GREELEY

a city of Colorado; in ‘Weld co., of which it is the county seat. It is on the Union Pacific, the Denver, Laramie and Northwestern, and the Colorado and Southern rail- ‘roads, and on the Cache la Poudre river. The city is the center of an important agricultural and cattle-raising region and it has a large trade in potatoes, flour, ‘wheat and other agricultural products. ‘Its industries include lumber yards, flour mills, a beet-sugar factory. Here is the State Teachers’ College, and there 4s also a public library and two parks. The city was the site of the so-called “Greeley Colony’ named after Horace Greeley, which was the first agricultural b fe ponity in the State. Pop. 1920, ‘ville, N.Y. He was the son of a poor farmer and at fourteen was apprenticed to a printer in Vermont after a meagre @ducat i on. He became a journeyman compositor, finding employment in New York State and Pennsylvania printing plants, and in 1831 came to New York City where, with a partner, he later set up a small printing shop and i ued the New Yorker, a literary weekly. This venture proved that the journeyman printer po e ed editorial gifts which eventually made him famous. It led to his succe ful editorship of the Jefferson i an, a Whig campaign paper, and of the Log Cabin, a popular weekly. Meantime he acquired a high repute as a political writer. In 1841 he established the New York Tribune as an independent Whig daily and edited it with a remarkable brilliance and force for thirty years, making it a national organ of great influence. He was in Congre for a brief period, 1848-9. In 1861 he was nominated as Republican candidate for U.S. Senator from New York, but was defeated, and he met. with other failures to obtain public office. Opposing the renomination of President Grant in 1872, he consented to become presidential candidate of the Liberal Republic ans with the endorse men t of the Democrat s. Grant defeated him.py over 700,000 votes, the only states he carried being Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mi ouri, Tenne ee and Texas. His death occurred before the votes were counted. TON (1844), Arctic explorer and army general; 6. New bury port, Ma . He served throughout the Civil War as a private in a Ma achusetts infantry regiment of volunteers. Later, as second lieutenant in the regular army, he was a igned to the signal corps, of which he became chief officer in 1887, ranking as brigadier-general. In 1906 he was promoted to major-general. His ‘explorations in the Arctic began in 1881, when he commanded an _ expedition to establish circumpolar stations for meteorological and other purposes in that region. There were twelve in the party and they attained the highest point north then reached (83° 24’), which was in Grinnell Land. Their non-return caused a relief expedition to be sent the next year, and another in 1883, both of which failed to reach - them. A third rescue party under Commander Win field S. Schley found them in June, 1884, at Cape Sabine. Greely’s men were reduced to seven, five having died through cold and famine in the 1883 winter, and the survivors were on the point of starvation. The Royal Geographical Society of London and the Societé de Geographie of Paris awarded him medals for his services to geographical science. He supervised the development and extension of military telegraph communication, including cable and wirele , with Porto Rico, Cuba, the Philippines and Alaska, and conducted the relief measures for the San Francisco earthquake sufferers in 1906. In 1908 he retired, His writings record his various activities in the government service and include works on American weather, auroras, the California earthquake, Alaska, and polar discoveries.