The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-05-09
fARfsT THE POLE"
Notjce of Book Describing the
daF o,,ant Attempt to Reach The
A pnle.
d. ROBERT L. PEARY.

F GoHtRi IT, fhAhi'
NeV York Herald
peary on April 81, of last
leI. L5.npd the 'furthest north"
q NJ, @' r+aching latitude 81 deg. 8
e.. arctic regions. The best
. ,' to this American achieve
pm that made by the Italian ex.
N's ,a5rr the Duke of the Abruzzi
gu . ..' attained to Sc deg. 33 min.
n''L , story is to be published
rex by Messrs. Doubleday,
IN under the title Nearest
Advance sheets are now be-
l5 dimes of the story are sufficient
gs 10 Herald readers from the
l' geographic description sent
oY T.o1, himself on his landing at
a.g dbrador, which occupied
s-.f pages Of the issue for Nov
D The details now fur
hook round out a story of
..a- and adventure.
.. early summer of 1904
4, Nmas X. Jesup, a public
.-r Jeeply interested in po-
luuouuced that if the
...- cub could be secured to
..,..5- 1000, including his own
.. uss than half that sum,
s-aae responsibility for the
u.. tAe snip and guarantee
..~.t a details were settled
i aust of that year at meet
HI IIarbor. President
-utrd to allow the new
... H.5reI ny his name.
n... 1904, the keel of the
oh aid in the Mckay &
IN ,aa at Bucksport, Me, and
~ auuched March %, 1905,
tterlng a block of ice
lottle of champagne
+ ,.- s.-r cad stem as the hull
dawn ta ways and christening
r Roosevelt.
Installation Of the machinery be-
d, iars .lter at Portland, Me-,
4. gca,realy completed in less
$50 mouths.
-f5.e plan and theory of the ship
st that her strength, her power,
.a.st aar carrying capacity,
Id 5. below the main deck, and
.r-rvtlug above Lighthouses,
,ss pals, sails, rigging, boats
CONGRESSIONAL be as light as
( p rprmlt more coal in the
5l second. that not a dollar was
.ls,-i orr fittings or frills, every
~ .y far strength, power and
Roosevelt sailed from New York
81. Ho touched at Newport to
t- Iolspeed" of Mr.. Morris
lo ,,yagh whose public spirit
a0ry ship had been equipped,
TEL sroliug to coal at Cape Bre-
-i4gt for the open Arctic seas.
inward progress was stopped at
-aaaaa I4 september, where she
-1+.t.r grasp of the ice. But
"a. ,agstactlon in the thought
ld-. nip had ever been so far
.tNs gion, and but one other
d f-...-iSo high latitude any
u-r entire circuit of the Polar
.-i"a the Fran, did not attain
.-g--omd by stress of continu-
- - tHe Roosevelt had done,
Ill., %. -r position, helpless and
this occurrence put all
. tat 70 advance out of ques-
u.. lsual routine fall work of
. ".ition and preparation
we're naugrated. Hunt
re~ g me ESkimOs were kept .
-r a- ield, covering the
l o. Clements Markham
y. aa to Wrangel Bay and
N lht results of these par
I- sfactory, considerable
at .a-h oxen and reindeer be- !
u-u Almost every day one or
.'-E W-.J out from the ship, |
.Es'N some hundred or more
-r- secured in the immediate vi
NUS oxen were to prove the |
~ Tine explorers, the chief |
i uPly being the drainage |
. Ila- HaZen, which was now |
VIII. -aeat success by parties !
Lg '.grttly overland from the |
lsfe liazen.
boxes at provisions which had
.losa were fashioned by the
lg --r BOX houses, a large one
5f'E teet long by fifteen feet
'ArH roofed with the spanker
ed WITH q stove and fuel, was to
~ mediate refuge in case of |
70 the ship, and two smaller
alsr tents were also set up
,ar boats turned bottom up and |
IF arranged in such a way as
d, "nW shelters for the dogs. |
a .a-e~ aud tents were heavily |
e..l ,4lw. All the heavy ice
..- ~.lp on the starboard side
ia"H uu a gentle slope ending |
H'l@ .ryel against the ships
u haah If small fragments of
~ al7.ust the ship her entire
+ serve AS a cushion. On top |
va. VI now blocks was built |
@ 'lr rail and from the main-
-.t u.llenmast as high as the |
%. Nect house. The deck was |
4tep with snow and the for
-l alter deck houses covered |
-Ata l with the same. No at
'' made to house in the deck |
us, lUt spom uact;h,,lo, n, ~,