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    "ocrText": "PEARY READY TOSAIL\nPEARY'S SHIP IN PORT.\nTHIRTEEN IN THE PARTY OF NORTH\nFamous Explorer Will Spend Two\nPOLE HUNTERS.\nDays in Boston.\nAmong Them Are Two Illinoisans-The\nFalcon Carries Three Tous of Pemmi-\ncan Which Is Said/t to Be a Nutritions\nFood-Will Be Gone Two Years-Meth-\nods of the Customs-House Investigat-\ning Committee Assailed-Bloomington\n(III.) Man Meets New York \" Cabbies.\"\nNew YORK, June 28.-[Speeial.]-Lieut.\nPeary, with Mrs. Peary and eleven other ex-\nplorers, will start again Friday night North\npole hunting. The Lieutenant and his wife\nare at the Bartholdi Hotel now. The whaling\nsteambark Falcon, which is to earry the party\nnorth, has been fitted out in Philadelphia for\nits two years' cruise. It should arrive here\ntomorrow morning and will be docked in\nBrooklyn.\nThe Falcon is a stanch craft,\" said\nLieut. Peary today. \" She is 162 feet long,\n26 feet beam, and when loaded draws 17 feet\nof water. Her bow is a solid mass of timbers\nsheathed with plate iron, so that she will not\nsuffer injury while plowing through the ice.\nShe can steam nine knots an hour.\nThere will be just thirteen in our party-\nMrs. Peary and her maid, F.: J. Entrekin of\nWest Chester, Pa.; Edward Altrup of Nor-\nway, Dr. Edward Vincent of Illinois, J. W.\nDavison of Austin, Minn.: F. W. Stokes, an\nFALCON TIED UP AT THE DOCK.\nartist of Philadelphia: E. B. Baldwin, a me-\nteorologist of Nashville, Tenn.; George H.\nCarr of Chicago; George A. Clarke of Brook-\nIt was past 8 o'clock last night when the\n\"My reason for coming to Boston wasthat\nline, Mass.; Hugh J. Lee of Meriden, Conn.;\nordinary looking steam bark Falcon, with\nso many people ho are my iriends ex-\nMatt Hinson, a colored boy, and myself.\nlofty spars and peculiar rig about the tops,\npressed a wish to see the ship.\nWe will sail from here to Portland, my\ncame up the channel and docked at Consti-\nWhen asked what he proposed to do\ntution wharf.\nwhile he remained in Boston, he said:\nold home, and stop there one day. We will\nshall spend the time in shopping and pur\nstop at St. Johns and then start for the Arc-\nShe was boarded by Lieut Peary, who\nchasing necessaries for the ship.\ntie seas. When we get to Inglefield Gulf we\nsatisfied himself that all was well and\nI hope to get away Thursday night, and\nwill erect the hut which I have had built for\nshook the hand of Capt Bartlett, who is to\nshall sail direct to Portland, where I shail\nme here. All the men of my party are young\naccompany him on his voyage north.\nremain one day.\nFrom there I shall go to Newloundland\n-between 25 and 28 years old each-\nPilot McLaughlin docked the craft as\nwhere we take in coal, and from there go\nand all are sturdy. We intend to\nhandily as he would a tug. and said he\nto Labrador. There we shall take aboard\ntry to get farther north than ny party ever\nboarded her from the Florence yesterday\nour doss and proceed on our\nhas been before. The main object of our ex-\nafternoon, off Highland light.\nMrs Peary is not with her husband at\npedition, though, is to determine the extent of\nChief officer A. T. Tracy, who was with wife would not join him until the last mo-\npresent, and the neutenant said that his\nthe detached islands north of Greenland. I\nment.\ndiscovered.on my last expedition that Green-\nland was not a part of the mainland, as it was\nalways supposed to be, but an island, you\nknow.'\nAre you going to attempt to reach the\nNorth pole?\"\nYes, and we hope to do so.\"\nThe ehief food carried is pemmican, a prep-\naration of meat, suet, sugar, and currants,\none pound of which is said to be equal in\nnutritiv quality to four pounds of good beef.\nThere will be three tons of this food on board\nthe Falcon.\nTO THE NORTH POLE.\nWord has jus -been received that\nJim Davidson is to be one of a party of\nsix to start next June in search of the\nnorth pole. The party will be headed\nby Ciyil Engineer, Lieutenant Robert\nE. Peary, of the United States Navy,\nwho will make the most careful and dar-\nTHE FALCON,\ning search for the north pole ever at-\nLieut Peary on the Kite when he landed on\nLieut Peary was looking the picture of\ntempted. Lieut. Peary has already\nthe shores of McCormack's bay. near\nhealth. and appeared in excellent spirits.\nheaded two expeditions, and though not\nWhale sound, is a sturdy customer who,\nsuccessful in reaching the pole, has had\nlike engineer Fisher. enjoys the cold\nPEARY and HIS PARTY\nweather and is anxious to get away.\nMen Who Will Accompany the Ex\nthe satisfaction of approaching it the\nCapt Peary said: \"I arrived in Boston this\nplorer to the North.\nnearest of any man. Jim was selected\nafternoon by rail, and am pleased the ship\nThe steam sealer Falcon has a stanch\nhas got around, as we can now go to work\nold hulk, but has lately been rebuilt above\nfrom over five hundred applicants,\nand put things in order so that she will\nand rerated.\nthrough his ability and the influence of\nlook presentable tomorrow morming. as itis\nThe purpose for which she was built and\nmy intention to put her on exhibition on\nuntil now used is sealing and whaling, and\nMajor Pond.\nWednesday and Thursday from 8 am until\nas this means work in the ice fields, hor bow\nHe will be home shortly and go into\n5pm.\nis mass of solid timber covered with a\ntraining and study.\nsheathing of plate iron.\nWe clip the following from the Bos-\nton Post,-\"James W. Davidson, now at\nthe Parker House, and who has been in\nthis city for a week past as Major Pond's\nassistant, has been engaged go with\nthe next Peary expedition. The ex-\npedition will start next June, and ex-\n11111\npects to be absent about two and a half\nyears. Mr. Davidson is a bright and\nenergetic young man, but 20 years of\nage, and hails from Minnesota, and was\neducated at the Military Academy at\nHighland Park, III.\"\nWe congratulate on his ap-\npointment, and fincerely hope that he\nmay come home rafe and sound and that\nthis will be the most successful of Lieut\nPeary's expeditions. auntin Register\n17\nTHE REIGNING KING"
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