The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-18
THE VESSEL WiNDWARD AT.
TRACTS MUCH ATTENTION.
WELL EQUIPPED FOR WORK
Peary Arctic Exploring Expedition
Will Make a New Start for
the North Pole.

New York, July 14.-The Peary
Arctic steamer Windward arrived at
Jersey City today and will go into
commission and depart for the north
tomorrow. The Windward came down
under her own steam IN the early
morning from Newburgh, N. Y, where
for the last two months she has been
receiving new equipment of boilers
and machinery, making the u in a
very creditable time and with a very
satisfactory performance Of the new
engine. The ceremony of transfer
from the contractor to the club was
very simple. The stars and stripes
been hoisted for the first time
at the peak, under the special act
of congress signed by the late Presi-
dent Mckinley, allowing an American
registry to the Windward, little Marie
Peary, daughter of the explorer and
the most northern born child in the
world, hoisted to the foretruck the
club pennant, designed by herself, and
also displayed for the first time. The
emblem is simple, yet effective and
appropriate, with two long, narrow
red stripes, each bordered on the in
side by white; a triangular blue field
bears the white initials "P. A. c."
the combination introducing the ma
tional colors in strong yet legible
combination, which can be read a
long distance.
The Windward since her arrival in
New York has been completely chang
ed, and will go north as a full-power-
ed, completely equipped and thorough
ly commodious ship for Arctic work.
To admit the new and powerful boil
er, once in the Vigilancia, wrecked on
the Cuban coast, the mainmast has
been completely removed, giving the
ship the nondescript rig of square
sails on the foremost and a fore and
aft spanker and topsail on the mizzan.
Across the deck just forward of the
poop has been built a house which
has five commodious staterooms, three
of which, on the starboard side, will
be occupied by MI. and Mrs. Peary.
In the center of the house is a large
messroom or saloon, with the cook and
his galley adjoining on the port side,
while the roof of the house serves as
a bridge for the navigating officer.
!! The new engine is a "steeple COM
| pound" all parts being made excep-
tionally strong for work in the ice,
and is expected to give a speed OF
from seven to eight knots, equal to
that of the fastest Of the Newfound-
land sealing fleet and nearly three
times that possible with the discard
ed boiler and engine. The Windward
will coal at Sydney, G. B., and proceed
north through the Straits of Belle
Isle, touching at Godhaven and posi-
bly, at Upernavik, and should, with
all favorable circumstances, reach
Peary's headquarters and him about
August 1.
During yesterday the members ct
the Peary Arctic club and many guests
visited the Windward, inspecting with
much interest the quarters which Mrs.
Peary and Miss Peary will occupy on
their northern voyage, and much
more, the little cabin in which they
! spent eight long months imprisoned
in the ice at Payer harbor. The lit
tie stateroom was also the home ct
Liutenant Peary, Jackson and Lieu,
tenant Armitage, much smaller than
the ordinary stateroom of an ocean
liner, and was also the home Of Mr.
jackson on his voyage to and from
Franz Josef Land, and in which DR.,
hansen made his return from his
arduous and adventurous Arctic voy
age. While the Windward cabin is
cramped, almost Of diminutive pro
portions, "a semi-circular table in
front of a transom of cushion, it will
accommodate by careful packing hall
a dozen people, but of Jul those
on the inside are unable to move un
til those nearer the ends of the semi
circle make room for them. Fou1
people will fill the cabin, while si1
crowd uncomfortably, and therefor'
part of the time of the visitors yes
terday was allotted to the deck and t.
the new d~eckhouse. The forward
; decks of the Windward were ais
; busy yesterday, since stores for
, year and additional supplies for tn
; Jensen station at Cumberland SCUM
we're being stored, that the departur
might be effected at the earliest pos
I sible moment. The little ship was a
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