The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1905-07-20
OFF FOR THE MORT IS
The Peary Expedition StarlS
New York.
GETS AN ENTHUSIASTIC
With the Stars and Stripes Flying Ff<
MlZEen Truck. the Sturdy R4
Sails for the Frigld Norih-The Ex!
Family Aboard-The Gamers Fien
Also There.

New York (SpeciaD VIII N
shining brightly on the big Am
flag whipping I'm a brisk souti
breeze at her mizzcn truck and witt
screaming whistle Of passing
craft and the sharp reports of saf
cannon on shore bidding the dor
vessel godspeed the Roosevelt stcs
out through the Narrows late Sur ksl S
afternoon, her voyage toward the Nd
Pole begun
Members OF the Peary Arctic G.
with Robert L. Peary, watched her Ssv
parture from the decks of the navy
yard tug Pentucket, and. gathering
around the intrepid explorer, wished
him, too, godspced and success. He.
returned to shore to-ta&e-his dcpartlire-
for Sydney, {. B., on the midniefss efain
from the Grand Central Station, deem
ing the trip on the Roosevelt to that
point unnecessary.
There was not hitch in the starting
OF the Roosevelt from her anchorage
or 1wenty-ninth street in the North
River, and no ship ever sailed under fair
er skies. Long before the starting time.
fixed as o'clock, those inxiaaS 10 90
with Commander Peapy~ al - BOSE.
welt to bid him farewell " antine
had gone on boa7d in ali sorts har-
Dor conveyances, and in one instance
there was narrow escape from a seri-
GUS accident in the choppy sea along
side the vessel. Prof Monroe Smith,
of Columbia College, in attempting to
land from a launch at the gangway,
slipped overheard, but he was quickly
grasped by one of the crew of the
Roosevelt and dragged aboard
On the decks of the Roosevelt there
! had assembled Herbert L. Bridgman and
L. L. Delaheld, secretary and treasurer.
respectively, of the Peary Arctic Club:
Prof. Holland E Stone, Gen. J. Rus
sell Lowell, Charles Milliken. Frede4-
ick P. Delaheld, P. w. Geer, Philip X
Walcott, Wallace Downey and the new
ly appointed surgeon of the expedition,
DR.. Louis J. Wolf.
Mrs. Peary, with her mother. Mrs.
Magdalena Diebitsch, and her sister,
Miss Diebitsch, and Miss Babb went
with the party down the bay as did also
little Miss Marie Anighnito Peary and
Robert Z. Peary, Jr Mrs Peary was
the only person OF this number who
did not sail away on the Roosevelt on
the trip to Sydney.
1t was seven mrlG - KfFe TfNHe
appointed when, with Bentucee1
alongside as a convoy, me Roosevelt
weighed anchor and swung around
against a strong ebb tide and headed
down the stream There was a scat
tering flotilla of small launches and row.
boats in the immediate vicinity, but the
river was too choppy for small boats to
navigate in comfort to their occupants.
Capt. Frank A. Houghton, who is in
command OF the Roosevelt on her trip
to Sydney, took his place in front of
the big hand wheel amidshipS of the
vessel, the marine telegraph jinged in
the engine room, there was a shaver of
the stanch hull as the engine turned
over the propeller deep astern and the
voyage was begun.
There had been silence on the river
among the passing vessels, only the
sharp blasts of steamers warning others
of their course, until the white churniug
foam behind the Roosevelt told of the
voyage just started. Then from every
steamboat, tug and ferryboat within kail-
ing distance broke out three long and7
telling blasts. The ovation had begtfE'
and for full two hours, until the RooSe-
welt was hull down IN the main ship
channel there was scarcely a moment
that the deep-toned whistle OF the Peary
ship was not sending back to saluting
craft appreciation of the honors.