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VETERAN ARCTIC EXPLORER DEAD In his iiiicl home on Clarksoii aveiiuc after years of retirement from business as an export account ¬ ant at the age of 71 Frederick Muyer died He had been the last survived of a iwrty of nineteen persons who managed to Ret some provisions from tlie wrecked 1olaris at Littleton Island onto an ice floe and drifted for five months 1500 miles till picked up off the coast of Labrador We sup ¬ pose that experience is unique though arctic ex ¬ ploration has led to many hardships for the ex ¬ plorers plorersThe The Polaris which started out in 1871 was a United States naval vessel not welt fitted for her work The commander was Captain Charles F Hall who in 1S62 had been in an expedition to trace the fate of Franklins party and had written a book about it There is reason to believe that Hall an enthusiast was nevertheless without the scientific knowledge that an arctic conimander needs though lie had the aggressive spirit o a pioneer Mr Meyer went with Hall as meteorolo ¬ gist A native of Darmstadt he had come to this continent as a lieutenant in Maxiinifians army in Mexico but had l it to spend five years in the United States Army and was weather observer in St Louis just before starting on the polar trip tripThe The Polaris ill fated as she was is credited with adding to the mapped surface of Greenland and Grinnells Land two degrees of latitude farther north Her voyage is not one of the great inci ¬ dents of arctic research but it is one that will be a permanent part of the history of such research Mr Meyer after his experience in Mexico in our southwest and off Greenland was satisfied to lead a business life in this American metropolis and abandoned adventure Perhaps nothing could have tempted him to go into another bit of arctic ex ¬ ploration Brooklyn Eagle
