The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-17
Message Was Attached to the Bird.
Reading $50 Degrees Passed. Good
Journey NOrthward. Andree."
VIEWS OF COLONEL GLIDER
DE GERLACHE'S ANTARCTIC EXPE-
DITION EN ROUTE SOUTH.
His Ship Given n "Send-OH" by the
People of Antwerp and the Amer
lean Cruiser San Francisco.

BERLIN, Aug. 16.-The Vossische Zetung
publishes dispatch from Hammerfest
Norway, which says that one of the search
ers for Herr Andree in fast steamer met
the sealing vessel Aiken about July % and
learned from her captain that one of the
crew had shot a pigeon between North Cape
and Seven islands, on the north coast of
Lapland, bearing a message addressed to
the Aftonbladet, Stockholm. The message
ran as follows:
'Eighty-two degrees passed. Good jour
ney northward. Andree''
The date of the message cannot be ascer-
tanned.
On July II the balloon Orner with its
three intrepid passengers, Messrs. Andree,
Strindberg and Fraenkel, rose from Spitz-
bergen and began it's course toward the
north pole. Since the day of the dramatic
ascent no message from the explorers of
unknown land and sea from the air above
has been received. Interesting speculations
upon the fate of the balloon and it's pas
sengers are given in the following letter
from Colonel William II. Glider of this
city, who first asks What use is there in
speculating?" Colonel Glider is the Arctic
explorer who made the famous Glider
trip overland across Siberia from Bering
strait to Irkutsk. He was member of the
party on the United States steamship
Rodgers, bound to the relief of the jean
nette expedition. When the Rodgers was
burned in the Arctic in January, 1887,
Colonel Glider started with one Cossack
and Travelled night and day until he
reached telegraph office from which to
send word of The loss of the vessel and
an urgent request that an expedition be
sent to rescue the shipwrecked crew from
its awful plight. Colonel Glider made the
trip across Siberia in five months, a feat
without example or equal Mr. Glider
writes as follows:
=, What use is there in speculating upon
the probable fate of Prof. Andree, the Nor
wegian aeronaut, who sailed away in a bal
loon last month to see what the north pole
looks like to Il man several hundred feet
up in the air? Since he started there have
come from various parts of Europe stories
OF the hndlng OF pigeons stamped with.
Prof. Andee s name and postmarked from
the north pole. These stories We're all
found to be false and based upon the wit
or some Veey ordinary and tiresome idiot.
Several Seataring men have reported seeing
a collapsed balloon floating in the North
sea, but without some more direct corrObOr-
atlVe evidence that what they saw really
was balloon, and, by inference, Andraes 5
balloon, it is but fair to infer that they
mistook a dead whale floating around on
the surface of the sea for a collapsed bal
loon.
become of Andree, and 1t will probably be
a long time before anything definite is
known, even if he should have succeeded
in reaching the pole and passing beyond to
u point of safety.
"The most serious matter for reflection is
the assertion of PROF. Erkholm, VINO was was
one of Andrees companions last year and
has studied the subject almost as closely
as Prof. Andree himself that owing to the
unavoidable constant leakage of gas from
seventeen
days, whereas the shortest time, under the
most favorable conditions, to accomplish
would be twenty-four days. In the tenn
perate zone the life of balloon Scarce4y
enters into the question OF an aerlal jour
ney, for no such long voyages 'as 4ahuree
proposed are undertaken here, and II they
were the balloon could readily receive an
additional supply OF gas When N, enough 6tigr
necessary. This. however, Andree cannot
do; he must complete his aerial flight with
one charge of gas. Andree may already
have crossed the north pole and landed
among the Tchouktchis of northeastern ST.
baria, the Lamoyeds of the western portion
or the EsquimauX of North America. IN
either case he would in all probability be
well received by the saVages when he met
them, and they would help him as much
as they could to reach the settlenfntS OF
the white people nearest TO them. But IL Is
a long distance from the northern portion
of either continent to the abiding PAGES faces
of civilized people and the points from
which communication can be had with the
world.
"The writer was once nearly five months
on the route from the northeastern portion
of Siberia with dispatches to be put on the
wires at the nearest telegraph station,
though he Travelled both by night and by
day. 1t would take just as long to reach
q telegraph station from any part OF North
America or Greenland where Andree Is
likely to land with his balloon;
THAT Andree has not been heard from IS
no reason for believing that he is lost.
When Nansen set out in the Fran to drift
over the polar basin there were constant
rufnors that he was lost, and predicting
that he would never be heard from. Before
he left he cautioned his wife to pay no at
tention to such rumors. Said he: The
worst thing that could happen would be the
may be two years or three years. or even
more before I am heard from, but I shall
be all right and come home in good sea-
SON" So it is with Andree; he has gone
beyond the reach of communication, and 1t
is not likely that he will be heard from
for many moons. And this is especially true
in case he has been successful