The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-30
PEARY'S NEW SCHEME.
He Has a Plan for Reaching the
North Pole Which He Considers
a Sure Winner

New York, March 3O-The Adver-
tiser this morning says:
Lieutenant Peary recently laid a plan
for Arctic research before the council
of the American Geographical society
The plan includes the reaching of the
north pole. 1t was heartily Endorsed
by the council and a subscription to-
wards its accomplishment promised.
Should the plan succeed the United
States will reap the glory.
Lieutenant Peary'S plan, as now ma
tured, is considered by arctic explorers
one of the most feasible yet diverted.
First of all, it is not to be an expedi-
ton in the usual sense of the term. 1t
include only one or two white men. If
one, he will be a surgeon, and if two
the other will be a scientist.
The party will be conveyed by a char
tered whaler to the point on the west
ern coast of Greenland which Peary
has so often made his basis of explora-
ton. At this point lives a tribe of
EskimOs. They form the most north
erly settlement of human beings, as
far as is known, upon the globe. They
know the explorer and have every con-
fidence in him.
From them he will selecte five or six
young married couples and will push
along the northwest coast of Green
land as far as possible, and perhaps
into the archipelago, which, it is be-
lieved, surrounds the north pole. All
will be taken with them, and when no
further progress can be made north.
they and Lieutenant Peary and his
companions will be landed at some
formed. The ship will leave a supply
of provisions for three or more years,
and make its way back to civilization
before the ice closes in. From this
basic point the two or three white men
will make their explorations. Lieuten-
ant Peary figures that this colony will
not be over $50 miles from the pole. The
ESkimOS will be able to withstand the
climate, and he believes they will be
contented as long as they have enough
food.
The women will be taken along to do
the cooking and attend to the clothing
we win live like the Eskimos." said
Lieutenant Peary. I'VE will take no
house with US and as little other in
cumbranceS as possible. Perhaps our
snow shoes will be kept dryer and
cleaner than theirs, but that is all"
AS soon as the ice conditions are pro-
pitiOus an attempt will be made to reach
the pole. The ESkimOS and their dog
sledges will be used if possible, but in
any case the white explorers will push
on until the stars and stripes have been
planted near, if not on the pole Itself
Lieutenant Peary, from his Astounding
polar experience, figures that under
favorable conditions his little party
will be able to make ten miles DAY
through the ice h1IlOcKS ana IeloS OL
snow On this basis they could make
the distance and return in about "
days.
This period Lieutenant Peary regards
as a short one to be away from his col
ony or base of supplies on TWO Tor
mer occasions he was absent for
much longer time. Once ne Travelled
over the ice fields for SO days accom-
panied by these very Esk1mos, ana on
another "a DAYS On each occasion
they were out of sight of familiar land
marks and had to guide themselves by
the compass. Lieutenant Peary. while
hoping, does not expect that the taVor-
able moment for making this venture
Doleward from his colony will come at
once He says it may be two, three
or even five years before the conditions
are inst right. If necessary, he wants
to be prepared to wait ten years, but
he firmly believes from his own expert
ence that the time will come within
three years