The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-13
BY United Press wire.

(By Anthony Flala. member Evelyn
Baldwin polar expedition, 19O1-O2;
commander Baldwin-ziegler expe-
| dition, 1903-04-05--written exclu-
sively for the United Press.)
| Copyright, 1909, by the United Press
| Association
New York, Sept. 13.-Commandor
Peary's success was possible through
a combination of favorable condi-
tons, fine equipment and his own and
party's endurance and enterprise.
Given the most perfect quipment and
unequaled powers of endurance.
without the ice conditions being lust
right, the party would have been
domed to failure. Peary's account is
so different from the accounts of DIR.
Nensen and Captain Cagni and their
stories of their record breaking
marches. In reading you are i'm
pressed in the latter cases with the
hopelessness of trying to proceed
swiftly. of the long stretches of ridge
after ridge of moving broken ice, of
long lanes which could only be
crossed by detours many miles in
length. They were held UP by storms
which buried their tents and sledges.
and bothered by thaws which made
travelling dangerous. Peary reels off
the distance as IL he were on n Klon-
dyke trail. Supporting party after
supporting party got back with almost
the regularity of clock work and the
pole is reached in a dash of five
marches from the time he sends his
faithful captain Bartlett back. Peary
was wonderfully successful after he
had reached the pole and taken the
necessary observations there to have
been able to travel back on his
homeward way over the trail which
had been broken on his outward
march, almost the entire distance.
and still more fortunate in being able
to use the ingloose that he had
constructed going out In fact, In
his own words, the simple ease OF
his success Is expressed in his state
mcnt:
'"The pole at last! The prize of
three centuries, my dream and goal
Tor twenty years, mine at last! can
not bring myself to realize IL.
1T all seems so simple and COM
monplace. AS Bartlett said when
turning back when speaking of his
being In the exclusive regions which
no mortal has ever penetrated be-
fore: 1t is just like every day"
1t must have been strange eX.
perience for Peary to realize after 50
many years that at last he had sue
ceeded In reaching the place which so
many had failed to attain. One sur
prislng thing is that he was able TO
take wire enough along to make a
sounding of 1900 fathoms, and / do
rot suppose that he was so very sor-
ry when, through an accident, he lost
this heavy piece of scientific fur
niture. On April 25th, 1900, Captain
Cagni and his men reached their
highest north. and II would be in
tercsting to quote Captain Cagni here
I'VE talked about our homes. our
return to our country. Oh, how the
future smiles on us! We go out into |
the open air. the thermometer indi-
Gates thirty-five degrees below zero,
but nevertheless I see for the first |
time the guides walking up and down |
after their soup They are talking of |
their country. OF their courmayeureu.
where at this moment the meadows !
appear covered with verdure after |
their long rest under the white man
tie of winter. We all remain outside |
for a long time, our mind enchanted
by our great happiness. we have
reached the end of all our fatigues.
Our return seems to us now an ex-
cursion, our eyes turn no more with
eagerness toward the north, but to
the south. where beyond so much
ice. beyond the cold sea and the rug
ged mountcins of Scandinavia and
fa ri har rn
waiting for us. The air is very clear.
Between the northeast and northwest
there stands out distinctly some sharp
ly pointed, others rounded. darker
blue and white. often with strange
shapes. the innumerable pinnacles of
the great blocks of ice raised up by
the pressure. Farther away again on
the bright horizon, in a chain from
east TO west, Is great azure wall
which from afar seems insurmount-
able. 1t is our 'terrae ultima thule. F"
Nansen, on April 8, 1905, said In
his journal:
''The Ice grew worse and worse and
we got no ay. Ridge after ridge and
nothing but rubble TO travel over. We
made a start at o'clock or so this
and kept at II as long as we
ioulu, li1tlnB tne SieuSes all tne tihio,
but 1t grew too bad at last went
on a good way ahead on snow shoes
,ut as no reasonable prospect of ad-
yance, and from the highest hum
nocks only the same kind of Ice
,ould be seen. 1t was veritable chaos
II ice blocks. stretching as fiy as the ]
lorizon. There is not SO much sense !
n keeping on longer We are sacri- {
icing valuable time and doing littlel
( there be much more ice between
lere and Franz Josef land, we shall
indeed want all the time we have. I .
therefore, determined to stop and
hape our course for Cape Fligely." 1
DIR. Nansen's latitude was then I
GA. while Captain Cagni had {
cached So. 34. In both cases. they {
,ere troubled on their return march /,
" had ice conditions and Captain /