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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5.
FRENCH DEFENCES
IN U CONDITION
PARIS. —The ministers of war and
marine have their work cut out. No
one knows better than Vice Admiral
Boue de Lapeyrere that a considera
ble of warship have only a paper
value, and already some half dozen
have been scratched off the list. The
question of ammunitions Is too seri
ous to be long neglected. I am aware
that orders for shells have been given
to certain metallurgical establish
ments of the Centre, but they are a
drop In the ocean. The minister can
do very little until he gets the ne
cessary credits. To improve the ad
ministration is all very well, but you
cannot make bricks without straws.
The number of young men irrespon
sive to the last draw to call meant the
loss of six regiments on a peace foot
ing. It is increasing every year and is
due to the dislike to do military ser
vice or to the preachments of anti
militarism. I believe I mentioned
some time ago the suspected exist
ence of desertion agencies in the
neighborhood of big barracks. The
fact can no longer be questioned, and,
worse still, news from Brest this
week shows that the evil has extend
ed to the ports. These are discour
aging facts and signs at the moment
when the government of the republic
is straining every nerve to strengthen
the national defences.
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NORTH POLE
The search for the North Pole is
an undertaking that lias attracted
many adventurous spirits since the
middle of the 19th century, and for
hundreds of years before that intrepid
European explorers had been sacrific
ing life and limb in an endeavor to
find a northwest or northeast pass
age through the ice fields to the
wealth of the Orient. The best record
previous to Dr. Cook’s reported final
triumph was that of Captain Robert
E. Peary, who on April 26, 1906, reach
ed a latitude of 87 degrees 6 minutes
north, or a station within 200 statute
miles of the Pole. This was Peary’s
third attempt to reach the much
sought spot, and he Is now at Etah
on the west coast of Greenland pre
paring for his fourth dash into the
northern Ice fields.
Dr. Cook apparently has profited by
Peary’s experiences on that third dash
At any rate, it is chiefly from Peary’s
experiences that Dr. Cook’s friends
in this city are able to judge of the
conditions that he encountered on his
journey into the extreme north. The
last heard from Dr. Cook until the
present news was on March IV, 1908.
when he was at Cape Thomas Hub
bard.
Peary started on his sledge journey
over the ice fields about three weeks
earlier in the season, Feb. 26, 1906,
to be exact. Peary left land at Point
Moss. Peary has 21 Eskimos and 120
dogs. He divided his party into seve
ral divisions, his idea being to keep
in touch through these different divis
ions with a base of supplies.
PEARY WAS
STOPPED BY ICE.
Peary found the sledging for the
first 80 miles from land very rough
and progress slow. He had his firsl
glimpse of the sun six days after he
had started. As the party got fur
ther from land, however, the sledging
improved, but the leads, openings in
the Ice, became more frequent. On
the sixth day out at 84 degrees 38
minutes north, Peary and his party
struck a lead that held him up for
nearly a week. They finally got across
over a two-mile stretch of young ice.
Then they were held up for six days
by a terrible wind and snowstorm.
When they were ready to resume their
march poleward they found they had
been carried 70 miles to the eastward
by the floe.
Captain Peary sent two Eskimos
back to establish connections with
the divisions behind- The Eskimos
returned after three days and report
ed that they found only open water.
Peary could no longer depend on his
supporting parties and he made up his
mind that a quick dash for the Pole
was his only hope. He abandoned
everything that wasn’t absolutely nec
essary and started, his men trotting
behind him in Indian file. In 10 hours
they made 30 miles. As Peary ad
vanced he found the character of the
ice Improved, the floes much larger
and the leads narrow but Increased
in numbers. He noticed also that, all
the cracks in the ice were at right
angles to their course and that the
ice on the northern side of the cracks
moved much more rapidly than on the
southern.
The dogs began to give out under
the strain, and as they dropped Peary
fed them to the surviving animals.
He pushed on until March 21, when
he looked at his worn-out dogs and
almost empty sledges and decided to
turn hack.
PROFITED BY
PEARY’S TRIP.
“I thanked God,” said he later, “with
as good grace as possible for what
I had been able to accomplish, al
though it was but an empty bauble
compared with the splendid jewel for
which I was straining my life.”
Peary planted a flag on the high
est pinnacle of the ice Held and left
a bottle containing a record of his
expedition. On the return trip an ice
bridge spanning a lead gave way with
• the Peary party and set them adrift
on a floe. They were carried east
steadily for five days until they were
obliged to use their sledges for fuel
and some of the dogs for food. They
finally succeeded in crossing the lead
on young ice which sagged with every
step. On May 12 Peary and his com
rades landed on the north coast of
Greenland and there met one of the
supporting divisions, which had also
drifted to the land on an ice floe.
This Peary attempt is particularly
interesting now because Dr. Cook
started out with the avowed inten
tion of avoiding some of the draw
backs -which had beset Peary. One
of these drawbacks was the general
floe to the eastward with which Peary
had to contend. Dr. Cook struck off
to the westward for the purpose of
making allowance for this floe when
he started on his direct north route.
The fact that Peary was able to
make 30 miles in 10 hours is taken
as pretty good evidence that Dr.
Cook could have covered the 660 miles
over the ice in one month.
Until Peary’s third attempt (he
Duke of Abruzzi’s expedition held the
record in the struggle to gain the pole.
On March 22, 1900, the duke and his
party reached a latitude of 86 de
grees 33 minutes north. Unlike
Peary and Dr. Cook the duke’s party
made the attempt with sledges from
the north shore of Franz Josef land,
establishing the base of supplies there.
When they started out they figured
they would have to make 480 miles
in 45 days.
ABRUZZI
FAILED.
"Certainly.” said Captain Cagni,
who was with the duke on the expe
dition, “it seemed over bold, even to
ourselves, to count upon a daily march
of more than 10 miles.”
After the Duke of Abruzzl party
got under way they found actually
that they made less than 10 miles a
| day, although those figures were ex
j needed a little on the march back,
lit will be observed that Dr. Cook
| apparently was hampered by no such
SEARCH HIS BEEN PURSUED
8! NATIONS FOR CENTURIES
fear. At any rate he must have made
at least his 22 miles a day If he dis
covered the pole in the time reported.
The Duke of Abruzzl's party start
ed north from Franz Josef land on
Feb. 25. It encountered violent winds
and bitter cold. On March 22 three
men were sent back to establish com
munication with the base of supplies.
They were never seen more. It was
on May 11 that the duke’s party
reached latitude 86 degrees and 33
minutes. There two cylinders con
taining a record of the expedition
were left. The party did not get
back to Teplitz Bay until June 22.
Dr. Fridtjof Nansen ranks with the
Duke of Abruzzi and Peary as a pole
hunter. He made a record of 86 de
grees and 14 minutes on April 7, 1895.
He started out with his good ship
Frant from the northern coast of Fin
land. His was the novel scheme of
being carried in the ice floe to the
pole. His vessel entered the floe on
September 22, but the drift carried it
toward Spitzbergen rather than to
ward the pole.
Dr. Nansen decided that he would
have to leave his ship and make his
trial with sledges. He left the Frarn
and with 28 dogs, three Eskimos and
two skin canoes started out over the
ice on March 13, 1895. In 17 days
he had reached a latitude of 86 de
grees and 14 minutes north. At that
time this was 170 geographical miles
further north than the best previous
record, made by Ixtckwood In lj}B2.
Nansen was 261 statute miles from
the polo, equal to the distance from
New York city to the southern bound
ary of the White Mountains.
OTHERS TRIED
IN LONG AGO.
Nansen had many hardships In get
ting back. He lived for 10 months in
a house bu..„ of stones with a walrus
hide roof and the whole buried in
snow. He was finally picked up off
Cape Flora by the Jackson expedi
tion, which had spent two years in
the Franz Josef land. He arrived at
Vardo, whence he had sailed, on Aug
13, 1896. About a week later his
good ship Fram, which had been car
ried for years in the ice floes, reach
ed the same port.
The Norsemen probably were the
first Europeans to visit the arctic re
gions and Greenland. The struggles
toT find a short cut to the riches of
the far east were more productive of
adventures and loss of life than the
later day dashes for the pole.
Sir Hugh Willoughby sailed in 1553
“for the search and discovery of north
ern part of the world.” He discov
ered i\ova Zentbla, but starved with
most of his men in Lapland on the
return voyage. Eorbisher in 1576 and
Davis in 1558 made voyages to Green
land and the north coast of America.
Henry Hudson in 1607 reached lati
tude 73 degrees on the eastern coast
of Greenland and added to the knowl
edge of Spitzbergen, which was dis
covered by a Dutchman, William Ba
rents, in 1585. Through the 17th and
18th centuries more and more knowl
edge of the Arctic was gained and in
1709 Captain Gilies made a voyage far
to the eastward along the shore of
Greenland and saw high land which
has since been Gilies Land in latitude
80 degrees.
Captain Scoresby, in command of
a whaler, succeeded in advancing his
ship the Resolution, as far north as
81 deg) 12 minutes 42 seconds in
1806. This was the record until Lieut.,
Edward t’arry, an American, reached
latitude 82 degrees 45 minutes in an
attempted dash for the pole from the
northern coast of Spitsbergen in 1827.
The ill-fated expedition of the Eng
lish admiral, Sir John Franklin, was
indirectly responsible for much valu
able Arctic exploration. Sir John
sailed on May 19, 1845, with two ships
and 120 men to make the long desired
northwest passage. The ships were
last seen in Baffin’s Bay on July 26
of that year in latitude 74 west, 1
degree 48 minutes. No great anxiety
was felt in England until 1848, and in
that and succeeding years expedition
after expedition went out to search
for the missing Sir John and his
crews. In all about 15 rescue ex
peditions set out from England and
America between the years 1848 and
1854, and each added to the general
fund of Arctic geography.
TRACES
DISCOVERED.
Finally traces of the missing ships
and crews were discovered through
Eskimos and in 1859 three sledging
parties from Sir Leopold McClintock's
relief expedition discovered all along
the west and south coast of King Wil
liam’s Island the remains of articles
and skeletons that told the story of
the disaster. A record was discovered
In a cairn at Point Victory which
briefly told the history of the expedi
tion up to April 25, 1848. The record
tells the tale of Franklin's death and
the beginning of the end in these
words:
April 25, 1848, H. M. ships Terror
and Erebus were deserted on April
23, five leagues N. N. W. of here,
having been beset since Sept. 12, 184 c!
The officers and crew consisting of
105 souls, under the command of Cap
tain F. R. M. Crozler landed here In
lat. 09 deg., 41 minutes w. Sir John
Franklin died June 11, 1847. and the
total loss by death In the expedition
has been to this date nine officers
and 15 men.
The disaster which overtook Sir
John led to the discovery of 7,000
miles of coast line. Among the ex
peditions which started out from
America as a result of the interest
aroused were those of De Haven arid
Griffith In 1850 and of T>r. Kane in
1853 and later Dr. Hayes and Hall.
The only really serious balloon at
tempt that has ever been made to
reach the Pole was that, of Andree a
Norwegian, and that probably has end
ed fatally. Andree started from
Dane’s Island, Spitsbergen, on July
11. 1897. In the balloon with him
were Dr. S. T. Grindberg and Herr
Fraenckell. His balloon was 07 feet
in diameter with a capacity of 170,000
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he would reach the pole in six days,
provided a favorable and constant
wind was blowing. Two days after
he departed a message was received
front Andree by carrier pigeon. The
message said that at noon, July 13.
they were in latituto 82.2 degrees and
longitude 15. u degrees east and mak
ing good progress to tln- east, 10 de
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Eroellent Currm. but too much "Gingerbread .*•
A year lated Eskimos brought into
1 udson bay pieces ot cordage and bas
ket work which are supposed to have
belonged to tin* Andree balloon. Sev
A Good, Dignified I'altera.
A Good sod I‘itasui* Dooiss.
Deg. Min.
1588—John Davis, England, ship 72 12
1594 —William Barents, Holland, ship 77 20
1607 —Henry Hudson, England, ship 80 23
1616 —William England, ship 77 45
1773 —.1. O. Phipps, England, ship 80 48
1806 —William S. Scoreshy. England, ship 81 30
1827 —W. A. Parry, English, sledge 82 45
1852—E. A. Inglefleld, England, ship 78 21
1854 E. K. Kane, American, sledge 80 10
1868- —K. Koldeway, Germany, ship 81 05
1870 — C. F Hall, American, ship 82 11
1871 — C. Weyprechto, Austrian, sledge 82 05
1875—G. S. Nitres, England, sledge 83 20
187 l 9 George Do ising, American, ship 77 36
1882 —A. W. Grecly, American, sledge 83 24
1894 I>. F. Jackson, England, sledge 81 20
1895 — F. Nansen, Norway, sledge 86 14
1896 — W. Wellman, American, sledge 81 35
1897 — Dune of Abruzzi, Italy, sledge 86 . 33
1901 —Baldwin-Ziegler American, sledge 81 45
1901—R. it. Peary, Amor .can, sledge 84 17
1903 —Ziegler Fiala, American, sledge 82
1905 —R. E. Peary, American, sledge 87 6
1908—Dr. Cook, American sledg<# The Polo
supremely necessary to provide against wear-and-tear,
*s no other articles of furniture are in constant use for so many consecutive
hours of each day. I have always found it more profitable to select a dealer
with a reputation for reliable goods at reasonable prices than one who is notor
ious for low prices, regardless of quality. If the best really IS the cheapeit,
there is no better opportunity for proving it than in the purchase of beds and
bedding. And a little understanding in advance of what one can reasonably ex
pect will save expensive mistakes.
The metallic bedsteads, through their superior cleanliness, have so he
superseded the wooden contrivances that the latter are seldom seen, even in
the shops; the majority of matched bedroom suites being m*de up without the
bedstead. Although the metal beds offer less opportunity for deception than
most other furniture, a certain amount of it is possible—chiefly in the quality
and nature of the materials used, hull size enamelled beds can be purchased aa
low as the standard bargain sale price of one-ninety-eight; to obtain a really
reliable, serviceable bed one must pay at least three dollars and a half. The
difference in these two prices is the difference between cast and malleable iron,
and poor and good workmanship. The very cheap bed has for all the fittings
the cheapest quality of cast iron—a material liable to breakage through any
slight blow. At the higher price the maker uses malleable iron for all nttingß.
I he cast iron fittings are almost certain, sooner or later, to succumb to ordin
ary usage, while the malleable fitting seldom suffers with the hardest usage.
In either quality of bed, the increase of price above the minimum given, is
purely a question of ornamentation and fitting. Continuous bent rods, instead
of four separate corner posts, mean additional cost; bent rods in the design of
the head and foot, add again to the cost; brass ornaments, extra smooth finish,
and other details will take you as far as you want to go financially.
I he ordinary white or tinted enamels used on metal beds, in the qualities
where the enamel means something more than a dip in cheap white paint, are
usually good for several years of service, and, when badly worn or marred, with
a can of enamel obtainable at any paint shop, any inexperienced person can
renew the finish satisfactorily.
A new method of decoration for iron beds, claimed by the dealers to be
much more durable than enamel, is known to the trade as the Vernis-Martin
finish, ft is obtained by the application of a fine quality of gold bronze over a
specially prepared ground color; over the bronze is used a fine brass lacquer,
giving an effect which is neither gold nor brass, yet very bright and pleasing.
Stock pattern iron beds, in the reliable qualities, can he had in either the
enamel or the Vernis-Martin finish, the latter costing an average of a dollar
additional over the price for enamel. Some of my friends have been temporarily
fascinated bv the novelty of iron beds finished in a dead black enamel- but as
is usually the rase with fads, the novelty soon wore off, and the beds were're
finished in more pleasing colors
eral expeditions have been sent in
search of him without, rosult. IleTe
is a list, of the more important ex
plorers and their records:
With the few years vouchsafed to us in this good
old world of ours, it often occurs to me as a real shame
that we should be obliged to spend almost one-third of
them in sleep. But since this is an inexorable law,
which we cannot evade, we should certainly endeavor
to make the sleeping houry».t least as comfortable aa
the waking ones, by giving care and study to the selec
tions of that portion of the house furnishings which has
to do with the family slumber.
A favorite and fatal place for misjudged economy i«
in the selection of beds and bedding. Nowhere is it ao
PAGE THREE
The
House
of
Credit
WOMEN’S HATPINS
STAB PASSERSBY
Paris Police Have Eathsr
Serious Problem on Their
Hands.
PARIS- Tho svsr aettv* Monslanr la
pina, director of th« Parisian poltca, has
n vexing problem to solv* In th n oam
of the hatpins of tha women. These na
c«ssltl**s of heivlgear have Increased In
length as the hats have lncreaaed In «!*•
nnd atlokhig out oomhattvely on all aide*
hnvo become rulnona and ofttlmea Moti
ons offensive. Pedestrian* or fellow paa
sengers 1n omnibuses have been stabb
ed by those wlokod weapons and aoraa
tlme-s even havn been Tllnded. It Is &
difficult question to cope with, but
Monsieur I.eplne Is wondering whether
some new law could not. be devised ta
limit the length of pins or cover up in
Home manner their fatal points.
Btuart f a Buchu and Juniper Is ths
most reliable remedy known for kid
ney and bladder trouble. SI.OO all
druggists.