Evening journal., 1903-09-14
PEARY'S ARCTIC TRIP.
Explorers Plans For Finding
the North Pole.
sTEAMToBE oHIEP MOTIVE POWER

Powerful Engines Are TO Be Placed
In staneh uuu of "A Wooden Vessel
60 Withstand the Icc--Fucl VIII De
Taken In a Tender Negro body
Servant 20 Accompany Him on Last
Dash
The expedition in quest Of the north
pole which Iieu;onant Peary is to con-
ductnext year win be unlike any Of It's
predecessors, says Washington spe-
cial to the New York World. Instead
OF depending upon sails as the chief
part Of the motive power the explorer
win depend Utmost entirely upon steam.
Suits. if used. Will be the auxiliary
power.
Acting Secretary Darling, who is one
OF the heartiest supporteFsthee explorer
has, said the. other. afternoon that the
iieuteuant's idea was TO use a stanch
wooden hulled craft OF notover 400 or
800 tons, but to have In that hull ns
powerful machinery as he could find
The vessel viii be named after Mr.
Darling
Peary's plan is to make his base on
Grant Land and winter at Cape Co
lumbia or some point further west.
From that point he win l1ave his Eski-
mos trausport'his party across the hum
mockye ice that exists between the
eighty-third. and cighty-slxth. degrees
OF latitude.a The men who are 10 make
the dash are not 60 engage in any Of
the toll OF getting across the Ice hum
mocks, but are 90 preserve their ener-
gies for tho last stage OF the Journey,
witch SSfil be a little more than 800
miles long The Eskimos are expected
to,transport this party about 100 miles.
II have not determined the number
. OF men who. VIII accompany me in the
run for the pole" said Lieutenant Pea=
ry. 1T WIN not, however, consist Of
much more thnn twenty-five men. prob
ably not more than twenty 1t win de-
pend upon the number OF Esldmos
shall be able TO get 10 go with me to
the base that Is TO be established on
Grant Land.
"The only man ] know positively Will
be in the last dash win be Matthew
Hansen, the colored man who has been
with me on former expeditions. would
not think OF going without him. He is
now I'm New York serving as a valet.
but he will go with me whenever / am
ready. have three EslKimos in mind
who win go with me.
Dogs only will be used in dragging
the sleda across the ice between Grant
Land and the pole. They are better
than men In every respect. They travel
faster and are more faithful workers.
They require less food, and In case OF
dire necessity they can be used as food
/ for the members of the party.
"I feel more confident of success than
before any OF the other trips have
undertaken"
1t Is altogether probable the explorer
win buy an ocean going tug that has 9
wooden hull IN good state of preser
walton. This be win have braced so the
maximum OF resistance TO ice pressure
will be produced Into this hull power.
4 ful engines will be placed.
A supply OF fuel viii have to be tax
en- north In tender and perhaps trans
ported TO Grant Land by the most labo-
rious methods, so as TO enable the tug
to return, If she gets that far north.
with the least possible delay after the
dash to the pole has been made.
The money for the enterprise has not
been rnised. but President Roosevelt
and Acting Secretary Darling are such
good friends Of the project that their
influence win be put back of the efforts
the explorer intends making to procure
the necessary funds