Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-11-10
PEARYS MESSAGE
American Arctic Explorer
Goes Far thest North.
UNITED STATES HOLDS RECORD
Roosevelt Expedition 203 Miles
From Pole.
RFSClIFS HIS STARVING Party
UNITED STATES HOLDS RECORD
RESCUES HIS STARVING PARTY

July, 1908, and Crossed to Green
Iana, where an over Ice Sled Party
Pushed For the Pole, but Failed 10
Reach 1t, Getting, However, to a
Psint Farthest North Yet Reached
by Any known Human Beings.
Anxiety Fer Expedition Now AIlay-
sa--Mrs. Peary Had No Fears For
Husband. Saying. 81 VIII Hear From
Him In November
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-The United
States now holds the record Of "far.
thest NORTH 81 degrees 6 minutes.
In arctic exploration up to this date.
This feat was accomplished by Com
mander Robert f. Peary of the Unit.
ed States navy.
The intrepid explorer failed to reach
the north pole, as he had confidently
Asped to do with his specially con-
structed vessel, the Roosevelt, but he
penetrated nearer to the pole than the
Duke of the Abruzzi's expedition,
which had held the arctic record. SO
degrees "a minutes. What Commander
Peary did and his experiences during
the past year in the frozen north are
rather briefly but certainly wildly
summarized In Geographic communi-
cation received from him last night by
Herbert l.. Bridgeman, secretary Of
the Peary Arctic club. This communi-
cation from Hopedale, Labrador, via
Twillingate, Newfoundland, follows:
1.-THE Roosevelt wintered north coast
Grant Land, somewhat north Alert
winter quarters. Went north with
sledges February, via Heckla and Co.
lumba. Delayed by open water be-
tween "a and So degrees Beyond
eighty-five or eighty-six days. Gale
disrupted ice, destroyed caches, cut
off communication with supporting
bodies and drifted due east. Reached
81 degrees 6 minutes, north latitude
ever ice, drifting steadily eastward.
Returning, ate eight dogs. Drifted
eastward, delayed by open water, and
reached north coast Greenland in
straitened conditions. Killed musk
oxen and returned along Greenland
coast to ship. Two supporting parties
driven on north coast Greenland One
rescued by me in starving condition.
After one week recuperation on Roose-
volt sledged west, completing north
coast Grant Land and reached other
land near one hundredth meridian.
Homeward voyage incessant battle
with ice, storms and headwinds.
Roosevelt magnificent Ice fighter and
sea boat. No deaths or illness In expe
dition."
After furnishing the contents Of Com.
pander Peary's message Mr.. Bridge
han said that the receipt of any news
from the explorer now was quite sur
prise to him because he had supposed
Il had become too late in the season
Tor Commander Peary to send news of
his venture. Mr.. Bridgeman added
that the message spoke for itself and
that since he did not know more Of
the results of Commander Peary's ef-
fert to reach the pole than the public
did he could hardly comment upon the
dispatch.
There was little doubt, however, he
said, that Commander Peary was COM
Ing home. This seems to be borne out
BY the routing of the dispatch. Hope
dale, or Hoffenthal, is Moravian mis-
sion station on the east coast of Lab
rador. Twillingate is a port on the
east coast of Newfoundland. Mr..
Bridgeman said the message was prob
ably mailed by Commander Peary
from Hopedale to the most accessible
cable point.
sPeary planned to have his headquar-
tiers $50 miles north of Cape Sabine.
From that point he proposed to make
his actual journey to the pole, dis
lance of 500 miles, across a desert OF
ice and snow. This final dash he ex-
pected to make in a month or six
weeks from the time he left headquar-
tiers.
Mrs Robert n. Psary, wife of the
commander, has been spending the
past summer in Maine. Interviewed
Oct. %, Mrs. Peary expressed her con-
Science In her husbands safety. She
said also that she expected to hear
from him in November
Robert Edwin Peary was born In
1854. He 10 a civil engineer In the
United States navy. His first trip to
the actic regions was made in 1885.
In September, 1902. he reached lati-
tude S417 north. His wife. Josephine
Diebitssh Peary, accompanied her hus-
band on three of his expeditions as far
as the winter quarters.
Asked what good 1t would do If he
found the pole, Mr. Peary said, ut
will open up 100000 square miles Of
absolutely unknown regions that have
been separated from the rest of the
world for countless ages"
The point reached by Peary, S76
places him about 203 miles from the
pole.
Commander Peary's polar steamship,
the Roosevelt. left New York on her
y