The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-03
American Sets a New Mark
About 200 Miles From
tho Pole.
NO LIVES LOST IN DASH.
But Explorers Brief Message
Shows That Expedition Suf-
Tered Many nardships.

New Record Is y: Degrees q Minutes Nerth.
while Previous One. Made b, the Duke
Of the ADrnz,I ~tNDcditiyn. was 40
Degrees - Minutes -Peafy More Than
n Year In he trc,ic-Elrst News ee
IiIs AchIc, eme"' Comes rr"m Labrador
Explorer Nay Be BACK IN New York
In Fen Days-Psys h 20 Ills ship.
After more than a year in the Arctic
region Commander Robert f. Peary got
back in touch with civilization yester-
day and sent word that he had beaten the
farthest north record.
In his dash for the North Pole Commander
Pearv reached So O.. This took him
within IA geographical miles, or 3OO.3o
statute miles. of the pole. Tn best previ-
Gus record was So 34', made in 1900 by the
Duke of the Ahruzzi expedition. Before
that hansen held the record Of SO a made
in the Fran. Peary's best previous record
was SO H..
The news OF the great achievement came
W ANNAbNi' IL DiNSShAdh a NSspdOCu
the explorer sent from a missionary station
on the coast Of Labrador. Though neoes-
sarily brief it shows that the expedition
suffered many hardships, but there was no
loss of life.
PFARY'S SsAGF.
The message from Commander Peary
was as follows:
"HoPEDNLE, Labrador,
via T%willingate, Newfoundland, Nov. 2.
Herbert l.. BTidgemuR:
Roosevelt wintered north coast Grant
Land somewhat north Alert's winter quar-
tiers, Went north with sledges in February,
via Heckla and Columbia. Delayed by open
water between - and 81 degrees. Beyond
IS six days. Gale disrupted ice, destroyed
caches, cut Off communication with sup
porting bodies and drifted due cast.
Reached 81 degrees 0 minutes nortA
latitude over ice, drifting steadily eastward.
Returning ate eight dogs. Drirted east
ward, delayed by open water. Reached
north coast Greenland in straitnned con-
ditions. 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-
welt sledged west, completing north coast
Grant Land and reached other land near
tooth meridian Homeward voyage in
cessant battle with ce. storms and head
winds. Roo eveit Tagn icent ce fighter
and sea boat. No deaths or !lness i'm ex-
Tedition. PEARY.'
TEARY MAY RE HERE IN TEN OATS
Mr.. Bridgeman was proud last night
when he was exhibiting the telegram to
the reporters who gathered to learn Of
the achievement.
Il feel that it is useless for me to add
anything to what the telegram says. Il
speaks for itself. The part that tells OF
the eating Of the dogs is enough to show
the hardships that he endured. I am
glad that he has reached that far north.
Just before / got the Peary telegram I
received one from Sam Bartlett, who was
the master of the Windward and the Diana.
He Is related TO Capt. Bartlett OF the Roose-
welt. and also 10 Moses Bartlett, the mate
of the Roosevelt. The Bartlett telegram
said that he had heard from Moses and
that the Roosevelt was in Hopedale.
damaged.
Just about the time | got home / found
the Peary telegram. Capt. Bartlett's wire
came from Brigus. Newfoundland. The :
Peary telegram I believe was mailed from
Hopedale down the coast to a telegraph
operator. who sent it when he received the
letter addressed TO him.
Il imagine that Lieut.. Peary will be home
In New York in ten days, maybe less. He
can tax the Roosevelt down TO Sidney
and then come down in ~thirty-six hours
or a train. II he did he would probably
let the men bring the Roosevelt down here
and lay her up in New York, where she
belongs. That is the most natural thinR
for him to do. The crew all are New
fo~undlanders and could return home after
that >"
PEARY ABSENT FIFTEEN MONTHS.
Commander Robert f. Peary sailed north
OF the afternoon Of July Is, 1905. The
start was made from New York and for days
before the explorer started on his long
voyage northward his ship, the Roosevelt,
lay of T~wenty-ninth street in the North
River, where she WIS visited by crowds Of
sightscers.
The Roosevelt was built under Com
mander Peary'S supervision and embodied
the latest idens of what was necessary for
work IN the Arctic seas. Her principal
dimension are. Length on the load water
line, iGl Get; length over all, 1856 feet; beam
maximum, At load water line. "a feet; beam
over all, 30 feet 3 inches; mean drauxht, 10
feet; fat load displacement, about 1, SOOtons.
10 aid her in the hight with the Toe the Roose-
velt's bow, stern and water line we're ar
mored With stcel plates. She was built az