The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-01
HAS LIEUTENANT PEARY
REACHED THE NORTH POLE?
His Supply Steamer Wndwad Ready to Sail for Greenland Where
the Intrepid Explorer Has Established
Winter Quarters.

IN few lays Lieut.. Pcary's Arctic
steamer the WindNard VIII start for
the north as part Of the supple
. mertary expeditions in that eXPl9r-
er's plan Of attack on the north .s1lc.
The steamer has just come ouf ~ ary-
dock at st Johns, y. r. after receiving
a thorough overhauijng. A, Sydney, Caps
Breton, under the command OF Can't.
Samuel w Bartlett she will take on coal
and provisions preparatory to hcr voyage
northward to peary's winter quarters ~
Etah, north Greenland ON this voyage
she will bear as her only passengers Mrs
Peary and little Miss Marie Ahuighlto
Peary who 80 10 Join the explorer az
Etah II must not be supposed that tnis
s. IN any sense a relief expedition As al
ready stated. II Is part ~ Lieut. Pcary's
plan OF operations which covers a ported
OF several years Each season tho eNplor-
er was to push his advance farther north.
establishing stations connected with his
base Of supplies on the Greenland coast.
and each summer vessel Was To pro-
coed 10 that point with material for his
expedition, 70 receive there news 81 his
progress and TO bring him back u civil
ization when HIS work was successfully
done or when he was ready 10 confess
failure.
II is on this errand that the Windwurd
will start. The vessel IS laden with sun
plies. with boats suitable for Arctic work
and With such material "a may be needed
for the further prosecution Of the adj
vance toward the pole. But there Is the
hope that these may not be needed. and
that on her return the Windward will
bring the daring and persistent expIorcr
with the record Of his work done and
problem of the frozen north solved Peary
last wear established nine stations atong
ha ha vsft
for his spring Journey. on the return Of
the sun in March last he fhould have been
ready for what may be his last and sue
cessful dash to the pole. The return II
the expedition now about to start NAV
bring the fruitlon OF this remarkable un-
dertaking.
sailing Under the American Flag.
II Is intended that the Windward VIII
start north July !. or Immediately there
after. New engines would have been pat
in the vessel but for the inability Of
manufacturers IN Great Britain and Amer
lea TO undertake the contract The old
engines have been thoroughly overhauiei
new shaft and new propeller have
been supplied and q Is expected that the
vessel will thereby have gained kaot
and a half hour The Windward Il wli
be recalled IL the stanch ship that bore
the Jackson Hhrmsworth Arctic expedl-
ton and which was subsequently, present.
ed 20 Mr. Peary nv Altrad c. Iarm*worth
The ship viii aail this year nvtnE The
stars and STRIVES. ard win be the arst
Arctic expedition steamship 20 carry tho
American flag M the peak since the H.
fated Polaris. under tho command of
Capt c. r. Han left the brooklyn navy
yard In July. 1871
The steamer will mako but one stop at
Disco--or her way to Eiah. north Grcen-
land where Peary's winter quarters are
established Here Instructions from the
explorer will doubtless be found or u