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Captain Robert A. Bartlett, Arctic explorer, will tell of his adventures on the Putnam Expedition last summer to North Greenland, in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 7:30 o'clock...
Captain Robert A. Bartlett, in charge of the schooner Morrissey on the Putnam expedition to the Arctic last summer will relate some of his adventures in northern Greenland at the Union tomorrow night. Captain Bartlett is among those who figure largely in the books written about the expedition by David Bruney Putnam, aged...
Once the whaleboat under his direction was attacked by a herd of infuriated walruses. Two arrows had been shot into the leading bull by a member of the crew who hunted with Indian weapons. At the last moment Bartlett leaped to the bow and plunged and Eskino lance into the beast. The bull gave a great gasp and rolled over. The rest of the herd seemed to lost heart. With vengeful snorts they turned about and retreated...
President Coolidge selected Bartlett as a member of the famous board to investigate the northern flight in the "Shenandoah". In the World War he was Lieutenant Commander in the American Navy, helping carry the soldiers through the perilous zone of the North Atlantic...
...trip was Robert Peary, Jr., son of the North Pole discoverer, on whose trips Bartlett learned the ways of the Arctic Wastes...