Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-04
meme WALLACE Is ABOARD
Explorer Needs Fuel to Return if
He Has Reached Pole.
OR FOR ANOTHER DASH NORTH
NATURALIZATION Ship Puts Out
From st. Johns With Fifty
Tons Stored in Hold.

parting cheer from the blueJacketS on
board III. NJ. S. Brilliant, now in the har-
Dor, the Jeanie. escorted by tug, passed
out through the straits and into the At
lantc ocean yesterday morning. and
started on her long voyage to Etah. on
Smiths sound. on the north of Greenland.
with coal and provisions for Commander
Robert E. Peary and his party,
The Jeanne will bring back TO civiliza-
ton, if they are alive. Harry whitney
Of New Haven and DR.. Frederick Cook
of Brooklyn. They may have the story
OF the finding of the north pole, or may
be buried somewhere in the snow ana
ice.
Cheers for Relief Party.
There was a large crowd at TIE dock
to see the final preparations for the trip.
The freight which had not gone aboard
the night before was slowed away early
and it was just before 8 O'Clock when
Capt. Bartlett gave the word and the
jeanne backed out of the wharf, turned
her bow toward the opening of the mar
bor and started on her long journey.
There were cheers and cries of Cod
speed, and to bring back word OF the
north pole
has ever started for Etah. which is the
gateway of the Polar sea. While this
will cut short the time the party can stay
in Greenland. it also means that II Peary
is intending TO return this year he Will III
all probab ility be awaiting at Etah for
the fifty tons of coal which the jeanne has
on board for him.
MAY Return in October.
With wind and weather favorable. the
Jeanne viii go direct to the Greenland
port without a stop, and will put into
one of the Labrador ports only in an
emergency. On the return there will be
several stops along the southern coast of
Greenland, where there are Danish set
Elements, and also on the coast of Lab
radOr.
Capt Bartlett is confident that he will
be back to st. Johns by October l, If not
before, but, like every other man who has
taken boat into the Arctic sea, he has
a stock Of provisions to last him several
months longer than that.
Ship and Grew.
The schooner JEANNE is a ninety light
ton vessel, built thirty-one years ago. and
rebuilt nine years since in Green Bay,
y. F.. for this expedition. She has been
equipped with thirty six-horsepower Oil
engine, which will propel her five miles
an hour. She expects to reach her desti-
nat ton in twenty days steaming and re-
turn in about the same time.
Her commander is Capt. Samuel Bart
lett, who has already headed Peary and
Canadian government expeditions into the
arctic Her crew includes John Clark
mate Harold Bartlett. the captains SON.
who is boatswain: John Condor. cook,
and Fred Spracklin Rupert Bartlett,
Michael Tucker, Daniel Quinlan and John
Edmunds. seamen.
All are Newfoundland men. The cap
tain, bOatswain and Edmunds have been
within the arctic circle before.
The ship also carries r. X. Fuller. a
New York reporter, who will cover the
work of the ship for various publications.
brought south by Peary fourteen years
ago and educated. but who insists on re-
turning to his tribe, declaring that he will
find the pole.
Carries Coal to Peary.
The Jeannies primary purpose is to
carry forty tons OF coal to Etah, West
Greenland, Pearys headquarters there.
for the use of his steamer Roosevelt on
her return south.
Pearys plan when he went north in the
steamer Roosevelt last year was to force
her into the polar basin and then dash
over the ice toward the pole this spring,
retreating south afterward, IL successful.
and connecting with the auxiliary expe-
dition in his steamer and using the coal
the JEANNE will land to bring the steamer
back to America.
If Peary failed to reach the pole the
past spring he will remain north this year.
The coal will be useful for the same pur-
pose next summer.
In this case Peary will send down dis
patches from his advanced base to Etah
by Eskimos. The JEANNE will be guided
by the instructions contained therein. 50
it is quite possible she may not see Peary
at all.
Two Explorers Coming Back.
She will, however, bring home Harry
Whitney, an American sportsman. who
went to Etah last year in the Roosevelt
to hunt musk-ox and walrus, and return
this year.
DIR. Cook. the rival. explorer, will like
wise be brought back. He went north
two years ago in the schooner Bailey, in
tending to dash for the pole with single
Eskimo, and was last reported in May,
1908, on the northern edge Of the Baffin-
land archipelago.
After the JEANNE has completed her
work at Etah she will return to Ponds
Inlet, Baffnland. where she will try to
secure a load of arctic salmon for sale
in New York. She carries three salmon
nets and thirty tons Of curing salt, her
other freight comprising the fifty tons of
coal for Peary, sixty-four barrels Of kero-
sene. six barrels of gasoline and sundry
small stores. She expects to return here
| about October l.
Building Permits Issued.
The following building permits were is
| sued today:
To the Mayer Amusement Company for
| one one-story theater on F. street be-