SOUTH POLE RACE.
PEARY'S FOLLOWING TO COMPETE. By Teleeraph-Press Assodation-Copyrieht.
..•':' • ' ' ;New York, February',9.-'.. ■'~ Commarider; Peary., has.- received..lo,ooo dollars' W2ooo).public .subscriptions-, .towards'the. cost of the American Antarctic expedition, which .is' beng'.promoted .by the National Geographical Society. of the United. States and the Peary-Arctic Club.'
.>• Peary declared ■ that. 1 ho. would. deposit the money towards : "an Antarctio race with our/British cousins, than who there are no finer foemcri in the world.".
■v. The. steamer Roosevelt, in which. Peary, made his last 'two Polar: expeditions, will be used for ~the 'Southern; journey,- with 1 thepersonnel of;Peary's.party,. except the leader" himself, i ' .','■''.-:;•'' :':> ;;> 7 .''.. '.7'"'■'.-.■'•
■£■;, 7; REAR-ApMIRAL PEARTi; (Rec. February;; ; io, v '9.s p.fai.)';;,77' ;,•;■..'•'; ; ■ !. :Washington, 1 February-10. . .The/Senate 'has.passed ; ,a Bill making Commarider Peary, the discoverer of/the' N.oi;th;Pole,',:aßcar-Admiral.' 'The:Bill will undoubtedly. pass : the Houses of ■ Re-. presentatives.:. l ' .'-.■■.•,■''■"';;,' \-\r:.•.■■.. .;''..'■:
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 739, 11 February 1910, Page 5
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134SOUTH POLE RACE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 739, 11 February 1910, Page 5
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