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...exploring tyro is "Bob" Bartlett. He is 53. He was with Commander Peary on two of his expeditions to the North Pole. He commanded the Karluk, Canadian government vessel which was splintered to pieces by ice pressure. Last week Capt. Bartlett returned from Siberia, whither he had taken a party from Manhattan's Museum of Natural History...
...report, which was forwarded to the Department of Commerce, Inspector Hoover denied the prevailing story that the Vestris shipped water first through an illsealed coalport. He declared that it was much more likely that water first entered the vessel through a broken scupper or sanitary pipe. Not until she had a list of 13 degrees or more would the coal ports be submerged...
Then, when obviously the ship was in grave peril, Captain Carey should have sent out his SOS. He delayed this too long. The lifeboats were in good condition, but were lowered with difficulty on account of the extreme list of the vessel. "No systematic effort was made to get the passengers into these boats...
Seagulls poised and wheeling in the hot blue sky above the Indian Ocean espied, last week, a long, low, incredibly slender ship, darting with splendid speed toward Aden, the Red Sea, Suez. A literate seagull might have spelled out upon the vessel's spume flecked prow the name H. M. S. Enterprise. Aboard and often on the bridge was a young man who is called by his Royal family simply "David." As he paced the bridge, engines of 80,000 horsepower thrust the frail 7,600-ton cruiser across the placid Indian Ocean at automobile speed: 40 m.p.h. Only...
...Green (who was "kicked upstairs" to a judgeship last session) as chairman of Ways & Means. He was a pedagog (Umpqua Academy, Oregon State Normal School, Willamette University) from 1884 to 1905. "Don't rock the boat," is his fiscal motto, while New Jersey's Bacharach provides the vessel's steam. Big of frame, with thinning sandy hair, he wrestles happily with infinite details...