Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-25
TELL OF ARCTIC TRIP
Peary's Crew Arrive in New
York Aboard the Roosevelt.
GLAD TO BE HOME AGAIN
Captain Disappointed Because Pole
Was Not Reached.
WILLING TO TRY IT AGAIN
How the Hours Of Enforced Idleness
Were Passed-Music One Of the
Features of Entertainment.
WILLING TO TRY IT AGAIN

sheathed in ice and her high bow dipping
curtseys with every wave, the Roosevelt,
the vessel which took Commander Peary
to the far north, rounded the Battery In
the dusk of last evening and came to an
anchor In almost the same place from
which she left at pm. on July 16, 1903.
The vessel was picturesque craft, with
her rounded sides and her sturdy bow,
capped by a short bowsprit, which pointed
almost heavenward in the most unnautical
fashion. Her foretopmast was gone haV-
ing been carried away in Baffins bay, and
the working of her steam pump at inter-
walls shows that her hulls has suffered In
contact with the heavy ice. In addition one
Of her propeller blades Is twisted and two
are missing. She was assisted down from
the sound by the tug Guiding Star.
Rounding the Battery with the tug on
the starboard side the Roosevelt coliided
with crowded ferrybOat of the Hamilton
avenue line, bound for Brooklyn. The ship
was not damaged. but her bowsprit poked
role in the woman's cabin OF the ferry
boat. breaking two of the windows, but
feeling of the ferryboats passengers.
Glad to Be Back.
The crew, hardy-looking stalwart men,
declared that while they were willing to
tackle the pole again, they were mighty
glad to be back once more in Gods coun-
try" They said that while they had ex-
perienced eighty degrees below zero in the
north, they had not felt the cold as they
did last night on shipboard. John Murphy,
a grizzled seaman, remarked that 1t was
a dry cold UP near the pole and not SO
penetrating as New York winter cold
snaps.
AS soon as the anchor touched water
Capt. Bartlett, Ross Marvin, second in
command. and the scientist of the party;
who went with Peary "farthest north on
foot, climbed over the side and came
ashore in the tug. Mr.. Marvin, who
comes from Elmra, found his two sisters
and his brother waiting for him on the
pier. He also received letter offering him
the position of teacher of mathematics in
the Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg.
Pa.
Wants to Try Again.
Capt. Bartlett is disappointed because of
the failure to reach the pole. TT was only
matter of four days more, he said. I'VE
had reached a northern point and had our
provisions nearly all up. 1 had gone back
fifty miles to another cache to bring up
more provisions when the storm came up,
and after that there was nothing doing.
If there is any more trying again, 1 want
to be in it,
The Roosevelt brought back some curios,
musk OK horns. sixteen dogs and two
sledges One of them Is for Morris K.
Jesup. The dogs roamed about down
the hold in a section set apart for them.
They were inclined to resent the attentions
Of v....ors and SO they were let alone.
But in the cabin the men who remained
on board lounged about They told of the
times when they had travelled many weary
miles across TIE ice behind their Eskimo
dogs, following the guides into the I'M
known.
Last Christmas. they recalled. they were
OF nd no
ships company sat down to Christmas
dinner except Mr.. Marvin and John Muir
ply, who were out hunting on Lake Hazen.
The bill of fare consisted of roast musk
OK. broiled hare. salmon. canned goods and
a regular plum pudding.
In Perpetual Darkness.
1.-The men were not all the time out on
the ice." said Chief Engineer G. A. Ward
we'll There were times when we were
forced to remain on board inactive in the
perpetual dark of polar winter. About the
time night would be falling down here we
went to bed to sleep eight hours, and get
up in the dark and begin all over again.
1--WE had books to read and deminos and
checkers. When we started we had forty
six packs of cards. l think the pack
Sandy is using is about the last on
board. Don't think We were dull. There
is pianola for the entertainment of the
officers and two graphaphones for the en-
.tertainment of the men. We carried about
two barrels of records and We ground out
all of them. My favorite piece. and think
1 can speak for the men. was Give My Re-
CARDS to Broadway
All the time they were in the far north
no news was received from the outer
world. and the first news came on October
L. when they learned for the first time of
the San Francisco earthquake and the end
OF the so-Japanese war.
+ DIR. Wolf, it is said, is going home to the
wedding of his sister. The story was that
/ she refused to marry until her brother re-
turned from his arctic trip.