Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-10-21


history. which pages furnish the key
Ia unlock the long closed door OF the
Polar CONT or,rsy And the pro-Pcary
conspiracy.
pcary After Coin7
From the earliest days, Mr.. Peary's
effort to reach the Pole was undertaken
primarily for purposes Of personal com
mcrcial gain. For twenty years he has
passed the hat along lines Of easy
money. That hat would be passing to-
day II the game had not been. In the
opinion Of many, spoiled ny my sue
ccss
"tor nearly twenty years he sought
20 DC promoted over the heads of stay
Il -hcmc hut hard crking naval OIL.
GERS. During all OF this time. while
on salary az Il naval officer. he was
away engaged In private enterprises
from which hundreds OF thousands Of
,o.iars wen, into his pockets. by wire
pulling and lobbying he succeeded in
having the American navy pay him an
uncarncd salary Such "A man could
not afford to divide the fruits of Polar
attainment witt, another.
In 1891. ~ the steamer Kite went
north. Mr.. Pcary began to cvincc the
brutal, selfish spirit which later was
Shown Ia every explorer who had the
misfortune to cross his trail hansen
had crossed Greenland; his splendid
success was In the public eye. Mr.
A., h,l lao,
cd applause 10y saying that Nanscn had
borrowed the 'Pcary system But
Pcary had borrowed the Nordcnskiold
system. without giving credit.
AT about the same time that Mr.
Pcary took the great mcteoritc or Iron
metal for wcapons-from the Eskimos
in 1897. group OF seven or eight Es-
kimos were put aboard a ship against
their will and brought to New York
for museum purposes. They were
locked up In n cellar In New York.
awaiting market place. Before the
profit time arrived. because of unhy-
gicnic surroundings and improper food.
all but one died. When In the grip of
death. through "a Mrs. Smith. who min
istercd to their last wants, they APP
peaicd with tears In their eyes for some
word from MIR. Pcary. They begged
that he extend them the attention of
visiting them before their eyes closed
to n world of misery and trouble. There
came no word and no responsive call
from the man who was responsible for
their suffering OF seven or eight In
nocent wild people. but one little child
survived That onc-Menc-was later
oven denied "A passage back to his ia
TIERS land by Mr.. Peary.
The Greedy Expedition.
The sad story of the unavoidable
deaths by starvation of the members
OF General Greely's expedition has for
years been issued and reissued to the
press by Mr. Peary and his press
agents. In such form as to discrcdit
General Greedy and his coworkers. His
own inhuman doings about Cape Sa-
bine and the old Greedy stamping
grounds have been suppressed.
I'm 1901 the ship Erik left Mr.. rcary,
/ with u large group OF native helpers.
near Cape Sabine. An epidemic,
brought by the Peary ship. soon after
attacked the Eskimos. Many died:
| others survived to endure n slow tor
ture Peary had no doctor and no
medicine In the year previous, Peary
| had shown the same spirit to the ever
| faithful DIR. Dcdrick that he had shown
| to Vsrhoeff. to Astrup, and to others.
| Although Dcdrick could not endure
Peary's unfairncss, he remained,
against instructions. within reach for
just such an emergency as this cpl
demic presented. He offered his SER
vices when the epidemic broke out. but
Peary refused his offer. and allowed
| the natives to die rather than permit
n competent medical expert to attend
the afflicted,
Lives in Ease.
Near the same point, n year later,
Captain Otto Svcrdrup wintercd with
his ship. His mission was to explore
the great unknown to the west. This
unexpiored country had been under Mr.,
Peary's eye for ten years; but Instead
of exploring II, his time was spent In
an easy and comparatively luxurious
Fife about comfortable camp. When
Sverdrup's men visited the Pcary ship,
they were denied common brotherly
courtesy and were refused the hospi-
tally which IL universally granted by
an unwritten law, to all field workers
Mr.. Peary even refused to send him. on
his returning ship, important letters
and papers which Sverdrup desired
taken back. He also refused to allow
Sverdrup to take native guides and
dogs-which did not belong TO Mr.
Peary. This same courtesy was later
denied to Captain Bernier of the Ca
madam expedition.
"Thus attempting to make private
reserve of the unclaimed North, he at
tempted to discredit and thwart every
other explorers effort, In line with tn,
,,Ii,y ayary n,ambar pf every