The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-16
Lieutenant TraVersed the Icy
Mountains Of Greenland.
ON LABRADOR'S SHORES NOW
Will Have 10 Await His Arrival on Soil Of
Uncle Sam to Learn Results Of
lIpiOratloa.

New York. Sept. 15 - Herman Z. l..
Bridgman of Brooklyn, secretary of the
Peary Arctic club. received cipher dis
patch by cable from Lieetenant Peary at
-6hateaux fay- zrbratfor, yesterday, 2,
stating that Lieutenant Peary was there
and we'll
Lieutenant Peary asked Mr.. Bridgman
Mr.. Bridgman started for Sydney last
night He said that Lieutenant Peary
probably wanted TO see him about bust
ness.
The dispatch. Mr. Bridgman said. did
not give any other details. 1t is expected
that Lieutenant Peary will reach sydney
in about three days.
SAFE RETURN FROM GREENLAND.
Chateaux Bay, the point on the coast of
Labrador from which Lieutenant Peary
has been able To announce his safe return
from Greenland. is one OF the small and
narrow fishing inlets in the southern part
OF Labrador at the northern entrance TO
the Straits OF Belle Isle.
In his previous Journeys Peary has
never been able TO send word of his COM
ing until he reached ST. Johns. N. r., or
sydney Cape Breton But a few months
ago the Canadian government established
cable connections between Chateaux Bay
and Quebec for the purpose OF informing
shipping OF the ice and fog conditions
In the Straits of Belle Isle.
The route through these straits, being
the shortest between the mouth of St.
Lawrence and British ports, is preferred
by steamships II navigation through them
is feasible. Peary threfore. improved
this OppOrtnnify fo send uawa af hia
coming at least two or three days earlier
than has heretofore been possible.
FEELING OF RELIEF.
While the part of the dispatch now
made public contains no news OF the ex-
plorer's work during the last year. every
friend of Peary's In the country will have
a feeling Of relief now that he Is known
to be returning home in safety. There
was no anxiety lest the Windward, which
went north to bring him back. should
fall to reach his winter quarters. No
Arctic steamer properly handled and des-
tined for Cape Sabin at the southern en-
trance to Smith Sound. where Peary was
to have his winter camp, has ever failed
TO reach that point.
The uncertainty lay In the possibility
that Peary might have attained so high
latitude that he would be unable TO re-
turn to his winter quarters in time to
tune would have left his friends in pain
full uncertainty as to his fate
Peary, however, had promised that if
all went we'll with him he would be at
Cape Sabine or In the neighborhood
ready TO come home when the Windward
arrived. He kept his promise.
MAY HAVE HAD GOOD LUCK.
The probabilities arc that Peary had
good luck and made a fine and quick
journey north and back again or that
the conditions were so unrevorable for
making a high northing that there could
not be any excuse for failure to meet the
Windward at Cape Sabine or at Btah on
the other side of Baffin's Bay.
but OF earlier date, reached here today.
THE PHYSICIAN COMING HOME.
DIR. T. 8. Dedrick, the physician who
went north with the lieutenant and was
left at the Esquimaux Dettlemtnt OF Etah
on Smith sound, having resigned from the
expedition after several disagreements
with Lieut.. Peary of a nature not wholly
explained, sent word to his wife, who
Lieut.: Peary crossing Sabine strait on
Jan. 6 last. that he offered his services to
the lieutenant, and they were refused
and that he CDR. DedriclS) is coming
home.
This information was contained In a
cable dispatch which Mrs Dedrick re-
oeived from her husband yesterday after
in Labador. DR.. DERRICK intimated that
he expected to be at Sydney. c. B., short
ly, and from there would come to this
city. He Informed his wife that he was
well, and that he was not insane, as was
limited after he was left at Etah.