New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-03-14
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The Walter We Imam Party Starts
For Spitz bergen on q Unique
Arctic Enterprise.

Fascinating Hystery Of the Frozel
North Likely to Soon Be
Solved.
Mistakes Of Former Explorers to B,
Avoided Some Of the Novel
Features.
New YORK, March IA. Mr.. Waite,
+ Wellman, the well known Journalist
sailed on the steamer Britannia on route
Tor Spitzbergen. from which point hi,
expedition will make summer dash fol
the north pole. Mr.. We Gilman as &C
j companied by three other Americans
1 Professor Owen 3. French, late Of the
United States coast and geodetic survey
and an experienced and capable scien.
i list; DR.. Thomas B. Mohun, asuccessfu]
/ Washington physician, and Charles G.
Dodge, the artist and photographer Of
the expedition. The enterprise IS under
| the leadership Of Mr.. Wellman, and the
three men named are his lieutentants.
q Ten hardy young Norwegians, ambi-
i tious and experienced in Arctic explora-
ton, will join the party ins Norway,
and the expedition will sail from from
SOC, Norway, for the Islands Of Spitz-
bergen about the LIST Of May. At Danes
island, which Is very near the 8Oth
parallel that point Of latitude 50 far
north that many explorers have never
reached and few have ever passed it
headquarters will be established, and
then the party will steam to the edge Of
the great ice pack about degree
farther north. After landing is
effected the steamer will return to
Danes island, and about the 10th or
10Th Of May the dash for the pole Will
begin. 81
That marvellous new metal, alumni
mum, has been utilized in the construc-
ton Of sledges, boats and other appar-
atus, and thus equipped with far lighter
paraphernalia than any previous ex-
plorer, Mr.. Wellman expects to be able
to push on north at the rate of from 10
to 20 miles per day. As he will have
only about 600 miles to travel before
the pole is reached, he expects to either
reach that goal or point very near it
In SO days. he will then return to the
edge Of the pack in so days more, his
steamer will pick him up, and he will
then return home.
Mr.. Wellman has carefully studied
the great problem before him and ex-
poets to profit by the knowledge gained
by previous explorers who have traversed
the pack and to avoid their mistakes.
His early start is for the purpose Of get
ting far north before the pack begins its
DRIFT toward the south. Away back In
1897 Sir Edward Parry pushed on north
ward over the pack at the rate Of from
16 to 30 miles per day, but his heavy
equipage compelled him to break his
loads into parts and pass from i've to
seven times over the same road.
Other explorers, handicapped with old
time sledges and boats, have been COM
PEELED to progress in the same slow
manner, but Mr.. Wellman believes that
with his light aluminium outfit retracing
his steps will be unnecessary, and that
every mile travelled will take him mile,
farther toward the pole. At the start
the drift OF the Ice pack will not be
against him, and when he returns later
in the season it will assist him in his
homeward journey.
Mr.. Wellman carries with him his
aluminium boats and sledges-the first
ever built in America and tests have
demonstrated that they are by far the
lightest and at the Same time the very
strongest boats and sledges Of their size
that the world has ever seen. The en-
tire equipment Of the party of IA will be
about $500 pounds, and as 40 hardy
draft dogs will assist In carrying it, the
average weight per man and dogs will
be about 100 pounds.
One novel feature Of Mr.. Wellman's
scheme of exploration is that it Is strictly
: newspaper expedition, and if Mr..
Wellman's plans are carried out the
world will DO appraised Of his progress
toward the pole, thing that has never
before been done in the case of any pre-
viqus polar sxpidition. Members Of his
party will b sent back from time to
time 10 tho sdgs Of the ice pack with
lsttsrs describing the progress of the
Il VNYCSAAS4OA o&A&A aO4AV NAoNVN0A40O AxG1A0 Oy
~ explorers. A The edge Of the ict
pack the dispatches viii DO taken OF
beard Mr.. Wsllmans steamer. which
will return to Norway, whence th.
world will receive tho news.
Whether Mr.. Wsllnsn's dash FOR The
pole will be successful or not remains tx
be seen, but II his novel plan Is ever
: partly carried ont he will succeed il
reaching degree Of latitude farther
north than that reached by any previou,
s explorer. With Wellman. Pea1y, Nan
sen and possibly Jackson in quest Of til,
pole this year. It seems highly probable
that 1894 will mark the solution Of th,
frozen North's fascinoting mystery.
Whsas Ia tho NsxthvssA
MINNEAPoLIs. March n. Tho North
western Miller reports the stocks 81
4 wheat IA the private ELEVATOR 81 Ainne
apoliss at 1.072. 0O0 bushels, - inc1sas,
Il over last Monday q ll9, 600 bushsls
! This makes the Minneapolis, Duluth N
s. Sur erior stocks q. 0O0 80 bualaln 3