expedition in the early months of the year hopes were entertained by those inter sated ested in arctic explorations that great things would be accomplished by the travelers in the frozen regions great preparations were made by nansen naneen wellman and peary who proposed each in his own way to penetrate as an far north as an possible and even travelers fer pleasure only bained ban led together under the leader ship of a tourist guidero gui deto follow in the wake of the explorers NOW as party after party has returned the fact fac is established that a great deal less has ban been accomplished this year in the way of pushing northward than the elaborate preparations and sanguine representations led the public to expect wellman Well mans is vessel was brushe crus tieu in the ice the tourists ship hail bati to be abandoned in a disabled condition and lieutenant pearyl Peary party sparty returnee return ej after having ascertained tile the impossibility this year of proceeding beyond points formerly reached the failure a owing to unusual climatic conditions the story of peares expedition is very thrilling during the month of october last year frightful storms swept over the harbor and the naptha launch was lost washing away large quantities of oil intended for heating beating and illuminating purposes the win ter was spent in endeavoring to pug pass this timeto time to the best beat advantage possible blethen when a seemingly eternal night rests over the country in march the main body of adventurers started across greenland to independence bay the point reached on a previous journey but a terrible storm was encountered almost from the start after a week dr vincent had to return an idea of the situation can be found from the fact that the temperature dropped to 55 degrees decrees below zero remaining so for days while a gale was wan blowing about fifty miles an hour oas alter after another of the party gave in to the hardships encountered many dogs dropped dead and froze into solid blocks block still lieutenant peary pushed onward until he found it impossible to reab independence bay in time to accomplish anything further thas tbs season then with ith his bis disabled compan ions and the surviving ving dogs he re turned southward thebold the bold explorer has decided to remain another winter at falcon harbor and make a now new effort next year to penetrate the regions beyond independence pen dence bay he His hopes bopes that wilder milder climatic conditions may then favor his undertaking some criticism has been bestowed upon the leader of the expedition for his bis failure to accomplish something definite and it has been hinted that he be remained behind in order to escape censure it to is pretty clear however that peary is a most capable arctic explorer that not a human life was lost during the terrible experience on the lee ice covered plateau of greenland proves proven that his arrangements were perfect and that he be had bad adequate resources in extreme without these the probability is that not one of the party would have escaped to tell the story of its destruction to battle with a fierce gals gale at a temperature 60 50 degrees below zero to Is to fight with grim death and no man should be deprived of the honor bonor of victory over that antagonist oo DO matter how barren of results in other respects it may have been