The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-10-01
THE ROOSEVELT
VAS FEATURE !.
Of THE PARADE
Boarded by Commander Peary
Who Had Just Arrived in
New York
EARLY HOUR PREVENTED
ANY ELABORATE GREETING
Newspaper Men Crowded About Him
IN the station and Questioned Him
About His Trip to the Far North
and the Pole.

About His Trip to the Far North
and the Pole.
New York, Oct. with Command
or Robert e. Peary and every mem
Der Of the crew that accompanied him
on his quest, Of the North Pole aboard
the steamer Roosevelt, just back from
the region of eternal ice, was silent
feature Of the national parade today
up the lower Hudson to meet the Hall
Moon and the Clermont at Newburgh.
This naval parade was the princi-
pal incident Of the celebration today
90 far as Manhattan was concerned.
In Brooklyn the historical pageant of
last Tuesday was repeated, and there
was everywhere the usual expecta-
tion Of the aero-plane flights, but the
great majority Of the sight-seers
flocked to the banks Of the Hudson.
The whistles of hundreds of harbor
craft shirked continuous salute to
the Roosevelt as she ploughed up the
, harbor at the moment when Com
mander Peary stepped from the train
u the Grand Central station, return
Ing to New York from his trip to the
North Pole. to participate in the Hud-
bon-Fulton naval parade up the river.
The Roosevelt was we'll on her way
from quarantine to pier at the foot
Of West Twenty-second. street. where
the explorer was to board her, when
Commander Peary arrived at ISIS q.
"a. He was accompanied by Mrs.
Peary. The hour Of their arrival was
20 early that few persons were at the
station to greet them. They were
warmly greeted, however. by Herbert
L. Bridgman, secretary Of the Peary
Arctic club. A Group Of newspaper
uaea also we're gathered ON the plat
from, and they with the few Others. Ia
the station. who had discovered that
this Naf the return of the North Pole
explorer. crowded around the COM
mander and questioned him about his
trip to the far north. After q hurried
breakfast the commander and Mrs.
Peary left the hotel in a taxicab for
the pier where they went aboard the
Roosevelt.
There they saw. in addition to
Peary's vessel, great fleet of ex-
curston steamers, tugs, yachts, motor
boats and other craft which rende-
voused between Ft. Lee and Spuyten
Duyvil and fell into line for the fifty
miles Journey to Newburgh. The
Roosevelt's program from quarantine
20 her dock was marked by q continu-
Gus blast of whistles and when she
came of the Riverside drive where
the crowd was gathered, and started
on her way up the river, the salute
was taken up by the thousands of
cheering voices. ..
When Commander Peary Mrs. Peary
and Herbert L. Bridgman boarded the
Roosevelt for the trip up the Hudson
It had not been decided how far Com
mander Peary would 60. After reach
Ing the pier Peary walked up and
down for several minutes without be-
Ing recognized by some two hundred
persons gathered there for glimpse
Of the Roosevelt. The little steamer
vas anchored out in the stream with
the north pole nag at her mizzenmast
and the nags which in the interna-
tional signal code read, thank you,
hying beneath 1t.
"How do you feel to be back?' asked
someone. "It does not feel 80 worse,
In the words Of Chimmie Fadden," re-
piled Peary.
Then his eyes turned back fondly
b the Roosevelt. "She does not look
like. . very imposing ship. does she?"
he said. "But up in the ice she looks
Hike something and there were times
when she looked mighty good to me. /"
The North Pole Tag which the steam
er bears is the usual American en-
sign with q strip Of white bearing
the words, North Pole." In black let
ters running diagonally from the up
per corner Of the horizontal stripes
10 the corner under the stars. Com
t1ander Peary explained its origin as
follows: II wanted. a piece Of silk
nag at the pole to bury at that point
with my records, 20 I cut a diagonal
strip out Of 1t. Then, to preserve the
nag, I sewed a strip Of white silk
into the cut when I returned to the
Roosevelt. The design seemed 60
appropriate that we lettered this
stripe and adopted It @ the North
Pole ensign"
Viewed BY Convicts
ODgining, NJ. r., Oct. 1.-The con-