The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-28
BULLET WILL TELL
HOW DYOHE WILL PROVE THAT BE
HAS REACHED THE POLE

let the Shadow of which Will be Photo
rraphed and When in I,ay it Describes
Perfect Circle He Will be on the North
Pole and the Circle Photographed OF
Part of it Will be Brought Back to
Prove That He Actually Reached the
Famous Spot.
Wide open, steel blue and cold blue
and unblinking are Prof. Dyche's eyes
and they identify him at once TO the
man who has seen his portrait, and by
them most Of the people of the Wichita
Yesterday who met him on the street
determined that he was none other than
Dyche, that he would discover the North
pole, and their chiIdrencould say: MY
father or my mother knew the great ex-
pIorer Dycfle personally"
Like his great predecessor in nosing
around in unknown seas, Columbus,
Dyche is small OF bone, and soft Of skin,
almost TO femtninfty. He is small in
stature, quick Of eye and hand, ner-
vously inclined TO squeeze explanations
and Interruptions into a conversation.
He does not look like an explorer, a
hunter or a naturalist. His eyes are
the most marked physical characteristic
of the man. They are steel blue, as
Columbus were peculiarly white.
1t is heretical in Kansas to doubt that
Dyche will discover the North pole. He
Will do it. BY some nagic-hocus pocus
the North pole will dodge other eXplor-
ers until Dyche gets ready to discover
st. The very winds of the CLASSY north,
In conspiracy with the Kansas man, viii
hang Andree's balloon upside down on
the minaret Of an iceberg. The walrus
will make a gala. feast of the attenuat-
ed form of DR.. hansen and Nature, gen.
orally, will block the game, until Prof.
Dyche is ready to move.
Not only that. Dyche has it fixed so
that an incredulous world can not deny
him credit when he has discovered it
and comes back and thaws out sufficient
iy TO say so.
This question was put TO him by re-
porter for the Eagle yesterday:
Professor, If you discover the North
pole, how are you going 10 prove to the
world that you have discovered it?"
Prof. Dyche answered as follows:
1.-THE best proof / know of is this:
Will take a bullet and suspend it from
string. That bullet will cast a shadow.
/ will photograph that shadow of the
bullet through the day. Now down
here in this latitude the shadow of that
bullet made by the sun would in day
travel in, or describe, an ellipse. Now,
when 1 reach the North pole the shadow
of that bullet viii describe a perfect cir
Gle. This will, of course, be photo
graphed. OF course it will only be
necessary to photograph and bring back
TO the world an arc, or piece of the cir
Gle"
Us this the only way you have Of
proving you have reached the North
pole?'
Eyes, the only one at present. I have
been informed from Washington that
they have several plans, and before I
start, in 1897, 1 will go to Washington
and look them over"
Your plan is to provision heavily and !
establish food stations at short dis |
tances along the route? You hold that /
no explorers in the Arctic seas, have !
hitherto taken this precaution?"
US, sir
mo explorer has had the foresight |
to make this apparently absolutely |
necessary provision"
ITO the best of my knowledge no |
Arctic explorer has done that thing.
They have all been poorly provisioned. |
They have starved and frozen to death |
because of a lack Of internal warmth. |
That is a fact. 1t is what intend to /
avoid. / shall store the provisions in |
my ship lively
What will they consist of?''
well, first, canned tomatoes. Now, /
canned tomatoes are a great thing in |
the North. The men like them. They |
also keep off scurvy. / will also take |
a great deal of dried fruit and salt |
meats"
a"You really believe you will discover
the North pole?"
''Of course 1 do"
ice?"
Ice, expect"
do you expect to see any phenomena
whatever"
NO" This was said decidedly.
Dyche at this point grabbed a piece