Arizona republican., 1909-09-07


 to mean that the relief ship Jeanie. which left here month ago, has reached Etah, Greenland, and estab- lished communication with Peary. It is possible Peary sent word by a chance whaler.
 The last former word from Peary was received October '. 1908, from Harry Whitney. a wealthy resident of New Haven, who was left by the ex- petition at Etah in charge of Peary's provisions. He said the ROoseveltsIeft Etah on August 15 on it's northern journey. The last Peary expedition sailed from New York July 6. 1908. 'Peary's last words were: Unless un- forseen circumstances intervene with in the next year I hope to plant the stars and stripes at the pole"
 From New York the Roosevelt went to Sidney thence to Hawks Harbor, where it took supplies; then crossed Davis Strait to Holstanberg and fol- lowed the coast from there to Cape York. Etah was reached some time in August, and from that point the route of the expedition can only be cOnjec- tured from the plans it's commander had already announced. Peary's idea was to reach the pole by the Amer ican route," the way he himself had studied and developed during former expeditions. The advantage of this route is that it allows a base of sup plies 100 miles nearer the goal than the Spitzenbergen base. which has hsn ftu fnf T .c the route appeared during Peary's trip in 1906. when he attained the northern most point reached by man-S7 de- grees 6 minutes at about the forty ninth meridian, west longitude. This was on April 21.
 The commander on the present ex- petition hoped to follow the path taken three years ago. which lay in almost straight line from Cape Moss, the supposed northernmost extremity of Grinnelland. to latitude s4.36 At this point Peary discovered .what he afterward concluded to be an open polar sea. In 1906 his journey over the ice was delayed at this point for week by an open lake of water two miles wide. When the ice finally all lowed him to proceed heavy gales sprang up, which forced him to aban- don the greater part of his provisions He found comparatively smooth trav- cling until he reached latitude S5. .12 There he encountered a terrific storm which held him prisoner while the ice drift carried him seventy miles east. These handicaps of constantly widen ing water, increasing roughness of the ice with threatened failure of sup plies forced Peary to turn back on April 21. when he had reached lati- tude SIG. After putting up flags and depositing a brief record of achieve ments Peary started for Cape Morris Jessup.
 On his present expedition PeaE an- nounced he would take a route from Grantland more to the west and not mer attempt heading almost as far as the eightieth meridian thus compen- sating for the eastward ice drift He planned to establish his last base on a newly found island northwest of Grantland Peary based great hopes on the results to be obtained by fol- lowing the currents which he studied on the previous expedition.
 Peary has been foremost in the ranks of Arctic explorers for nearly two decades. He was born at Cresson Springs, Pa. in May, 1856. He enter ed the navy in 1881. His first polar experience was acquired in 1886, when he made reconnaissance of Green lands inland ice. In 1891 he sailed from New York on the Kite. and, making his headquarters at McCor- mick's Bay on the west coast of Greenland. penetrated as far north as latitude S2. In 1S94-95 he reached the seventy eighth parallel on the west coast of Greenland. In 1S9S-99 he