The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-14
HUNTERS FOR NEW WORLDS.
ROMANCES AT THE CONGRESS- OF
THE GEOGRAPIERS.
Islands I'm tho Pacific In Which Philip
NOlan's Last Ship May Have Been
Lost-Germans' seizure OF Territory
-Peary's Plan to he Announced To-day.

-Peary's Plan TO BE Announced To-day
The sessions in this city OF the Interna
tional Geographical Congress opened II
the house OF the American Geographical
Society in West Eighty first street yester
day morning.
Commander Peary head of the American
branch and temporary chairman, gav'
an address Of welcome, and the members
divided into four sections, therein to dis.
cuss cartograph and isotherms and geo.
graphical distribution and other matters
beyond the comprehension of the lay mind
BY far the greater number of the dele
gates are men who have met with dime
novel adventures on sea and land. There IL
Peary who has journeyed more miles in
the Arctic than any other living man.
There IL DR.. Cook, who came back alive from
the frozen Antarctic. Grandier, the French
man, is the man who opened up interior
Madagascar. Joachim Graf Won Pfel und
Klein Ellguth carried his name into the
unknown iungles Of German East Africa
and planted ii there that his country might
add new colony to the empire.
Yet these men sat yesterday and listened
to papers fun of metrica tables-and were
interested.
theless. James D. Hague of New York city,
In discussing the existence of an uncharted
group of islands in the North Pacific, sug-
gested new ending to Edward Everett
Halss story. 1.-THE Man Without Country. "
1t will be remembered that the last ship
on which Philip Nolan sailed was the Levant.
The Ievant is recorded in the list of United
States naval vessels as Lost in the Pacific
Ocean 1880"
From time to time in the early part Of the
nineteenth century whalers reported the
existence of an island group between Ha-
wall and Panama. They even named two
Of the islands, calling them New island"
and @Roca Coral"
Two British warships. with flags for
them In 1887 and before, but found moth
Ing. although they reported some signs
Indicating that land was nearby. In 1899
the Albatross was sent by our Government
10 make another search. No islands were
found Yet in 1902 the Australia Of new
Ban Francisco-Tahi line reported dan
gerous looking disoolorations which looked
like shoals. So the cruiser Tacoma on
her trial trip was sent by President Roose-
welt to take another look. The cruiser
traversed about one-fourth Of the doubtful
region and found neither land nor shoal.
Just before that time DR.. John De Greavts,
ascientifio adviser to the old Hawaiian
monarchy. told the correspondent of a New
York newspaper that he mad visited just
such islands in 1850. This story vas after
ward proved to be very doubtful, MIR. Hague
eaid
In spite OF the fact that two British and
two American warships t.sversed this area
and found nothing, Mr.. Hague Is still OF
the. opinion that those islands are, there
and that the Levant was wrecked upon
vessel mainmast identified as hers came
ashore on the Hawaiian Islands 1t was
not snapped as though 1t had been carried
away in a storm at sea. The vessel from
o % soe shose a route
the Levant intended to take in 1880 was the
same one which De Greaves took In 1850.
Therefore Mr.. Hague thinks the sur
vivors Of the Levant may be still living
DR.. Pfeil, whose full name will be found
above, told how Germany got her East
African colony In his paper on The Rise and
Development Of the German Colonial Posses
sions" He and two companions. according
to his story, seized all that country for Cor
many as an independent venture In 1884.
They borrowed $4,000 from their parents
to finance the undertaking, sneaked across
Zanzibar to the African coast and made q
long trek inland. signing up treaties with
the native chiefs. His two companions
went back to Germany for the purpose OF
offering their find to the home Govern
ment which took it at one gulp. DR.. Pfeil
a thousand miles, to hold the fort until
they came back with German war vessels.
The country seized by them had about tho
area OF Germany.
Frederick A Cook, M. D., told Of hisiunsuo-
oessful ats, apt to climb Mount Mckinley,
the giant of the American continent, and
said that he Is going back at 1t again next
year. The section In which all these things
and Is the part Of the congress- In which the
ayman would take most delight.
Probably the most interesting paper Of
the dayto the savants was that OF Sir John
Murray, the man who has mapped the ocean.
He said that one-half tie deep ocean floor
Ii free from the seismic disturbances which
occur nearer land and that the continents are
growing greater in area and more compact
through the constant washings Of oceans
and rivers.
At the last congress, held in Berlin, the
Prince of Monaco was authorized to make
q set OF ocean maps, revised from his own
explorations. This he has done at his own
expense. Prof. Thoulet exhibited them
praised in six or seven different languages,
and vote OF thanks was accorded the Prince
In the section devoted to economic geog-
raphy, o. p. Austin. Chief of the Bureau OF
btatlstlcS OF the department. OF commerce
and Labor, maintained that the neglected
agricultural region Of the world lies in the
tropics and that in the equatorial regions
will come the great industrial expansion of
the future
Mr. Austin believes that the tropics should
bear the burden of all the worlds sugar
culture, leaving the temperate zones now
devoted to sugar culture free for the pro-
duction OF breadstuffs.
Lieut. Perry hes banquet coming to-
night. AS already told, he has an i'm
portant announcement to make at that |
time. He will not give any clue to its nature,
but despatch Of two days ago stating that |
a Peary Arctic ship is being built in Maine '
furnishes hint. 1t is supposed that he has |
found the money for a new expedition and |
will outline new plans for reaching the Pole. |
NAB WOMEN IN A RAID,
paItoa Say Thay Had an ntarasf On, |