The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-11-03

NEAR TO THE POLE
UNITED STATES NOW HOLDS
THE RECORD FOR THE FAR.
THEREST NORTH.
met WITH GREAT TRIALS
Compelled to Eat Dogs But Finally
Returns to His ship Without
Death Or Illness to His
Party.

New York, Nov 2-The Unite
States holds the record for furtheres
nolth--S7 degrees 6 minutes. Thl
feat was accomplished by commando
Peary of the United States nav!
Peary ia led to reach the pole as h
had confidently hoped to do with hi
specially constructed vessel, TIL
Roosevelt but he penetrated neare
to The pole than the Duke AbruzM
expedition, which held the Artic rec
ord, So degrees 81 minutes. Wha
Peary did and his experiences durinl
the pasl year in the frozen north ar,
briefly but viydly summation in {
communication received here tonigh
by Herbert L. Bridgman, secretary @
the Peary Arctic club This communi
cation was as follows
Hopedale, Labrador, via Twilin
gate, N. T., Nov. 2.--The Roosevelt
wintered on the north coast of Grant
land somewhat north of The Albert
winter quarters.
Went north with sledges via
Heckla and Columbia Was delayed by
the open water between ST and 50
degrees. Beyond So for six days. A
gale disrupted the ice, destroyed
caches, cut off communication with
supporting bodies and drifted due
east Reached 81 degrees minutes,
north latitude over ice drifting
steadily eastward Returning ate
eight dogs. Drifted eastward, delayed
hv onan auater, reached the north
coast of Greenland in Strengthened
conditions. Killed mu.k oxen and re-
turned along the Greenland coast to
ship. Two supporting parties were
driven on the north coast of Green
land. One was rescued by me in a
starving condition. After one week
of recuperation on the Roosevelt, we
sledged west, completing the north
coast OF Grantland and reached other
land. near the l00,h meridian. Home
ward voyage was an incessant battle
with ice, storms and headwiads. The
Roosevelt is a magnificent ice fighter
and seaboat. No deaths or illness in
the expedition.
(Signed) PEARY.
After furnishing the Associated
Press with the contents of Peary's
report Bridgman said the receipt of
any news from the explorer now was
quite surprise to him, because he
had supposed it had become too late
in the season for Peary to send news
of his venture Bridgeman added that
the message spoke for itself and that
since he did not know more of the re
suits of Perry's effort to reach the
pole than the public did he could
hardly comment upon the dispatch.
There was little doubt however, he
said. that Peary was coming home.
Hopedale or Hoffenthal is a Moravian
nilsson station On the east coast of
Labrador Twillingate is port on
the ca coast of Newfoundland.
Bridgeman said the message was
probably mailed by Peary from Hope
dale to he most accessible cable
point.
Peary's polar steamship The Roose-
Welt left New York July 16. 1905,
with a crew OF 20 men under Captain
Bartlett. Peary joined the ship at
Sydney Cape Breton, where he took
on coal and additional supplies. Left
Sydney July 26 Next heard from at
Domino. Labrador, July. %, from
which point she crossed 10 Greenland
and was next heard from at Etah.
North Greenland. August l6 Al Etah
The Roosevelt took on board supply
of coal. % Equimaux and about 200
dogs
When nothing had been heard from
Tho Roosevelt by last July, friends OF
the Arctic explorer. who had eX-
pected a message of came kind in
May or June began to be worried at
the long delay. This anxiety however.
was not shared by members of the
Peary Arctic club. who then aid they
did not expect to hear from Peary un-
til October or November
Robert Edwin Peary was born in
1854. He is a civil engineer in the
United States navy. His first trip to
the Arctic regions was in 1856. In
September. 1892. he reached latitude
S417 north His wife. Joseph ne
Diebitsch Peary, accompanied her
husband on three of hi expeditions
as far as the winter quarters.
The previous record for the point
nearest the pole wa made by Cap
tain Cagni. of the Duke OF Abruzzi' s
ALLAN expedit on. who rea he'd 1924
north or within 236 statute miles Of
the pole The point reached by Psary
SIG placed him about 2o3 miles from
The pole,