The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-12
PEARY SURE
Of SUCCESS
Told President Roosevelt as He
Babe Him Goodbye That He
Felt Sure That He Would
Reach the Pole This Time.
HAS WONDERFUL CREW
ON A WONDERFUL VESSEL

1908, to President Roosevelt at 0ys-
ter Bay, when his boat, the Roosevelt,
lay ready for the start in the harbor
there:
4 never felt so confident Of success
in all these years as I do now
Later the president visited the ship
and said goodbye to Peary. As he
was taken off in a launch he stood up
in the stern sheets, waved his hat,
and shouted Good luck, PeaTy.'
Thank you shouted Peary back
and that was practically the start
of this last expedition.
Peary was taking no chances through
Carelessness in selecting his crew and as
sstants. or I'm fitting out his ship. I'm
the main. on the last expedition, the
Roosevelt had proved herself wonderful
NeSSel-Ine best ever seen lu aEcllc seas,
and the best fitted to fight the ice and
winds Of those regions
She was launched at Bucksport. Me, on
March -, 1903. in time 10 carry PeaTy
forth that year The designer was VIII
liam Z. Winant, the naval architect of
New York. She is Isl feet i'm length, with
d beam of $50 feet. depth of 1913 feet,
and mean draft with stores of u. feet.
Her gross tonnage is GA, her estimated
displacement about ] 800 tons.
According to the technical description
she is a Jhree-masted fore and aft schOOu-
er-rlSSed steamship with auxiliary sail
power. She was built entirely of white
oak. with treble frames close together,
double planked. Her walls are from "a
10 80 inches thick. The keel l6 inches
thick. is reinforced with false keels and
keelson, Her heavy bow is backed by
L feet Of solid deadWOOd Her stern,
reinforced by iron, has a long Oyerhaug,
10 protect the rudder from the ice but
the rudder itself is so arranged that it
can be lifted out of the water when
damned or entangied.
Ship Is OverhauIed.
But before he started in July Peary had
his ship completely Overhauled and large
" redtted. They put in two new boil
ers and new bottoms and new interior
fixtures. The quarters for the crew were
Tefurnisled, and internally the whole ship
was made over. But the principal point
was In the arrangement of the boilers.
Instead or arranging them fore and aft the
new ones, JJO-hOrsepOWeT Scotch boilers.
were placed athWart snip with the fire
room forward, so as to make the entire
main hold d bunker and permit feeding
coal direct from the hold TO the fire
room.
As for the crew, they are all men fit
ted by experience and temperament To
meet the difficulties ana dangers of the
arctic circle. The captain Robert A. or
more generally Bob Bartlett. was born
in ETIgUS. Conception bay. near ST. Johns
Newfoundland. SO years ago. He comes
of generations of northern shippers. They
sent him To the College of ST. Johns To
make a lawyer or something of the kind
of him, but at the age of 30 he was over
come by q desire for the sea and took
90 IT, lie has been m tIe arctic with
Icary bOJl on the WiUdward and the
Roosevelt before this.
The mate. Thomas Gushue. a years old.
Is also a native of BrigUs. and Ia has
sailed for many seasons amid the ice
coastinE along The shores of Labrador
John Murphy, the bOatswain. is from
Newfoundland. with "a long record as "a
deep-water sailor behind him. and the
chief engineer. George A. Wardeu who
studied his trade aJ his native town.
BuckspOrt. Ne. where the Roosevelt was
constructed, has served for wears as am
engineer both ON sea and I'm the shin
yard His assistant Bank Scott. is an
other NeWfOundlauder. who has seen
service on the Rosalnd, Southern Cross
and other northern steamers.
For surgeon, PeaTy took DR.. John w.
GoodseI of KensingtOu, Pa, a man of
wide experience and success I'm both de
visions OF his profession. There went
with him also as assistants, Professor
Ross G. Marvin of the College of Civil
Engineering Cornell university, Donald
Is. Macmillan, physical director of WOr-
CeSteT academy, Worcester, Mass
school teacher Of some note, and George
Borup, Yale graduate, one of the col
Iege apprentices of the Pennsylvania rail-
road.
Peary also took Matthew Hensen. the
negro who started his seafaring life as
cabin boy on a ship that sailed to China
and has been with PeaTy either IN the arc
tic or at home for q score of years. and
Charles Percy, the steward, a NewfOUnd-
lander, too, eX-flsherman and sealeT. who
has gone with PeaTy several times into
the arctic circle Among the seameu of
the crew are John Barnes. John Cody
and Dennis Murphy, the oilers, John Bent
ley and Patrick Joyce firemeu; Richard
Butler, George Percy, Patrick Skeans and
John Wiseman, and Messboy William
PTitchaTd.
First News.
The first news which came from Pearv
since he set out on his triD with this !
crew reached New York last Sept. &c. Tt !
j.. and was addressed to Herbert L
Bridgman, secretary of the Pesry club /
Il stated that everything was well and !
closed with this paragraph.
Unusually stormy season. but no ice I
Yet. Showing furiOusly uOw-pleutv of it, /
From Littleton island and Sabine north /
Have good supply Eskimo dogs and wal .
rus meat. All well ON board. Expect TO /
steam north some time tonight
A few DAYS later there came a mes /
sage 20 the New York Times which was .
printed on oct. p. 10 told of the R0oSa- I
Welt lying I'm Etah harbor grim. mass /
i've, determined. a ship that reminds one F.
strongly of its uamesakc. and iu the com /
ing struggle it is believed that She win /
Not belle the name she bears"
He went ON TO describe the trim to /
Etah. and expeditions for provisions sent /
out from there. and he spoke encourag- /
1nGIy of the future. That was the last
considerable messagFBad from him.
His Other Expeditions.
Lieutenant Peary first pushed into the /
StorWSWeUt lcofields of the arctic circle /
In 1856. Then a young commander of the !
navy. he TeCOHuOIteTed, 10 the cousidera-
bic gain of science. the inland ice can
in Greenland, east of Disco bay. and part
ly crossed the continent At that time he +
was only 80 years old. now ha is e /
What short periods in the % Intervening
years that me- has not passed i'm the ST
lcICC of the frozen north he has euanf
ian securing the financial backing and the
supplies that he needed to push once
more forward toward his one object the /
north pole.
There has centored his whole career
Expedition after expedition he has led
each further than the last over the ice
over for the time the struggle because. of /
some accident That he could not have
foreSecn. such as the disappearance of q
cache. ON all but the severcst parts of /
some Of the expeditions his wife mas gone
with him. Their oldest daughter Marie
Ahmighito. was born i'm one of the long
arctic nights at a point further north
than any other white child was ever
born.
Peary went north for the second time
in 1881. and his wife went with him She
left i'm the spring. when. after winterinE
on rhe western coast. ne cut diagonalIy
across the ice cap to a point never before
7-isited ON the northeast coast of Green
land There he found great inde7tatior
I'm tho shore and a s that was July ( he I