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famouf Coas/^ (juard Cutter Indf> 40. Years fiatffe im, Arctic fee Sy JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN <>KTY years ago this sjiumer two l"nlted States nnval vessels, Bear and Thetis, were desperately buck ing the ice In Baffin's bay, a little north of the course of the Ameri can world flyers In making their flight from Ivlgtut, Greenland, to Indian Harbor. Labrador. They were headed north, bent on the rescue of Greely's Arctic expedi tion which had gone on up to (irinnell's Land in 1SS1 in the I'roteus. Sometimes the Ice was ?*?3 rtU'tiv by torpedoes. Again the staunch ves fcwere sent full speed Into an Ice floe. High n in rite "crow's nest" on each vessel stood a fco'it. anxiously searching for any sign of human ?fe U? deck was a sledge, with provisions and Butanes and dog team. A launch swung at the Writs. ' s ? / I Win;; fape Sabine, a dilapidated and bellying ?tnt i;4.s seen by the lookouts. The Bear sent a ?M. A tottering figure in ragged furs raised of red and white underwear and blue ?""in?. It Has Greely and the survivors of his ??Mitli,n? seven men out of twenty-flve ? in the stages of starvation and awniting death. The is too pitiable for description here. Men Pwitlie i^iir !lI1(] xhetis cared for the survivors, ?H t!w |?xlies of the dead aboartl and returned 1*'^ tnited Stutes in safety. The expedition Mwried the Stars and Stripes "farthest north" ?"W 'k'rees :tnd 23 minutes. But the rescue ex of isn-j ant| j 833 j,aj somehow failed ? I acoj now to inquire Into the responsibility. \ I. i ,,en- A. W. Greely and Brigadier General I, i ^' turn- the only two survivors, agree that 1 the lleur and Thetis arrived at Cape Sabine I 0I",!, ,ut,T ?nly corpses would have been found. |J!lls is f,lp Hear, the United States coast guard IT "1,1t has JU!*t made her last voyage. That I 'jiise was' her firgt under the American told been built at Greenock, Scotland, I e Arctic whaling trade. The Scotch, with I ' er I'-*''Uiiuri ties, have a passion for putting Kr so they will stay put. The Bear I as a bp.rkenr'ne, in addition to her luwer. She was 1.7*0 tons. And her own ? - H:t her 0f Australian gum and put her to f* W not ice. IJ1") lighting ice she has been ever since. Upon ? |.t #rei'lrn *''?? was transferred to the revenue cut now coast guard, and assigned to the coast of Alaska. Itu) i C?"st ?Uurd service Is as full of romance Isr > nlUre as of hardships. It was formed In ; I,'1 ,lie revenue cutter service (1790) and thf ? l&*J 8 serv'<*e It operates under the l^r Ury ^I-urtment .'a times of peace and on |v.n Xav departme.it In times of war. Its Wdi r ,s IJ,'ar Admiral William E. Key Kna , (""lll:in(lpr Frederick C. Blllard Is aid to \ h*". There an* 235 active stations on the l^tU !'n<' ' <OH8ts. the Gulf of Blexlco |t^ .^ f,r,,;|t Lakes. Thete are 33 cruising cut 1^ lns!?ore putro> cotters, 25 hurbor cutters l^t cm* "tlier cra't- There are about 400 ?ar llttty 0Iers' corny Msloned officers, > and '?..r>00 rs iin'1 en'tsred men. A const gtmrtl |?tif|i ;v is Maintained at New London, Conn., to I *p-? s,,oa 's by competitive examination, ?"?dt' 'here fa no end to the duties of the |Hnt >Ultr''- In addition to enforcement of the fc luw and the quarantine law and 8* w'"11 of se;;l and, other fisheries it Is as I'tH'i* a lM'i' scor c.olng a goo<l turn to all who l'ie -Wu*ers- I* extends medical aid, l^nuj Ses rrujtlnlt^. keeys order during regattas, M|i J'8*'8 'linger and buries bodies cast IVm,. a' 'st*a- Hera's summary of the 1922 opera I r"S0Ued PerH. 2,^4 I 8 '-a hoard vessels assisted, 14.&3L L? ' '\Y ? PWUp H. Scott, who ven* attached to the Bear for several years, ha* red hair. On one particular voyage freak haircuts were the style, for -tfie fun of It. ?n<l the captain joined In by having his hair trimnled to a scalp-lock, a la Sioux. The Bear came to a good fishing ground for "salmon and two of the officers made haste to rig out home-made fishing gear. But they could fiud no re?. which is a necessary' part of a salmon lure. You can guess the rest. The cap tain was scalped, so to speak, and many were the salmon landed. And the other officers berated him because he had but one scalp-lock to give to .his country. Officers and men of the Bear have had many an adventure with the wild animal life of the Arctic, but some of their most trying experiences have been with the mosquitoes. These hordes of winged monsters arc the curee of the Frozen North In sum mer. Once Captaiu Scott and three companions and his Airedale, Jock, went "*?orp to fish n stream. The mosquitoes routed them and Ihey tied In such haste that they got sep arated and lost. The cap tain and Jock fled for refuge to a high rock where a strong sea breeze afforded them comparative immunity but nearly froze ("? : ? . Persons In distress cured for, 702. \ essela boarded for examination of papers, 21, 580L ^ . , Vessels seized for law violation. 590. Fines incurred by vessels, $135,900. v Derelicts destroyed, 48. Instances of lives saved and vessel assisted, 2.224. Instances of miscellaneous assistance, 1,535. Value of vessels assisted. Including cargo, $35, 340,703. ' ( , (Net expenditure for maintenance, $9,422,251. Of all this fleet of vreuther-heaten cutters of the coast guard the Hear is the oldest and the most ' famous. Fifty round trips has she made Into the Arctic Ice. Last fall when she came down from her forty-ninth battle with the Ice, It was planned to take her out of the service. But Captain Coch ran contended that the gum whaler built In < Greenock was good enough for one more voyage, to round out her fifty. So Commander Blllard rent her off May 2 from the Golden Gate on her last voyage. The Bear's fiftieth voyage came mighty near being her last. It looked for a time as If the Ice had finally got her, after half ? century of buttling. Half a dozen times in June the Bear wus shut In by floes and the Fourth of July found her a thou sand miles north of Unaluska and barred from further progress In any direction. And so the radio toki bet* to get out when she; could and come home. But \vould she get home? That was the question. Her propellers were In danger of being stripped and even the Australian gum of her planks had been badly squeezed. Nevertheless, % the Bear limped home to Nome the other day, much the worse for her battle with the Ice. but with her flag flying and under her own power. Without the Bear the Alaskan coast from Sitka on the Pacific to Point Barrow on the Arctic will be much like "Hnmlet" with Hamlet out. Take a look at the map and note the length of the Alas kan coast.' Incidentally, do you realize that Alaska and the Aleutinu Islunds, If superimposed on the United States In true north-south position so us to cut the Canadian boundary line near the head of Lake Superior, would reach the Atluntic near the Georgia-South Carolina line, cross the Mexican line In New Mexico and touch the Pa cific in southern California? Well, along this great stretch of Alaskan coast for forty years the Bear has been guide, phil osopher nnd friend. Each spring she has gone forth "to aid all peoples, to ussist commerce, to open lines of communication" ? and to carry the mails to every settlement not reached by the Ber-: Ing sea patrol. Often the Bear has been the law of the Frozen North, carrying an officer empowered to act as United States commissioner. During these forty years nearly every veteran of the coast guard service has seen service on the Bear and many are the yarns they tell? from j the sublime to the ridiculous. , \ In .November of ,1897 President McKlnley was notified that eight whaling vessels were fast In the Ice near Point Barrow and that their Crews were near starvation. The Bear had just returned to winter quarters. But she headed north again wIth volunteers for officers and crew ? In com mand of Capl. Francis Tuttle. At Nelson Island she landed three officers: Lieut. D. II. Jarvis, Lieut. E. D. Bertholf and Dr. S. J. Call. These three officers traveled by dog sled 1.500 miles to Point Barrow, arriving with a herd of 400 rein deer There they remained until the following June when the Bear Jammed Its way In through i the Ice with stores. I That rescue approaches the sublime. Here is one that Is not far from the rid.eulou*. > Caot S?s^ X (?V |SeLx x^"-^r- '*1?, them to deuth when night catne on. The next morning the captain wus astounded to hear what sounded like a hand organ. Finally he cnme upon his three companions at the cabin of an Eskimo reindeer herder. The Eskimo wus playing a wheezy old accordion and the four were lustily singing Methodist missionary hymns In thanks giving that the night was over, since the but was so small that it could only shelter one nt a time. They had Just started In on "Where Is My Wan dering Boy Tonight?" "Here," said the captain, appearing from behind and Joining In with his bass. Some of these days we shall all be eating rein deer steak from Alaska. And when you ?Jr down to your first Juicy steak '"Remember the Rear!" For the reindeer industry In Alaska is largely the result of the Bear's activities. It Ik said that Capt. M. A. Healy made the first suggestion Way back In 1890. Lieut. E. P. Bertholf, who was at tached to the cutter, purchased a small herd In Siberia and the animals were brought across Ber ing strait. So the reindeer Industry In Alaska today is the result of the orlginul Importations of 1,280 ani mals from Slberlu by the bureau of education dur ing 11 years, beginning with 1S1>2. Those herds have increased to consider: bly more than 200.000 and probably 100,000 have been killed for meat and skins. R Is estimated tliut grazing areas in Alaska will support front 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 head. r '? One of the hardest Rattles with the Ice in the ' long service of the B< nr was In 1014, when the cutter made a dash fc the rescue of a Canadian Arctic expedition wlikfi bad been wrecked In the steamer Knrluck near Wrangel Island oil the Si berian const. There was stormy weather and thick fog and the Ice ?va3 mountainous. The Bear kept up a seemingly hopeless tight until obliged to run back to Nome for coal. She then started back to renew the fight, only to meet the members of the expedition on a light-draft schooner that bad succeeded in slipping through the ice and reach ing the island. Incidentally this Wrnngel Island may cause international complications. It was vis ited in 1881 by Hooper, who took possession In the name of the United States. Canada claims It through Stefanason. And now the Soviet govern ment of Russia asse.ts ownership and has sent out an armed expedition with orders to make all In habitants prisoners, seize all shipping and take possession. " Congress was asked at the last session to make an appropriation for a ne.v- cutter to replace the Bear In the servV-e of the Thirteenth district, which inchv'os 19 stations In California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. The bill, however, was one of the many yhlch was passed over In the hurry, confusion ui.d filibuster of .the last days or the session, t Doubtless there will be a coast guard crulsei sailing out of Nome next spring. - Doubtless a coast guard cruise* will as usual be sent through Bering strait "to aid all peoples, to assist com merce. to open lln^s of communication" and to de liver the mall to out of the way settlements a?t reached by the Bering sea patrol. But this const guard cruiser will not be the Bear. "Hertly's pMk oomlak" ? Healy's Fire Canoe has made her last voyage. The Ice couldn't crush her Scotch-built hull of Australian gum The ocean could not put her away In Davy J?>ne* locker. But old" nge has got the Bear at hist Father Time hci !ils way everywhere ? except wltl ??ie Big Tree* <xt the California national parka! '( DADDY'S EVENING HIRYTU1 SODAS AND SUNDAES "I'm the favorite of all," said the' chocolate ice cream soda. "Well, I'm pret ty popular," said the vanilla ice cream soda. "They like me, too," said the cof fee ice cream soda. < "Don't forget to mention me," said the strawberry Ice cream soda. "I'm nice and refreshing," said the orangeade. "No more so than I am," said the lemon phos phate. "Ah, but what several of the ice A Kind Friend. about us," said cream cones. "And you'd better mention us," said the sundaes. "You might speak of me," said the banana split \ * 1 V Some one was giving a big party that afternoon and the order had Just been given for many ice cream soda* and sundaes and Ice cream cones. The one who was giving the party had just given the order and the chil dren for whom the party was being given were expected to arrive in just another moment. They had been on a long hike and they were to end up with this party. "Well," said the chocolate Ice cream soda, "I have heard that once a little girl wrote a composition in school about her favorite friend. "She wrote about a kind friend who used to treat her to chocolate ice cream sodas almost every time she met this friend. "The teacher wrote upon the com position afterward: "?Do you like your friend better than the ice cream sodas, or do you like the Ice cream sodas better than your friend? From this composition It is hard to tell.' "Now that was a great compliment to our family ? te the whole, delicious family of chocolate ice cream sodas." "Maybe you are the most popular," said the vanilla ice cream soda. "Yet," the vanilla Ice cream soda continued, "If any one wants to have me I seem quite as delicious as you do." "And that Is just the way It la with roe," said the strawberry Ice cream soda. "I am pretty In color, too." "I think I'm nice to look at," said the orangeade. "Well, we're not so handsome but we're awfully good," said the Ice cream cones. "They're coming now," said the chocolate Ice cream soda. "I can hear their voices. "Oh, bow exdtlng this Is I I get so excited myself that I can hardly wait to be eaten and enjoyed. "You know they say that we are all eaten so quickly but It Is because we help, too. In our eagerness and excite ment." "Here they come," the vanilla Ice cream soda said. , "Yes, here they come," said the coffee Ice cream soda. c: "How exciting," said the strawber ry Ice cream soda. "Isn't It?" said the orangeade. "Just dellgbtf-J* said the lemon phosphate. "Splendid," said the bapana spilt - And the sundaes, looking very gay with their handsome sauces spread all over them, ssld: "The ones who ordered us are looking at us." "H ere, we're being taken." said the Ice cream cones. Uvery icecream soda, every sun dae and Ice cream cone and phos phate and all, soon had com pletely disap peared. But there vere still the boys snd tfrls b^re and Not go their faces looked H.nd*om?, but really quite we're Awfully pleased, for they Qood? had just eaten such delicious refreshments, and after 'the long walk and the warmth they felt this was delightful. Had the chocolate Ice cream soda not been eaten so fast it would have heard many more orders given for members of Its family from others who c?me Into the store, for the chocolate Ice cream soda was pretty nearly right. it was pretty nearly right to call It the favorite pf all. Dorothy Was Stingy "What are you crying about. Ed win?" asked a mother of ber four-year old son. '"Cause Dorothy's mean to me," he sobbed. "What has ske been doing?" asked his mother. "1 ate ail my candy and now she -won't give me half of hen," was the wply. \ ? .. . ' >, WRIGLEYS Chew it after every meal It stimulate* appetite and ?Ids digestion. It makes your food do yon more good. 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