The Open Polar Sea: A narrative of a voyage of discovery towards the North pole, in the schooner "United States"Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel)
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The Open Polar Sea: A narrative of a voyage of discovery towards the North pole, in the schooner "United States"
Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel)
Arctic regions; United States (Schooner)
During the past week everybody has been much interested in a newspaper
enterprise, bearing the above title. Thinking to create a diversion
that would confound our enemy, the darkness, I proposed some time ago
to the officers that we should publish a weekly paper, offering at the
same time my assistance. The proposition was hailed with pleasure,
and my fullest anticipations are more than realized. Mr. Dodge and
Mr. Knorr undertook to act as editors, at least for the first week,
and they have busied themselves gathering from cabin and forecastle
whatever was likely to prove attractive, and right good success have
they met with. The first number appeared to-day, and it contains some
things that are "rich and rare," and very clever, and many of the best
came from the forward part of the ship.
Its appearance makes quite an event, and, as a hygienic agent, its
importance cannot be too highly estimated. The project set everybody
on tip-toe of expectation, and for several days past very little
else has been talked about but "the paper." All the details of its
getting-up have been conducted with a most farcical adherence to the
customs prevailing at home. There is a regular corps of editors and
reporters, an office for "general news," an "editorial department," and
a "telegraph station," where information is supposed to be received
from all quarters of the world, and the relations existing between the
sun, moon, and stars are duly reported by "reliable correspondents,"
and pictorial representations of extraordinary occurrences are also
received from "our artist on the spot."
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