The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-10
A FLYING TRIP.
Baldwin, the Arctic Explorer,
Up in Balloon.
Thrilling Journey From Quincy
to st. Louis.
AT HOME SUNDAY.
Visits Labette County, Kansas,
to Say Good Bye.
Something About His Wonder
full Equipment and Plans.

Arctic Explorer Evelyn B. Baldwin ar
rived in st. Louis Friday in time to keep
a banquet appointment, but it required
a balloon ascension and a twenty-four
hours ride in the air to do it. The
aerial flight was made in company with
his cousin. Samuel w. Baldwin, of
Quincy, builder of the ship, which he
calls the Mars, and which he is able
to steer to some extent in the air
Mr.. Baldwin and his companion ex-
pected to alight at Hulls station, TWEEN
ty-four miles from Quincy, where they
could catch train for Hannibal to
make connections with a passenger
train for St. Louis They missed Hull's
station by two miles, but farmer was
induced to drive them to town in time.
Mr. Baldwin carried his valise with him
IN the balloon. and on arriving in St.
Louis had ample time to make his toilet
for the full-dress affair at the st. Louis
club, to which he had been invited.
In commenting on the balloon trip Mr..
Baldwin said that it was the most ex-
hilarating experience in his life and that
it brought strongly to his mind the
polar expedition Of Andree and his two
companions who went northward two
years ago. never to be heard of again.
Although well pleased with the twenty
four hours journey. he does not fancy
a balloon venture to the pole, and will
stick to the old way.
Mr. Baldwin was at his old home in
Labette county, Kansas, Saturday and
Sunday to bid good bye to his father
and friends. The departure was orig
inally planned for June from New
York.
Mr. Baldwin will start north soon with
probably the best equipped outfit that
Arctic explorer ever had, and he and his
friends are confident he will not only
succeed in finding the pole, but will also
find Andree.
This will be a great year in the his
tory of Arctic explorations.
The United States, Great Britain. Ger
many, Austria, Russia, Sweden, Nor
way and Italy will lock horns over the
problem of the pole, and far up in the
silent and desolate regions of the r.1rth,
over ice pack and tundra, with no human
spectators to witness, will take place the
most remarkable contest ever held en-
land or sea in the whole history of the
world.
Naturally the sympathy of the United
States will be with the American ex-
plOrerS who go forth in the race to uD-
hold the honor of their country and
their flag. Naturally every good Ameri-
can will hope that our own Star-Spangled
banner viii be the first to wave, where
no flag has ever waved before, at the
very apex of the earth.
1t is due to the enterprise and patriot
ism of Mr. William Ziegler of New Y Ork
that the most perfectly equipped of all
these expeditions win represent the
United States in this great international
race for Polar honOrS, says Golfers
Weekly of June Sth.
and commander of the expedition, is a
man of medium stature whose face, kind
~ and clean-cut, expresses energy and
courage in a marked degree. He was
the meteorological of the Peary expedi-
ton of 1S93-1894, and, but for the fact
that there was no room for him. would
have shared the fate Of Andree in the
1atterS tragic balloon voyage from
Spitzbergen in 1897. After making ex-
tensive observations of auroral dis
plays, and Arctic meteorological studies,
Mr.. Baldwin Joined the Wellman expedi-
tiontion of 1S9S-1S99.
On the present expedition Mr.. Bald
win win have a party numbering about
forty, including many weIl-known scien-
lists Two vessels will be used. The
America, the flagship of the expedition,
was formerly known as the Esquimaux,
the crack Whaler of the Dundee feet.
Commander BaIdwin's plans. as re-
Gently announced, are as follows: The
personnel of the expedition will leave
New York for Dundee, Scotland, where
they will board the America and proceed
to Sandefjord and Tromsoe, in Norway.
At TrOmsoe she will be Joined by the
Frithjof. The Frithjof viii carry party
of skilled hunters into the ice fields Cor