The San Francisco call., 1896-03-22
His Friend, Dr.. G. H. Salamon.
sen, Now Here, Thinks
he Has Found It.
ANDREE SOMEWHAT CAST DOWN
But He Will Set Out in His Great
Balloon Over the Ice-Mrs Eva
Nansen's Heroic Work.

DR.. G. H. Salamonsen of Copenhagen.
Denmark, wealthy gentleman who has
devoted much time to philosophical ana
scientific research, is at the Palace.
He has recently visited Venezuela and
Cuba, and is now en- route to Japan. Or.
Salamo nsen has. as matter OF pleasure
and to inform his friends been correspond
ing with severa, Danish newspapers, in
Guiding the Dannebrog, the most powerful
| daily in the kingdom.
DR.. Salamonsen is intimately acquainted
| with DR.. Nansen, who sailed in the Fran
to discover the north pole, and Or. +. An
dree, who is to sail shortly in great bal
loon on the same quest.
He tells many things regarding those
noted men not known in America. and con-
siderable that is perhaps not known to the
majority of their counrrymen.
He says both Nansen and Andree are
men of extraordinary endurance and OF
great determination. He believes that DR..
Nansen has already found the pole and
says the majority of the Danish, Norwegian
and Swedish people also believe this. AS
for DR.. Andree ne says he believes also
that Nansen has found the pole, but never
theless he will set out himself and try and
| find it by the novel method of sailing over
the ice.
HE is little bit cast down." said DR..
Salamonsen, ''for fear he will not be the
first to arrive at the pole. If Nansen has
found it of course Andree will not get the
glory he would if he had got there first.
DR.. Andree will set out nevertheless.
II believe myself that Dr. Nansen has
found the pole. and is coming back. This
opinion is shared by the majority of the
people in my country. The news thus far
has come from trader on the remote
frontier. / think that Nansen bas dis
patched boat ahead of him with dis
patch signed by him, and that it was lost.
All the people in my part of the world are
greatly interested in him.
IL know him personally. He is from
Norway. and | am from Denmark, but
both countries contributed money for his
trip. He said. when he sailed, that he
did not expect to be back in less than three
years. and Mrs. Eva NaEsen, his wife, who
lives in Christiana, and who was asked
recently about it. said she had never ex-
pected him inside of that time. Now,
however. the time is about up.
Mrs. Napsen is teacher of music in
Christiania and sometimes appears in con-
certs there. The doctor and his amiable
wife are simply like thousands of other
meritorious and ambitious young people.
They have little money, but lofty pur-
poses, and want to make all they can of
themselves. They have a little son,
think now or years old. DR.. Nansen is
a man of a very vigorous constitution.
somewhere from 80 to 35 years old, and of
great determination.
'As for DR.. Andree, who proposes to
find the pole by sailing there in balloon,
he is also of splendid physique, young and
full OF energy. He is a Swede. I know
him well, and / have no doubt he will go
to the pole.
.sDr. Andree made the balloons last year.
recently saw one of them. 1t was mag
nifcent affair. The King OF Sweden. as
well as the people Of the country, have
contributed money to equip him. He is
taking with him great many carrier
pigeons.
"By the way, observe from the Danish
papers which have reached me that James
Gordon Bennett has offered $500 for the
first dispatch from Nansen, the dispatch to
be exclusive. But this is nothing. Any
leading paper in Norway would be glad to
give that
DR.. Solamonsen is going to write book
OF travel. He will be here six weeks, and