The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21
WORD FRoM ANDREE.
Another Message Dated Two Days Aft
er He Sailed for The North Pole

er He Sailed for the North Pole.
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 2O.-A dispatch re-
ceived here from Hammerfest the north
ermost town of Europe in Norway, SAYS
the whaling ship FaIken has brought there
the third pigeon dispatch from Professor
Andree. the aeronaut, who left the Island
of Tromsoe in d balloon on July Ii last in
an attempt to cross the polar regions. The
message brought by the Falken reads:
July 49, 1890 p. III. Latitude S22 north,
longitude 12.5 east. Good voyage eastward.
All we'll"
LONDON, Sept. PA dispatch to the
Times from st. Petersburg says: THE re-
ports that Professor Andrees balloon has
been sighted in the interior of Siberia are
not believed here. Captain Kovenko, the
leading aeronautic expert in Russia, firmly
discredits them. He asserts that if Andree
ever returns it will certainly not be in mid
air as the balloon could not have kept up
beyond twelve days.
1t was on July IL last that Herr S. A. An
dree started from Danes island, Spitzber-
gen. on his adventurous balloon voyage, by
which he hoped to achieve the solution of
the mystery surrounding the north pole.
Two enthusiastic friends accompanied him
in the Eagle-the name of the balloon-Dr.
Strindberg, man of twenty-five, who has
already won some success in science and
Herr Fraenkel an engineer. Days and
weeks went by after Andree's departure
and nothing was heard of the explorer. Sew
eral carrier pigeons caught on the coast of
Norway were thought to be his messengers,
but this was afterward disproved, and about
a week later the captain of q whaling VeSsel
said he had seen floating in the Arctic seas
something that resembled collapsed bal
loon. This was ascertained later to have
been whale. The first tidings of the ex-
plorers that could be regarded as authentic
was had on Aug. 16, when the crew of a
sealing vessel reported having shot a pigeon
between North Cape and Seven islands
which bore the following message:
'Eighty-two degrees passed. Good jour
fhe exact date of the message could not
be aScertained, and that was the last news
received of the explorer. The next credible
report was the announcement that AndreeS
balloon had been seen by peasants of Arc
tic Russia, and then came the pigeon mes
sage reported in yesterdays dispatches.
views of MeteOrOIOgist Baldwin
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-Evelyn B. Bald
win, the meteorologist of the Peary expe-
dition 1S93-94, was interviewed to-day re-
garding the latest pigeon dispatch from
Andree. Mr.. Baldwin said: This message
| indicates that Andree has safely crossed
the $50 miles or so of open water which ex-
tends from the north coast of Spitzbergen
to the beginning of the pack ice. When An
dree wrote it he was sailing over the great
frozen sea which reaches continuously to
and beyond the north pole. 1t is evident
that the loss of the three guide ropes which
occurred on the day Andree started, had
not prevented him from guiding the bal
loon. It is also evident that these aero
nauts who declared that the gas in the bal
loon would never stand the temperature of
the pack ice were wrong. If the extreme
cold caused any perceptible change in the
gases such action would have taken place
! before Andree wrote this last message. And
| if the cold had done the work so much
feared Andree would not have said all
WELL.
1T is significant to note that Andree was
| going eastward, the direction he intended
! to take. This is a straw which helps to
verify his reported safe temperance in
| Arctic Russia. Doubtful scientists declared
! before Andree left that he would be unable
| to determine his exact location from the
/ balloon. The tenths of degrees given in his
! able to ascertain his whereabouts,
/ but did with remarkable accuracy.
| The first three days were looked upon as
! being the most perilous and important of
the entire journey. Andree's ability to sue
! cessfully withstand the initial difficulties
| augurs better than the ordinary lay mind
| would imagine for the elimination of his
| daring project.
The Russian Geographical Society took
| warm interest in Herr Andree $ experiment
and anticipating the possible descent of the
/ balloon in Siberia, had circulated by the
| Cars permission, thousands of prospec-
/ fuses announcing that fact TO the nhabi-
tants. They are written for a people still
in the first stages of development, in the
outskirts of civilization, TO whom modern
terms and scientific language would be like
| Chinese to us, and who must be addressed
| like children. Following is a translation Of
l the circular:
Three learned foreigners-Andree
! Strindberg and Fraenkel Swedes-haye the
/ intention of undertaking in the summer Of
/ 1896, imperiling their own lives an aerial
voyage below the clouds for a scientific
| purpose in a basket suspended from an i'm
! mense bladder "a drawing of balloon ac-