Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1902-09-24
PEARY MAKES A NEW MARK
He Advances Nearer to the North
Pole Than Ever Before.
THINKS GOAL CAN BE REACHED

The Most Northerly Point Touched Was
81 Degrees, II Minutes--It May Be
the Explorers Last Trip-Brings Home
Numerous Odd Things-Promoted to
the Rank OF Commander- Health Good
Sydney. Cape Breton. - After being
forced to turn back from a point fifty
miles nearer the Pole than ever before
reached by an American explorer
Lieutenant Robert L. Peary arrived
here on the Arctic Club steamer Wind
ward.
The most northern spot Lieutenant
Peary reached was eighty-four degrees
seventeen minutes. or within $40 miles
of tho Pole Two foreign explorers
have advanced fur her than this Nam
sen reaching latitude S6.14 and the
Abruz:i expedition. SG.33 On Peary's
previous journey he reached latitude
S327
The Lieutenant was well. though his
Esllimos had suffered severely and
many died from native epidemic
Mrs. Peary and her daughter. who had
gone TO meet him on the Wndward.
We're well, though Mrs. Peary had been
ill.
DR.. Diedrici also was with the party.
having rejoined it ut Etah after his
quarrel with Peary. The two men did
not speak to each other on the trip,
and Dr. Diedrick said their differences
had not been settled.
The Windward has discharged one
OF the most interesting cargncS that
has ever been landed Mt this port Es-
kimo canoes, sledGeS and implements
of all kinds, Il musll-oX, 4 walrus. ten
OF tue dogs which dragged Peary's
sledges over many Il weary mile of ice.
and Il hundred other curioS. large and
small. have been loaded on freight cars.
Pealy. who received the news OF his
promotion from the rank of Lieutenant
TO that of Commander upon landing,
was kept busy most OF the day receiv-
ing and answering kilograms and
granting interviews TO newspaper men.
Lieutenant Peary says that while he
did not discover the North Pole on his
trip of four years. he feels certain that
tie Pole can he reached, and further
more. that If lie We're Il man of indie
pendent means he would pcrscvere un-
til he succeeded He SAYS the Pole can
bp reached from Franz Josef Land and
from Grant Land. in latitude eighty
three degrees. If the winter quarters
are established as far north rs posi-
bile. He says that he would just rs
soon winter ut Cape Hecla rs Mt Sabine
or Ejah.
There is nothing whatever the OK
plorcv says. in the old popular notion
of an open polar sea-. nor is there any
foundation for the claim that the pole
is surrounded by an immovable sea of
ice. The water OF the polar region is
covered with shifting masses of ice.
The citizens Of Sydney gave public
reception for Lieutcnont Peary in Alex
andra Hall. Mayor Grow presided and
presented TO Peary an eloquent ad-
dress commentators of his work 10
which the explorer made n briec but cf-
.fectiVc response
Lieutenant Peary's report to the
Pcary Arctic Club Of the opera tons of
the expedition since August o. 1901.
has been made public 1t is signed by
himself and addressed TO Secretary II.
l.. Bridgman. of the Peary Arctic Cub.
Lieutenant Peary has received mn IN
Vitation from the Scottish GcocYanhi-
cal Society to visit Edinburgh and re-
ceiv@ gold medal. its highest honor.
He has also been elected an honorary
Fellow of the National Geographic So
ciety, whose headquarters arc in Wash.
ington, ID. G.