[meteorite-list] Newspaper Article, 04-16-1897 Cape York
From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:07:05 2004 Message-ID: <OE18isLfm3YtpdusZcI00001779_at_hotmail.com> ------=_NextPart_001_0008_01C280C3.66301380 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable New York Times New York City, NY. Friday, April 16, 1897 Page 7 LIEUT. PEARY'S NEW POST. Ordered to Mare Island - His Projected Polar Expedition May Be Affected. WASHINGTON, April 15. - The Navy Department is much exercised over an ord= er to Lieut. Peary, the arctic explorer, to leave the New York navy yard = and go to Mare Island, California. Lieut. Peary's friends and persons act= ively interested in polar explorations are raising a fund in New York to = defray the expense of anotehr expedition to be conducted by Lieut. Peary = into the far north. It is asserted that the detachment of the officer from New York now will = involve the enterprise in failure. The Chief of Bureau of Yards and Docks= is said to hold that the New York Navy Yard, which now employs four civi= l engineers can get along with three, wherefore it is proposed to sent Li= eut. Peary to Mare Island. On the other side are the scientists urging Se= cretary Long to allow the officer to remain in New York for a time, and t= hen to go on leave of obsence while conducting the polar expedition. The foregoing dispatch was show to Lieut. Peary last evening by a reporte= r from THE NEW YORK TIMES. "It is true." said the explorer, "that I have been ordered to Mare Island= . The order can several days ago. But as to the other maters in the dispa= tch, I have no knowledge." Lieut. Peary refused to discuss further the efforts of his friends to kee= p him in Brooklyn or his plans for the immediate future. But he said that= the funds to send out his expedition were assured. "I asked for $150,000 to equip an expedition for ten years," he said. "Th= at sum is assured." ------=_NextPart_001_0008_01C280C3.66301380 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><BODY STYLE=3D"font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV><FONT size=3D2= > <P> </P></FONT><B><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> <P>New York Times</= P> <P>New York City, NY.</P> <P>Friday, April 16, 1897</P> <P>Page 7</P><= /FONT><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman"></FONT><FONT size=3D2> <P>LIEUT. PEA= RY'S NEW POST.</P> <P>Ordered to Mare Island - His Projected Polar Expedi= tion May Be Affected.</P> <P></B>WASHINGTON, April 15. - The Navy Departm= ent is much exercised over an order to Lieut. Peary, the arctic explorer,= to leave the New York navy yard and go to Mare Island, California. Lieut= . Peary's friends and persons actively interested in polar explorations a= re raising a fund in New York to defray the expense of anotehr expedition= to be conducted by Lieut. Peary into the far north.</P> <P>It is asserte= d that the detachment of the officer from New York now will involve the e= nterprise in failure. The Chief of Bureau of Yards and Docks is said to h= old that the New York Navy Yard, which now employs four civil engineers c= an get along with three, wherefore it is proposed to sent Lieut. Peary to= Mare Island. On the other side are the scientists urging Secretary Long = to allow the officer to remain in New York for a time, and then to go on = leave of obsence while conducting the polar expedition.</P> <P>The forego= ing dispatch was show to Lieut. Peary last evening by a reporter from THE= NEW YORK TIMES.</P> <P>"It is true." said the explorer, "that I have bee= n ordered to Mare Island. The order can several days ago. But as to the o= ther maters in the dispatch, I have no knowledge."</P> <P>Lieut. Peary re= fused to discuss further the efforts of his friends to keep him in Brookl= yn or his plans for the immediate future. But he said that the funds to s= end out his expedition were assured.</P> <P>"I asked for $150,000 to equi= p an expedition for ten years," he said. "That sum is assured."</P></FONT= ><BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_001_0008_01C280C3.66301380-- Received on Thu 31 Oct 2002 10:53:44 AM PST |
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