Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-29
LIEUT.. PEARY'S PLAN
He Proposes TO Reach The North Pole
With the Aid Of Eiquimaux.
AND Is CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS.
Within Three Years the Stars and
Strips May Wave over the
Region of the Pole.

NEW YORK, March 29.--The Ad.
vertiser this morning says: Lieutenant
Pesry recently laid n plan for Arctic
research before the council OF the
American geographical society. The
plan iEcludes reaching the North Pole.
1t ia heartily endorsed by the council
and y subscription towards lite accom-
plishment promised. Should either
plan succeed the United States will
reap the glory. Lieutenant Peary's
pisn as now matured is considered by
Arctic explorers as one OF the niost
lesslble yet advocated, Frat Of all,
IL 10 not to be al expedition In the
usual sense OF the term. Il Will
besides Lieutenant Pesty himself in
clute only one or Two white men. II
one, no VIII be a surgeon, and II two,
the other will be q scientist.
The party will lie conveyed by q
chartered waller to the point on the
westsrn coast OF Greenland which
Peary has 30 often made his basis of
exploration. AT this point lives a
tribe Of Lsquimaux. They form the
most n0rtherly settlement OF human
beings rs far as Is known, upon the
globe. They know the explorer and
have every confluence in him.
From them he will select i've or slx
young married couples aud will with
them push along the. northwest coast
OF Greenland as far as possible and
perhaps into the archipelago which IL
is believed surrounds the North Pole.
All their goods, including dogs and
sledges will be- taken with them and
when NO further progress can be made
north. they and Lieut.. Peary and his
compositions will be landed at come
propitious spot and new colony
formed. The ship will leave supply
OF provisions for three or more years,
anu make Its way back to civilization
before the Ice closes In. From this
basis point the two or three white men
will make their explorations. Lieut..
Peary figures that this cUlJny will not
be over $50 miles from the Pole. The
Esqumau " i'll be bic to witbs and h 0
climate aud he believes they will be
contented, ne long US they havs
enough food.
The women will be taken along H. do
tho cooking and attend to the cloth Ing
and foot gear.
awe will live like the Esquimaux, y
said Lieut.. Penry. ave Will take no
house with us and as little OF other
incumbrances as possible. Perhaps
our snow houses will be kept drier and
cleaner than THERE, but that 10 ALP
As soon as the ice conditions are
propitiOus an attempt will be made TO
reach the pole. The Esquimaux and
their dog eledges will be used II posi-.
BILE, but IN any case the white explor.
srs will push on until the Stars and
Stripes have been planted near, n not
On the pole itself.
Lieut.. Peary from his Astounding
polar experiences figures that under
favorable conditions his little party
will be able to make ten miles day
through the Ice hillocks anu fields OF
snOw. On this basis they could make
the distance and return In about sew
enty.two days.
This period Lieut.. Peary regards as
q short one tU be away from his colony
or base OF supplies. On two former
occasions he was absent for much
longer time. Ouce lie travelled over
the ice fields for IS days accompanied
by these very Esquimaux and on an
other "a uRys. On each occasion they
were out OF sight of familiar land
mafks and had to guide themselves by
the compass.
Lieut.. Peary does not expect that
the favorable moment for making this
venture polsward from bis colony will
come MT once. He says II may be 2, 3
or even 8 years before the conditions
are Just right.
II necessary he wants to be prepared
TO wait ten years, but hel firmly
believes from his own experience that
the time viii come within three years.