Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-10
THE COMING OF PEARY.
The Great American &ctc Explorer win Ar
rive Here Tomorrow,
ON HIS WAY TO THE PACIFIC COAST.
presses the Fear that the Daring
Andrce is Dead.


Tomorrow II. IL. Penry, the great
American explorer OF the Arctic re-
gions, will arrive In Salt Lake and in
the evening viii deliver his celebrated
lecture ON the frozen North at the Salt
Lake Thsater. Pcary has conducted
eight expeditions to northcrmost Green
land, and contemplates another trip in
the direction of the North Pole next
summer. In that trip he hopes to eclipse
the daring deeds of all the heroic ex-
plorers of the past, including the great
Nansen as well as the courageous An
dree, whose whereabouts are now UNI
known and whose fate 1t is feared is
held. and may forever be held. fast in
the icy grasp of the Arctic sens.
Peary's lecture tomorrow night will
deal graphically with his trip of 1900
Cap, most fascinating story OF daring
attempt, thrilling adventure and mag
niilcent accomplishment. An epitome
Of what the famous explorer Will say
VIII include a description of the lis
quimaux and how thew live on Green
lands Icy shores, thirteen hundred
miles of travel on foot on an icy
plateau, 5000 to 5000 feet above the sea
level; references to how the expedition
was buried for days under binding
snow drifts, piled up by the fury of
tremendous windstorms; how long and
perllous detours were made at the head
OF great glacier basins to compass
yawning crevasses; the finding and
killing of the musk OK that saved the
lives of the half starved explorers.
As an Introduction to the lecture,
Lieut.. Peary will give n resume of re-
cent Arctic explorations, have some
thing to say of the expeditions now In
the field. the utility of Arctic works and
future Arctic efforts. Lieut.. Peary If
still q young man, being born in 1854
He is graduate of the United States
Military Academy, and left that insti-
tuition in 1856 with the ranks of lieu
tenant. His first trip in the direction
of the North Pole was undertaken In
July. 1891, in which month he left New
York in the Kite, ship specially com
structed for the expedition. He estaD-
lished headquarters at Mccormick Bay.
Greenland, proved the conveyance of
the east and west coasts of north
CIR eenland and reached latitude 81 de-
grees. He returned in September. 1892
and in July, 1898, again sailed for the
Arctic regios in the Falcon accom-
panied by his wife. Since that time he
has made several trips to Greenland,
the last one being less than year ago,
when he brought to New York the
monster aerolite. which has attracted
the attention OF the civilized world.
A dispatch 10 the News" from Grip
pie Creek today says
Prof. r. j.. Peary has been the guest
of Cripple Creek, Colo. for several
days. A committee of citizens escorted
him through the mines of the district.
Speaking OF Andree's journey by bal
loon In search of the North Pole Peary
expressed grave apprehensions for An
dree's safe return. He is of the opinion
that even should Andree succeed in
landing on the ice in the Arctic region
he will experience great difficulty In
again gaining control of his balloon so
as to continue toward the north or re-
turn home. Lieut.. Peary thinks the
chances very meagre for Andree ever
again reaching land should he descend
into the sea, n fate which he fears has
already overtaken the courageous eX-
plorers. Prof Peary leaves for San
Francisco today (Thursdag. He In
tends starting in July for the polar
regions,