Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-15
PEARY HOME.
ruv MEETING VIII TIE EXPLORER GRAPH
IOALLY TOLD.
o.;,,Fs, Results Of the Trip-Tha Highest Point
Ever Reached in Eost Greenland
Attained by Ps,ry.
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,-,ys has been received by telegraph
- ". f. Meeh0n, OF the Public
IT, the b0tauist connected with the
80 relief expedition, telling Of the
~. arrival OF the Kite at St. John,
s.i+b Lieutenant Peary and his brave
We IN board aud in good health. The
VIZ PARTY returned safe aud sound,
Li.b tbe exception OF John NJ. VerhOef,
W. disappeared, and is supposed 70
- met his death in a glacial gulf on
- shore Of RCbertson's Bay. Mr.. Yer
t1sF was the mineralOgist of the eXpe-
5,,ion and was upon a solitary exploring
-r.rrsion when last seen. He was
.I,rt twenty five years OF age, and came
from Louisville. ny.
The plans Of Lieutenant Peary were
.,uv carried out. In company with Mr..
as--uDp he made a great inland journey
81 500 miles over the ice, reaching
tba highest point ever attained on the
cast coast Of Greenland, Independence
pgv. So degrees, north latitude, "a de-
zee, west longitude, discovered July 4,
7sa9 The highest point hitherto at
.,ired on the east coast is about IS de-
res or e degrees, and was made by
Ho-denby, a German explorer.
The relief party under Professor He'll
,-tD was also highly successful, return
Inc with an almost unequalled collection
Unnatural specimens from the far north.
Tbe story OF the meeting between the
er,tic explorer and the relief party is
a O II
,.Tbe meeting of the relief expedition
with Mr.. Peary's party and with Peary
were both OF the most dramatic Charac-
,ar. The first occurred in Mccormick
Raw on the evening Of July %, and the
second on the inland ice on the night OF
Argust5. As the Kite neared McCor-
mick Bay, after "a unusually quick
,qssaae through Melville Bay, the eX-
ritament of its members rose rapidly
and from every part OF the vessel eager
ewes watched for signs OF the Peary
Marty, while Captain Pike kept the air
fued with the booming of the cannon
ana the shriu shrieks Of the steam
whistle. AT length from OF Cape
Cleveland, which forms one side Of
NcCormick's Bay, a black spot be-
came visible on the water IN front
OF huge iceberg. The object
was so small at first that even
the telescopes failed 10 reveal more
than the fact that 1T was moving to-
wards the Kite. AT length the Speck
grew larger and took on the form OF a
boat, I'm which were number of per-
sons, some waving their arms and hats
irantically, while the others were row.
ing as If for their lives. On the Kite,
as the people were recognized as Cooke,
Gibson and VerhOeff, being rOwed by
number OF EskimOS, the scene was be-
yOnd description. But the supreme
moment arrived when the boat came
along side and its occupants climbed on
deck. Every one OF the members Of the
expedition and the officers and
crew Of the vessel crowd
around them with hearty hand
shakes and earnest greetings. The ab-
ssnce OF Mrs. Peary and her colored
servant Henson was explained by the
statement that both were encamped at
the head OF the bay, awaiting the re-
turn OF Peary and Astrupp from the In
laad ice, en- event expected daily. But
IL was the members Of the Relief exDe-
dition who had the pleasure OF hrst
meeting them, and by a strange coinci-
dence il was on the great Ice blinSer
about ten miles inland while the former
we're planting poles for the guidance OF
the party OF explorers TO McCOrmlcRs
Bay.
"To perform this work Of pOle-setting
the entire relief party, soon after noon
on August 3, began the ascent or the
mountain at the head of the bay, by the
same path taken by those who under
took the journey 10 the far north, aud
made their attack on the ice cakes about
two hours later. AS by some oversight
snow shoes had been left behind, pro-
grass was necessarily slow and labor
i0us, but, although with every few steps
the members Of the expedition sank
knee, even waist deep, by nine o'clock
they had penetrated inland several
miles.
THE rolling and seemingly intermin-
able ice cape extended In every direc-
ton, with fierce white glare that fully
!ustldes the terror it inspires in the
minds Of the EskimOs, who absolutely
refuse 70 travel any distance upon 10.
At this distance, $500 feet above the
sea- and on ice several hundred feet
thick, the first pole was planted, and 10
it was nailed a board bearing an index
and the inscription: To Mccormick
Bay. Kite In port August 5Jh.' The
work OF setting this pole completed, II
was determined to place another on an
emiueEce about two miles beyond. The
t0ls0me march 70 this point was
scarcely taken MP when three small
dark objects appeared almost stimuli
t2ueousiY on the very site the relief
party was making for. As on this vast
waste Of ice no living person except,
perhaps, white man, ventures will
lngly these objects, III was believed, could
De none other than Pesry, Astrupp and
their team Of dogs, and the cOmprehen-
sion OF this brought wild cheers from
the members of the party, Sud when a
moment after the report OF q rife came
10 them family across the ice confirm
ing their belief, they could scarcely
contain themselves for JOY. Then one
OF The objects detached itself from the
Other and started ahead, disappearing
OenInd low ridge which interviewed,
70 reappear shortly on the summit re-
'ea.ed as Mr.. Peary. To the
excited Imagination OF the relief
party Mr. PeaIv, clad in heavy
ilr garments, bareheaded, walking with
Zee stride down the side Of the ridge
oA his snow shoes, carrying wind
gauge 10 one hand and a Carbiue Ia the
ogaer presented a splendid picture,
%ll-e AsJrupp, following on his skies,
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