Show PEARY AND COLUMBUS i In Hamptons Hampton's Magazine for December E. E L Li Barker Barker Darker Bar Dar ker says of Commander Peary Pear I We Ve of the twentieth teth century arc are too near this man in point of time to oce ee ce him in his true historical perspective but the labor of Columbus in g giving ging ing to the world another hemisphere was easy and brief bricf co compared pared with Peary Columbus had a n vision raised the money mcney for an expedition sailed straight out and andon on one dash discovered ered that the thc vision was reality S To compare Peary's achievement to that of Co Co- shows how prone we are to forget facts ELC aLd id to chase the hero of the hour Peary sought S. S t reach a lace i-lace which was perfectly well known ard his achievement as 2 a matter of physical and mental is entitled to great praise butil Jut hut it il is not hot on the thc same plane with the work of Co Co- 1 H H. took in the truth that the world being be ing round rOlind to sail to the west long enough wo wold aid bring back one to the point of starting though he lie would come in from the east Columbus made one onO mistake he cid not estimate the proper size of the earth an and to his dying day dayS S we believe his thought was that he lie had discovered the other side of India That a great new contin continent conti conti- n nent nt had been uncovered J Jy y y him he lie never realized that he had demonstrated too that the old theory of the earth was all wrong that it was was wa a globe that it was but a rolling w world amid greater rolling worlds he understood and his achievement was precisely pre pro such as it t would be toda today were some sonic genius S t to declare that it was sas c feasible to rea reach h Venus or orS S Mars and then to actually accomplish it And to think of what that would be he for Lor on one i moment dwarfs Mr lr Peary's achievement down to the com corn He Ho was filled fined with that same spirit that Henry Hudson was that other mariners have entertained for but he did not dream of changing all mens men's ideas about the world they live in inland and making by a single voyage the fact manifest maui mani lest fest that this world is is s with the rest in the swim and made clear the splendor of the t universe and of the power that launched the thc worlds that float in the theether ether into space and holds them steady on their theirS mighty voyages voyages' S |