Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-09-23

such &C GhStinent as to meet the wide
demands and contingencies of arctic
travel. Airships, motor cars. trained
polar bears. etc, are all premature,
except as a means of attracting pub
lie attention.
Fourth. use of the hyper
borcan abor:@ine Ohe Whale sound
Esl;imo) for the rank and file of the
slodGe party. 1t. seems unnecessary
to enlarge upon the fact that the man
whose heritage is life and work in
that very region must present the best
obtainable material for the personnel
of a serious arctic party"
His Previous Record.
Commander peary has stood in the
foremost ranks of arctic explorers for
nearly two decades He was born at
Cresson Springs, Pa. in May. 1856. He
entered the navy in 1881. His first
polar experience was acquired in 1856,
when he made reconnaissance Of
the Greenland inland ice. In June,
| 1891. he sailed from New York on the
Kite and. making his headquarters at
Mccormick bay. on the west coast Of
| Greenland. penetrated as far north as
latitude &c. In IS94.3 lie reached the
seventy-eiGhth parallel on the west
Greenland coast In 1859 he went to
between the seventy-ninth and eighth
eth parallels on the east coast of Ellis
| mere Land. In 1900 he reached the
| eighty second parallel on the east coast
| of Grinncll Land. In 1866 he Skirted
The north coast OF Grinnell Land and
made an attack on the pole from Cape
Moss. This was the expedition which
reached what was at that time "far-
| hest north.
, The earlier WORT of peary was d.
, rectcd toward Il more complete survey
Of Greenland than had ever before
been attempted. This was the essen
tial aim of his work prior to 1898.
! When he started for the arctic that
year it was with the purpose of trying
for the pole. lie spent four consecu-
tive winters in high attitudes first on
one side of the channel and then on
the other but when he came back In
he wished. One great trouble was that
he could not force his ship far enough
north to establish winter quarters
where he wanted them. From the vi
cinity of Cape York to the north end
of the passage along the coast Of
Greenland the distance is about 6 de-
grees, or $50 geographical miles.
The next winter and spring QS99-
1900 he used Fort Conger as his base
and crossed over to Greenland and fol-
| lowed route previously traversed in
! studying the coast. In latitude SO de-
grees so minutes, after leaving the
land, he encountered broad streak Of
open water which could not be crossed
He then turned back. In April, 1901,
he proceeded from Fort Conger in a
northwesterly direction toward Cape
| Hecla. This was to have been his
point Of departure from Grant Land
His dogs gave out before he got there,
and third spring was permitted to
pass without improving the opportu-
nifty so temptingly at hand. In 1902
the latter programme was repeated,
| with little better fortune. Peary actu-
ally got out of the ice fifty or sixty
miles from the ocean. On April 81 he
was in latitude 81 degrees IL minutes,
the highest attained on this side of the
pole. He then found SO many openings
! In the ice, however that further ad-
vance was foolhardy.
That Commodore Peary had a very
clear idea of what the discovery of the
north pole would mean to the discov-