The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-09-23
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BY Sun Leased Wire.
Sydney, Sept. 19.-He sat on pile
of deep-sea seines before the single
sunny window of a stores loft and
twenthy men who had hastened 1900
miles or more up to the caves OF the
continent squatted cross-legged on the
tarry floor They asked and he an
swered What they asked about was
his discovery of the north pole. I'm
reality blurred the sharp angles Of
the situation.
For a week and more Commander
Robert q. Pear had been talking
to the world S,-. space that merely
shows blue on a fiat map. His speech
had come down through the air and
the cables under the water. The vital
and personal in his words had been
burned out by the spark that carried
them from Labrador. Battle Harbor,
where be taTried, had been a name,
Yet 5reIin Battle Harbor, beneath
that foh-pfne window with the sun
Shining Through, sat Peary, on Thurs
day mornih hg last and he talked to
the CORRESPONDENTS of the newspapers
in the world below in words that were
earthly. He even once said: "A hell
of a" then quickly corrected him
self.
The spell of the careful wireless
note was broken. Beyond the window
lay the Roosevelt in the harbor, a
gawl,ish craft with a white barrel
lgshed to the foremast for a crows
nest In the left where the fisher
mems seines were, and out on the
boat stories were told and salted by
LH4 zesr Of the sea. They were pole
nnding but more of the comedy and
tragedy of the land farthest from
the sun and life that is lived in a
strange region.
This dispatch will strive to give
some of the human record of Com
mander Peary's experience. The eight
crowded hours ashore at Battle Har-
Dor were every one Of them filled
with sixty minutes of narrative-get-
ting and at that they were far too
short.
Yet herein are the tales of how Nc
MILAN ate the food that would have
succored the seventeen under Greeley
who starved at Cape Sabine, twenty
six years ago; how the linen cuff of
an explorer who never came out of
the ice silence was found with the
name lockwood penciled on the
band; how Whiskey O-que-ah ran the
race between the lanterns in the
blackness of G 7as day and won
first, the race, and then bride; and
how young Harry Whitney of New
Haven is coming down to civilization
on the relief ship Jeanne, with his
lips sealed with secrets that may be
the deciding evidence in the contro-
Yersy between Peary and Cook.
The dominion government cableship
Tyrian, Captain Alec Dickson, COM
manding, had been placed at the use
of the correspondents at Sydney by
the Hon. William Pugsley, minister
for public works at Ottawa, and OF
the night OF Monday, September Il
she had sailed from North sydney
bound northward.
At O'Clock on the morning OF
Thursday the Tyrian dropped anchol
in a bowling south-easter just off tho
entrance to a narrow channel of white
water that led between two bold cliffs
OF granite into an unseen harboI
beyond
From the Tyrian's decks the handful
OF squat houses on the side Of the
dim eolored mountain and the slate
roof of Wilfrid Grenfell's mission hos.
pital marked all the Battle HaFboI
visible. Over against Caribou island
the waves were being driven in floods
1t was in this sea that the CORE
spondents were landed by boat loads
Just as the boats rounded the granite
thumb of one of the gulf Islands thai
make Battle Harbor haven for New,
foundland's fsherfolk the black bow
high rakish spar and thin shaped fun
mel Of the Roosevelt showed, dominat
ing the whole tiny harbor. The bur
gee OF the Peary Arctic club was fly
ing from her main mast and from hel
mizzen, the stars and stripes
Nesting close under the dirty biael
hull OF the ship were the slender spar
red fishing boats. Like a grand Di
ano in a nat. the Roosevelt lay shoul
dering ali the space in the ribbon o.
quiet water between the rocks. Th'
pungent smell Of rancid grease anC
OF decaying things came down the
wind from the ship Hey bow ant
sides bore the scars Of the ice. gougei
aud sores in the ough wood alonl
the waterline.
The rigging OF the mizZen was clut'
eas1 with branching shapes that look