Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-20


~ Er;dtiof Nansen is a Norwegian
scientist in the prime of lite, peiiis ~
his 34th year. - Chris
He entered the university at Chris.
+:o,;. in 1880 and in 1882 went as
r,.,.sanonr in the sealing steamer VIKING
to Denmark straits and the east coast
If Greenland, where the vessel peca ille
;cehonnd in the pack for twenty-louI
thc museum at Bergen in lSSz, anu
DAYS. He was appointed curator ol
held that situation until 1855, Whe,i he
undertook the leadership OF smaii eA-
Dedition. consisting OF SIX men ah .olu'
to Greenland. and crossed the tba nost
norton of that country from the easl
coast to Godhaab, on the west. Wnere
tho Marty Wintered returning to Norway
in June. 1899
Nansen then conceived the idea OF I'M
,,ortakng an expedition to the N1fls ~
mole by a new route and III Nessel VI
special construction.
June u, 1893. The doctors plan was 10
make for the New Siberian islands. ana
thence sail directly north till the i'ram
should be imbedded in the ice, then drift
along with it, following the west coast
of any land that might be met.
The doctor sent a dispatch from Var
doe August 23, 1893 written by Chara-
bowa, in the Yugorski straits, on the
second of that month"; reporting that ne
was about to- sail into the Kara sea, and
that so far the Fran had behaved splen-
didly especially III forcing her way
through the ice
A dispatch from London March 4 Of
this year announced that a letter, dated
at Kjollefjord February "a, had reached
Hammerfest, Norway, announcing that
a telegraph inspector at a mountain sta
tion between Lebesy and Langfjord
saw a balloon moving in southeasterly
direction and believed that it was pos
sibly carrying dispatches from DR.. Nam
SEN
Reported to Have Found the Pole.
ON April Is continental papers gave
currency to a report that DR.. Nansen
had found the North pole and was on
his way home. The report originated
from telegraph station on the extreme
northern coast of Siberia and was to the
effect that some weeks previous some
traders had seen vessel which they
thought was the Fran. The informal
ton did not come to the operators d.
rect, it having been passed by word of
mouth by several parties, and but little
credenee was given it by the scientific
world.
Although the Franz is generally classed
as a sailing vessel (she is rugged as a
three-masted schooner),. she is provided
with steam engine of Ego horsepower.
1t was expected, however, that she
would depend principally ON her sails
while in the ice. Her displacement is
800 tons, and her sides are" so construct
ed as to force all ice meeting the vessel
to pass underneath it,. thus preventing
all "'pinehing" and "screwing-'f
The Fran was launched October 26
1892, at Laurwik, near Christiania.
The Norwegian Parliament gave DR.
Nansen about $4,000 I'M aid of his eyne-
dltlon, and many private. subseriutions
including one of over $4,000 FROM Kin@
Oscar, were added to- the fund.
Dr. Nansen's companions were Cont
Otto Sverdrup, ships master: Signrd
Scott Hansen, lieutenant in the Norwe-
gan navy, and director of the asfrono,,-
ical, meteorological and magnetic ohSan
H Hatlons; Henrik lien Blessing, surgeon and
9otanlst; Theodore G. Jacobsen. matn.
tedef Hendriksen, harpooneF: Anton,
Amundsen, chief engineer: Lars Pettor-
sen, second engineer; Hialmar Joban-
ncsen- ofhcer in the Norweeian 49,.
nreman: Bernard Nordahl. eleetr;ciayv..
Ivan Mogstad, carpenter. and AIa1s
Juell, steward. ARA Adolf
ne doctor married i'm September 1000
MISS Eva Sars, youngest danoh+ar &c 1922 90,
laue professor of zoology in the ,,,;, VI tne
at Christiania, NJ. Sars, and o1hi diversity
S Has daughter Mrs. Nansen. who
- n-o g pG;Welfui. musical voice becamo
pro1essionel singer in her maiden e do LIZ
an ana SINCE her marriage has anne uays;
"eiofe the pubic on various occasin,,s