The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-20

Lalns that one is lost in the shuttle
me old army people secretly dislike the
( recent addition of numerous civilians
10 the ranks. Commissions going TO
sons of influential citizens after the
young men have stirred up a little mud
IN lpe social or business world are quits
a rev. The result is a preference for
the navy as a profession.
Peary's Exhibition.
Among one OF the most interesting OF
/ WashingtOns navy circle is the Arctic
explorer, Lieutenant Robert f. Peary.
Evidently Lieutenant Peary viii not be
satisfied until he reaches the. pole. with
his application for leave Of absence, H.
submitted to Assistant Secretary Oar
I ling OF the navy department a detailed
statement OF his plans. He proposes to
secure a vessel and place her in one Of
the government shipyards, there to be
fitted I'D with the best machinery. so
that she may go north as an exponent
of American skill and mechanical abil
ity. The expedition would sail on the
LIST Of July. 1904. A sub-hase would be
/ established at Cape Sabine and winter
quarters on the north shore of Grant
Land. with caches between thes two
points, wherever practicable BY the
earliest returning light of the following
February Lieutenant Peary would start
due north with a small pioneer party.
which would be followed By a heavy
and larger party. He believes that tho
distance to and from the pole could be
accomplished in 100 days. Should con-
ditions the first year prevent the party
from reaching the north shore Of Grant
Land, they would winter as far north
as practicable and make the attempt
the following year. This would mean
that the expedition would be away two
years Lieutenant Peary says that his
plan is the result of twelve years ear
nest study. He urges upon Secretary
Darling that the north pole is the last
great geographical prize that the eartn
has to offer and that its attainment is
the privilege and. right of the Ameri-
can people. Furthermore. its achieve
ment would be one of the great mile
stones of the worlds history. I'm grant
ing the leave of absence requested the
assistant secretary said: "The attain
ment of the pole should be your chief
object Nothing short will suffice The
discovery Of the pole is all that remains
to complete the map of the world
Extra Session Talk.
Now that it is finally settled that
congress is to convene i'm extra session
and that the extra session will open on
the 9Th of November, society is coming
back to Washington. There are more
dashing equippages in the streets and
the hOrrid storm doors are coming
down In Washington one does not
really have a city home. it is merely q
city residence. The session is the sea-
SON. AT its close the fashionable folk
fit away and if it does not close until
the weather becomes unbearable, they
run away anyhow. Senators and con-
gressmeu and the cabinet members do
not eat even a door dinner with much
grace when the weather is melting
away their energies and the press Of
business is driving them distracted.
Consequently. if you are rich. quite del
iciOusly and disagreeably rich you have
q residence in Washington and the best
part Of your year you live i'm Europe, at
Manchester-by -the-sea, which has SUI
Derseded Bar HarbOr in the affection of
the diplomats, and at the Springs. Il
Is not quite 50 hard on the capitol as IL
seems. There is a host Of government
clerks TO keep the boarding houses go
ing. and the tourists make even the
hottest day Of summer a profitable time
for the hOtelkeepeT. Washington So
ciety is in a class by itself. It is quite
as cosmopolitan as New YORK and quite
as full of thinks as Boston. It does
not quite equal Chicago in the matter
Of liberality, moral iberality. I mean.
but If you cut out a Latin quarter. it
is not a bad Paris.
The unwilling of the statue to Cen
eral Sherman viii be one of the social
political events of the season. It has
been a long time in appearing, but fin
ally it is here, standing at the foot OF
the big, sOmber treasury. To attracts
the attention of every tourist from
north or south.