St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-13
TO TRY A new PLAN.
DR.. Hansen's New Method Of
Attempting to Reach the
North Pole.
Nature Herself May Supply
the Means Of Solving the
Difficulty.
The Explorer Will Try to Drift
Down From Nova Gambia
to Greenland.
Great Rivalry Among French
Celebrities for the Aead-
envy Vacancies.

LONDON, Nov. 12.-The representa-
tive of the Associated Press has had an
interview with the famous Norwegian
explorer, DR.. Hansen, regarding the
plans for his Arctic voyage. He related
the details of his scheme as they have
already been published. 1t may not be
uninteresting, however, to repeat that
DR.. Hansen'S scheme is essentially diff
ferent from the plan followed by other
explorers in the frozen regions of the
North. Hitherto. with one possible eX-
ception, all attempts to reach the north
pole have been made in defiance of tue
obstacles of nature. Now an attempt
will be made to ;scertain whether Ma
tire herself has not supplied the means
of solving the difficulty, aud whether
there Is not, after all. possibility of
reaching the north pole by utilizing
certain natural facilities in these frozen
seas of which all early explorers were
ignorant. The circumstances upon
which these new hopes are based may
be summarized thus:
Drifted by the Pole.
The Jeanette expedition of 1879
81 and the loss of that vessel seemed
to sound the knei OF all expeditions to
reach the pole by Behrlng straits, but in
June, 1884, exactly three years after the
Jeanette sank, there We're found near
JulianShaab, i'll Greenland, several arti
cles which had belonged to the Jean
nette, and mad been abandoned at the
time of its wreck by the crew, and
which had been carried to the coast of
Greenland, from the opposite side of
the Polar sea, on piece OF ice.
This fact at once aroused curiosity as
to how 1t accomplished that weird and
mysterious voyage across the Arctic
ocean, and as to what unknown current
had borne that significant and inform
ing message from behrlng straits to
Greenland. and it is thought highly
probable that there is comparatively
short and direct route across the Arctic
ocean by way OF the north pole, and
that Nature herself has supplied a
means of communication, however un-
certain, across it. DR.. HansenS eXps-
dltion Will endeayor to realize these
hopes OF
Direct Route
across the apeKof the Arctic ocean. The
expedition will consist Of ten or twelve
men. In the course of the interview
DR.. Hansen referred to Lieut.. Peary'S
recent expedition. He said
There are no points of similarity be-
tween his expedition and mine. Lieut..
Peary aimed TO reach the northermost
point of Greenland. My expedition is
to pass the pole and traverse the UNI
known polar regions. Lieut.. Peary'S
work was marvelodsly we'll done, and
fully agree with his report made to the
Philadelphia Academy Of Sciences tnat
two or three we'll equipped men could
reach any point in Greenland | think
L must cable him that there is mis-
take in his alleged remark about the use
OF a railway in Greenland. | will take
with me on my expedition five years
provisions. We may only be away two
years, but feel certain that we will re-
turn in five. The total cost of the eX-
petition is as yet unknown. The Nor
wegian government subscribeS two
thirds of the cost, and King Oscar and
others will privately donate the Ie-
mainder. The expedition will leave
Norway in June and proceed direct to
Nova Zembla.