The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-17
SOME WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
"A FEW FACTS ABOUT OUR FIRST
PORTO RICAN DELEGATE.

Mrs. Peary Has Sailed for the Fro
zen Regions to Find Her Husband.
tied Means and No Social PrOmi-
nence-Some Facts About Arctic
Life-An Interesting WOman-She
Is the Wife of the Spanish Minis
ter-Many other Matters of General
Interest.
Washington, Aug. 16.-Everybody
knows that Lieut. Robert E. Peary's
wife has sailed for the frozen North to
find her husband if he is yet alive;
but everybody does not know that she
is a Washington woman, born III
Washington and graduated from Its
high school. Her family are Germans,
of limited means and no social promi-
nence. Her father, Prof. Diebilsch, was
employed for many years in the Smith
sonian Institution, until a stroke of
paralysis ended his usefulness; after
which Mrs. Diebilsch followed in the
footsteps of most reduced Washing
domains and took to room-renting and
clearinghouse keeping as a means OF
sustenance The eldest daughter. jose
phine, who is now Mrs. Peary, was
great help to both father and mother.
She is something of a linguist, and
when Prof Diebitsch's health began
to fall, she assisted him every day In
translating the various foreign docu-
ments that came before the interna-
y1Io 4 fCin OF l.
tuition.
The family home is in frame cot
tage, surrounded by extensive grounds
In one of the Quietest streets in the
northwestern section his city; and
here Mrs. Peary and little girl who
was born in the Arcti> regions, has re-
manned most of the time While her GAL
liant husband has been on his several
expeditions in search of the North
Pole-that magnetic attraction which
has lured so many men of science to @
tragic fate. Immediately upon entering
the house one sees evidences of Arctic
explorations. The hallway and walls
are decorated from end to end with
curious relics brought home from the
Land of the Midnight Sun by Lieut.
and Mrs. Peary; the floors are strewn
with skins of the polar bear and other
animals of that distant region; Va
nous implements and utensils of the
rs kimo fill the corners; cabinets con-
tain miniature snow sleds, snow shoes,
pixies and Eskimo dogs; and every
Where are photographs and drawings
OF Arctic scenes and pictures of the
!leutenants little daughter Ah-ni-ghi,
the Snow Baby" in her fur trousers
and hood, la Eskimo.
The present trip that Mrs. Peary has
undertaken is her fourth to the re-
glons of eternal winter She hopes to
meet her husband at Cape Sabine, or
az Payer Harbor-a place named for
capt Payer, who headed the Austrian
expedition in 1870. All she knows about
MN is that last February he started
1or Cape Hella, and from there was to
70 Que north as far as he could over
me Ice pack. II alive, he will return
70 ms headquarters at Hella some time
uufing the summer, and a ship viii
pe sent this month to pick him up
LOT the voyage home. The hackers Of
ms expedition are members of the
cary Arctic Cuba number of New
lork millionaires, who are devoting
some OF their surplus cash TO the adj
fnHeenent Of science and research. II
al goes we'll. the Pearys expect 10
ieaeh their Washington home in No
FsHDef. as the lieutenants leave ex-
sies then. and he must report for
Nuly IN october. lie VIII have 70 un-