Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 317, 22 September 1909 — Page 3
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TEUEGH AM, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1909.
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ninPtiYs RECORD OF VICTORY
Dctaik of Long and Arduous Journey That Resulted in the Discovery of the North Pole A CONSTANT BATTLE VITH ICE AND SEA Highest Scientific Exploit of the Age Belongs to . America Superb Courage and Persistency i Meet Rich Reward Claim Made by Cook That He Also Reached the Pole Is Denied by Commander Peary. CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY.
DAflQER rt ENCOUNTERED. ' But I was not deceived by the appareiHly favorable outlook, for availPble conditions never continue for any iBtance or any length of time In the rrctle region. , The next inarch was over good go ting, but for the first time since leaving land we experienced that condition, frequent over these ice fields, of ja hazy atmosphere, in which the light ps equal everywhere. All relief is deiatroyed. and it is impossible to see
If or any distance. ' We were obliged in this march to Intake a detour around an open lead. ln the next march we encountered the iheavlest and deepest snow of the journey, through a thick, smothering mantle lying in the depressions of (heavy rubble ice. ; TEMPORARILY DISCOURAGED. . ! -1 came upon Bartlett and his party, fagged out and temporarily discouraged by the heartracking work of making road. ' I knew what was the matter with them. They were simply spoiled by the good going on the previous marches. 1 rallied them a bit, lightened their sledges, and sent them on encouraged again. , During the next march we traveled
through a thick haze drifting over the ice before a biting air from the northeast. At the end of the march we came upon the captain camped beside a wide open lead with a dense black water sky northwest, north, and northeast. ' HAS NARROW ESCAPE ' We built our igloos and turned In. but before I had fallen asleep I was ' roused out by a movement of the ice and found a startling condition of affairs a rapidly-widening road of black water ran only a few feet from our Igloos. One of my teams of dogs had escaped by only a few feet from being dragged by the movement of the ice Into the water. ; Another team had an equally narrow escape from being crushed by the Ice blocks piled over them. The tee on the north side of the lead was moving around eastward. The small floor on which were the captain's igloos was - drifting eastward in the open water, and the side of our igloos threatened to follow suit SCAVED BY QUICK DA8H.
Kicking out the door of the Igloos I called to the captain's men to pack their sledges and be ready for a quick dash when a favorable chance arrived f We hurried our things on cur pledges, hitched the dogs, and moved Ion to a large ice floe west of us
'Then, leaving, one man to look out (for the dogs and sledges, we hurried over to assist the captain's party to doin us. ' A corner of their raft impinged on the ice on our side. For the rest of Hhe night and during the next day the jlce suffered the torment of the damned, surging together, opening out,, groaning and grinding, while the open water belched black smoke like a prairie fire. FINDS CLEAR STRETCH.
: Then the motion ceased, the open jwater closed, the atmosphere to the
v north was cleared, and we rushed Across before the ice should open gain. A succession of laterally open leads rwere crossed, and after them some Sieavy old Ice, and then we came to a jlarer of young ice. some of which bucked under our sledges, and this tare us a straight war of six miles to the north. Then came more heavy old floes, .covered with snow. This was a good Jong march.' ,, The next march was also a long ne. It was Bartlett's last hit. He let himself out over a series of large old Hots, steadily Increasing 1n diameter ad covered with hard snow. . WIND HELPS OUT. During the last few miles I walked beside him or in advance. He was solemn and anxious to go further, but the program was for him to go back from here in command of the fourth
supporting party, and there were no supplies for an Increase in the main party. In this march we encountered a nigh wind for the first time since the three days after we left Cape Columbia. Tit was dead in our faces, bitter and Insistent, bat I had no reason to complain, it was better than an easterly or southerly wind, either of which would have set us adrift In open water, while this was closing op every lead behind. This furnished another advantage of my aupporting parties. True, by so doing ft was pressing to the south the Ice over which we traveled, and so robbing as of a hundred miles of advantage. EIGHTY-FOUR IS PASSED. - We concluded we were on or near the eighty-eighth parallel, unless the 3 wlj h4. lost as tezejal miles.
TCe wlhTPblSw all night afia all next
day.
At this camp. In the morning. Bart
lett started to walk five or six miles to the north to make sure of reaching the eighthy-eighth parallel. While he
was gone I selected the 40 best dogs in
the outfit and bad them doubled. -'
I picked out five of the best sledgas
ana assigned them expressly to the captain's party. I broke up the
seventh for material with which to re
pair me ocners and set Eskimos at
this work.
Bartlett returned in time to take a satisfactory observation for latitude
in clear weather, and obtained for our position 87.48, and that showed that
the continued north wind had robbed
us of a number of miles of hard-
earned distance.
Bartlett took the observation here.
as had Marvin five camps back, partly to save my eyes, but largely to give
an independent record and determina
tion of our advance.
The observations completed and two copies made, one for him and the other for me. Bartlett started on the
back trail in command of my fourth
supporting party, with two Eskimos,
one sledge, and 18 dogs. BARTLETT DID GOOD WORK.
When be left I felt for a moment pangs of regret as he disappeared in
the distance, but it was only momen
tary. My work was still ahead, not in
the rear.
Bartlett bad done good work and
bad been a great help to me. CIrcum
stances bad thrust the brunt of the
pioneering upon him instead of divid Ing it among several, as I bad planned
iHe. had reason to take pride in the
fact that he bad bettered the Italian record by a degree and a quarter and
had covered a distance equal to the
entire distance of the Italian expedi
tion from Franz Josef's land to Cagni'
farthest north.
i bad given Bartlett this position
and post of honor In command of my
fourth and last supporting party, and
for two reasons: first, because of his magnificent handling of the Roos velt; second, because he tad cheerfully stood between aie and many trifling annoyances on the expeditions. Then there was a third reason. It seemed to me appropriate, in view of the magnificent British record of arctic work, covering three centuries, that it should be a British subject who could boast that, next to an American, be had been nearest to the pole. With the disappearance of Bartlett I turned to the problem before me. This was that for which I had worked for 32 years; for which I had lived the simple life; for which I had conserved all my energy on the upward trip; for which I had trained myself as for a race, crushing down every worry about success. In spite of my years, I felt in trim fit for the demands of the coming days and eager to be on the trail. As for my party, my equipment, and my supplies, I was in shape beyond
my most sanguine dreams of earliest years. My party might be regarded as an ideal, which had now come to realiza
tion as loyal and responsive to my will as the fingers of my right hand. PRAISES HIS MEN. Four of them possess the technique of dogs, sledges. Ice, and cold as their heritage. Two of them, Hansen and Ootam, were my companions to the farthest point three years before. Two others, Egingwuk and Sigloo, were in Clark's division, which had such a narrow escape at that time, and now were willing to go anywhere with my immediate party, and willing to risk themselves again Jn any supporting party. The fifth was a young man who had never served before in any expedition,
but who was, if possible, even more willing and eager than the others for the princely gifts a boat, a rifle, a shotgun, ammunition, knives, etc. which I had promised to each of them who reached the pole with me; for he knew that these riches would enable him to wrest from a stubborn father the girl whose image filled his hot young heart. ALL FOLLOWED HIS LEAD. All had blind confidence so long as I was with them, and gave no thought for the morrow, sure that whatever happened I should somehow get them back to land. But I dealt with the party equally. I recognized that all its Impetus centered in me, and that whatever pace I set it would make good. If anyone was played out, I would stop for a short time. - . - I had no fault to find with the conditions. My dogs were the best, the pick of 122 with which we left Columbia. Almost all were powerful males, hard as nails, in good flesh, but without a superfluous ounce, without a suspicion of fat anywhere; and, what was better yet. they were all in good asirita - - . - -
My sledges, now that the repairs
were completed, were In good condi
tion. My supplies were ampie ior days, and, with the reserve represented by the dogs themselves, could be made to last 50.
PREPARING FOR FINAL DASH. Pacing back and forth in the les of
the pressure ridge where the Igloos were built, while my men got their
loads ready for the next marcnes. i settled on my program. I decided I should strain every nerve to make Ave
marches of 15 miles each, crowding 1.m marehei In such a way as to
bring us to the end of the nfth long enough before noon to permit the immediate taking of an observation for latitude.
Weather and leads permitting. I be
lieved I could do this. If my proposed distances were cut down by any chance I had two means in reserve for making up the deficit:
First To make the last march a
forced one, stopping to make tea and
rest the dogs, but not to sleep.
Second At the end of the fifth
inarch to make a forced march with a
light sledge, a double team of dogs.
and one or two of the party, leaving the rest in camp.
FEARFUL OF ARCTIC GALES. Underlying all these calculations
was a recognition of the ever present neighborhood of open leads and im
passable water, and the knowledge that a 24-hours gale would knock all my plans into a cocked hat, and even
put us in imminent peril.
At a little after midnight of April 1,
after a few hours of sound sleep, I hit
the trail, leaving the others to break
up camp and follow. As 1 climbed the pressure ridge back of our Igloos I set another hole In my belt, the third since I started. Every man and dog of us was lean and flat bellied as a board and as hard. MORNING OF FINAL START. It was a fine morning. The wind of the last two days had subsided, and the going was the best and most equable of any I had had yet. The floes were large and old, hard and clear, and were surrounded by pressure ridges, some of which were almost stupendous. The biggest of them, however, were easily negotiated, either through some
crevice or up some huge brink. I set a good pace for about, ten hours.
Twenty-five miles took me well be
yond the eighty-eighth parallel. While I was building my igloos a long lead formed by the east and southwest of us at a distance of a few miles. BUT FEW HANDICAPS. A few hours' sleep and we were on the trail again. As the going was now practically horizontal, we were unhampered and could travel as long as we pleased and sleep as little as we wished. The weather was fine and the going like that of the previous day, except at the beginning, when pickaxes were required. This and a brief stop at another lead cut down our distance. But we had made 20 miles In ten hours and were half way to the eighty-ninth parallel. The Ice' was grinding audibly In
every direction, but no motion was visible. Evidently It was settling back Into equilibrium and probably sagging due northward with its release from the wind pressure. LEVEL ICE SURFACE. Again there was a few hours' sleep and we hit the trail before midnight
and was In time for a hasty noon observation through a temporary break in the clouds, which indicated our position as 89.57. I quote an entry from my journal some hours later: The pole at last. The prize of three centuries, my dream and goal for 20 years, mine at last. I cannot bring myself to realize It. It all seems so simple and commonplace. As Bartlett said when turning back, when speaking of his being in these exclusive regions, which no mortal has ever penetrated before: Tt
is Just like every day."
Of course I had my sensations that made sleep impossible for hours, despite my utter fatigue the sensations of a lifetime; but I have no room for them here. - The first 30 hours at the pole were spent In taking observations; in going some ten miles beyond our camp and some eight miles to the right of it; in taking photographs, planting my flags, depositing my, records, studying the horizon with my telescope for possible land, and searching for a practicable place to make a sounding. TEMPERATURE AT TOP OF WORLD Ten hours after our arrival the clouds cleared before a light breeze from our left and from that time until our departure in the afternoon of April 7 the weather was cloudless and flawless. The minimum temperature during the 30 hours was 33 below, the maximum 12. We had reached the goal, but the
return was still before us. It was es-
sentlal that we reach the land before
the ' next spring tide, and we must strain every nerve to do this. I had a brief talk with my men. From now on it was to be a big travel, little sleep and a hustle every minute.
We would try, I told them, to double
march on the return that is, to start
and cover one of our northward
marcnes, make tea and eat our
luncheon in the igloos, then cover an
other march, eat and sleep a few
hours, and repeat this daily. FAST TIME ON RETURN.
As a matter of fact, we nearly did this, covering regularly on our return
Journey five outward marches in three
return marches.
Just as long as we could hold the
trail we could double our speed, and we need waste no time in building new igloos every day, bo that the time
we gained on the return lessened the
ohances of a gale destroying the
track.
Just above the eighty-seventh paral
lei was a region some fifty miles wide
which caused me considerable uneasi
ness. Twelve hours of strong easter
ly, westerly, or northerly wind would
make this region an open sea. In the afternoon of the 7th we started on our return, having double fed the dogs, repaired the sledges for the last time, and discarded all our spare clothing to lighten the loads. NO BOTTOM TO SEA.
The weather and going were even better. The surface, except as interrupted by infrequent ridges, was as level as the glacial fringe from Hecla to Columbia, and harder. We marched something over ten hours, the dogs being often on the trot, and .made 20 miles. Near the end of the march we rushed across a lead 100 yards wide, which buckled under our sledges and finally broke as the last sledge left it. We stopped in sight of the eighty-
ninth parallel in a temperature of 40 degrees below. Again a scant sleep and we were on our way once more and across the eighty-ninth parallel. This march duplicated the previous one as to weather and going. The last few hours it was on young ice and occasionally the dogs were galloping. We made twenty-five miles or more, the air, the sky, and the bitter wind burning the face till it cracked. It
was like the great interior ice gap of Greenland. Even the natives complained of the bitter air. It was as keen as frozen steel. A little longer sleep than the previous one had to be taken here, as we were all in need of it Then on again. TJp to this time, with each successive march, our fear of an impassable lead had Increased. At every inequality of the ice 1 found myself hurrying breathlessly forward, fearing that it marked a lead, and when I arrived at the summit would catch my breath with relief only to find myself hurrying on in the same way at the next one. But on this march, by some strange shift of feeling, this fear fell from me completely. The weather was thick, but it gave me no uneasiness. Before I turned in I took an obser
vation which indicated our position as 89 degrees 25 minutes.
A dense, lifeless pall hung overhead. The horizon was black and the ice beneath was a ghastly, chalky
white, with no relief a striking contrast to the glimmering, sunlit fields
of it over which we had been traveling for the previous four days. MERCURY GOES UP.
The going was even better, and there was scarcely any snow on the
hard, granular, last summers surface
of the old floes, dotted with the sapnhire ice of the previous summer's
lakes.
A rise In temperature to 15 degrees below reduced the friction of the
sledges and gave the dogs the appearance of having caught the spirits of, the party. The more sprightly ones, as they went along with tightly curled
tails, frequently tossed their heads.
with short, sharp bark! and yelps.
In 12 hours we had made 40 miles. There was no sign of a lead in the
K march.
THE POLE AT LAST.
I had now asade mz aya
Five miles from the pole a narrow crack filled with recent ice, through which we were able to work a hole with a pickax, enabled me to make a sounding. All my wire, 1,500 fathoms, was sent down, but there was no bottom." In pulling up the wire parted a few fathoms from the surface and lead and wire went to the bottom. Off went reel and handle, lightening the sledges still further. We had no more use for them now. Three marches brought us back to the Igloos where the captain turned back. The last march was in the wild sweep of a northerly gale, with drifting snow and the ice rocking under as we dashed over it. ICE FAVORED THEM.
South of where Marvin had turned back we came to where his party had built several igloos while delayed by open leads. Still further south we found where the captain had been held up by an open lead and obliged to camp. Fortunately the movement of these leads was simply open and shut, and
It took considerable water motion to fault the trail seriously.
While the captain, Marvin, and as I
found later, Borup, had been delayed
by open leads, we seemed to bear a
charm and with no single lead were we delayed more than a couple of
hours. Sometimes the ice was fast
and firm enough to carry us across;
sometimes a short detour, sometimes a brief halt for the lead to close,
sometimes an improvised ferry on an
ice cake, kept the trail without diffl
culty down to the tenth outward
march. MEET SLIGHT HANDICAP.
Igloos there disappeared completely
and the entire region was unrecogniz
able. Where on the outward Journey
had been narrow cracks, there were now broad leads, one of them over five miles in width, caught over with
young ice.
Here again fortune favored us, and no pronounced movement of the ice
having taken place since the captain passed, we had his trail to follow. We picked up the old trail again north of the seventh igloos, followed
it beyond the fifth, and at the big lead
lost it finally. JOY OF THE E8KIMOS.
. From here we followed the captain's trail, and on April 23 our sledges
passed up the vertical edge of the glacier fringe, a little west of Cape
Columbia. When the last sledge came up
thought my Eskimos had gone crazy. They yelled and called and danced themselves helpless. As Ootah sat down on his sledge he remarked, in
Eskimo:
"The devil is asleep or having trouble with his wife, or we never
should have come back so easily.
A few hours later we arrived at Crane City, under the bluffs of Cape Columbia, and, after putting four pounds of pemmlcan Into each of the faithful dogs to keep them quiet, we
had. at last, our chance to sleep. AT CAPE COLUMBIA.
Never shall 1 forget that sleep at
Cape Columbia. It was sleep, sleep, then torn over and sleep again. We
slept gloriously, with never a thought
of the morrow or of having - to walk
and, too, with no thought that there
was to be never a night more of blind
ing headache. Cold water to a parched throat
numbtTJ, raTJgueOT bfam andody. Two days we spent here in sleeping and drying our clothes. Then for the ship. Our dogs. like ourselves, had not been hungry when we arrived, but simply lifeless with fatigue. They were different animals now, and the better ones among them slept on with tightly curled tails and uplifted heads and their hind legs treading the snow with pistonlike regularity. HEARS OF MARVIN'S DEATH. We reached Hecla In one march and the Roosevelt in another. When we
got to the Roosevelt I was staggered
by the news of the fatal mishap to
Marvin. He had either been less cau
tion or less fortunate than the rest of
us, and his death emphasized the risk to which we all had been subjected.
for there was not one of us but had
been in the sledge at some time during
the Journey.
The big lead, cheated of its prey
three years before, had at last gained
its human victim.
The rest can be told quickly. McMll
lan and Borup had started for the
Greenland coast to deposit caches for
me. Before I arrived a flying Eskimo courier from me overtook them with
instructions that the caches were no
longer needed and they were to con
centrate their energies on the ideal ob
servations, etc., at Cape Morris K.
Jesup and north from there.
ROOSEVELT STARTS HOMEWARD.
These Instructions were carried out and after their return in the latter part of May McMillan made some further tidal observations at other points. The supplies remaining at the various caches were brought in and on July 18 the Roosevelt left Its winter quarters and was driven out into the channel
back of Cape Nion.
It fought its way south In the center
of the channel and passed Cape Sabine on August 8, or 39 days earlier
than in 1908, and 32 days earlier than
the British expedition in 1876
We picked up Whitney and his party and stores at Etah. We killed seventy odd walrus for my Eskimos,
whom I landed at their homes. We met the Jeanie off Saunders island and took over Its coal and cleared
from Cape York on August 26, one
month earlier than in 1906. FIRST MESSAGE TO WORLD
On September 5 we arrived at In
dian Harbor, whence the messag
"Stars and stripes nailed to north pole," was sent vibrating southward
through the crisp Labrador air.
The culmination of long exprience.
a thorough knowledge of the conditions of the' problem gained in the last
expedition mese, logeiner witn a new type of sledge which reduced the
worn: oi ooin aogs ana anver, and a new type of camp cooler which added
to the comfort and increased the hours of sleep of the members of the party, combined to make the present expedition an agreeable improvement
upon the last in respect to the rapidi
ty and effectiveness of Its work and
the lessened discomfort and strain
upon the members of the party. PRAISES ALL AIDS.
As to the personnel. I have again
been particularly fortunate. Capt.
Bartlett is Just Bartlett tireless.
sleepless, enthusiastic, whether on the bridge or in the crow's nest or at the
head of a sledge division in the field.
Dr. Goodsell, the surgeon ef the ex
pedition, not only looked after its
health and his own specialty of micro
scopes but took bis full share of the
fleM work of the expedition as well.
and was always ready for any work.
Profs. Marvin and McMillan have
secured a mass of scientific data, hav
ing made all the tidal and most of the field work, and their services were invaluable in every way.
CREW OF ROOSEVELT. Borup not only made the record
as to the distance traveled during the Journey, but to his assistance and his
expert knowledge of photography is due what I believe to be the un-
equaled series of photographs taken
by the expedition.
Henson in the field and Percy as
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late- Slorrfs K." Jesup, the first president of the club. Their assistance has enabled me to tell the last of the great earth stories, the story the world has been waiting to hear for 300 years the story of the discovery of the north pole. ROBERT E. PEARY.
Mrs. John Rogers, says the Columbia (Mo.) Tribune, knocked her husband off a wagon with a brick when he drove by the house with another wo-
DENIES COOK REACHED THE POLE Battle Harbor, Labrador (via Marconl wireless. Cape Ray, N. F.), Sept. 10. Do not trouble about Cook's story, or attempt to explain any discrepancies in his statements. The affair will setUe itself. He has not been at the pole on Anrii si. 1908. or at any other time.
He has simply handed the public a
gold brick. These statements are made advised-
iw and 1 nave nroof of them. When
lie makes a fuU statement of his Jour
ney over bis signature to some geographical society, or other reputable body, it that statement contains the claim that he has reached the pole, I shall be In a position to furnish material that may prove distinctly interesting reading for the public ROBERT E. PEART.
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i Small tract of land near Oo t ooJhlc anvdersdygaa t ralatna T fW. B. CSAC53J3Y CC3 1 t 1 and SAVesteett Back
Alaska has 4.000 miles of waterways navigable for steamers, of which about
steward were the same as ever, inval- 2,700 miles are included in the Yukon
uable in their respecUve lines.
Chief Engineer Wardwell, also of
the last expedlUon, aided by his as
sistant, Scott, kept the machinery up
to a high state of efficiency and has
given the Roosevelt the force and
power which enabled it to negoUate
apparently Impracticable ice.
Mr. Gushue, the mate, who was in
charge of the Roosevelt during the ab
sence of Capt. Bartlett. and myself, and Boatswain Murphy, who was put in charge of the staUon at Etah for
the relief of Cook, were both trustworthy and reliable men, and I count
myself fortunate in having had them in my service.
The members of the crew and the firemen were a distinct improvement
over those of our last expedition.
Every one of them was willing and anxious to be of service In every possible way. Connors, who was promoted to be bos'n in the absence of Murphy, proved to be practically effective. Barnes, seaman, and Wiseman and Joyce, firemen, not only assisted Marvin and McMillan in their tidal and meteorological observations on the Roosevelt, but Wiseman and Barnes went into the field with them on their trips to Cape Columbia, and Condon and Cody covered 1.000 miles hunting and sledging supplies. PRESENTS TO ESKIMOS.
As for my faithful Eskimos, I have left them with ample supplies of dark.
rich walrus meat and blubber for their winter, with currants, sugar, biscuits, guns, rifles, ammunition, knives.
hatchets, traps, etc
For the splendid four who stood bo-
side me at the pole a boat and tent
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