Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-07
WAS CERTAIN OF SUCCESS
Tells of Twenty Three Years a
Lonely Wife Of Explorer.
ALL OVER NOW AND SHE'S GLAD
Feels Confident That He Has
Crossed Trail Of Cook, and
Can Tell Facts.

PORTLAND, Me-, September TT feel
that we shall hear from your dad to-
day." Mrs. Robert Il. Peary said to her
daughter Marie at their summer home at
Eagle Island yesterday morning.
1T. too, have had such a strange feeling
today that I know we shall hear some
thing Marie Peary replied.
1t was a strange coincidence that the
news of the discovery Of the pole by Mr..
Peary should come late in the afternoon
to Mrs Peary after making this state
ment. 1t was after o'clock in the after
noon when she received the news.
The world knew 1t two hours earlier.
But Eagle Island is far removed from
the mainland, being a solitary island far
out at sea.
A reporter was one of the first to tell
Mrs Peary Of her husbands success. AS
the boat carrying him neared the rocky
headlands Of Eagle Island the two wom-
en- were to be seen in front Of the cot
tage.
At the same time at least a dozen Ash
ermen's boats were making into the cove
in front Of the cottage. the meIl In them,
as they neared the shore, blowing horns
and waving their hats and cheering.
Ran Up Their Own Flag.
-
the beach as the boats landed.
"T knew it! / knew it," she exclaimed.
~ have been thinking all day that We
should hear good news today. Oh, / am
so glad, so glad!'
A passing steamboat crowded with sum-
mer visitors to the Harpswell resort toot-
ed its whistle.
Answer them, Marie; run up the flag"
said Mrs. Peary. "Old Glory is floating
at the pole. 1t must float ON Eagle Is
Steve Toothacher OF West Harpswell
ran his sailboat almost upon the beach
and hurried to the shore. bareheaded and
with the salt water dripping from his
clothes.
II have message for you. man." he
said to Mrs; Peary. Mrs. Peary took the
Indian Harbor. Labrador; Mrs. r. E.
Peary, Eagle Island: have the old pole,
Am well. love. VIII wire again from
Chateau. BERT"
This confirms your news" said Mrs.
Peary to the newspaper men MY hus-
band wrote that message before he wrote
yours. ! am sure Of that. I have been
waiting for fourteen months to hear this
somehow l knew he would be successful
this time
Working for It % Years.
iou Jun Know what 1t means to
me-" she said. .Twenty-three years he
has been working for this. and during
all this time I have just existed, that's
all.
Hardly year Of real happiness dur
ing all that time have / had because of
the worry and anxiety and fear. But 1t
Is all over now
No one knows how much NV hus-
band has suffered or sacrificed to reach
the pole. Many times he has risked his
life.
THE best years of his life have been
spent in that frozen country, FAR re.
moved from every comfort and from
everything 1t has been his life's work.
He has studied and labored for success.
and now that It has come no one can
appreciate how happy it makes me.
Il don't want to talk about DIR.
Cooks discovery. There has been too
much said. about that. and 1 don't want
to comment on 1t. Whatever I might
say would be misunderstood. anyway,
and people are so unkind about such
things.
IF he reached the pole ahead of Mr..
Peary 1t makes no difference, for
know that my husband did just what
his telegram says, he located Old Glory
right on the pole and not near 1t, but
at the exact spot:
IF he had missed 1t by ten miles he