Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-11
PEARY WILL TRY AGAIN
NORTH POLE HUNTER GETS
THREE YEARS LEAVE.
Repairs on the Roosevelt Well Under
Way Will Pick His Crew to
Avoid Discomfort Of Last Trip.

NEW YORK, April 11.--Application OF
| Robert e. Peary, United States navy, FOL
leave Of absence for three years was ap
proved yesterday by the Secretary of the
Navy. Commander Peary purposes to make
another attempt to reach the north pole
The three years leave Of absence during
which he made his famous journey to the
| farthest point north ever reached by man
so 6,-expired last Sunday and the new
| leave begins at once.
Preparations for another dash toward the
pole have been we'll under way all winter
but Commander Peary and his associates
of the Peary Arctic Club have been keeping
secret their action as 1t would have been
| breach of courtesy, If not of discipline, fol
a naval officer to announce his voyage be-
fore his superiors made it possible by their
approval.
Peary will leave in June, but the exact
day has not been settled. He has been very
busy lecturing and preparing his book de-
scriptive of his last voyage, which his pub
Ishers Doubleday, Page & Co., announce
for the latter part of this month. The eX-
plorer went to Boston yesterday. and will
return to New York Saturday, when the
work of final preparation will proceed rap
idly.
No Anxiety About Funds.
Funds necessary for the next trip to the
north have not yet been obtained In ade-
quate quantity, but there Is no uneasiness
as to that Morris X. Jessup and another
well-known man of wealth, who caused his
connection with the enterprise to be kept
secret. furnished practically all of the $50,
900 for the purchase of the Roosevelt and
the fitting out of the expedition. Mr.. Jes-
sup mas been i'll recently, but maintains his
interest in the explorers efforts to reach
the pole.
The Roosevelt is al Shooters Island, and
is being refitted with new boilers. Those
used during her last voyage did not supply
adequate power and were among the draw
backs to the complete success OF that ex-
petition. The hull Is sound and the
changes in interior arrangements that Mr..
Peary has decided upon will not be expen-
sve From the cost of the expedition,
which is to start in June, the deduction of
the purchase price Of the vessel will make
a considerable item.
Will Select His Own Crew.
Capt. Robert Bartlett of ST. Johns, N. F..
sailing master Of the Roosevelt, has been
notified to come to New York in May to
superintend the fitting out of the vessel
Commander Peary, before the end of his
last voyage, determined to select his own
crew for his next advance on the pole, to
avoid the troubles which arose because of
unruly and disconnected spirits among his
last ships company. He will pick every
man to be taken. Roy Marvin, a natural
list, and DIR. Louis Wolff, as surgeon, will
accompany the expedition.
/ Sledges will again be the dependence of
the explorer, and he will once more follow
the American route, making a dash across
the ice from his winter quarters toward
the pole, which he Is more confident than
ever of reaching.
The little fling Walter Wellman handed
OUT on his arrival in Washington last week
declaring that the sledge route would never
prove to be successful, has spurred the
navy's explorer to renewed energy and en-
thusiasm, with the result that he has de-
termined to set out at the earliest possible
moment In the hope of not only locating the
pole, but of accomplishing this hazardous
feat before Mr.. Wellman does. Commander
Peary has as little faith in the balloon
method as Mr.. Wellman has In the sledge,
and he does lot believe the balloonists
will reach the pole in their attempt this
summer, If they ever do. On the other
hand, he believes he will be successful in
the next attempt, but that does not mean
the coming summer.