PEARY AFTER POLE.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 109, 3 February 1903, Page 2

PEARY AFTER POLE.

Explorer Will JUki tht Supreme Cff <f <. r £» 'V - J A TV treat fee north Pole, Aa Uot«i ««M«fi Bay* Failed to Dor Herbert Jj. Bridgman, secretary oi the Psary Arcjtic club, : who conducted the Peary relief expedition.. of this year, and the young' men who* accompanied him have- returned home. With them came Mrs. Peary and her Jittle girl, who was born in the arctic region* 5 eight years ago. ' .. "Next April," said Mr. Bridgm,an, in Brooklyn, "Peary will start for the pole from Cape Biecla, the highest point of land he ha* discovered in the west, which is only 500 miles from the pol«. If he should nerer reach it, hia discoveries have bean important enough to warrant the time he y has spent in the north — but he will reach the pole." Mr. Bridgman said he had the satisfaction of knowing that Peary had a supply of walrus meat large enough to carry him through his undertaking. The expldrer returned with the Bridge man party as far as Cape Henschel, where his winter headquarters are. "The last" relief expedition," said If r. Bridgman, "was the eleventh sent out by the Arctic club. They have lost all elements of the dramatic. We were ! twice in danger, however. Once we got caught between a glacier and an ice floe, and went aground on a muddy bank. We were fast for several hours, and the danger was lest the ice pack should sweep in around us i and make us prisoners. The captain i pounded a hole in the nose of the floe, j fastened a big hawser to the floe, and ; in ten minutes the great body of ice, 1 .whose movement you couldn't see at | all, had swung us dear of the whole thing. '"The moat serious time was when we got caught between the lip of ice, | under water, and the glacier.. We got away all right, however." Mr. Bridgman said that, so far as he knew, there was no truth in the report from Halifax, N. S., that Peary had discovered gold in the arctic rej gions. If such a discovery had been made Peary, Mr. Bridgman thinks, undoubtedly would have spoken to him about' it.