The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-11
ITALIA COMPARES
 PEARY'S RECORD
Finds that He Met Far Bet ter Polar Conditions Than Other Explorers and that Cooks Statement is Sup nOrtad. n.

By Anthony Fiala of Brooklyn, Mem
 Der Evelyn Baldwin Polar Expedi-
 tion 1901-O2; Commander Baldwin
 Ziegler Expedition 19O3-04-O5. Writ
 ten Exclusively for the United Copyright, 1909, by the United Press
 Associations.
 New York. Sept. Commander Peary's success was possible through a combination of favorable conditions, fine equipment, and his own party s endurance and enterprise. Given the most perfect equipment and unequal led powers of endurance, without the ice conditions being just right, the party would have been doomed to fail ure. Peary'S account is so different from the accounts of Dr. Nansen and Capt. Cagni and their stories of their record breaking marches. In read- ing, you are impressed in the latter cases with the hopelessness of trying to proceed swiftly, of the long stretch 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 Peary reels off the distance as if he were on a Klondike trail. Supporting party after supporting party go back with almost the regularity Of clock work and the pole is reached in he sends his faithful Captain Bartlett back. Peary was also wonderfully successful after he had reached the Pole and taken the necessary obser- vations 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 en- tire distance, and still more fortunate in being able to use the igloos that he had constructed going out. In fact in his own words, the simple case of his Success is expressed in his state ment:
 "The Pole at last! The prize of three centuries, my dream and goal for twenty years, mine at last! l cannot bring myself to realize.
 "It all seems so simple and common place. As Bartlett said when turning back, when speaking of his being. in these exclusive regions, which no rnor- tai has ever penetrated before: Ut Is just like everyday.
 One surprising thing is that he was able to take wire enough along to make a sounding of 1,500 fathoms, and I do not suppose that he was so very sorry when, through an accident he lost this heavy piece of scientific furniture.
 On April 25 of 1900, Captain Cagni l north and it would be interesting to quote Captain Cagni here>
 ''We talked about our homes, our re- | turn to our country. Oh, how the fu- | ture smiles on us! We go out into the open air, the thermometer indi- cates 35 degrees below zero, but new | ertheless I see for the first time the l guides walking up and down after their soup. The air is very clear Between the northeast and northwest there stand out distinctly, some | sharply pointed, others rounded, dark or 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 wal which from afar seems inSurmOunt- able. It is our "Terrae Ultima Thule , | Dr. Nansen, on April 8, 1905, said ir | his Journal:
 ''The ice grew worse and worse ano we got no way. Ridge after ridge an6 nothing but rubble to travel over. We made a start at o'clock or so this morning and kept at it as long as we could, lifting the sledges all the time but it grew too bad at last. I wen on a good way ahead on snow shoes but saw no reasonable prospect of ad vance, and from the highest hummocks only the same kind of ice could be seen. It was veritable chaos of ict u