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Show DESIGNS OF PEARY ON THE NORTH POLE. That intangible something called the north pole will have to look just a little out now that Lieut. E. R. Peary is again casting his eye to the northward. Lieut. Peary is now preparing to depart on his seventh dash for the pole, and he proposes to corral it, or be able to give a full and complete explanation as to his failure to do ,80. f , - - Lieut. Peary's new boat "The Roosevelt" by name is said to be the best vessel in which a trip of this character has ever been undertaken, un-dertaken, and the explorer is confident that success will crown his efforts. In this boat, Lieut. Peary expects, if favored with an open season, to reach a point near ihe Polar ocean itself, or 400 miles further fur-ther north than he usually gets by vessel. Four pole-seeking vessels ves-sels have already reached that vicinity, though none of them was in any way as well fitted for the task as the Roosevelt. , ; ' "" ' - . . . ' v On her he will transport north a tribe" of Eskimos, among whom he has worked for twelve years, and with the picked men of the tribe, each driving a dog team, he proposes next February to make a dash for the pole, dropping team after team to return as its stores are exhausted, and meeting these again on his backward Journey as they come toward him with renewed supplies of provisions. A feature fea-ture of the present expedition is that he had the ship fitted with Marconi's wireless telegraphy, and hopes to be able to communicate with New York by its agency, .an innovation which, if successful, will enable the world to'learn of his movements from flay to day. |