. Newfoundland Quarterly 1919-20. RT. HON. SIR. W. V. WHITEW. In those days there were no regular correspondents in SaintJohns for the great English and American papers. Mr. A. Manager of the Anglo-Newfoundland Cable Company,was in the habit of apprising them of any matter of this case he wired Gordon Bennett, of the New York //who instructed him to procure some competent person to comeon with the survivors to New York, and on the way write up thestory of the tragedy. Mr. McKay selected Boone, and thelatter, on arrival in New York, was ready to send in his manuscript. Wh
. Newfoundland Quarterly 1919-20. RT. HON. SIR. W. V. WHITEW. In those days there were no regular correspondents in SaintJohns for the great English and American papers. Mr. A. Manager of the Anglo-Newfoundland Cable Company,was in the habit of apprising them of any matter of this case he wired Gordon Bennett, of the New York //who instructed him to procure some competent person to comeon with the survivors to New York, and on the way write up thestory of the tragedy. Mr. McKay selected Boone, and thelatter, on arrival in New York, was ready to send in his manuscript. When published it proved to be one of the most astounding, and at the same time most interesting stories of Arcticexploration. It combined the sublime with the ridiculous,brought together the near and the distant, the past and thepresent, and dealt \vi;h every possible scientific aspect of thequestion, from the Polar current upon whose bosom the survivors had been borne to safety to the possibility of open waterat the Pole, with re
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