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Show PEARY'S PLANS. lie Want! to Discover tho North Pole in Three Tears. Washington, Nov. 18. Lieutenant Peary, who commanded the Kite expedition to Northern Greenland, is anxious to embark on another expedition, this time to the North Pole. He has already made application applica-tion for a leave of absence for three years, and his application has been sanctioned sanc-tioned by the bureau of yards and docks, to which he is amenable. But from present indications, if Lieutenant Peary goes on the projected expedition he will have to go as plain Mr. Peary and will have to relinquish his commission in the navy as civil engineer. Commodore Far-quhar, Far-quhar, chief of the bureau of yards and docks, in his annual report, re-port, called attention to the pressing need of the navy for an additional number of engineers to keep pace with the increasing construction of dry docks, launching ways, machine shops and other naval plants. And in this view Secretary Tracy does not feel warranted in allowing one of the senior engineers who already has been absent under leave on pay for two years to absent himself for three years more at public expanse. . |