The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-07-11
TO SEARCH FOR THE PBARYS
Herbert L. Bridgeman VIII Sail
From Cape Breton on the Erik.

The Wife and Child of the arctic
Explorer Missing Since August of
Last Yenr - Their Whereabouts
Purely Matter of Speculation.
NEW YORK. July u.-FIerbert /.
Bridgeman. Secretary of the Peary Arc
tic Club, started this morning Tor Sydney,
Cape Breton, where he IS to take com
mand Of the steamship Erik He will sail
north with the double purpose Of trying
to find Lieut. r E Peary and bring him
back and also to learn the whereabouts
Of Mrs. Peary and her daughter, whose
plight, it is feared, IS serious.
Peary himself is In the north of Mel
VILE Bay, it is believed, and little difficult
tv in finding him is expected. but grave
fears are entertained as TO the safety OF
his wife and child. They left here in
June Of last year and the Windward, IN
which they sailed, put in at Sydney, on
August 10. 1900 but since then no word
has been received nor has the vessel beer
sighted as far as is known. 1t had been
prearrauged that letters were to be sent
monthly. So Mr. Bridgemans mission
may be said to seek Mrs Peary quite as
much as TO bring relief to the explorer
Il feel quite sure" said Mr.. Bridge
man that Peary has accomplished
something unusual He may have actual
" reached the Pole But whether he has
done that or not it is certain that his
work has been of great value, as he has
all ehe while made maps and gained
scientific knowledge OF the great ice
fields which heretofore have been blanks
in geography"
The disappearance Of Mrs. Peary ana
her daughter, who is only eight years old,
began with the departure OF the second
expedition from sydney She was aboard
the Windward Capt Samuel Bartlett
Whether a jUnctIITe was effected with
Pearv. whether they are floating helpless
~ in the ice. or whether some accident
has befaIIen them are all matters OF spec
ulation But had they reached the head
quarters some word would have been sent
and the Windward would long ago have
reached Sydney.
Pearv left this country in 1898. with a
four years leave Of absence from the
navy. in which to put into execution his
weI,-defned plans for reaching the Pole
These plans he outlined at . dinner of the
American Geographical Society some time
ago. He was to go north, establish head
quarters on the northern shore of Mel
Vile Bay, and the Peary Arctic Club was
20 keep in communication with mn by
series of annual relief expeditions. Mr..
Bridgeman is now making the third but
the last. Of these expeditions a lack Of
funds Will make It necessary for Peary
to come back and abandon his plans for
the present. Though no word has come
from Peary since March g. 1900, his
friends familiar with Arctic conditions,
are not in the least fearful
Letters not only have to wait months
for vessels to take them explained MT.
Bridgeman but If Peary was penetrat-
ing farther north II might be weil-nigh
impossible to even keep in touch with his
own headquarters Letters, too. which
come by the way Of Copenhagen, fire.
queutIy miscarTy or take q long time TO
reach their destinations, and the silence
Of Peary. to my mind only indicates
some unusual activity
In 1899 the year following the eXpI0r-
er-s departure, the Diana, IN command of
Mr. Bridgeman- sailed northTard. At
Etah. on FouIke Ford. letters were deIiv-
cred from Peary giving instructions as to
his needs and telling Of progress in the
explorations Of the country. A little later
Peary himself was found at his headquar-
tiers. Mr. Bridgeman remained a week
with PeaTv and then returned The next
and latest news from Peary was in
March 1900 when letters were left at Cape
York and were much of the same tenor
as those Of the year before. The ex-
pIorer at that time was pushing always
n0rtnward but at the same time doing
what so few other explorers have done
making maps and plans OF the great IN
known country north Of Melville Bay.
Captain Cagni. Of the Italian navy who
has been farthest north would probably
have gotten to the Pole # the men had
not had arms and legs frozen Duke de
/ Eruzzi, who supplied the funds for that
expedition had to turn back early in the
trip. We viii get back aboU, the middle
OF September. I hope, but before THAI
time the Arctic Club viii learn of what
success Peary has had
The Erik win be IN command Of Cap
tain BIakewsy, of Halifax The first Of
/ icer and iceInaster VIII be Capt Moses
! RartIett a nephew Of Capt. Sam Bart
I lett of the Windward. and besides Mr.
BrIdgeman there will be Prof. L. {
Stone. Of the Brooklyn Polytechnic InSti-
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