Show COMMANDER COMMANDED PEARY BREAKS A RECORD Receives for a Magazine Story of His Polar Trip SOME OTHER LITERARY PRICES Ilon Received Only 25 2 for HIs Paradise Lost While hUe Others Othmer Reaped Rewards No So Greater It I seems probable that many man years will wi pas pass before an amm author receives a higher price for his literary le product than thun Commander Robert E Peary ro 10 from Hamptons Magazine for tor his lila own wn story of ot the time discovery of the time north vole pole ole This feature cost a clean cool No rate rte per pel word Is specified In tho contract but It Is generally estimated that thai Commander Comman Peary Is 15 receiving 11 cash for fol each word that he writes Ils for tho the magazine Benjamin B Hamp ton toil editor of time the magazine makes this statement maes If H you OU have a desiro to estimate tho the thorlo rate ralo per word that will wi be bo earned carneal by Peary Pear with wih his north polo lole 1011 story you ou would be safer in placing piecing It at I per word than Wo 0 have havo bought ought l only American and amid Canadian magazine rights and an 1 Stokes book rights right cover covel only these theao countries That leaves heaves all aU the foreign rights to sell st When they aro figured up the totals should amount to or oven even Peary Pea is not a good business man ma As a matter ml cl of o fact fat ho lie Is a poor pOOl man Mrs h Peary Pear has been the business head of or the time family and the commander never neer lobes luses l ses an opportunity to praise her hem for the manner in which she has lias labored and borne borno the tIme brunt of his 11 quarter of a I century of ot work in the arctic Peary Pealy and Mis rs Peary have sacrificed their material comfort to this arctic Ideal Every dollar doUa they could spare from actual living expenses has been used to equip expeditions so that when Peary Pea returned a few months ago there thero was mighty little money In Imi the tho Peary bank banI account RECORD BREAKING DR AKING LECTURE OFFERS The revenue from his books and magazine work could be greatly in increased increased creased by lecturing If Peas friends can persuade him to go on the plat form He Ho has offers that would net him for the first years work or 01 more if It he would be willing to stick to It for several consecutive months He Ho has ha received receive offers from many man of ot the leading cities cites of tho the country countr guar guaranteeing him as high as for tOI a single singIe lecture There can cn be bo no reason at al least so his lila friends assert why he could not take tako advantage of ot the lecture opportunities opportunities and ammil meet meet tho time people and let them heat hear his story stor from his own lips Ups Up to tIme the present time he has not completed any an lecture arrangements but hut it is believed that ho he may ma bo be per persuaded persuaded persuaded to do so within a few weeks The chief difficulty seems to be bo that thai this man moan who has lies been living In the frozen 18 IS out of the last 23 years year yead has hasa a about exhibit abut lug ing himself public p Peary Pe ry Is a scientist first last In t and amid all al tho the time a Ho Hp values his scientific achievements achievement us its of o moie mOle Importance than tho the to make money mone Ho He will wl do nothing that does doc not coincide with wih his hla rigid ideals ideals of a scientists dignity For example he ime has declined offers from moving picture pl turo men who want to show his polar photographs and arid offers from talking concerns that want a few reels of talk to retail throughout tho time country offers ofer which amount to a tidy for tune RATES PAID OTHER AUTHORS i Just why Commander Peary received such an exceptional rate for tor his lila story is explained by the eager competition for It I on the pai part t of ot nearly nealy all al the Im Important Important important publishing houses In the world Realizing the supreme Importance of ot this the most wonderful won and last of ot the tIme earths they engaged In a bidding which made figures rise ris mercurially They knew of ot course that this story had ha not like most of or the time world romances been told before betor betorI It I was the most extraordinary and In Interesting interesting story of ot fact tat to bo be told for tor forthe tho the first frt and ad last time It I Is Interesting to compare the tho price paid Commander Peary Pear with the tue rates enjoyed by the tho topnotch writers of ot tho the world Roosevelt Roosevel received for his African hunting stories a dollar dolar a C word Rudyard Ru Kipling is supposed to receive recelo the highest prices paid any author of fiction For the time English and amid American serial rights of Kim ho he received 2500 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle hit one of ot the time highest marks when he received 60 cents a word for forthe forthe forthe the American serial rights of his later laler Sherlock Holmes stories This com corn compares pares paies amusingly with wIh the time rate rte of i 2 iper per imer thousand words or of ot a I cent a word received for his first t and and generally general considered best stories High for literary lerr work began practically with the tho great success of ot Sir Walter alor Scott The compensation for Cor his Life of Bonaparte Bonaparte averaged for each day cIa of ot work s spent pent upon it Thackeray was as offered 1000 for Henry Esmond Elmond and all he jumped at atthe tho the proposition Both Dickens and Hugo Huge made good money mone but when Eu Eugene Eugene Eugene gene Sue drew for his Wan iran Wandering an dering Jew Jowa Jewa a novel of oC probably up upward ward of oC words the literary l era Iy world gasped gaped Prices have risen stead steadily ily 1 with wIh the time Increasing success of publishers and the growth of maga magazines magazines aloes No author however In all al the history of ot literature has ha ever over made so s much money for tOI each actual word In Ina Ina ina a Peary Peamy Pea literary lerr product as will wi Commander REWARDS The eagerness of ot publishers for Com Coma Commander Commander mander Pears forthcoming story stor and tho time exceptional price paid mark one thing timing signally This is a full ful appreciation appreciation appreciation of this mans work In his own age ago One cannot help comparing the time great price paid vaid for tor this story to I with tho the small smal sums for which many of ot the tho worlds masterpieces were sold cold Dr Johnsn It will bo be remembered wrote his Immortal to pay thu the funeral expenses of his Imis grandmother h herr er or Milton sold oid his Paradise Lost to toa toa a bookseller for tor 23 25 5 Poes Raven brought him the time grateful sum of ot 15 If I these books wore were written today to lay ay would they bring as high a a price as Commander Pears Pcs story Although they would unquestionably net their authors more than they the did ld during doming their lifetime they would hardly bring tills this record price For they were works of or Imagination The work of ot Commander Peary pure literature as ns it tt will wi bo be b Is la lathe the rarest and amid most exceptional ox of or things written the romance roman co of ot actual adventure written by toy a him himself himself self Fe Few w of ot the time worlds heroes hero discover discoverers r ers explorers and amid fighters were able to tell tel their own tales Imagine what tho th world would give today for tho the story stOr of ot the long voyage and discovery of oC Columbus as W told by b himself What an account It I would bet From 1101 a financial standpoint Colum Columbus bus own story stor would bo b Invaluable were vere a manuscript found today Yet this title last antI and r l of oC stories storres more teeming with wih adventure and hardship hU hip than tha o Columbus could have hae been ben high as Is g the price is cheap It is 13 beyond a n merely financial valuation I GRET MEN WRITING THEIR OWN STORIES It I I Is no longer the custom for great ge t explorers scientists and an heroes to let hat their stories tores go unwritten for others otherl i afterwards to write and Heroes He r nowadays write their own stories and they benefit profitably by them I Admiral Robley D Evans since his hla hI retirement from tho the United States navy I Ia I a year ago asro has become a very er success successful successful ful tul author and lecturer His writings writing i ifor for Hamptons Magazine and his books ok and his lecture engagements bring him himan himan I an annual income four or five times as I Ir great r t as that paid him by b Uncle Sam Sm when he took tOk to k the battleships around tho time horn hor Admiral Evans Enns Is now writ writIng writing Ing a series serie of articles on the Panama canal InS which It Is said sald will wl bring him fame famo oven even greater than that which he has ha won as its 08 a sailor |