| Show EXPLORER lB IN NErD NEED OF cJ Peary Cannot Reach R ach the North Pole Unless He Has Money for Outfit APPEALS TO THE TH E PUBLIC ABOUT IS THE SUM THOUGHT NECESSARY RV h New ew York April A 28 Lack of about ut 80 o oto 00 to finance ethe the expedition may men mean menthe the abandonment of cl the dash da h to the north poe pale which Commander B R E EPeary Pearl Peary planned for or this summer r The explorer r who has haiJ earned e the distinction of having reached cached the farthest north end and who trUly may Inay be said to 10 live for tor the purpose of revealing to the world woId the mysteries of ot f fhe he kc pole pola Itself Is deeply downcast at the possibility that he be 1 may tray apt be e able to 10 tory try ry again is a work Which I must do a 8 great work for which I 1 was as Intended aid Commander Peary today to the As Press and with a confidence that thatUs his Us work must be helped from somewhere he added The money will come somehow I 1 feel certain ertain of tf 1 f that But If I was only as assured assured now What w at a relief relic it would be and pow how tow I 1 could concentrate all alt my energies On the th details of the expedition b her ter r we were but nautical miles from irom the he goal on our last trip It would be a p fIt t pity indeed if we could not try tp again Appeal to the Public Peary wants nth ants to start from New York I Ithe the he latter part of June Juno His Hla shin the Roosevelt loosevelt which proved of Qt high worth on the he last expedition is now being prepared for or the next attack on the northern n ice fields The greater part pai t of the tile al already a aready l ready subscribed will be spent In repair repairing repairIng ing lug the boat and more will be n heeded for general genera expenses The Peary I Arctic club is caring largely for fo the there re refittIng fitting of the Roosevelt and It has Issued an appeal for contributions from the pee peo people pl of the country so ep that a total of may be raised The club feels as loes Commander Peary himself that the people should share chare in the tie next expedition lon tion The rhe idea of permitting the pubic school children of the t e country to take part art in tho the movement has bas been suggested to o Peary It teat met with his approval but butte buthe buthe he te is in doubt as no to how bow such a program could be carried put cut Would Like to Be Certain I I am not complaining he said but abut If 1 I was certain about the material as aspect I poet peet of or the expedition a great burden i would be lifted Did you ever think what the details of ot preparation for the inva invasion sian sion of ot the north means Infinite de do I tails ails are the words which describe d it If II anything is left undone or anything for forgotten gotten jotten after fter we have actually got away then it is too tO late lat We get along as best we can canTo canTo canTo To this gigantic task of oC discovery Com Corn Commander Commander mander Peary implicitly believes that his fellow countrymen should lend their In Interest interest Interest terest and support and antt his absolute nJ solute con confidence confidence that he be has been be n assigned to at attain tain tam the goal oal expresses his bis conviction that he will win Peary says sas if conditions are favorable the objects object of the expedition might be accomplished In one season But he mIght remain north as long as three years He was preparing he be said for a long and ana stern stem battle |
