The Portland daily press., 1899-07-18
THE PEARY EXPEDITION.
The Diana wan Carry Him Two Years
Supplies.

The expedition which has started to
carry supplies to Peary in the steamer
Diana Ia, says the New York Times,
under the auspices OF the Peary Arctic
Club, of which President Norris &. Jesup
of the New York Chamber of Commerce
is President. and Henry 2. Cannon of
the Chase National Bank, Treasurer. .
The project of the expedition was de-
fined by Explorer Peary before his depart
ure last summer IL 10 constituent part
OF his general plan OF opsr tions for
reaching the pole. The Diana il of 47S
gross and 273 net tons, has 20 horsepower
engines, with an average speed OF eight
knots. and Is considered especially well
adapted. for the trip. The expedition will
be under the personal direction OF the
Secretary of the Psary Arctic Club. Her.
bert L. Rridgeman, Of The Brooklyn
Standard Union, who WINS member of
the Peary auxiliary expedition In 1894.
Capt. Samuel W. BARTLETT is master Of
the ship. He Is OF the well-known New
foundland family of explorers
The Diaua's first stop will he at Disco,
In Northern Greenland. The next stop
will te at Upsrnavik. and from there
across Melville Bay and beyond Cape
York to Peary's former headquarters at
Bowdoin Bay. In Inglefield Gulf. Should
no tidings CT Peary be found at any of
the points stopped at, the course will he
laid to LittetOn Islnnd, at the entrance to
Smith Sound. Supplies Will be deposited
for Peary at Bowdoin Bay II a landing
can be effected, If not at Littleton Island
IA w,rtr sf.h4 NJ hrxx t. 80,
derosit against all contingencies an ample
supply OF food, and to inform Peary of
the. fact, so that In case disaster drives
him back he may find subsistence ut In.
glefieid Gulf.
In addition to the proposed work of
the expedition. three parties Will be taken
on the Diana--one headed by Prof. VIII
liam Libbey OF Princeton, for deep san
scientific work; one by Russell w. Porter
of Boston, of sportsmen, and one by
Robert Stein of Washington. 10 remain In
Ellesmereland for a winter or two. -
The passenger list OF the Dians Is rs
Scientific Party--Prof. William Libbey,
Princeton, N. j.; Prof. Charles II. Nc
Clure, Princeton. N. j.; Prof. Charles
A. Myckoff, Princeton. N. j., DIR. A.
Y, ortman. Princeton, N; j.. and @. b.
Spontaneous Party, -Russell w. Porter,
Boston. Mass. Charles W. Shaw, Boston,
Mass; Edward ]. House, Pittsburg.
Penn; Fullerton II. Merrill, Bangor,
Me-. Il. ID. Herman, Jr., New York City,
Harvard; Arthur s. knudson. Honolulu,
Hawaii. college OF Physicians and Sur
geons, and Frederick X. Sears. third,
Harvard.
Stein Expedition--R Robert Stein, WASH
ington. ID. e.; Leopold Kann, Cornell
University. Ithaca, N. Y, and Samuel
warmbath. Boston, Mass
The voyage OF the Diana 10 likely to be
fraught with very much more than usuai
public interest In addition to her own
experiences, she will probably bring hack
foil news Of the fate Of tho WindwaTd.
Peary's ship Of last summer, from which
nothing has been heard since she left
Etah TO attempt the passage Of smith
Sound to land the explorer north Of Sher-
rard Osborne Fjord. and also information
concerning the Norwegian party in the
Fran and tts work during the pass win
ter.
Nothing has been heard from Peary
since bis departure from Sydney, Cape
Breton, July Z. 1888, with the exception
OF two letters received BY ths ARCTIC Club
the other sksah. EAug. 49, 1854 Psary
gives o graphic description or his voyage
up to that time. The first ten days OF
the trip OF the Hope had been without es-
pecial incident, but on the eleventh day
the battle with the ice began. and abe
was several ttmes nipped 10 foes. Tae
trip across Melville bay was the longest
and most diiiicult thatPsary had ever sa-
conntsrsd. Arriving ~ Cape York, che
cd by the natives.
Pssry found the first natives az Ssur-
ders Island. They had . Eoodiy supply