery candidate named for positions In
Alaska under the present administra
tion. Owing to the lack of harmony
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over nominees for public office ll has <
been difficult for the people here with '
the best Interest of the party at heart, '
to decide In favor of the names men- ^
tinned for fear of still further engen
dering factional feeling.—Valdez. Al
askan.
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WHITE WHALING WILL
BECOME BIG INDUSTRY
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That the beluga, or white whale,
will eventually figure prominently in
the profitable Industries of the Alas
kan coast Is the opinion of J. A. Mit
sui of Juneau, wno has engaged In
the business during, the past summer
at Cook lniet. An Interview relative
to the beluga industry given the Ju
neau Dispatch by Mr. Magll, follows:
"The beluga Is a white whale, be
ing pure white while in the water,
and is from six to twenty feet in
length. They run by tens of thousands
in the Cooks Inlet country, starting
about tho 16th of April and continu
ing until tho 1st of October in the
streams. After the 1st of October they
can be caught In the open water until
the first of January.
"The beluga furnishes a grade of
leather which Is highly prized among
the manufacturers of fine shoes, Tho
leather is of a fine grain, practically
waterproof, and very tough and Is
extensively used to make high grade
sportsmen’s boots.
"The principal demand for tho lea
ther comes from Eu.-ope. Scotland,
Holland and England taking the bulk
of it, although American tanners are
after all they canget. get. The hides
bring about ?3.50 per pound after tan
ning.
“An average tlsh will furnish a hide
which weighs about a hundred pounds,
100 pounds of dark edible red meat,
which Is pickled and sent to tho Jap
anese market, 400 pounds of bones and
offal for fertilizer, besides a barrel
and a half of a colorless and odorless
oil which is highly prized for lubrica
tion. The oil is used by the natives for
cooking purposes. Each fish brings
returns of about $100.
"The industry of fishing for beluga
has been carried on in Norway ror
hundred* of years and on the Atlan
tic coast for ninety years. This is tho
first time it has ever been tried on
the Pacific.
“Since I left Juneau 1 have estab
lished two fishing stations, built three]
buildings and made a start on the
fishing end of my project. On the At-;
lantic coast hauls netting many of;
these fish have been mado, and with]
the proper equipment I can duplicate
this where I am located. The fish are.
caughtwlth large drag seine* and I
have not tho proper equipment at
present. I am now on my tvay to Se
attle for new equipment and I expect
netx season will ho a biff ono for me.**
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In speaking of tho beluga tho In
ternational Encyclopedia says: "A
species of fish—tho great sturgeon. It
1m MometimoM 12 to 15 feet in length
and weights 1,200 pounds or in rare
cases even 2,000. The best Isinglass
Is made from Us swimming bladder.
Its flesh is sometimes eaten but Is oc
casionally unwholesome. It Is found l
in the Caspian sea and the Black sea, j
and the large rivers which flow Into j
them, It is also called the white
whale. It belongs to the family Del- j
phlnidae. It Inhabits the Davis straits!
and other portions of the northern seas,
and sometimes ascends rivers"
AT THE NEW EAGLE.
Old Lewis Hunter Ry# and the Fa
mous Atherton Bourbon whiekye, Dis
tilled epring 1904-1908, bought in bond
and reduced *o 90 per cent, by U. 8.
government by the bottls or gallon.
ALASKANS ME
TOO SLOW
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Beattie Post-Intelligencer: "The
Post-Intelligencer's editorial article
entitled *A Flyer in Foxes,’ mu9t have
proved somewhat of a revelation to the
reading public,” said an old Alaskan
“but nevertheless it represents but one
side of the story, the Canadian end
of it.
“It is not generally known, perhaps,
that most of the sliver gray foxes
referred to by United States Consul
Mays at Charlottetown are taken from
; the islands nnd mainland of Alaska.
I Originally they were stocked by the
I Russian government. During the last
thirty years, what with the use of
poison and other unlawful methods of
destruction for their pel'.s, this most
valuable fur animal has been reduced
to a vanishing point. Of late years the
Canadian breeder has appeared upon
the scene with money In hand, ana
for $200 each has bought up almost
every remaining animal and shipped
It out on an easily acquired depart
ment permit.
"So eager has been the pursuit at
this price by both native and white
men alike that the coming two years
will certainly witness the departure
to Prince Edward Island of the last
living silver fox from Alaska.
“The gaping outsider may enquire
with Indignation. 'Where are the of
ficers, the game wardens, the laws for
the preservation of fur, fish and feath
ers? The answer comes thundering
back. These are all a Joke, a roaring
farce and, outside of the boautifully
written annual reports of these offi
cials, but a dead letter. Thus the fool
residents of this northern territory
have dissipated their valuable patri
mony for a moss of pottage to enrich
their most enterprising neighbors of
Prince Edward Island. Pondering over
these things makes hot the blood of
the Alaska pioneer.”
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