The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-09
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Copyright, 1909, By The United Press
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 New York, Sept 9.-Commander Peary's preliminary story comes to us with the news of his first success in arriving at Cape Sheridan. at Grant Land, on Sept 1. 1908, by steamer Roosevelt, giving him the advantage of high northern base at about S2 degrees, 30 minutes, north latitude, an advantage he enjoyed on his last rec ord breaking trip. He tells Of ms early start on Feb. 15, 1909. when his sledge expedition left the steamer Roosevelt and started in westerly direction toward Cape Columbia, which is also more north than Cape Sheri- his wonderful journey north, from there on his story is simply a state ment of dates which is very interest ing to me, for in it he tells Of the previous explorers. He speaks of much open water. He does not tell his method of crossing these leads-lnter- esting information which will un- undoubtedly reach us later He ieft Cape Columbia on March 1 and then was delayed By open water for two days He was held up by open water from March 4 to Ii. a loss of valuable time in the best sledging season of the year. The next date we have IS tn1s
 
 wonderful success in the very, begin ming of his trip of crossing the S4th parallel of latitude. He thus succeed. ed. in making a distance Of almost 70 miles since leaving land in about two or three marching days, in which only one must have been good going. be- cause on that day he passed the Brit ish record of 83 degrees. 20 minutes. He encountered another open lead on March 15, but it did not delay him very long, for he succeeded in crossing the 85th parallel three days later and then with tremendous speed in that icy country succeeded in crossing the Seth parallel March 23, five days later. ceeded in getting up to the s6th parallel though bothered by open wa ter to great extent; in fact seven days>of the month he was, in his own words. .held up-" Even aacsssf71 his support 1n reaching the Seth degree of latitude before starting on the return which cost Prof. Marvin his life. On March 23 again he encountered an, open lead, but that did not prevent him from passing pr. Nansen's record of 86 de- grees, 13 minutes and on the follow ing day he crossed the Italian record of 86 degrees. 34 minutes. made by Captain Sagni of the Duke of Abruz- luck again with an open lead on March 26, but on the following day succeedr ed in passing the S7th parallel and in one day more passed his own record of S7 degrees. minutes. made April 21, 1902. That same record breaking day he encountered an open lead and was held up by open water on the fol- lowing day. but with the tremendous speed he must have been making, he succeeded for. days later sin crossing the sSth parallel and only two days after that crossed the 89th parallel then he required only two days to make the North Pole.
 It is a marvellous story of travel he must have made 35 miles day for many days, which only could have been possible on smooth ice. It's a story that takes the breath away.
 His return speed seems to be even more wonderful. He left the North Pole on April and reached. Cape Columbia on April 23. distance of about 49O miles as the crow flies, and in that moving. shifting. ice. with the curves necessary to get out of the way of obstacles. considerable more dis tance would have had to be covered. In the 16 days march from the Pole to Cape Columbia, he must have aver aged over 31 miles a day. and with bothered with the loss of time that they would have caused, to reach Cape Columbia on April 23, he would have been obliged to have made the pheno H0Ildl Sp0oQ OI 4O II1lleS Indny d Ody. There is one way to account for it. which would also explain both Dr. Cooks and Commander Peary's suc- cess. pr. Cook saw land to the west and to the north around the 87th parallel. Dr. Cook also passed som ice which seemed to him like glacial ice, and which possibly may have been grounded foes in shoal water. Be- tween these grounded floes on the east and archipelago of island. say on the west, and the land to the south, there would have been a great triangle in this Polar basis of possibly immovable ice; ice which had not moved all win ter and so there would be a remark able absence of pressure ridges and the rough-moving ice which bothered all other explorers. In fact, neither Dr. | Cook or Peary mentioned rough ice | These open lanes then would be sim ply Assures in the ice caused by tidal action.
 In the absence of a more detailed all explorers will watch with l breathless interest for the detailed | story which Peary will send us soon. SPOERING'S QUARRY
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