The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-09-30
HIS DASH FUR IHt POLE
PEARY Is WITHIN 500 MILES
OF IT.
Will Start Next April From Cape
Hecla-Eleventh Relief Expedition
Returns With News From the North.

NEW YORK, September 21.-Herbert
l.. Brldgman, secretary of the feary
ArCuC CUB, VINO cOnuuCtS the Peary
relief expedition tins year, ana the
young men VINO accompanied him have
returned nom. WIN Inem came Mrs.
Peaty and ner little girl, who was born
in the Arctic regions eight years ago.
Next April" SAID Mr.. BrIugman IN
Brooklyn last night, "Peary Will start
for tne pole from Cape HeCia, the high
est point of land he mas discovered IN
the West, which is only 500 miles from
the poe. If he snouid never reach it,
his discoveries have been important
enough to warrant the time he has
spent in the north, but he will reach
the pole"
Mr.. Bridgman said he had the salts
faction of knowing that Peary had a
supply OF wd.rus meat large enough to
carry him through his undertaking
me explorer returned with the Bridg-
man party as far as cape HenscneI,
where ms winter quarters are.
Four days after it occurred Mr..
Bridgman at Sydney heard of the
shooting of President Mckinley. Peary
will not hear of it until next summer.
The last relief expedition" said Mr..
Bridsman, was the eleventh sent out
by the Arctic Club. They have lost all
twice in danger, however. Once we got
caught between a glacier and an ice
foe and went aground on a muddy
bank. We were fast for several hours.
and the danger was lest the ice pack
should sweep in around us and make
us prisoners. The captain pounded a
hole in the nose of the foe. fastened a
big hawser to the foe, and in ten min
utes the breat body of ice, whose move
swun" us clear of the whole thing.
THE most serious time was when we
got caught between the lip of ice. un-
der water, md the glacier. We got
away all right, however"
Mr. Bridgman said that, so far as he
knew, there was no truth in the report
from Halifax, N. s., that Peary had
discovered gold in the Arctic regions.
If such discovery had been made
Peary Mr.. Brdgman thinks. undoubt-
eddy would have spoken to him about
it.
BOSTON, September 2O.-Engineer
Stats of the Peary expedition says
that Lieutenant Peary and DR.. Die
drick, the surgeon, did not live most
amicably. Constant quarreling between
the chief of the expedition and DR.. Die
drick resulted in the abandoning of the
doctor at Etah, Greenland, latitude 70
deg. 10 min. north. Put ashore by
Commander Herbert L. Brdgman from
the Erik at 2 o'clock in the morning Of
August 18th last, DIR. Diedrick was
without any food whatsoever and the
only means he had of protecting him
self from the assaults of the Polar
bears and other wild animals of the
North were few guns and little am
munition. According to Stats, little
sorrow was expressed by Lieutenant
Peary and the seven members of the
expedition aboard the Erik
Etah is but place in name only. The
inhabitants of the spot, Esquimaux not
more than fifty in number, live i'm small
huts built of ice and snow. To be sure,
one of the Peary storehouses is stu
ated there, but nothing but hard bis
cults is kept there. These. with the
meat he might get from the killing of
walrus or the staying of bear are the
only encouraging prospects held out
for the exiled man, according to the
turning traveller