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BIS moral effect and value.

In commercial achievements are those
whose people have been actuated by
a spirit of adventure and exploration.
In one respect Is this brought forcibly
10 the mind OF every student and
thinker. The whaling fishery has
added immense wealth to Great
Britain and to Continental nations on
the North Sea, as well as TO the
United States. through the result of
the explorations which were made in
Spitzbergen and on the eastern and
western coasts of Greenland and in
the other polar regions
Here, In this country and this city.
the names of Henry Grinnell. George
Peabody, Elisha Kane are indelibly as
ISOLATED with the work.
The attainment of the Pole. and the
conquest OF the remaining unknown
polar area, with its probabilities of
new lands. and its possibilities of new
mineral deposits and whaling grounds.
means for this country and for this
city the enrichment of its museums
with valuable material and collec-
tions, and its studies with important
data.
More than this, it means National
Prestige.
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his King his Parliament. and wealthy
Sl50.000. impressed the world with
the material which makes up the de-
scendants of the Vikings.
Abruzzi's expedition. costing $780,
Goo. was worth to Italy many times
its cost, for it drove home to the civil
lied world the fibre of which Italians
are made.
Should an American plant the Stars
and Stripes on the Pole. every Ameri-
can at home and abroad would feel
prouder for being an American, and
that increment of justifiable pride to
millions of us would alone be worth
ten times the money outlay.
The attainment of the Pole means
present and future enduring fame for
this country.
IL means the sign of mans final
physical conquest of the earth.
IL means an impetus TO further geo.
graphical work by this country in
other important fields.
II means an object lesson in the
spirit of emulation, of high ideals. of
persistence and determination; and
spur and stimulus to every boy and
young man with an atom of energy
or ambition and Intelligence. through
out the length and breadth of the land,
and to their children after them a
stimulus far beyond tlfat OF text books
or precepts, and the value of which
cannot be gagged by dollars and
cents.
Ii means that we pluck and hold
forever the last of the great world
prizes for which strong and adven-
turOus nations have struggled.
A prize never to be re-won, never to
be surpassed.
Plan Of Campaign.
Commander Peary's long and per.
sonal experience has suggested
plan of campaign which commenos
itself TO those who have studied the
subject. both as holding strong prom
Use of a successful attempt to reach
the Pole. and as affording opportuni-
ties of Arctic exploration and obser-
walton which can hardly fail to yield
results of interest TO the scientific
world.
Briefly stated. his plan is based up
on the Smith Sound. or American
route to the Pole. II contemplates a
powerful and strongly built ship which
he can force to base within less than
500 miles of the Pole: the utilization
of the utmost efforts and full resources
of the Eskimos, and the use of dogs
for tractive power.
Peary proposes to- start early in
July. and. having established a per-
manent sub-base at Cape Sabine on
the west side of Smiths Sound, and
secured the services OF necessary Es-
kimos. to force his vessel north
through Kane Basin and Kennedy
and Robson Channels TO the north
erly coast OF Grant Land Tor of Green
land. II the conditions should com
pei it. and there winter within less
than five hundred miles of the Pole.
The trip to- Cape Sabine presents
no particular difficulty, and the ex-
perience OF past years seems to render
St reasonable 10 hope that the further
trip OF $50 miles through the ice to
the proposed winter quarters for the
ship can be made by a suitable vessel
(such as that now building) during
the first summer. From the winter
quarters thus established, he proposes
10 start north over the polar pack
with a small. light pioneer party OF
picked Eskimos, followed by a large
main party with reserve supplies, early
in the month OF February, 1906. thus
affording a period of FIVE months (dur.
ing which experience has taught that
the Ice of the Polar Ocean Is practic-
able for traveD in which to explore
and. II Is hoped, TO traverse the dis
lance OF less than FIVE hundred miles
between the vessel and the Pole.
The failure Of the vessel to force its
way through the ice of Kennedy and
Robson Channels during the first
summer. which Is, OF course, within
the possibilities-while postponing
the dash for the Pole until February,
1907. would afford a further oppor-
tunity for observations OF the greatest
interest.
This plan Is the evolution from
Peary's twelve years OF almost con-
tinuous work in these high attitudes;
his extensive personal acquaintance
with the region from Cape York to
"a de1rees N latitude. HIS thorough