The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-09-23
GRAPHIC STORY Of COMMANDER PEARYS QUEST;
FOUND RECORDS OF THE GREELEY EXPEDITION

TO OO-Que-Ah'S ODSerVatlonS OF lire.
He stole the bottle and took long
drink of muriatic acid. DR.. ]. w.
Goodsell, the Roosevelt's surgeon had
difficulty in pulling him through, but
the recreant lover reformed his hab-
its after that.
During the games on the ice at Cape
Sheridan on Christmas. he won the
5O-yard dash over all the Eskimo,
thereby winning more fame for the
waiting Bwaloo.
"And when we got back to Anna
tok," concluded the commander,
"Whiskey Oo-Que-Ah got everything
l had promised. He laid those things
before the girls father and he speed
lily relented. Whiskey came back to
| the Roosevelt with his bride and stay
ed with us until we got to Etah."
Tell us something about some of
the good times you had, if there were
any," one of the group on the floor
1 put in.
How about Christmas or New
Years day?"
"Sure, there were good times
Peary answered, "and Christmas day
was about the best. We spent that at
latitude $3.50 in the Roosevelt at
Cape Sheridan AID it was in the mid
die of the Arctic night, but it was
Christmas all right. | think it was
McMillon who got up the field day
wasn't it you Mac?" Yes came the
voice of Mcmillan back in the gloom.
well, Mcmillan arranged the field
day on the ice foot near the Roose.
welt. 1t was black except for the star
! light and we marked off the course of
! the races with lanterns. There were
| two at the start, several along the 100
| yards of smooth ice that made the
| course and two at the finish. We had
separate races for Eskimo and whites,
for the huskies can run as fast. as a
white man. Then we had one1hoe for
the women and another for the Eski-
mo children. You know we had sew.
enteen women, seven boys and six
| girls along on the Roosevelt.
Poor Marvin, remember, won the
third heat of the white mans race and
in one of the Eskimo races Sigloo, my
favorite boy, waddled over the ice
in the lead. We had the most fun
out of the race for the women, car
rying babies in their hoods.
There were three in that race as
I recall, and Lu-Cul-Ah and her baby
won, We all wanted to see the prizes
she should choose. She had her pick
of a box of four cakes of scented soap
two boxes containing needles and
thread, and a thimble and frosted
cake but we're f1oored when she chose
the scented soap. That raised Lu
culAh about q per oSnt in our esti
"No, she didn't eat, she used it,
laughed the commander when one OF
the correspondents wanted to trace
the psychology Of Lu-Cul-ah further
"Then we had tug Of war between
the men fore and aft and it ended
with big featst. Tell them what we
had to eat, Matt"
Matt coughed apologetically, not
liking being thrust into the limelight
From his seat on salt barrel he ther
named over the menu of that feast al
$3.50.
"Well, sir, remember we had musk
OK steak and hare and not to forget
musk OK soup. Then we had Wash
ington pudding and plum pudding
brought from home-from down IL
America, and nuts and raisins and
and whisky, sir, and wine. After tha
cigars, and cigarettes and candy thai
Mrs. Peary had given before we sailed
plenty of candy, sir"
The commander then took up thu
tale again. He had received a sur
prise box delivered to Captain Bart
lett before the Roosevelt left New
York he said, and Captain Bob haC
promised Mrs. Peary not to give tn,
commander his surprise box, which
she provided until Christmas Tht
whisky had been the gift of Sir VIII
liam McGregor, captain OF Newiound
land. Mr., John Ayre of st. Johns
N. F., had supplied great lot o
candy, and case OF books from Arch
bishop Howley Of st. Johns had com
pleted the Rooseyelt's store of pres
ents.
"Altohgether it was the best Christ
mas was the way the head of tn
RooseVelt'e crew concluded his sum
mary OF the holiday sS'that hav
ever bad" Even before his inter
rogators had finished with him Com
manded Peary said:
II presume that our contributions i
the science of geography and ocean
ography can be counted as perhap
the greatest results of the expedition
For instance, our soundings from Cap
Columbia in Grant Land to the pol
clean up and give an approximat
outline OF the bottom of the ocean fron
the top Of the world and this advance
and supplements the information 0
Manson and Cagni.
But there is one thing accomplish
|, ed which is not IN the province 0
: science. The attainment of the pol
is a sign of mans political conqpes
Z Of the earth. AS long as there re
mains a spot on the globe not attaine
? by man, so long will there continue
? reproaeh TO the proves OF man. Az
ter the discovery of the north pol
that of the south pole must follol
as a natural sequence But there ha
/, , not been the sentiment and the weigh
OF history behind the struggle for III
! south pole"
! Feary said In answer TO q questio