Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-10-31
LETTERs FROM pRARY.
Arctic Explorer Tells OF nfs Expert
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Arctic Explorer Tells OF FTfs Expert
enees Pa the Far Worth.
Charles a. Moore, a business man Of
New York, has received an Interesting
letter from Lieutenant Richard e,
Peary, the arctic explorer, says q
Washington dispatch. Mr.. Moore. who
was an Intimate friend of the late
President Mckinley and went with
him on his trip to the Pacific slope,
was In Washington the other day to
be present at the funeral ceremonies.
Lieutenant Peary's letter, dated Aug.
%, was handed to Mr.. Moore at his
New York office by H. L. Bridgman,
secretary Of the Peary Arctic club of
New York, who had brought it direct
from Lieutenant Peary. The letter is
as follows:
PAYER HARBoR, ELLEsMERE LAND, Aug. %.
My Dear Mr.. Moore-Both your letters O9Oo and
1000 are in my possession. The former. carried
on an Eskimo sledge drawn by twelve dogs, met
me April 80 Of this year as I was tra1nping along
the ice foot near Hayes point, about eighty de-
grees north latitude. The latter was handed me
by Mr.. Bridgman at Etah, Aug. 4. You can i'm
agine how much, with my surroundings, the ac-
count of your wanderings interested me. Reading
1t as 1 did clothed in furs and in a snow 'sigioo,"
your story seemed like a fairy tale or a narrative
OF another world than this. It must have been
extremely pleasant to. you all and doubly valuable
to Arthur, with his temperament and at his age.
He will have a splendid time this summer. 1t is
q magnificent training you are giving IF
and Europe, then Hudson bay. He is worth it.
/ have thought of him often in my hunting ex-
periences.
On my long sledge trip of a year ago I expended
thirteen earbine cartridges. with a result of eleven
musk oxen and one polar bear, and in the fall
hunting at Conger l bagged twenty-five musk
oxen one day with twenty-six cartridges.
L have heard OF your trip west with Mrs. Moore
and the president. l am still han1nering away
at my object, getting some hard knocks, doing
some work that will endure longer than 1. yet
still short OF my goal. But my grip is still good.
I have a year before me, and 1 have yet to ex-
peraence the hrst feal1ng OF encouragement Very
sincerely, r. E.. PEARY.
Mr.. Moore also has at hand a letter
received by lis son, Arthur Moore. who
accompanied Lieutenant Peary on his
former trip to the arctic and who this
yea went Oh an expedition On his own
account on the chartered steam whaler
Algerine. Nine Yale students, includ-
ing Mr.. Mccormick, the son Of the
newly appointed minister to Austria,
were in his party. The letter is as fol-
lows:
PAYER HARBoR, ELLEsMERE LAND, Aug. 90.
My Dear Arthur-Your kind letter reached me at
the seyenty-ninth parallel of north latitude April
30 OF this year and was read by me in a snow
'1gloo' at Cape Louis Napoleon. You have your
fathers happy faculty of saying pleasant things.
l have thought of you often up here and wished /
could have you and another. like you to be in my
party for the coming year. l can tell you when l
see you much that 1 have not time e< space to
write.
I hope this will find you returned from your
Hudson bay trip, with a heavy bag. of big game
and an extensive r~epertoTy of stories of exciting
adventures. Always sincerely, R. E. PEARx
Young Mocre's party was last heard
from on July 26 at Turneoic, Labrador.
His father has just received a tele-
gram in Washington from him stating,
"Ship arrived North Syd&ey and all
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