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THE MORXINGr OREGONIAX, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1909. WOLF EXPRESSES FAITH IN PEARY Doctor Who Accompanied Ex plorer in 1906 Says His Word Suffices. COOK'S CASK WOULD DRIFT Physician Outlines Route of Xavy Engineer "Little Doubt," As serts T)r. David Walker, Sur - Tivor of Franklin Party. "If Peary says he has reached the : North Pole, he has," That's the way Dr. Louis J. Wolf, who accompanied Robert E. Peary on his Arctic expedition in 1906, yesterday expressed his confidence, in Peary's word. "Even though Peary wires he has , reached the Pole.V said Pr. Wolf, "and may have found no evidence of the metal 1 cask left there by Dr. Cook, it Is no sign that he did not reach the goal, for the Northern extremity of the earth is a great mass of slowly drifting ice. Be sides, the Pole is not a point, like the tip of a lead pencil. "Cook and Peary both started out at the beginning of the long Arctic day. J do not know how the report gained cir culation that Cook went to the Pole during the. Arctic nteht. It is obviously not correct, as that would have been im practicable, and wellnigh impossible. "In the expedition of 1906. which I ac companied, we left New York in July, reaching Cape Sheridan on the Northern coast of Grant Land, with the ship Roose velt in September. Purine the Winter months we passed the time maklnff fur clothing, repairing the dog harness, pack ing provisions in the smallest possible space for hauling on the sledges, hunting game, and hauling provisions to a point near Cape Hecla. SO miles to the north; east, whence the dash toward the Pole was made at the end of the long night. Route Peary Took. "Peary took much the same route on the trip from which he -is now returning. lieacHng north through Baffin Bay. to Etah. then through the Kane Basin, Kennedy Channel, and into Robeson Channel until blocked by the Polar ice. Pry found on his 1!"6 trip that the drift of the Polar Ice at this point is to the e?st It was. therefore, his intention to make hlr base of supplies farther west than Cape Heela. that the eastern drift of the Ice might not retard him on the final dash. : "Cook evidently took Peary's route as f.ir as Etah, to the north of Baffin Bay. From there his course lay on the north west across Grinnell Land, and up Nan sen Sound to Cape Hubbard. In this way he. too; availed himself of the east ern drift of the ercat ice pack in making the final dash. On previous expeditions It had been planned to make the dash from the northeastern coast of Green land, which, of course, would have re-, suited disastrously. That was before -Peary found that the Ice was drifting to the eastward. He was delayed by a storm between So and 86 degrees north in his dash of 1M6. and upontaking his bearings found that h had 'drifted to the east more than two degrees. "Most people do not seem to realise ' that the successive expeditions which have crept nearer and nearer the goal have made the task more likely to be ac complished. The final spurt resolved Itself Into the problem of carrying enough food to bold out. When Peary made his dash to 87:6 in 1906 he was eating his dogs wlills still pushing North. No cloth ing was carried except that which the - members of the party had on their backs. i Mast Foot Last Lap. "The last journey roust be made on foot, accompanied by dogs and sledges, for it la over the frosen Arctic Sea. - which Is In places very rough. There are holes sometimes filled with snow. Into which a man might fall up to his hips. There are no deep crevasses such - as found when traveling upon glaciers. But pressors ridges are encountered In , plaoes. which ara sometimes 100 feet high. Here the pick must be used to carve a way In the lea for the dogs and ledges. Progress ' over . rough Ice la necessarily very difficult and slow. There Is not much snow." To The Oregonlan IS months ago Dr. Wolf said he believed Peary would reach the Pole on this trip. It was only a question of getting started In time with sufficient provisions, be said., Dr. David Walker, one of the survi vors of the Franklin expedition, which made an unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole 60 years ago, said last night that ha does not doubt In the least that Peary haa been successful. But ha aid that the dispatch reading. "Stars and Btrtpea nailed to North Pole," Is obviously a fake. The interpretation placed upon Peary's cipher message to Herbert L. Brldgman. "Pole reached. Roosevelt safe." ha regards as correct. , Dr. Walker and Captain Allen W. Young are the only survivors of tha Franklin expedition. Captain Allen is 89 years old, and Dr. Walker. 11. The for- I mer is a member of Trinity Board In Lon- 1 DID COOK FIND Opinions of Leading Statesmen YES. President Taft (fey sanding congratula tions.) King of Denmark. Kins of Sweden. Commodore Hovgmard. ranish AreMo explorer. Derxard Jensen, inspector of North Greenland. Dillon Wallace, explorer of Labrador. John E- Bradley. New York, his prin cipal backer. Captain Roald Amundsen, discoverer of Northwest passage. Dnke of Atmusi. Aretle explorer. Commander Cagni. member of Abruxal expedition. Prof. Louts A. Baer, Carnegie Institute, Washington. Italian Geographical Society. Erelrn B. Baldwin. Arctic explorer. Cyrus C- Adams, chief expert of Ameri can Geographical Society. I Otto Nordenskjold. Arctlo explorer. Danish Geographical Society. Knnd Rasmussen. DanUa explorer of Greenland. XHrector Lecomte, of Brussels Observa tory. Hamburg Geographical Society. Vatlonal Geographical Society, Wash tngtoa. Willis L. Moore, Chief at United States Weather Bureau. Asotlo Club, New Tors, London Dally Kewa, SURGEON SAYS PEARY'S WORD IS SUFFICIENT PROOF OF NORTH POLE DISCOVERY. it-- w f1 l a t DR. LOt IS don. and a favorite with the royal house hold. "There Is little doubt that somebody has reached the Poie. or thinks he has," said Dr. Walker. "There is no reason to doubt the statements of either man, as they both have reputations to lose and would not be likely to say they have ac complished the feat If they had no obser vations to prove it. That telegram about the Stars and Stripes didn'r -nme direct from Peary. Must Prove Feat. "If Peary and Cook were able to travel 606 miles in S3 days they did what no one else has ever done. Of course, this might have been done. It Is for, them to prove. I am not throwing any discredit on Cook, or anybody else. ."Peary was better prepared than any one else has ever been, while Cook was entirely unprepared for the attempt. There is plenty of talk about Cook's tak ing a different route from Peary, but In reality It was merely a matter of 100 miles of westing. Peary, too, intended to go farther west than on his 1906 expedi tion, because he found the Ice drifting to the eastward. Cook simply started about 100 miles to Peary's west, and about 180 miles farther south. "In the North the more loe-traveling you have the worse It Is, as the Ice Is always opening and closing, making ridges which retard progress, as they are invariably east and west, and of varying height from one foot to 16. In traveling with dogs and sledges It Is necessary to unload the sledge, take It over the ridge, carry the goods over and reload the sledge on the other side. On his 1906 trip, Peary was obliged to remain for six days on the south side of one of these ridges. "In making observations near the Pole tha transit Is useless, because a man's fingers would freese If he removed them long from his gloves. But the sextant with an artificial horizon of mercury Is serviceable. A natural horizon is not to be had on account of the uneven con dition of the ice. The motion of the Ice Is not sufficient to Interfere with an ab solute horizontal plane of the mercury. "It Is also necessary to have a 24-hour face watch. A watch with a 13-hour face will not answer. The sun moves in a spiral above the horizon ourlng the Summer. If a man went to sleep and because of weariness overslept be would not know with a 11-hour watch whether his time waa A. M. or P. M. "The dispatches giving the temperature upon Cook's trip as Centigrade were evi dently faked In Paris, as Americans use the Farenhalt thermometer. It Is likely that Peary and Cook will give the mini mum temperature in the Arctic Winter as minus 76 or minus 80 Farenhett." THE POLE? and Scientists on Controversy. NO OB DOUBT IL, London Daily Telesrapb. London Morning Post. Hugh R. Bill, llbrarlaa Roral Geo graphical Society, London. Sir Martin Conway, British, explorer. Sir Georc Kara. Srttlab. Aratle ex plorer. Rear-Admiral George MelvlUe, "C. 8. N explorer. Frotessor Thomas C. Chamberlain and Professor W. W. Atwood, Uni versity of Chicago. Dr. Robert M. Keely, Philadelphia, for mer companion of Peary. Peary Arctlo Club. New York. Professor Henry Gannett. Geographer , United States Geological Survey. in i r- v J. WOLF. SILENT FOR YEAR News of Peary's Success First Since He Left Etah. HIS PLAN FOR FINAL DASH His Ship Swamped With Reading Matter, but Short of Cash. Xegro Servant Accompanied Peary to the Pole. NEW YORK, Sept 6. From the time Commander Peary wrote hia last letters home from his depot of supplies at Etah, In August, 1908, until he flashed the magic words from Indian Harbor, nothing was known of the fight he had been making across the frozen crust of the North. Access was obtained today, however, to a number of personal letters which Peary haa written to friends and business associates In New York between the time he sailed, on July C, and the time he left his supply depot at Etah In the following August. The last words from him came in the mails of September L 1908. The letters were written in August, aboard the Roosevelt, but were not dated. Some were to Mrs. Peary and others to his friends. These letters told little of con ditions at Etah, nor did they speak of what his hopes or misgivings might be. Mrs. Peary, In writing to a friend In June, 190, said: "Nothing has been heard from Mr. Peary since last Fall, when the letters dated Etah In August were delivered. I hope to have news in September and will be disappointed if I do not sea tha com mander himself." At Etah Peary 'had established a sta tion for training Eskimos and dogs and for accumulating supplies. On former ex peditions it bad been his plan to take his ship as far North as ha could penetrate and there put into Winter quarters, using Etah as a base of supplies. This time One of the advantages of Grape-Nuts food is that it is pre-digested in the process of manufacture. The starch contained in the wheat and barley is transformed into grape sugar by exactly the same method as this process is carried on in the Ira-. man body, that is, by the use of moisture and long exposure to moderate warmth. This grows the diastase in the " grains, then long baking com pletes the remarkable change from starch to grape-sugar. Therefore, the most delicate. stomach can handle Grape - Nuts and the food is quickly ab sorbed into the blood and tissue certain parts of it going directly to build and nourish the brain and nerve centers. . . . "There's a 'Reason." RHEUMATISM IS PREVALENT Conditions of the Past Months Have Caused Much Suffering. A Strong Reaioa Why Pcopl Should Kno-m ot tb Tanlc Tnatment WHkb Cunm tha Otsease Through the Blood. Although, rheumatism, is a disease of the blood wet, damp seasons are an excit ing cause and especially are these who have had a previous attack liable to suffer from the disease at such times. This shows that the rheumatio poison was not driven from the system but was simply "kept down" by the treatment employed. When conditions .favorable to - the disease were met the trouble promptly reappeared. . The promise made for the tonio treat ment of rheumatism is that its cures are permanent and that the patient does not have an attack of the same old trouble every year. Mrs. A. .G. Propst, whose address is Box 17, R. F. D. No. 6, Albany, Ore., was cured by this treatment. She says : "Through overwork my health be came run down and rheumatism follow ed. I was treated by two doctors for about two months but they did not give me much help. The rheumatism was in my limbs and was worse when I stood up. At such times the pain would be so severe that I could hardly walk. I was not able to do much work for I -was obliged to lie down quite often through the day. Besides suffering from the rheumatism I waa troubled with ner vousness. I was dizzy very often and would see black specks before my eyes. The doctors told me that my circulation was poor. " When I read in a paper that Dr. "Wil liams' Pink Pills had cured rheumatism. I decided to give them a trial. I began to get better during the second' week and continued using the pills. I gradually f-ew stronger, the dizziness left me and got so I could walk without any pain. The rheumatism has entirely disap peared and I have had no return of it I recommend Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to m'v friends right along. "' A booklet, "Diseases of the Blood," will be sent free to any sufferer from rheumatism upon request. Write for a copy today and learn how to cure your self. Dr. Williams' Pink 'Pills are sold by all druggists, or will be mailed., postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box; six boxes for $2.50. by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. he divided his party into three groups one to make geographical observations, another to make meteorological notations and a third of five or six picked men with dogs for the last dash to the Pole, whilo the first two followed more slowly as supporting parties and established bases of supplies for the return trip. "It may have been one of the ironies of fate that Peary should start for the Pole on the last iay of one of the hot test Summers New York has ever seen, but so it befell. On that day a reporter on the steamer Roosevelt found a sea man sitting disconsolately in a com panionway. "Isn't there anything you want to take with you that you. have not now?" asked the reporter, thinking he waa speaking to Captain Bartlett. "If you have got anything to read, you might send It aboard-," replied the sea man The next morning a story appeared In a newspaper saying that Peary's expedi tion wanted books and reading matter. Immediately the' stream started. Trucks, handcarts, messenger boys, automobiles and carriages began arriving with booka and magazines. Before noon all the extra space between decks had Seen filled. In the afternoon they were packed on the decks and finally in Captain Bartlett's cabin and that officer told Peary he would have to hunt among them for his Instruments. Before the sailing hour with all hands at work the most desir able had been selected and the others were dumped into the bunkers of the Roosevelt to be fed to the fires. The steam that propelled the vessel out of the Bast River was made by books and magazines contributed by the people of New York. When it came to cash contributions It was a different story. When Peary i tfwm sjV frHl y -V. We Carry :UKLY $1000 Accident Insurance Policy FREE With . Every $5.00 or Over Purchase Leather Goods. . Gloves and Leathers. LEATHER AND WICKER SUITCASES AND HANDBAGS JUST 300 DOZ. CAKES OF LIQUOZONE ANTISEPTIC SOAP ARE NOW ON SALE REG. 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Every penny he could get together was spent in Improving equipment and In as sembling supplies at Etah, and so close was the pinch that when the President of the United States came aboard the Roosevelt at Oyster Bay on July 7, 1908, to bid farewell and good, luck, he found a craft clean but actually shabby, because Peary did not have the money to paint her. Standing on the bridge of the Roose velt on the afternoon of July 6, Peary with a grave face took his last loo It at New York. A day later, after President Roosevelt had said good-bye at Oyster Bay, Peary left the Roosevelt with Mrs. Peary and took a train for Sydney, where he was to meet Captain Bartlett. . The Commander's two children went with Captain Bartlett. When he left the Roosevelt Peary handed the chil dren over to Matt Henson, his negro servant. Henson nas been with Peary more than 20 years on all his im portant expeditions and on April 21, 1908, he stood beside Peary In latitude 87 degrees and 6 minutes, then the farthest north. If he lives he has been at the Pole with his commander, the first man of his race. At Sydney when Commander Peary joined the ship, the children were taken ashore. Mrs. Peary passed the Winter in Washington. South American ants have been known to construct a tunnel three miles long. So A During the hours of 9:30 to 11 in the morning and 2:30 to 4 in 'the, afternoon we will demonstrate in our Recital Hall any of the records for any of the Brand Operas now being produced at The Bungalow by the International Opera Company. Records have been made of the princi-7 pal numbers of nearly" all of the operas that will be presented this week, particu larly "Lucia," "II Trovatore," "Rigo-. letto," "Rusticana," "H Pagliacci" (the entire opera), "Carmen" and "La Traviata." , ' N. B. In our Pianolo Department rec ords will be played for. nearly every selec tion of the above operas upon request. Known the World Over as the Trunks That Defy the Baggage Smasher I 'Sii They are well made, respectable looking Trunks, strongly braced, w ear. . x lie ijuaubio an icucu uu njgiiob standard as to material and workmanship. All kinds of trunks, from the small steamer size to the large dresser and wardrobe. C7C Prices from $5 to OlO Pnlninmi A Minis TVTarlr firnqs T.OTKiOTl RETAIL DRUGSTORE IN HE SHUNS SECRECY Peary Rejected Plan to Keep Back News of Success. SQUARE DEAL FOR PEOPLE Publishers Proposed Messenger Meet Him Off Labrador, Get Hia Story and Then Peary Hide In Hudson's Bay. NEW YORK. Sept . That Peary's friends foresaw some of the criticisms likely to be evoked by Dr. Cook's claims and" that they undertook to guard against such a situation is shown by the remark able plan arranged here for reporting the discovery he hoped for. It was agreed that, if Peary found the ecial nnounceme Grand Opera Selections At - Jlap0a ot ptctnorelioLbilitj' u TRUNKS strapped and bolted. They AMERICA Pole, he should notify the World In a simple sentence. Then a messenger from his publisher was to start North from New York and get his story of the ex pedition. This man was to travel post haste to Labrador. There he was to charter a fishing smack and sail north as far as possible teward Cape Chidley. On these bleak shores he was to camp and wait for the faint trace of smoke over the horizon that would herald the Roosevelt. With that signal the messenger would set sail again and when the two craft came within hailing distance the Roose velt was to heave to while the messenger sailed as near as he dared alongside. Peary was to cast over a waterproof packet containing the account of his ex pedition with photographs, and with these ths messenger was to turn his ship to the south, while the Roosevelt was to point for Hudson Bay, where with Peary and all on board she was to be lost to civilization for six weeks. Until as late as June, one month be fore his departure, this plan was agreed upon and accepted by Peary. But it was he who abandoned it at tha last moment. "No," he said In rejecting it. "The newspapers 'and tha public have treated me fairly and I owe it to them to give out all the information they want re garding my explorations. I should have no right to withhold any data whatever from the world in case I reach the Pole." These were Peary's words as repeated today by a friend who beard him main the declaration. aOL t J