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From Late Edition of Yesterday's TIMES,
last reports before this latest mes-
MORRISSEY ANCHORS
sage, had been hugging the shore of
the Melville Peninsula fighting its
AT CHARBOK INLET
way northward. These reports were
dated Sept. 3 and 4. Since then no
word was received until last night,
and Captain Bartlett explains the
The Putnam Arctic Expedition
lapse of time by blaming the north-
Schooner Has Apparently Given
ern lights for putting the wireless in-
strument out of commission.
Up Fox Channel Trip.
The members of the crew, accord-
ing to the skipper's message of Sept.
3, had hoped to continue north to
ALL OF CREW ARE WELL
Igloolik on the Melville Peninsula,
then bear westward through the Gulf
of Boothia past the Hecla and Fury
Captain Bartlett Reports Northern
Islands and thence into an almost
totally unexplored waste of water on
Lights Prevented Use of Radio
the extreme northwest boundary of
for Several Days.
Baffin Island.
Captain Bartlett, however, ex-
pressed at that time his determina-
tion not to attempt the arduous jour-
By CAPTAIN BOB BARTLETT.
ney, but to cut back east and south-
ward to Cape Dorchester, where a
Skipper of the Morrissey and
rendezvous had been made with the
Veteran Arctic Navigator.
seven members of the party, includ-
Copyright, 1927, by The New York Times Company
ing Mr. Putnam, who had put off
By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
weeks before in a whale boat on a
mapping expedition in that region.
ABOARD THE SCHOONER MOR-
Chorkbok Inlet is more than 200
RISSEY, Carrying the Putnam Ex-
miles south and east along the coast
pedition to the Arctic. Sept. 10.-
of Fox Land from Cape Dorchester,
"Morrissey" okay. All hands on
where the rendezvous with the expe-
dition in the whale boat had been
board well. Anchored Chorkbok In-
arranged.
let. Radio been unusable last few
Yesterday's message from Captain
days apparently account northern
Bartlett was picked up by Frank L.
lights.
Root of 3,545 aLfayette Avenue, St.
Louis, an amateur operator, whose
The foregoing message, the first
station call is 9BEQ.
news in several days of the schooner
Morrissey, on which the George
Ridgefield Electric Bond Exchange.
Hudson exploring regions expedition above is
Palmer Putnam polar
The Associated Gas and Electric
the frigid
System has advised the holders of
ascend craft has effort that to
Bay, would indicate the
turned from its
Ridgefield Electric Company first
the perilous Fox Channel to
mortgage 5 per cent. bonds, due 1932,
Fury and Hecla has
tha tthe privilege of exchanging their
borne away south and to
islands eastward and
bonds for $6.50 dividend series pre-
Chorkbok Inlet on Fox Land, which
ferred stock of the Associated Gas
is a southern peninsula of Baffin
and Electric Company, on the basis
Land.
of ten shares of the preferred stock
The sturdy craft, according to the drawn on Oct. 10.
for each $1,000 bond, will be with-
A
DECLARED
G.T. W.
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