26 Peary Auxiliary Expedition. 
and the loss of his fourteen shipmates will long be remembered 
with sorrow in St. Johns. 
In a signal tower, built high on the cliff which guards the en- 
trance to the harbor of St. Johns, for many weeks the faithful 
watchman gazed out to sea ready to signal to the townspeople 
below the approach of the “Falcon.” Sad and wishful eyes looked 
for many days for the message which came not. To the stricken 
widows and fatherless ones in St. Johns the members of that lit- 
tle company, which shared the fortunes of the good ship during 
the past summer, send their message of sympathy and express 
their desire to be numbered among the mourners of the “Fal- 
con.” 
