The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-11-24
PEARY S STORY.
Arctic Explorer Reaches
Sydney. N. S.
ms FIGHT FOR fARTHfST NORTH
Six Days Storm Barred The Path
10 The Pole.
SHIPS CAPTAIN WOULD TRY AGAIN

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mandcr P.ary's Expedition From
lar North, In safety nj Nova SEQ
tian Port, where Explorer Told his
story of Daring Journey Of Hun
drcds OF Miles over Moving Ice In
Desperate Effort Unsupported d,
Relief Parties, 60 Reach Coveted
.onI of Al Arctic Research Parties
Tor n Hundred Years BacL-sIcJ
Party Drin-d seventy lille. ON
Moving lee FIors.
SYDNEY, y. s.. Nov. 2i.-Flying the
Nag OF the United States. which had
hcen placed nearer the pole than any
other national standard. weather beat.
cn and torn and disabled. the Pcary
arctic steamer Roosevelt arrived under
,ail and steam after sixteen months
vain effort 10 reach the pole. Though
not entirely successful. the expedition
nevertheless got 10 81 degrees min.
utes north latitude. or 203 miles from
the pole.
Commander Peary came ashore al.
most Immediately after the steamer
came TO anchor and Joined Mrs. peary.
who has been here for two weeks
waiting for her husbands return.
The Roosevelt shows no sirn OF
rough usage. She looks sound about
the hull, except aft. under counter.
where she shows the effect OF broken
ruddcr. The flag which the Arctic club
gave the ship flies from the main truck
aud the ensign given by the Geograph
zeal society from the mizzen.
Commander Peary looks In the best
Of health and spirits aud. though dis
appointed at the failure TO reach the
pole, nevertheless feels satisfied with
the advance actually made, and prob
ably plans for another expedition will
soon be commenced.
Peary brought back with him sixteen
Eskimo dogs. lie had eighteen when
he started on the homeward voyage
but two died When he started on his
dash for the pole he had 40 dogs.
Only one sledge, the Morris X Jesup
a hundred foot affair, was brought
back by the commander, and II was
saved by being carried to the ship over
the ice on the backs of Esklmos.
The two other sledges, the Duke OF
Abruzzi and the Admiral Beaumont,
were broken up on the ice to furnish
fuel to cook the dogs which the party
was forced TO devour.
After greeting his wife Peary al
once sent the following message to
Morris X. Jesup of New York:
''The clubs expedition has complet
cd great polar triangle, the apex Of
which marks the nearest approach to
the pole, and its base connects the
northern extremlties of the two most
northern lands on the globe A piece
of the stars and stripes has been de-
posted at each angle of the triangle"
Peary places the exact northern limit
of his over ice trip as terminating at
201& miles from the pole. He marked
the frozen spot with Flagstaff, from
which fluttered a new silk guidon
which Peary himself made.
He buried in the ice at latitude 81
degrees 6 inmates in a brass thermom.
eter case, with photographs of cairn
and flags, the following message:
Arctic expedition 1905-06, Robert Il.
Peary, civil engineer, U. S. N, COM
handing, April 81, 1906.
Have this day, with one companion,
Matthew A. Henson, and six dogs,
reached this point via polar Ice from
Camp Hekla We have travelled $40
miles.
Whoever finds this paper Is request
ed to forward it to the secretary of the
navy, Washington, with note of time
and place at which 1t was found, or, il
more convenient, to deliver 1t for that
purpose to the United States consul at
the nearest poiat."
This message was written in Eng
fish, French, Dutch, Danish, Spanish
and German.
To your correspondent Commander
peary said
Finding the north pole is not nearly
so dangerous as it was to try to avoid
being shlpwrecked on the Newfound-
land coast.
1--WE had an awful time. We spent
eleven days in Battle harbor fighting
the undertow, which threatened to tear
us from our anchorage.
1--WE broke our best anchor and lost
countless ropes. We made good run
down the Newfoundland coast with a
favorable wind until we got abreast of
Cape st. Georges, where the wind head
ed us last Saturday. For three days
we beat back and forth in and out of
st. Georges bay, trying to save the
Roosevelt"
DIR. l., J. Wolff said that the health !
of the party had been excellent. There |
was no death and practically no sick
ness. DR.. Wolff said that he had not
the slightest doubt that If the gale of |
the early part of March had not oc
Cured the pole would have been reach |
ed without difficulty.
Captain John Bartlett, master of the |