New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-08-08
PEARY OUTLINES PLANS
AWAITS SHIPS REPAIRS.
Hopes to Start Soon for PoIe-Fe7C
Chances an Route.

I
night, while sitting a large packing box and
surrounded with numerous trunks, boxes and trav-
cling bags, Commander Robert E. Peary talked to
a Tribune reporter. The explorer will leave the
city to-day but where he would stay until the
Roosevelt is ready he declined to say, as he has
been harassed by cranks and others TO such an
extent that he has found it impossible to obtain
any rest to attend to his work
Several New York newspapers have said that
you would leave for the North Pole the latter part
| of August he told.
THAT IS Untrue. I cannot at this time give any
date TO my sailing. came the quick reply.
rs your executive staff complete at this tme?
Il have not yet definitely decided VINO the sur
geon of the expedition will be, though have three
applications for the position L shall probably de-
! eide between now and Sunday night. Captain Rob-
| Bartlett will be in command. John WardWell IN
| the engine room. and John Murphy, the old boat
| swain. will sail and Ross e. Marvin, Of Elrnyra n
Y, will be my assistant
Then you have raised sufficient funds to enable
| you to undertake your trip?'
| The question of finances is not worrying me
nearly so much as the question of when my boilers
/ will be ready.
VIII you strengthen the Roosevelt so that she
| will be better fitted combat the ice pack?"
| She couldn't be strengthened in that respect
She IS the strongest boat for ice fighting ever
! built"
Have the boilers been installed in the Roosevelt
| as YETI?
when I saw the boilers this morning they were
the pier; where they tonight 1 don't know.
| but I sincerely hope that they have been placed
| on board the ship and that they Will De Msla4ieU
| within the next few days.
| What are the principal changes you have MADE
! in the ship preparatory TO your coming trip!
| The main change In the Roosevelt is that her
entire boiler battery now will be of the Scotch type
| instead OF half Scotch and half water tube. with
! which she started years ago Minor changes
/ consist Of the enlargement of the forecaSue' OF
the forward deck house. and of the addition OF
! squaresah in the foremost FOR running peIoIe
/ the wind. The other work on the ship mas con-
| sisted Of repairing the damage received IN heI
various nps in the Ice and in being forced aBFouHu
various times
what is your itinerary laid out at PRESENT."
'The itinerary of the Roosevelt will be Sydney
Cane Breton where she Will fill with COAL and then
/ she will proceed quickly practicable to cape
| York. the southern line OF the Greenland coast
or that portion inhabited by the EsquiTnau In TINS
region I shall take on my dogs and Esquiliiae q
| drivers. previous trips, landing a depot Oh
coal at Etha, a northern post on the Esqulrnau
coast line. and then shall attack the northern ice
barrier just north of Etha ~
Tine Roosevelt will be forced, If possible. through
! the Kane barrier thence through Kennedy and
! Robeson channels known the American route
To the pole, TO the same winter quarters on the
/ north coast Of Grant Land as were occupied III
! 1866. There the ship will winter. In FEBRUARY
with the first returning twilight OF another year
! sIedge work will begin. the main sledge expedition
following substantially the same route as on tne
last expedition except that II VIII continue Iurte
| west along the northern coast of Grant Land On
leaving the land Will strike out across the Ice
| OF the polar
| The course will be kept somewhat more 10 the
westward than the last expedition, to allow for
the easterIy set OF the ice as experienced on the
|
over the pole. has been in some instances erro-
| neousIy reported. II simply keeping more
10 the westward, to allow for the eaSterly move
| ment OF the Ice in the way that man
| rowing boat or swimming across river TO reach
| a point on the opposite side heads upstream 10
| allow for the current -
The third feature will be that the sledges will
be kept together all the time, and thus oovate the
! possibility OF protracted swim resulting from the
DISRUPTION Of the ice carrying of portion OF the
sledges with supplies insufficient for maintaining
| a extended advance
| ''On the return the expedition will probably do
voluntarily what II did involuntArily in the last
land coast and TO the ship along that coast
! instead Of attempting TO directly back TO the
starting point the northern coast or Grant Lana
| These three points. the following OF the North
| err Greenland coast further 20 westward, taxing
| more westerly course across the Ice and keeping
| the entire party together VIII be practically the
! only changes in the campaign.
| After the OF the main expedition, or
| simultaneously with IL, II is probable that other
| Journeys viii be undertaken, both west toward the
land seen last time and east with the possibility
Of closing the existing gap in the northeast coast
line OF Greenland These auxiliary expeditions may
develop important results in the way OF additions
| TO existing charts
! How long do you expect the expedition will
| last?'
! -.f don't expect anything. II conditions IA
| vorabe. OF II they worse than were en-
| countered in the last expedition. the object may
| be accomplished in one season, and the ship may
return in fourteen sixteen months. On the other
| hand. l shall be supplied with equipment for three
| years"
| Commander Peary said that Mrs Peary would
| not 60 with him the present trip. She will stay
| at their home on the Maine coast. In bidding the
| reporter farewell the noted explorer said:
| Let's hope the next time We meet shall be able