The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-16

Beyond that contained in the dispatch
Mr.. Bridgeman has no information as
to the movements of the explorer, who
sailed with his expedition to the North
Pole July 4, 1898. Mr.. Bridgeman left
Lieutenant Peary at Cape Sabin on the
29th of August, 1901.
Mr.. Bridgeman left here on the mid
night train for Boston. whence he will
go to Sydney to meet the explorer on
his arrival there. DR.. Dedrick's mes
sage also said the doctor had left his
quarters with the Eskfmos at Etah
and had gone to Peary's winter head
quarters to offer hts services If needed
In the message to his wife DR.. Ded-
rick touches on one point that is of the
greatest interest, as throwing light on
his relations with Lieutenant Peary. 1t
will be recalled that when the Erik, the
Peary relief ship of last year, returned
last autumn, leaving the explorer to
make a dash for the pole this summer.
it was said that DR.. Dedrick. who for
three years had been Peary's surgeon.
had been left alone at Etah and would
have to depend upon his own unaided
resources to exist during the long dark
winter.
It was at first fntimated that DR..
Dedrick had been marooned as the re-
suit of a disagreement with Peary, but
this was emphatically denied later by
the officers Of the Peary Arctic club. DR..
Dedrick's wife was entirely satisfied in
her own mind that her husbands real
his fine sense of honor and his devotion
to Peary, despite the difference that
had arisen between them.
The relief ship Windward left New
York in July last to find the Peary ex-
pedition and has evidently been success
| full.
Counting that of 1891, Peary has made
! five expeditions north The first after
his discovery Of Independence bay. dur
| ing the expedition of 1892, lasted over
! 1893, 1894, 1895. and was not a marked
success In 1896 he made a summer trip
north after the great meteorite, but fall
! ed to get it. In 1897 he went again after
! the meteorite, found it and made ar
rangements for a great expedition in
! 1898. --.-..z-s.
| On July 4, 1898, after practically two
years of busy preparation, Lieutenant
| Peary sailed from New York in the
| Windward, a gift to him from an Eng
| hsh admirer, Alfred Harmsworth. and
| he has been contending with the awful
rigors Of life in the arctic seas even
| since.
The Windward arrived at Etah Green
! land, on August 13, 1898 and was frozen
! in for the winter of 1S98-S9 on the west
ern side Of Kane Basin on September
IL. On August 13, 1899. she got clear
on September 10. her companion ship
| the Diana, that had been sent north
| to relieve Peary, arriving at Sydney,
Cape Breton. two days later. Peary
\ not QaVlnK SucCcSQeQ III carrying Ill Ills
| plans into effect, reamined in the north
as, indeed. he had intended from the
! first, and there was nothing for his sup
| porters to do but to send a relief YES
sci north again in the summer of 1900
4 which was accordingly DONE
This relief expedition OF 1900 comp1i-
Gated matters to a certain extent, since
it added to the tragic possibilities In
the case Of disaster, for the WindWar6
carried Mrs. Peary and her little daugh-
ter.
For awhile, however 1t seemed as Il
no light would be thrown on Peary':
doings during the fall OF 1899 and winter
of 1S99-1s00. But through the instru
mentality of DIR. Leopold Kann, wht
with DIR. Robert Stein, of Washington
and Samuel Warmbath. of Boston, hat
been taken north by the Diana in 1S9
on hare-brained expedition to Elles
mere Land, Lieutenant Peary was heart
from. Though the worst was feared TO
the members of this wretchedly equip
ped expedition. they ali survived tn,
winter and DR.. Kann, after leaving
their quarters for Cape Sabine in th'
spring, managed to get to Cape York
on the eastern side of Baff1n's bay
where he was picked up by a Dunde
whaler on Tune 8 and was taken t,
Scotland, where he arrived on Novem
ber rs. Before he left Cape Sabine tn
natives had brought a few letters from
Peary and these DIR. Kann brough
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