Show Gilder Buck WINNIPEG Manitoba March 3Colonel Gilder arrived yesterday at Selkirk a small town twentyfive miles east of here and was interviewed by the Times correspondent following account i the telephone He gave the following count of himself After leaving Winnipeg I I to i unpleasant voyage last fall ho had a very 1 York Factory in which he was occupied two I months He was unable to get all the way I I and had to travel in a canoe getting the I Indians to bring thepntfit and supplies late He reached Fort Churchill too along to Notting to catch the Hudson Bay boat I ham Island and as he would have to stay several months about Churchill without to New he decided to return occupation business after which I Yor to transact some next the in time to catch he will ba he says months hence I boat several Hudsons Bay vessel bound for the or else catch a whaling Northern Seas next summer and go in through Hudsons strait He left his com pan ion Griffith st Fort Churchill with in I structions to take the stores and proceed to I Nottingham Island by the first Hudsons Say boat Gilder promised to join him there if he did not join him at Churchill by taking a steamer from Winnipeg up the same route as he had adopted last fall Asked if he had abandoned the project of reaching the pole he replied indignantly that he had not and was not that kind of a man to abandon such a scheme He came all the way down from Churchill by dog team having a pretty rough time of it He says both himself and Griffith are in good health and expresses the opinion that the Hudson straits are navigable for powerful vessels all the year round He expects to leave for New York shortly |