The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-03
TO EAT HIS WAY UP
PROFESSOR DYOHE TO MAKE THE
TRIP TO THE NORTH POLE

He is Going to Try an Entirely New Scheme,
Provisions-Every Mile He will Estab-
Iish a Station and Cram it Full of Food
Hunger and Not Gold, He Says, has
Prevented the Discovery of the North
PoIe-wm Really Go and If the Poles
there He'll Find 1t.
Topeka, Kan, Dec. I'm the course
of conversation with a reporter, Pro
fessor L. L. Dyche, of the Kansas state
university, said that he had received an
offer to go TO the north pole, and that
he had about concluded to accept it
There is something about the CONVEX
satfon of this famous young kansan
which impresses the nearer that he will
accomplish whatsoever he may set
about. He does not boast of his ability
TO accomplish anything, but there is a
matter-of-course vein about his north
pole talk which carries with ii the con-
viction that he will find the pole. He
speaks of the expedition in the same
matter-of-fact way in which a small boy
would announce his intention OF going
out to hunt UP a lost COW, and 1t is PLAN
chat he not only holds entire confidence
in his ability to make the trip. but THAT
he is also convinced that no very APP
paning difficulties lie in his way.
1.-The sole and fatal obstacles which
has topped Arctic explorers from find
ing the pole" said the professor, lis not
cold, but hunger. The explorers have
started out with a lunch in their pock-
cts as though they were simply going
for a days run on the bicycle. There
is no healthier region IN all the world
than inside the Arctic circle. There is
no danger from the cold. was within
less than /, 900 miles of the pole last sum
mer, and 1 suffered no more from cold
than the people of Kansas will during
the coming winter. There can be no
appreciable difference between the cold
at the point / reached and the cold at
the very pinnacle of the north pole.
Every Arctic expedition yet set afoot
has simply starved out IT Is almost
beyond belief how little in the way Of
supplies those fellows who have been
up north took along. Give me plenty
TO eat and 1 think can go to the north
pole as easily as / got within 500 miles Of
it Good old fashioned grub should be
the Waterford of the Arctic explorers"
Have you any objection to stating
the plan you have formed for your Arc
tic trip" queried the reporter.
''None in the world 1t is the simplest
thing imaginable. 1 will start out with
provisions enough to last ten or twelve
years. 1 will take my time. though. of
course, 1 do not propose to spend any
such number of years in making that
trip, but 1 want provisions enough to
establish well stocked camps at points
not more than a days Sledge journey
apart.
CREEP AROUND THE COAST.
ut has been the custom OF Arctic ex-
plorers to either stick ITO the water with
their ships until crushed in the ice
pack, which, of course. is followed by
the loss of most of their provisions or
TO try to mount and traverse the huge
ice mountains of Greenland, where it is
next to impossible to carry provisions.
My idea is to creep around the western
coast of Greenland and never try to
cross the mountains. 1 would establish
camps at intervals. in which I would
store great quantities of provisions,
and then move on to another camp,
where / would plant NOR provisions.
las 1 worked north 1 would leave
these provision store houses so thick
try at any time within the next ten
years would be sure to find plenty 10
eat. Provisions are cheap and this
would not cost much.
II would thus work around the Green
land coast until the point was reached
for the last grand dash to the pole by
sledges, or boat, and then want none
with me but Esquimau-young Esqui-
mau-who can handle both dogs and
paddle. 1 believe that most Arctic ex-
plorers have made their greatest eff
forts to get north in the summer. For
my part, / shall choose the winter The
natural means of locomotion in these
parts is sledging, and that is certain to
be ait its best in winter. No American
ever was or ever will be able to handle |
dogs and sleds as does the Esquimau. |
That is the reason 1 want few white |
men with me. They would simply in
crease the difficulties of transportation !
without being of material aid, and 1 |
have no fear of starting out alone in the |
Artic circles for any point to which a ma
tive Esquimau can be induced to go.
CONTINUOUS LAND ROUTE.
when Greeley stood on the summit |
Of that great Greenland ice mountain |
he saw chain Of islands away off in |
the direction Of the pole, and / am con-
WINGED that there is practically 4 con-
tinuoUs land route from the north coast |
of Greenland to the region of the north /
pole Possibly that imaginary point |
IS also upon an island. and if so / can
bring back some tangible mementoes of /
The discovery"
The professor does not say who has /
made him the proposition 10 search for
the north pole. but it is not improbable
that the American musuyn, under whose
auspices he made the recent Attic trip,
s behind the project. The professor
has already commenced TO arrange his
affairs for the hong trip. and speaks of
[ as practically decided upon.
The recent trip of Professor Dyche TO
The far north cost the state university
exactly $500. OF this sum SIPS was paid
or five polar bear skins, all the rest of
he specimens having been killed by the
professors own hand. He now has TWO
nen busy at the work of mounting the
skins which he has brought back. Last
week ne completed an invoice Of the
stuff which he secured for the UNIVERSE
y, and finds by comparison by the cata-
ogues put out by German, French and
English museums that the whole is val
led at something more than $4,000.
THOUSAND MILE CoURTsHIB.
Ioupg Man Proposes over a Telephone and
IL Accepted.