New-York tribune., 1904-09-25
RENEWED INTEREST IN ARCTIC EXPLORATION
WHAT ADVENTURERS IN THE FAR NORTH HAZE
DONE -NEW PLANS FOR REACHING THE POLE.

Land Baldwin. who went thither IN lS0l. came
back the next year without having achieved sue
cess FYala with the same vessel the America.
embarked for the same objective point from from
s6e in June 1903, and has never been heard from
since II hoped that he would md a con
venent winter station and try 10 force his ship
further north IA the spring Of 1904 In any case.
though. he would leave letters concerning his
ments at Cape Flora. Twice during the last four
months. the tender. Frithjof. has gone up from
Tromsde TO the neighborhood OF Franz Josef Land
with coal for the Americas engines. with food.
and with letters. but she unable to force her
way through the pack ice On neither occasion did
Ehe within seyenty-hye or eighty miles OF
her destination. The world is thus left without
definite news OF F1alas fate and that OF his ship
As there a supply OF food sufficient for two
years the America It is improbable that the
men on her have perished from starvation. but one
does not Ike TO think OF the other periis TO which
they have been exposed in the time.
Closely akin 10 the idea OF finding a winter base
notion Of beginning a balloon voyage from the ad-
jacent islands OF sptzbergen. lie originally IN,
attempt until the following year The only news
dispatched BY carrier pigeon, and reported safe
journey for ne~-ly one hundred miles 20 the north
The third great plan Of campaign takes advantage
oTt nv thn TTniiJ Sta;e - 70 = lor1 i|orSr ~ ,1ate
meteorological and other observations. for two
teen parties were engaged in the work At different
places. Greelys attracted the attention.
Owing to bad management IN Eending for him he
other expeditions returned Ii safety Additional n, In
Brainard They crossed Robson Channel on the
on May Il and 15 '' ISL 81 they they reached point
latitude S32i;5O, miles further than any other
civilized man up TO that time; II IS worthy OF
nots that the achievement was beyond dispute, be-
cause Lockwood and Brainard left written record
Peary.
a more complete survey OF Greenland tnan had
ever ever Det0Ie Deeh atienpte9 ms was tliG Tsol $50 t
the Arctic that year IL with the purpose OF
winters in high ATTITUDES. first ono side OF the
channel and then on the other. but when he came
back In 1902 he had not fully accomplished all ne
wished. ono great trouble that ne could not
quarters where he wanted them. From the vicinity
of Cape York TO the north end Of the passage
six degrees. OF S6o geographical miles. During tho
greater part Of the year II is filled with floating
ice. In winter the barrier is mpenetrable In sum
mer II occaslonally permits one 70 go all the way
cause the engines almost worthless He barely
passed Cape Sabine in 1855. and retired to point
quarters. That hindrance made It necessary to
transport food with sledges TO Fort Conger from
which he planned to start in the spring OF 1899
No actual attempt was made then because Peary
had lost several toes by amputation in consequence
The next winter and spring QSs9-l9OO he used
Fort Conger again as his base. but crossed over
20 Greenland and followed a route previously ira
after leaving the land. he encountered broad
streak of open water which could not be crossed
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from Fort Conger in northwesterly direction.
toward Cape Hecla This to have been his
point OF departure from Grant Land. His dogs
gave out before he got there. and third spring
permitted to pass without improving the OPP
pOrtunity so temptingly at hand. In 1902 the latter
programme was repeated, with a little better
sixty miles from the coast On April q he was
OF the Pole. he then found so many openings in
the ice however, that further advance fool
hardy. He also beset with fog. and in
Vulnerable ridges on the ice which seemed i'm
T-ne vital feature Of the new programme is to
have ship with more powerful engines than were
ever used before in exploring vessel With this
vessel Peary hopes TO carry all his supplies to n
winter base much further north than ever before.
He wants 10 pass not only Cape Sabine but Fort
some convenient harbor on the north shore of
Grant Land. not far TO the eastward Of Cape
viii then be wasted in the winter and spring.
When the final push is made over the ice he
should be scarcely more than three hundred and
seVenty-Gye or four hundred miles from the pole.
Circuifous travelling will. of course. be necessary.
but experience convinced him that by making an
earlier start than hitherto in the spring of 1906
should fnd the ice HiHler anu more easily ira
In General dimensions the new ship will closely
Iritisb Antarctic expedition at Dundee The lat
Ter, however, depended mainly on sail power and
incidentally on steam; PeaTy ~ Wiii depend chiefly
probabIv dispense with topmasts and extra spars.
In the interest of lightness In other ways, too,
Is To be Of wood with steel plating Out forward
she Is SO modelled that. ike the Fran, she will
rise under lateral pressure Irom the ice. and thus
be able to accomplish what he has long planned
TO do but has never succeeded In doing-put his
vessel in winter perae OF the oiThtyseo
When Paarv goes out on the Ice IL VIII be In
the hIehest degree desirable 10 limit the num-
Der of mouths which it is necessary to suppT