The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-07-13
NORTH POLE EXPEDITION,
A New York ''HSralI" Man who Goes to the
Frozen North.

NEw YoRE, July l9.-Col. Glider,
Herald representative, will start this even
ing on an exploring expedition Of the un
known regions to the north Of the Ameri
can continent, He first goes to New Lon
don, Conn, and there he will take passage
on the northern whaler Era, Captain
spicer, which will land him at point on
Cumberland Inlet, whence he hopes, by q
bold dash, to reach the most northern
latitude that has yet been touched, and, Il
possible, plant the American standard on
the point geographically known as the
North Pole. Col. Gilder POSSESSES au
unique experience to aid him in the en-
tsrpriss. His journey with Lieut.. SChwat.
ka In search OF relics OF the Sir John
Franklin expedition ia q matter OF history.
He was also on board the Rodgers when
shes was destroyed by fire on the north
coast OF Siberia, After that disaster he
made his celebrated journey OF two thou
sand miles down the river Lena to Irk'
utsk, the capital OF Siberia. During this
great tramp he formed the notion Of
reaching the North Pole on foot, and II has
been with him ever since.
Last night reporter found him making
last preparations for the voyage. "Yes, |
am pretty nearly fixed for the voyage"
he said, "and here Is Mr., William Grit.
athS, the only white man who is 10 RC-
company me, We don't take much along
with us. We shall have sharp'a rihs,
four Winchesters, two breech.loadlng shot
guns and several muzzle leaders and pro.
visions for one year, The sChooner Era,
after leaving Nov London, will touch at
three places, the last ons OF which will be
kikerton, on the north side Of Cumber-
land Inlet, There l expect to remain
about q year to geta party Of natives to
accompany me as, at the time ar
rive they will al be out hunting,
But II am able to make up my party
in time, tho same vessel win take
me across Batiu's bay to some
point on the southern part Of Greenland.
where | shall be picked up by some Scotch
Thaler next year from st, Johns, n, f.,
aud carried TO Melville Bay or to the Carey
Islands, near Smiths Sound. Or they
may place me on the western coast as high
up as they can get, which is about rs deg.
so min. II am landed there can work
my way 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 Greedy expedition, who
reached latitude 50 deg. 0 min, or about
308 miles from the pole, Lockwood could
have easily gone 100 miles further, so
Greedy states, II he had had better sleds
and good drivers. But he was directed to
return as soon as his supplies were ex-
hausted and run no risk.
~ shall be hampsred by no instruc.
tions, and nave full confidence OF being
hble TO reach much higher latitude, II |
am able to reach Fort Conger. Probably
the difficulty will be to reach that point.
But II could get anywhere near Cape
Sabine by vessel could cross overland to
Cape Lockwood, up Greely Fiord, and
then would be able to add to the maps
the land to the immediate ncrthward,
which Is believed to exist but has never
been seen. We propose TO live principally
on tish and game We meet with on the
journey, but in case OF necessity there are
ma ~ points below the mouth OF Smiths
Souud where provisions have been left by
previous expeditions. l shall take two
sleds-ono large and one small oue-ior
myself and for Griffith. When we can get
no further with the larger one we shall 20
on with the smaller. When we are com.
PEELED to do so We shall abandon that
even 10 the extent Of being without food
Tor several days II necessary"
"And what DO you expect to find?"
II shall try to reach the Pole. Iexpect
to find an open sea, to some extent-nota a
nRYiRable sen, however,