The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-13
ROCK ISLAND, TUESDAY. JULY 13. 1856.
4 TRIP TO THE UNKNOWN,
TWO DETERMINED MENWH EXPECT
TO REACH THE NORTH POLE.

An Undertaking Fraught with Great
Danger and Untold Hardships-The
Tip To BE Made by S,edges and If
Necessary on Foot - Interview with
Col. Glider.
New YoBK, July 13.-Col Glider, Her
Eli representative, started Monday evening
| IN an exploring exre lition of the unknown
| regions TO the north of the American con
| tInent He first goes to New London,
Conn, and there will take passage on the
northern whaler, Era, Capt Spicer, which
viii land him at point on Cumberland in.
| let whence he hopes by bold dash to
reach the most northern latitute that has
| yet been touched, and if possible plant
| The American standard on the point geo
graphically known as the north pole
Col Glider possesses an unique experience
| 10 aid him i'll the enterprise His Journey
! With Lieut. Schwatka in search of the relics
| of the Sir John Franklin expedition is a
| matter of history. He was also on board
the Rodgers when she was destroyed by fire
| on the north coast of Siberia After that
disaster he made his celebrated Journey of
| 2,0oO miles down the river Lena to Irkutsk,
the capital of Siberia, During this great
| tramp he formed the notion of reaching the
north pole on foot, and it has been with
him ever since
Sunday night reporter found him
making his last preparations for the voy-
| age. Yes | am pretty nearly fixed for
the voyage, he said, and here is MIR.
William Griffiths, the only white man who
is TO accompany me- We shall have a
| Sharp'S
leading shot guns and several muzzle- load
ers, and provisions for one year The
schooner Era after leaving New London, will
touch at three places, the last one of which
will be kikerton, on the north side of Cum
berland inlet There | expect to remain
about year to get party of natives to
| accompany me, as at the time | arrive
they will all be ont hunting But if am
able to make up my party in time the same
vessel will take me across Batfin's bay to
\ some point on the southern coast of Green
| land, where l shall be picked up by some
Scotch whaler next year from St Johns, n.
| F., and carried to Melville bay or the Carey
islands, near Smiths sound or they NAV
place me on the western coast as high
as they can get, which is about Is de-
grees 30 minutes.
4 L
TO Fort Conger, in Lady Franklin bay, and
from there make my dash to the pole on
the route laid down by Lieut. Lockwood of
the Greely expedition, who reached latitude
" degrees minutes, or about 1896 miles
from the pole Lockwood could have easily
gone 100 miles further, so Greedy states. if
he had had better sleds and good drivers
but he was directed to return as soon as
1
run NO risk. l shall be hampered by
no instructions and have ex-
perience of this kind of work, too. and |
have full confidence of being able to reach a
much higher latitude if | am able to reach
Fort Conser. Probably the difficulty will
be to make that point But if l could get
| any where near Cape Sabine by vessel |
could cross overland to Cape Lockwood, up
freely f1ord, and then | would be able to
add TO the maps the land to the immediate
uorthward, which is believed to exist bnt
has never been seen
| We propose 10 live principally on fish
| and game We meet with in the
Journey But in case of neces-
sity there are many points below
the mouth of Smiths sound where
provisions have been left by previous expe
| ditlon> l shall take two sleds zone large
one and one small one-for myself and Mr..
| griffith When We can get no further with
the larger one We shall go on with the
| smaller. When we are compelled TO do SO
| We shall abandon tbat--even to the extent
| of being without food for several days if
necessary"
And what do you expect to findl'
| i shall try to reach the pole expect
| TO find an open sea to some e,ient-pot a
| navgable sea- however