The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-27
MANY ARE
GOING P|lEHARD
Number of Explorers in the
Ice Near the Poles
EXPEDITION IN NORTH
Word Is Expected Soon From
Perry or Baldwin.
EXPEDITION IN NORTH

/ ne 1e P2rtlre from this port last wesk
OF the Peary relief ship windVara calls
fresh attention 70 the great hopes and
expectations All interested Ia Arctic ana
Antarctic exploration have hult upon the
numerous expeditions now n TIE polar
seas Rarely oftener than once a year
does news % such an undertaking reach
I the world OF the telegraph and 81 sns
I Saiiy Journal Their a hailetin nom 10
extreme north or south does nnd SIS way
into print, As likely as not II gives news
I OF some striking military achievements
quite as frSquently as it tells tale e
hanled hope. or suffering and desth. Last
yea-- FOR instance. the rrst report frsns
Feary told IN a nattsr-of-fact way %
the rounding OF the northern lsrnit %
The Greeland archipelago. probably the
I probably the most northcyly land IN tbs
world. Nearly loo years aEo Eric re
Red hrst sighted the southern extremity
Of the archipelago. and from thar time.
as Peary reported +.Norulcganz. Dutch.
( Danes swedes. Ensiishmen. scotchmen.
and Americans have crept gradually
I northward up the shores Until az last ss
northern cape has been lifted out * tns
Arctic mists and obscurity" hy an Amer
I lean naval ohicer. Well might Ne say 4
this event. long considered second IN TN
I portance only % the attainment % the
I pole itself. that he was doing tolcrahiy
4 vel, considering that 4 ara an Old mas
and have one broken leg and only thres
toes" Con one foot)
This spring and summer marks tha
high tide of Pesry's Arctic ventures he
Is in the nth successive year q thi.
+ spoch-making enterprise II his health
and bow have not suffered further mia
haps- the sr~lng should have f6und hin
h@cter fttea ,haH ever Tor a dash north
ward This crucial undertaking q What
he has been planning and working for
ever since he entered me See in isas he
Is well supplied with dog food and should
have had on taking the field me largest
and best pack n dogE wish which -
has hitherto been supplied From Fost
( ConEer u Cape Hecla and thercr directly
IN an air lire over the sea-lce Tor the
Foie-thls e his plan. II Is one thst The
I mere accident - an uufavorsh1r season
may render impossible 90 go lncepfion.
hut the uBdauutcd piuck and ability =
the man give ground for the hope that.
when the WindWara returns it vii bring
news 20 set The whole world asaz
Another expedition ls fhr DaIdaia- zeix-
/ Ter one which has the avowrd object .
reaching the north Pole by way - Frann
Josef Land in bis annual address e. tha
/ Royal Geographical Society. SIP Clements
I T. Markham declared thar ~thls b nas
an object whirh has ever caramenses
/ Itself o. the Council ~ this Society We
I have always advocated IRE exploration q
7 the unknawn popar rexi9rs-not "a rush
+ towards one particular SPOT The Pole
+ itself hs declared Is ~ no special tn
T teresf and IL ~ LONGER The masf aif-
I nculf point 20 reach there being others
I more distant from the boundary ~ uhst
I "a known. HoNeVer satisfactory these
i conclusions may - 20 TIE srisafinc rnlaa.
F o. is safe 70 say fhaf fhe enpsorlnx IA
( tons viii not rest satisfied ualu sonsa
F daring r-arv o. baldwin has acromaiish-
( 80 the OBJECT feT rhlch men have strives
/ FOR generations Nothing in tae anhno~n
stretches ~ TIE EiQsr aroasrz Iha Narifs
7 fmaEinatian IKE this reirt even n Il
has no special interest with References
o. its cs!eztisl Eheuomeua 81 sIr glen-
enfs pats 81 Acosnfs ~ Mr naifalns
proErsss AL Therefore be eagerly await
-
~ ihe Autarctic ihe w0rk - peaesraf-
ins fhe unknown hss hrea ~ssavsa -
three Vessefs-fae Diseorery. caa<as.
scott fitr Goat guaer the ausrsess =
/ The RoTai oe1gsaphical Hoci~fr. sh-
Gauss. carving are Gsrran srte-itseu
under Elk ven DTTgaiszl. ard IT, ofia
( Soriieaskiqids Antarctic. Strait re-ssi