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REAR-ADMIRAL PEARY.
It was on the afternoon of Sep
tember *, 1909, that the following
few words reported to the civilized
world for the first time the crown
ing achievement of three centuries
of effort:
“Indian Harbor, via Cape Ray, N’.
E., September 0.—To The Associ
ated Press, New York:
“Stars and Stripes nailed to North
Pole." Peary.”
Peary’s actual attainment of the
Pole had been just five months be
fore, on April 6, 1909.
When this dispatch came, the
world was, quite unknown to
Peary, already praising Dr. Cook as
the discoverer. Only four days pre
vious to the Peary announcement.
Cook, who was on his way back to
Copenhagen on board a Danish
steamer, had telegraphed the claim
that he had reached the Pole on
April 21, 1908—nearly a year ahead
of Peary.
While Dr. Cook’s claim did not
go unquestioned from the first, he
had for four days at least been
widely acclaimed as the discoverer
of the Pole. With Peary’s message
there arose one of the greatest con
troversies of all ages over the hon
or of actual first discovery. There
can be no one who has forgotten
the dispute. Peary’s assertions were
not seriously questioned, but among
newspaper readers there came to be
two great camps, for and against
Cook.
Peary, with his reeoru ot seven
successful trips to the Arctic, his
official standing in the United States
navy and in scientific circles, easily
held the commanding position in the
controversy. But it was only after
the scientific bodies one by one had
sifted the evidence and pronounced
Cook’s claims unfounded that
Peary’s title as discoverer of the
Pole was really won.
The bitterness of this episode is
only one item in the price which
Peary paid for the immortal fame
that is now acknowledged to be his.
He spent practically all he had in
money, gave all that was in him
for hard work, and suffered all that
the human frame could endure from
hunger, cold and disappointment.
He made eight journeys into the
Arctic, spent upwards of half a
million dollars, and several times he
barely escaped the death which in
various forms had been the fate of
more than 700 explorers before him.
The first step that led Peary to
ward the Pole was taken in Wash
ington one day when he walked into
a bookstore to browse and picked
up a fugitive account of Greenland.
He became an insatiable reader on
the subject of the Arctic.
He was then 30 years old. He
was born in Cresson, Pa., in 185C.
His father died when he was three
years old, and his mother took him
to Portland, Me., where he spent
his boyhood, roaming about Casco
bay. He went to Bowdoin college,
won fame there as a runner and
jumper, and stood in the honor col
umn of scholarship. It was a little
later that he had gone to Washing
ton to work as a draftsman in
the Coast and Geodetic Survey of
: fices. He spent his spare time
studying civil engineering and pass
jed in that branch into the naval
service. He became Lieutenant
Peary, U. S. X.
I His first assignment was to the
jtropics. He was a leader of the
i surveying for the Nicaraguan canal
; route. It was when he returned to
Washington that he fell upon the
[book about Greenland, and there
after virtually consecrated himself
to polar exploration.
Obtaining leave from the naval
service, he led an expedition into
Greenland, to determine the extent
of this mysterious land. He deter
mined its insularity, discovered and
named many Arctic points which
today are familiar names—such as
Independence Bay, Melville Land,
and Heilprin Land, and in one of
his later voyages he discovered the
famous meteorites which he brought
back to civilization. One of them,
weighing 80 tons, is the wonder of
visitors to the Museum of Natural
History, in New York.
Between voyages, Peary resorted
to the lecture platform to raise
^ funds for further exploration. In
;One instance he delivered 168 lec
ilures in 96 days, raising SI3,000.
On his sixth voyage, with the
'Pole in view, he had to give up be
| cause both of his feet became froz
en. Although he had reached the
.most northerly land in the world—
; naming it Cape Morris K. Jessup—
j at the tip of Greenland, and had
'also attained latitude 84.17, the
northmo.-t record in the Western
World, he was still in great despair
He wrote in his diary:
"The frame is oft. My dream oi
sixteen years is ended. I have made
the best fight I knew. I believe it
‘was a {rood one. But I cannot ac
complish the impossible.”
By the time Peary reached civ
ilization, however, he had decided
upon still another trip. With the
specially designed ship Roosevelt,
Peary drove further into the frozen
ocean than navigator had ever been
before. On foot he advanced until
his record for this seventh trip
stood at 86.6. where starvation and
cold again checked the party.
The explorer was 52 years old
when, in July, 1908, he set out on
his eighth and successful invasion
of the Polar region.
Captain Bartlett, the veteran navi
gator for Peary, shouted to Colonel
Roosevelt as the ship was leaving
iits wharf at New York: “It’s the
Pole or bust this time, Mr. Presi
dent.”
The method of attacking the Pole
was ' in five detachments, pushing
north in the manner of a telescope.
At the 88th parallel Peary parted
from Captain Bartlett, in charge of
the fourth detachment, and he. with
one member of his crew and four
Eskimos, made the final dash. They
covered the 135 miles in five days.
Thirty hours from April 6 to 7
jwere spent at and around the Pole—
•a great tract of frozen sea—none
Jof the land which Dr. Cook report
ed. The weather was cloudless and
.flawless. The temperature ranged
!from 33 below to 12 below. Where
|open places permitted soundings,
!9.000 feet of .wire- which was
fall that Peary had, failed to touch
'the bottom.
When he pot back to civilization,
Peary was surprised to find such a
fierce controversy raping over him
and his rival, Dr. Cook, but he
easily established his claim before
scientific bodies throughout the
world. He was raised to the rank i
of Rear-Admiral of the United ;
States navy and retired on pay;,
Congress voted him its thanks in a
[special act, and gold medals, dec
orations and honors of many kinds
[were showered upon him.
A scientific and popular narrative j
of his success he wove into a book!
called “The North Pole,” while his j
other expeditions are described in j
detail in his “Northward Over the j
Great Ice,” and “Nearest the Pole.” j
Peary’s closing years were spent
in well-earned rest, living for a
large part of the time with his fam
ily of three—wife, daughter, and
son—on Eagle island, off the coast
from Portland. Me. Mrs. Peary was
formerly Josephine Diebitsch, of j
Washington, D. C.. marrying the ex
plorer in 1888. She frequently ac
companied her husband on his north
ward journeys, and on one of these
trips Marie Ahnighito Pe&ry was
born and bears the distinction of
having been born farther north
than any other white child in the
world. She is popularly known as
“The Snow Baby.”
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ple. Fowler & Morris.
WEEKLY FORCE REPORT
Engineers and Contractors. 344 .1
Trail crew, Riley creek .12
Engineers and Contractors, 350 5
Engineers and Contractors, 356 16
Engineers and Carpenters, 358. 67
Sections 1-7 so.lth, 411-358. 17
Telephone construction, 376. !>
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Nenana Total . 141
Terminal. 412 4
Sections 1-G North, 412-459 16
Sawmill, 429 . 6
Total Nenana North.26
Tanana Vailey R. R. 59
Divison Total .355
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DANISH MOVIE MAGNATE
STEALS YANKEE IDEAS
ROTTERDAM —A dispatch to the
Nieuwe Rotterdamsehe Courant says
that a director of a Danish firm
dealing in moving picture films has
been arrested at Copenhagen, charg
ed with copying American films and
sending them to Germany.
GERMAN GENERAL GETS
MONEY FOR WRITINGS
BERLIN'.—Field Marshal von Hin
denburg bids fair to become a mill
[ ionaire from his writing, according
to the newr Berlin Gazette. It is
; reported that he has sold some of
his works in America for £12,000,
which, at present exchange, would
amount to about 2,000,000 marks.
The newspaper adds this comment:
“The German army leaders under
stand the pound and dollar reckon
ing better than they did the U-boat
chances, the strength of the Ameri
can army and the American tanks.”
MANY SITES OFFERED
FOR PROPOSED ARMORY
WALLA WALLA, Wn.-1Twenty
five proposed sites for the state ar
mory to be built here are being con
sidered by the armory commission,
which is composed of Acting Ad
jutant-General Maurice Thompson,
Seattle; J. H. Skaggs, Spokane, and
Colonel P. H. Weyrauch, Walla
Walla.
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WELL-FURNISHED two-room cabin,
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FOR RENT—Suite of three rooms, j
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FOR SALE—Two-room house, part
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Tickets can be purchased from
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the employment office, on the ground
floor of the Genera! Office Building.
Alaskan Engineering Commission, or
at Camp 415 (North Nenana).
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