Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-23
I'd EDITION.
|PEARY HOME AGAIN.
He Was Enthusiastically Welcomed
at Philadelphia.
| NO FRESH CHOLERA IN new YORK.
Health Officer Jenkins hooted by
Released Passengers.
SENT BACK TO THEIR HOMES.
NO FRESH CHOLERA IN new YORK.
SENT BACK TO THEIR HOMES.
RETURN OF LIEUT.. PEARY.


The Arctic Explorers Enthusiastically VEL
coined At PhiladeIphia.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2S.--The steamer Kite,
bearing Lieut.. and Mrs. Peary and the band Of
arctic explorers and Prof Heilprin and his party
OF rescuers, reached pier &c at II 80 clock this
morning. A crowd WAS on the wharf to gree,
tho party, the central figure of which wos the
brave wife Of Lieut.. Peary. All pm. yester-
day the Kite took aboard Pilot Church whom
thlrty-three miles from the breakwater. and
hve hours later she reached the government
quarantine station. All we're well on board
and she was not detained.
She continued up the Delaware river at
the rate OK seven knots per hour, and ar
rived OF Chester at $50 this morning.
Then she lay to until 8 o'clock, when
she steamed to the lazaretto quaran-
tine station, but was not detained, the
health inspectors merely boarding her and sat-
isfying themselves that she had a clean bill OF
health. An ovation was rendered the party as
they neared Philadelphia and the welcoming
party from the Academy Of Natural
Sciences was taken aboard When the Kite
steamed up TO the pier the boom Of her
cannon from the forward deck told that Peary's
Greenland expedition was at an end aud that
the relief party's task had been a success.
Whistles shrieked and cannon doomed as the
steamer was made fast, and the reception was
enthusiastic in the extreme.
As already reported in the dispatches sent BY
members OF the two parties from St. Johns. n.
B.. both expeditions have been eminently sue
cessful, making exceptionally favorable pas
sages without sickness or storm Of any kind.
Lieut.. Robert E. Peary, the explorer, and
Prof. Angelo Heilprin, commander Of the relief
party, expressed their satisfaction with the re-
suits which have been achieved to crowds OF
their friends, fellow scientists Of the Philadel-
phia Academy, and representatives. of the news
papers, many Of whom steamed down the Della
ware In tugs to meet the returning explorers.
Miss voerhof, sister Of John NJ Voerhoff,
who failed to return with his fellow explorers,
being reported dead, accompanied the recep-
ton committee with her aunt and uncle They
discredit the theory that the missing mineralo-
gtst was accidentally killed and firmly believe
that he is even uow exploring the interior Of
Greenland, having voluntarily remained be-
hind
Lieut.. Peary hims self refuses TO say ANYTHING
concerning Voerhofrs disappearance beyond
what has already been mentioned in the dis
patches. He denies, however. that differences
existed between himself and the independent
but ambitious Kentuckian.
Other members express ignorance Of any
trouble between the two men. or of Voerhof's
intention to explore for himself. William E.
Meehan the bosanist of the relief party, said
that the search for the mineralogist occupied
seven days. and that every member Of both
expeditions, nine Esquimgux and the ships
crew were engaged in il.
Traces Of Voerhoff had been found on the
sixth day near a number Of large crevasses, into
which there was every reason to believe that he
had fallen. The members of the expeditions
dispersed as rapidly as possible to their homes
Lieut.. Peary leaves for Washington this after
noon, where he will remain several davs before
returning to make his report to the Academy OF
Natural Sciences.