Show APE FRI DIN PERIL Fear Pears Expressed E pressed for Fate F te of Professor Garner 0 I i ILL AND AN 1 ABANDONED I In n I I S Oi op LANG rAY MAY MA NOW BE rD DEAD AD I II I Boston HOlSton Jan 12 Friends I of Pro Professor I fessor F G Garner Gain r the famous ex cx plater scientist and 1 author lhor as an ra au anxious ious f over o r his possible elbl fate In the wilds of Africa Grave fears as to the pos poe possibility po of his death are ale entertained ente I Among these concerned concel ed over the pro profesor I fe f or are the Rev ite B U E B Hale Pro Professor fessor Putnam of Harvard and others Professor Garner salted sailed from New NewYork York on or about July 19 9 1900 en route rout to fo Africa His avowed object was to study further the monkey language and the interest and approbation of many eminent scholars and nd scientists Including the men above mentioned were enlisted In his object Aug 1 he arrived in Lisbon on where he remained until the th making full preparations pre and gathering equipments for his bis in intended Intended intended tended expedition Aug 21 Professor Garner left Lisbon arriving In the first week of September in San in inthe inthe inthe the French Congo While in fn this place lace on the eve of his departure for the interior he was sud suddenly denly stricken with wl h jungle fever al although although although though his two pus explorations to the same place had in his ow own n judg judgment Judgment judgment ment made him Immune The exorbitant rates levied upon him hint for tor transportation and the money al at already already ready laid out on his really inadequate equipment had bad by this time made him almost penniless and ana a when his funds entirely failed his fit Unless s hirelings fled leaving him hint to t fight the grim spectre alone o On Nov 2 27 he wrote urgent letters lettel to Hale Putnam Ier r rill nh apprising them of f his financial and physical l condition and urging that aid be immediately sent to him These were the last fast ast messages from him and none of the letters was re received until the last of December Ef EC Efforts forts forn were yere at once made to cable money to him but cable communication could Ilot be had with any bank In the vicin vicinity vicinIty vicinity ity of oC the place from A where here the letters had been posted AU All efforts to locate him also failed Last Thursday S A Merrill MerrUl of the Mechanics National bank was Inform Informed ed eu that alt all efforts to communicate with Professor Garner had failed Mr Ir Mer lIer Merrill rill nil then than sent a cable to San in inthe Inthe Inthe the hope of discovering Garners where whereabouts whereabouts whereabouts No reply to this message has been received r d |