Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-09-09

/ 10 WOTQ WHICH WAS TOCclv0u uSIc
through Capt Robert Bartlett OF
Peary's ship, the Roosevelt. late last
| night, Peary likewise found no signs
of his reputed predecessor. However
/ this phase of Peary's experience will
not be thoroughly cleared up until a
statement is obtained from his own
lips.
Was Confident Of Success.
Lieutenant Peary said on July 8,
1908, to President Roosevelt at Oyster
| Bay when his boat the Roosevelt, lay
ready for the start in the harbor
there:
Il never felt so confident of success
in all these years as I do now"
Later the president visited the ship
and said goodbye to Peary. AS he
was taken off in a launch he stood up
| in the stern sheets, waved his hat,
| and shouted: Good luck, Peary.'
Thank you." shouted Peary back
and that was practically the start
of this last expedition. II
Peary was taking no chances
through carelessness in selecting his
crew and assistants. or in fitting out
his ship In the main on the last ex.
petition. the Roosevelt had proved
herself wonderful vessel-the best
ever seen In Arctic seas. and the best
fitted to fight the ice and winds of
those regions.
Before he started in July, Perry had
his ship completely overhauled and
largely refitted. They put in two new
boilers and new bottoms and new in.
terror fixtures. The quarters for the
crew were refurnished, and internally
the whole ship was made over.
The first news which came from
Peary since he set out on his ship
with this crew reached here last Sept
rs. It was dated Etah, North Green
land. Aug. II. 1908. and was addressed
to Herbert l.. Bridgman. secretary Of
the Peary club. It stated that every.
thing was well and closed with this
paragraph:
Unusually stormy season. but no
ice yet Showing furiously now-plen.
ty of it. From Littleton Island and
Sabine north all depends on ice con.
ditions beyond. Have good supply.
Eskimo dogs and walrus meat. All
we'll on board. Expect to steam north
some time tonight. -Peary."
His Other Expeditions.
Lieutenant Peary first pushed into
the storm-swept icefelds of the arctic
circle in 1886. Then a young COM
mander of the navy. he reconnoitered.
to the considerable gain of science,
the inland bay, and partly crossed the
continent At that time he was only
30 years old. now he is SO. What
short periods in the twenty.three in
tervening years that he has not passed
in the silence of the frozen north he
has spent in securing the financial
backing and the supplies that he
needed to push once more forward to-
ward his one object, the north pole
There has centered his whole career
Expedition after expedition he has led
each further than the last over the
ice foes. Often he has been forced
to give over for the time the struggle
because of some accident that he could
not have foreseen. such as the disap
pearance of a cache On all but the
severest parts of some of the expedi
Their oldest daughter. Marie Ahmigh
ito. was born in one Of the long arc
tic nights at a point further north
than any other white child was ever
born.
Peary went north for the second
time in 1891, and his wife went with
him. She left in the spring, when
after wintering on the western coast
he cut dagonally across the ice cap to
a point never before visited. on the
northeast coast of Greenland. There
he found a great indentation in the
shore. and as that was July 4, he
named it independence bay.
Again in 1893, he went north. His
curious knack of comprehending the
character of the Eskimo and winning
his trust was then as thereafter very
useful to him. His wife was with
him. In winter camp on this trip in
the widst of long wastes, only Is de
grees from the pole, his daughter
Marie was born.
His next expedition was the one thai
extended over four years. His shiI
was the Windward, owned then by the
present Lord Northcliffe, then Mr.
Harmsworth.
Two Great Polar Dashes. F..
All these years in the bleak arctic
appear now as only preparatory tt
what came later.
Peary's former dash began OF
July 26, 1905, from Sydney, Cape
Breton. He now had the steamer
Roosevelt, which was peculiarly con
structed for his purpose, with it.
crew tie rods to bind it together, it!
almost solid filling in at the bows, it!
heavily armored stern, and sheathet
hull.
After terrible hardship, the part.
reached "Farthest North" 81 de