Show SCIENTIST EXPLAINS MESSAGE BY CYRUS C ADAMS of american society copyright 1909 by new york times new york special the foregoing dispatch though condensed tells clearly tho the leading facts in tho the story not only ot of peares journey to tho the north pole but also ot of a remarkably last fast sledge trip over the ice of the open polar olar seas tho the dispatch says that the roosevelt passed the winter of 1908 1909 at cape sheridan on the coast ol 01 0 grant land the vessel had threaded vitt comparatively narrow channels several hundred miles in length leading kading from capo cape sabine to tha arctic ocean this journey Is apt to be difficult and so sometimes impossible but tho I 1 conditions were evidently favorable the rho sill ship p that disappeared inthe in the log fog valle the crew ot of peares auxiliary theamer E krulc T tic were watching its departure e from etah maile made a good FIS sage through the long channels and artly arrived ld safely calely on hit shores or of the sea where the explorer was to start on an his sledges for the north pole too far to eastward hut but at capo cape sheridan peary was not us as tar far west as he probably had be ile he had announced his big intention in the previous year of making hla his sledge route aronte to the polo poli along some acme mer fillen fen much further to the west of his bis route in 1909 when he made the highest north attained ui u to that alme 87 97 d 6 in on that occasion he bo was waa greatly loid ped by t the he rapid drift of the ice to the east which a little retarded regarded his Dro anress n orth north and bome still car tied ried him so far to tho the east cast that to IWO had to make his bis landing on the coast of north greenland many days march from tho the roosevelt hla his base ot 01 supplies on hla his expedition of 1905 1003 06 00 he tried hard bard to force the roosevelt a good distance to the west ot of cape sheridan but the ice fee baffled him for one reason or another on the edge of theare the arctic winter last year ho he did not or could not take hla his vessel along alone the northern coast of grant land and so co it spent last winter not so BO far from its old berth in the ice in the winter of C sledge party starts in dark the sledge left the roosevelt on february IS 16 while it was still practically dark in that latitude the ou sun n scarcely begins to peer above the be hills tor for a few minutes a day even several hundred miles to the south bouth ot of the coast where the roosevelt roosavelt was wintering it comes into view a little later in ia t that h at more northern latitude and the party made slow if time e to the west asit asat felt its way along m the northern grant land coast Is ill ely to be exceedingly difficult to traverse especially in the early spring on account of the masses ot of sea ice that have been pressed on the shore shora or broken into great blocks and stranded along the sea edge slowness of trip expected it la is no wonder that it took the party 15 days to travel westward as aa tar far as cape Colu hineba niba it la is it likely kely however that commander peary succeeded before bafo e winter set in in cachel ng supplies jup plies to the westward so eo as to ao cei cete erate rate a ittle the westward mova boyi mint ment of lle aldo liany hiir y lefere it struck out northward over the be sea at cape on march 15 the sledges turned to th the a north on the sea ice ta atio w explorer had laid much at stress so non the fact that lei Jip anten intended e f 0 travel r v touch further to b west than in 1 00 pate take to a arth io the w ava than he d did 0 on n his Is earlier tri trip P if therefore his route roue was waa really much further west than foht that w which aich ha had traversed earlier ho he must have traveled a considerable distance dl to the tha north northwest Nest over the sea ice commander peary says nothing in hla his report vf ut being detained by pressure ridges or hummocks and anavit s at is 13 certain that he met with no Im impediment of this athla sort such as made his attempt to reach the pole in a con tin and terrible struggle evades open waitr lanes A brezit obstacle and the one that undoubtedly prevented him from reaching the pole in 1906 was waa the wide water lanes or leads of water some of them so long that he could not get around them one of them kept hla his pirty idle in cani camp for a week aej the total delay from this cause was waa fatal to hla his plans plana Conill conditions tiong were different last spring though he was held up by leads on oil I 1 the be northern march abatu two weeks ile he booms to have derived two great nd advantages vantages from hla his early start in 11 the first place it would not be much later in the season that thi th water lanes would develop so far as to threaten him with defeat and then hit hl early start gave ave him all the more time to carry out his work before the wide spread of the sea fee woula make n ake sled sledging ing impossible on the ocean show good speed peares summary seems to show that he was a little over thirty five dayo dayn on an the journey from tho the land to the tha wath polo in this time lie was delayed about fourteen days by water leads a little more than three weeks tor for tho the actual sledging work we may get a good jea idea of the av arago rate of 0 travel by taking the first sea isea and the north pole records lie ho passed the british record on march 2 and reached the pole on april 6 tho the distance between them Is statute miles ami the time in making the journey was 34 days including the time of detention by water leads this Is ah average of little lose less than twelve bullos a day which la Is the best record over ever attained for long loner route sled sledging glog on the open polar sea records of other men tho the italian cani cap nl of the duke of the abruzzi expedition who made the high ost record till peary beat it in 1906 nude made an average ot of only about seven miles a lay day on his great journey and in ten days on account of deep snow they covered only 43 1 12 2 miles to the north of their ship cagat expressed th the wish before he started that le ite might malce make ten miles a day but said he knew this was waa impossible epard has only reached the pole but he has attained it at an earlier date in the year than any or of the other high records in the arctic have been made ile iio was nt nl the pole one day earlier than nansen reached SG degrees degre eu five min utes 19 days earlier than cangi reached 80 86 degrees 34 minutes and 37 days earlier than lockwood lock wood and brainard reached 83 degrees 24 arla this la Is significant of the achievement in sledge work that peary lias has accomplished because alt all suell on deavor Is necessarily limited on out on side 1 as far AS sea journeys Joun iea are am con cern opened ed by the time of sunrise |