| Show PEARY MAY 1 1 S ta I 1 IN ini ARCTIC I 1 11 r I 1 NO TIDINGS FROM HIM SINCE SINCE LAST SUMMER 1 I 1 famous explorer was to Have mad Made a dash for the north I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 pole I 1 chicago july 7 A dispatch to alic he record herald from Tas washington hington says that captain rol robert ert E peary has sacrificed sacrifice cl his lito life in in tho the effort to discover alscee r the north polo is the tear fear 0 of f naval men here who are arc worried by the failure to gt get any tidings of the ship roosevelt which sailed for foi r tho the arctic regions july lath 1905 advices advises from tho the american geographical society add to their fears reports are that the weather in the far north this tpring jand early summer I 1 was mora more than 51 usually bally rigorous thai severe have been frequent and that the ice fcc is heavy consequently it is fry feared that peares ship may havo have been ground to pieces by the drifting ice the explorers plans when he left lef t last summer were to proceed to the farthest possible point of land north of cape sabine and within m miles I 1 les of the pole there hl he e was xo to establish a winter base and make all preparations tor a dash across the ic ice this ethis summer as soon I 1 as 1 weather reather conditions would permit this he expected would not occupy more than six weeks and according to his calculations he would reach home not later than october of this year Esqui maux and dogs it is supposed were taken aboard the roosevelt last summer for it is on the hardy inhabitants of the pular polar regions that peary has always relied it was thought however that a whaling vessel vesel might bring some tidings of the roosevelt and the failure P of f any news of tile the expedition tion to teach reach the outside world for so many months is arousing the keenest anxiety I 1 |
