Show rehl TELLS OF OHIs E first lic account of the wo wonderful nm expedition related by explorer IMPORTANT TO publishers the following prel m nary account by commander peary of his successful voy age to the north pole was nas issued on lep september ep 8 by the new york times company at the request of commander peary and tor for his protection as a boot boo only ted and exposed for or sale before adv part of it was vas reproduced by an any y newspaper in the united stat states es or r europe in order to obtain tl e full pro lection of the coper ht laws the cepro auction of this account in any form without permission la Is forbidden forb adden the penalties for violation of 6 this form of coper gl t include in ariso ment tor for any person aiding or abetting such violator vio violat laton on Copy rigl rigi t 1909 by tl e new york times company report on the discovery of the north p pole ole by robert E peary commander U S 8 N copyright 1009 by charles R M her iler as v ce pres dent of the new york T mes company battle haibon labrador via wire less capt 1 ay N F As it may be impossible to get my full story through in time for tomorrow to morrow s paper partly as a prelude which may stimulate interest and md partly to fore stall possible leaks I 1 am send ng you a brief sum summary biary of my voyage to the mortn pole which Is to be printed ex acely as written summary of north polar expedition of the peary arctic club the steam er roosevelt left new york on july 6 1908 left sydney on july 17 arrived at cape york greenland august I 1 left etah greenland august 8 ar rived cape sheridan at grant land september 1 wintered at cape sheridan leave on sledges february 14 the sledge expedition left the roosevelt february 15 1909 and started for the north arrived at cape columbia on march I 1 passed british record march 2 delay by open water march 2 and 3 held up by open water march 4 to 11 crossed the eighty fourth parallel march 11 encountered open lead march 15 crossed eighty fifth parallel march 18 crossed eighty sixth arallen aral lel march 23 encountered open lead march 23 passed norwegian record march 23 passed italian record march 24 encountered open lead march 26 crossed eighty seventh parallel march 27 passed american record march 28 encountered open lead march 28 held up by open wa ter march 29 crossed eighty eighth parallel april 3 crossed eighty ninth nith parallel april 4 north pole april 6 all returning left north pole april 7 reached cape columbia april 23 ving on board roosevelt april 27 he roosevelt left cape sheridan an y 18 passed cape sabine august left cape york august 26 arrived indian harbor with all members of edition returning in good health ept prof ross G marvin drowned 1 10 when 45 miles north of cape i t returning from 86 degrees i th ill latitude in command of the porting party ROBERT E PEARY S SEEN BY SCIENTIST BY CYRUS C ADAMS aber of american geographical so clety opy copyright right 1909 by new york times ew york special the fori ag ng dispatch though conden tells clearly the lead ng facts in the story not only ot of peary s jour ney to the north pole but also of a remarkably fast sledge trip over the ice of the open polar sea the dispatch says that the roose velt passed the winter of 1908 1909 at cape sheridan on the coast of grant land the vessel had threaded tho comparatively narrow channels sev eral hundreds of miles in length lead ing from cape sabine to the arctic ocean this journey Is apt 0 be difficult and sometimes impossible but the conditions were evidently favorable the ship that disappeared in the fog while the crew of peary s aubil ary arv steamer erik were watching its de from etah made a good pas sage through the long channels and arrived safely on the shores of the sea where the explorer was to start on his sledges tor for the north pole but at cape sheridan peary was not as far west as he probably had hoped to bd be he had anno meed his anten tion in the previous year of malting making his sledge route to the pole along some meridian much further to the west of his route in 1906 when ha he made the highest north attained d u to that time 87 d 6 in on that occasion he was greatly im ceded by the rapid drift of the ice to the east which a little retarded his ills progress north and worse still car ned ried him so far to the east past that he had to make his landing on the coast oe of north greenland many days marca marcia from the roosevelt his base of 0 sup plies on his expedition of 1905 08 06 he tried hard to force the roosevelt a good dis tance to the west of cape sheridan but the ice ce baffled him for one rea son or another on the edge 0 the arc are tic winter last year he did not or could not take his vessel along the northern coast of grant land to the west of cai cal e sheridan and so jt spent last winter not so far from its old berth in the ice in the winter of 1905 S 6 it is no wonder that it tools took the par ty 15 days to travel westward as far as cape columbia it is likely how bow ever that commander peary succeed ed before winter set in in ca cheing supplies to the westward so as to ac ce lerate a little the westward move ment of the sledge party before it struck out northward over the sea arriving at cape columbia on march 15 the sledges turned to the north on the sea ice the explorer had laid much stress upon ithe the tact fact that he intended to travel much further to the west than on his trip in 1906 his dis patch shows however that he did not take to the sea any farther to the west than he did on his earlier trip commander peary says nothing in his report of being detained by pres sure ridges or hummocks and it 18 certain that he me with no immedi ment of this sort such as made his at tempt to reach the pole in 1903 1902 a con sinuous and terrible A great obstacle and the one that undoubtedly prevented him from reaching the pole in 1906 was the wide water lanes or leads of water some 0 of f them so long that he could not get around them peary s summary seems to show that he was a little over thirty five days on the journey from the land to the north pole in this time he was delayed about fourteen das by water leads leaving a little more than three weeks tor for the actual sledging work |