Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-03-15 | Page 2 | Will Try Again to Boost Peary

I c.i wTll try again I TO BOOST PEARY 'M Congressman Englehright of j California Still Fighting to Honor the Explorer. : HAISES QUESTION AS TO ;i SPEED WITH DOG TEAMS Cites Sonic Data to Show That :M Peary Could Have Made 1 Time He States. ''jll WASHINGTON, March 14. Bepro- ' jf Kontativo Enclcbrifrht (Republican) of ;j; California, the only monibor of tho , houso committee who favored bestow-' bestow-' 'i'i in;j congressional honors upon Com-mander Com-mander Peary without nn inspoction of the ' oxploror's proofs, docs not intend to let the matter rest, fji-j' Ho says ho will force tho sommittcc . I in I to vow definitcb" for or a'cainst a Peary V ! award if he can. Tho various bills for ':!; the Peary award aro still before the l'A committee. ': Mr. Eiilebr5cht has. by a thorouch search of the record, due up inierestinir i'V'j data concerning the speed that can bo .. made in Arctic travel. The principal 4 i point made against Peary in the commit-tee commit-tee Is that he could not have made tho speed which he claimed in his final dash fit for the pole. This speed was thirty ' miles a day in tho .iournov to tho polo 'if'! and . fifty mi'cs a day on his return K trip- fijj Cites Sledge Records. '! y A. D. Nash, a former government mail , 'l carrier in Alaska, is quoted by Mr. En-' En-' " plcbripht as makine a 1400-mile trip '. ;; from Dawson to Nome with does and 'i'i J sledges in twenty-six days, or fifty-four i miles a day. A single trip by Mr. ij Nash from Candle Creek to Nculcluk, ; i f a distance of 102 miles, is said to have ? been made in seventeen hours with mail ". !v and a woman passenger on tho siedgp. i t An average of 321 miles per day, is u said to have been mado by the winning IS 1 dog team in the race of the Nome Keisr 5 rel club of Alaska over a 412-imlo 4 J course, the full time being eighty-two &i hours and two minutes. I'M Mr. Englebright says that Itcprescn-v Itcprescn-v jf tativc Macon, who mado the clnet all's al-l's tack upon Mr. Peary's Tocord. did not ij quote fully enough from Greeley's rec-1 rec-1 - S i ord. which shows that Lockwood made i lj 1 sledge trips averaging 31 miles por , .? day, instead of nine miles, as stated by Mr. Macon.