The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-07-01
A NEW TRIP TO THE POLE.
Another Bold Explorer Gone TO the Arctic
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Expectations of Success.
(New York Maitland EXPRESS.


(New York Maitland Expressly
Col. w. II. Glider has just sailed from
New Bedford, on his novel journey to
the Arctic regions, to settle, if possible
and he believes it is possiblc--thc
geographical problem Of what there is at
the northern axis Of the earth This ex-
pcdition Mr.. Glider undertakes in almost
the same manner that Stanley undertook
his great equatorial Journey across Afm
ca, which ended in 1878 by his discovery
of the sources of the Nile, the sources Of
the Congo, and his descent Of that great
African stream to its debouchmcnt in
the Atlantic Ocean. Col. Gilder's walk
across Siberia, his sledge Journey with
Schwatka from North Hudson's Bay to
King Williams Land and return, includ-
ing summer search over King Will
liam's Land, is the longest on record
covering distance of $3.50 miles in
eleven months and twenty days. During
the journey the travellers were required
to live Oh the country through which
they passed, as they only took with them
one months supplies. 1t was thus
roughlng it over the wearying wastes of
that great land of dcsolation within the
Arctic Circle that taught Glider the true
method of lOcomotion towards the Pole.
precisely as Stanlcy's intelligent appre-
citation of the equatorial difficulties en-
abled him to go on well-defned cam
palgn against the climate, the topogra-
ply and the inhabitants of Central
Africa.
"Ny intention" said Col. Glider, at
the Victoria Hotel, where he was SUI
rounded by n party of travellers and
kindred spirits, among whom were Lieut..
Schwatka, Oscar Sawyer and Mr.. w. II.
Grl1iith, who is to accompany him on his
Polar journey, and who has made pedes-
trlan tours of Germany and Northern
Africa, and is altogether, by scientific
training, physique, ambition and tenn
permanent, fitted for the dangerous un-
dcrtaking, sis to leave New Bedford car
y III June on one of the two whalers
which will leave for Hudson's Bay. I
will be accompanied by Mr. Griffith
alone, who is a graduate Of Cornell Uni
vcrsity, and who will go along as an
assistant observer; and," added the
Colonel, with Il grim smile, ''to look
after results if anything should happen
to me- / shall have all of the best in-
strumcnts that can be obtained, and
many, of this kind and quality have
already been contributed; but it should
be understood that the main object of
this expedition, after reach my base of
opcrations, will be TO push on towards
the Pole and reach it if possible. This
IS the one aim and object of this attcmDt
my third one-within the Arctic cir.
Gle. But whatever L can do in the inter
est of science, in laying down coast lines
and plotting Typographical features by
observation or otherwise, will not be
neglected. My set purpose, remember
IS to push always northward, and if j
stand ut the very axis of the earth, nc
more is to be said-that will be my high,
water mark.
"And how long will this little picnic
glace take you?"
| 81 expect to return in 1890, or after
an absence Of abont four years. NV
New Bedford whalcr will take me ND to
the Cary Islands in Baf1ins Bay, between
the 10th and 77th degrees north latitude,
and thence to Cape Sabine in 70 degrees
is minutes, where Grecly and his party
were rescued. L will go by some Scotch
whalcr, which l expect to find in those
attitudes III Smiths Sound, and which
Will carry me us much further north as
we can find open water. But Mt any rate,
there is plenty of animal food in the
Vlclnty of Baird Inlet, just to south
ward of Cape Sabine; and if necessary,
instead of making Il coast journey on the
western side of Smiths Sound and Kane
BASIN, L can pass inland and reach Fort
Conger IN latitude 80 degrees As minutes
north, where there are plenty of supplies
lett by Lieut.. Grccly and which will be
ample for the very polar object have in
view"
elbow long will it take you to reach
this point?"
"About year; and there shall win
ter. Ihcn | shall push my way to a
northcastcrly direction and seek to make
my point Of departure ut the spot where
Lieut.. Lockwood was forced to turn
backward at latitude SO degrees "a
minutes, or within 1896 miles of the North
Pole"
"What, then, are the favorable condi-
tions for reaching the Polc?"
81 think | am not wrong in assuming
that if ] reach that point attained by
Lieut.. Lockwood, with adequate sup
plies for man and beast, the vcxcd
problem of the Polar sea will be forever
settled; If my best Judgment and expert
encc did not teach me this, / would not
be SO romantic as to undertake to leave
the Injuries Of this zone. When Lock.
wood was obliged to turn southward
from that spot, less than 400 miles from
the Pole, he could travel from seven
teen to twenty miles day Over clear
ice, whereas before he was limited to ten
miles day, owing to the condition of
the superficc. His supplies would not
hold out and his orders were to return.
This was in the month of May"
$50 you are confident of reaching the
Pole if you begin where Lockwood left
OFF,"
eyes. 1t will require less than thirty
days moro travel and ] shall make every
cndeavor subsidiary TO this one effort,
for therein lies the mystery of the CIV
cumpolar world"
elbow numerous II party will you take
with you from the northcrmost coast of
Greenland yet reached by man."
81 shall have three young hunters and
their families, and shall get them from
the country about Hudson Bay and
Cumberland Inlet. You may add, too,
thni | 70 ~, l.. /