The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-19
PEARY ARCTIC VENTURE
THE HOPE SAILED EARLY THIS
MORNING FROM BOSTON.
Some of the Scientists on Board and
What They Expect 40 Accomplish
During the Summer.

BOSTON, July 1S.-The work of loading
the rest of the Hopes cargo for the Arctic
trip was resumed this morning, and Lieu
tenant Peary will sail Monday morning, as
early as the job is complete and the water
will allow. All members Of the party are
on board and are eager to be off on
their long journey. The ship was open to
visitors all day, and hundreds swarmed over
her sides and about the deck. In the even
ing and far into the night they stood in
groups on the wharf, looking at the boat
and making comments.
The expedition to the north on which
Lieutenant Peary now starts is merely pre-
liminary to the protracted sojourn which
HE proposes to make in the Arctic regions,
for which he will not start until July of
next year He will be absent less than
three months, and expects to reach Boston
on his return about the 18th of September
next. The primary object Of this trip which
VIII extend as far north as Whale bay, is
to enable Lieutenant Peary to meet num-
Der of Eskimo families and arrange with
them for the settlement of a colony at
point farther north than any village that
now exists This village, he hopes, will be
established at about 81 degrees north lat-
tude, ana Will serve as base of supplies
for operations next year and later. where,
also, the steamer Hope Will be left while
the explorer tries to reach the north pole
with dogs ana sledges.
The steamer Hope goes direct from Bos-
ton to Sydney. which part of the voyage
Will occupy about three days. There the
Hope will take on coal for the cruise to
Greenland. Lieutenant Peary will be ac-
CCmpanied by several scientific parties, who
go with him to study the glacioogy, bot
any land ethnolOgy of the northern regions.
These parties Will be landed by the Hope
on the coast of Labrador Batfin Land, and
Greenland, and will be picked up by Lieut..
Peary on his way home from Whale sound
in September.
The Batfin Land party which is the most
important, is under the direction of Prof.
Russell w Porter of the Boston Institute
of Technology. This party includes seven
or eight men, among them Mr. Alfred V.
Shaw, of Newton, Mass, a graduate of the
Delano Fitzgerald, Baltimore physician,
and his son, Charles CT. Fitzgerald, a Har-
ward student in the class Of 1900; W. A.
BoWal, of Chicago, also a Harvard student;
+. c. Goodrich, of New York, a graduate
this year of Harvard, and j. Nelson Car
penter, of New Brunswick, n. j., who grad
uated at Rutgers College this year All of
these will return with Lieutenant Peary in
September, except Professor Porter and
can whaling station at the northern en-
trance of Frobisher bay, all winter. They
will spend the time mainly in studying the
Eskimo of Baffln Land and in collecting
materials for chronological and geological
museums in the United States. Next sum-
mer they will push to the northward, ex-
ploring the country as they go, and in the
fall of 1898 will travel to the Scotch whaling
station in Cumberland sound from which
point they will sail for Aberdeen, the great
whaling port of Scotland, on a Scotch
Whaler.