Connecticut western news., 1895-10-03
DONE POLE HUNTING.
LIEU TENANT PEARY'S LAST ARCTIC
 TRIP WAS A FAILURE.

He Tells of His Great sunsrinxs and An
 nounoes That He Does Not Believe Tn an
 Open Polar rssa-Professor Dyche Brought
 Rack Valuable Coilections.
 NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-Lieutenant Peary, who has just returned from an unsaccess- full attempt to reach the north pole, de- clAres that he will never try again.
 From Halifax he travelled to Portland, Me, to visit his mother. There he an nounced, in an interview yesterday, that he Is too old for voyaging In the far north, and that he will go there no more. In his expedition this year he only succeeded in going 10 or 12 miles farther to the north ward than he had been before.
 Professor Charles Dyche of the Univer- sity of Kansas who was one of the mem- bers of the party that rescued Peary with the steamship Kite, arrived. He confirms the news that Peary's expedition was . failure.
 Professor Dyohe arrived at Woodruff's s stores, Brooklyn. on board the steamship Silvia, from St. Johns, N. F. The profess or has succeeded in making a valuable collection of specimens for his university and for the American Museum of Natu- ral History in Central park, but he seemed quite blue over Lieutenant Peary's fail ure in his latest attempt to reach the pole.
 Neither Professor Dychc nor Emil Die bitsch, Peary's brothereYh- law, believe that the explorer will ever go northward again. At no time this year did he get more than 10 or 12 miles farther north than he had been on his first voyage, and the, expedition was practically barren of any valuable results.
 Professor Dyche declared that he could not speak. officially for Lieutenant Peary, but he believed that the explorer ascribed his failure chiefly to the fact that large quantities of provisions he had previously stored along the route could not be found this time Therefore he had to depend for his food supply apon reaison, wnlrus and fish.
 |. Game was very scarce, and Peary's s men were compelled to kin and eat, three of the dogs that dragged their sleds. Pro lessor Dyche could not explain why the cached stores had disappeared. Possibly they had been stolen by natives, or per haps there had been an error In marking the spots where they were located. At all events, the lack of the stores proved fa- tai handicap to the expedition. Professor Dyohe brought back 1000 specimens of birds, eggs and animals, 25 seals, 13 polar bears, @ whale. and the hides of 90 walruses. He also brought two meteorites from Ironstone mountain, one weighing 8, 900 and the other 800 pounds He will go home in few days. win Never Go North Again. PORTLAND, Me-, Dot. 2.-Lieutenant Robert K. Peary, the arctic explorer ar
 rived in this oity and drove at once to his mothers home in Pieasantdale. When ooGo1 ho,1t y,lnnc tho frtrro tho explorer said that he had made no definite plans but intended to pass the winter in New York or Washington.
 1T shall never see the north pole, !" said 1.-the lieutenant in conversation later, "un- less some one brings it here. am done with It. In my judgment ssuoh work re- | quires a far younger man than I. The leader of such party should be able not | only to do as much as any one else, but | more than any other man. He should be
 less than 80, rather than more than 40. 1T am too old to snowshoe 25 to 30 | miles day for weeks and to carry heavy | load during most of the time. For that work one should be trained man, e
 thorough athlete and that am not" twill the pole ever be reachedY" was
 asked.
 "I believe that it will and think the | work will be accomplished in a compara- | lively short time. l am, however, no be- | liever in the existence of the open polar sea-"
 While the lieutenant is convinced that | way to reach the pole will be found he
 was not ready to express an opinion as tc the methods. He was asked If he believed in the possibility of reaching the pole by
 aid of balloon and said that he had not
 given the balloon theory any special thought