The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-04
BACK FROM THE ARCTIC
EXPLORER BALDWIN GIVES AN ac-
COUNT or HIS VOYAGE.
lie Protests Agar st Criticisms Of his
Explorations and Explains the
Trouble that Occurred.

New York. October 2.--Eyciyu z. Bald
via. TIE arctic explorer, arrived today on
tn steamer tseimanic Il The Waite ssas
f.Inc. Ar. baldwin made this statement
..rhe-e is not word Of truth IN the re-
sur a our rot having sufficient supplies.
ID is easy to explain lns trouble between
n,ssei< and Captain 1ehapnsen. he wanted
10 <. the whole thing. The trouble brsG
staItei between the carisin, or, to gave
lin ais proper title, sJiilng master, AID
tho Ica pii5t. whose name Is Arusen. Als
ice piot teok up his place II the crew .
agst when We were IN the Ice heid' ana
shout have had, and eventually did nave
somaiste control q nc directing Of me
snsp. The sailing MASTER clJc'ed % the
ice uiist's holding absolute sway over tac
movements OF TIC ship AZ any Time anh
thaf i how the row began. /, cf course.
,oak Tie SIDE os the piloy, and saw that
BE- was Kept n command while we were ~
,se tre The PILOT had had twenty-nlne
years experience 10 the ice helds' Nh'ie tae
sailing raster had had praeticllH none
.srhs expedition went away vita forty
two persons on board, and We nr9uSat ~ e
tho same number The Fran driitea aroAnN
In the ice for four years NnDc ln Gus 80.
We did almost as inueA ana es1Ap'isASl ~
mated Instead 81 criticised n Aneric3-
fs.n learned ono good lesson, hUu4h-neyef
take 4 Sweda and e NurW siah At .hb WI
sou II you want 70 aylie u"enie- ~,
master 4 SWede. There's the wAo-e tlths
Ia response to Mr. Baidwin's request FOR
information. he was shown 2 puNhsaea ~.
fers-Iew with Knowles hare an attlst "
The cxppdiflan Il stated that there nav
hecn q iiIstasteful row between tue salitnli
mgster and BALDWIN. and an insuMclGHt
food Supply. Ar. BALDWIN was ass w
forfned that r. s. Vineyard 81 lAuranEo.
Colo q member n rhc expedition. Sala
that hc would never 80 north again #Ath
~ 5o T6t beiieve it, s7ia Mr.. Baldwin.
..rTervos,, was treated fatrly. and ne one
can say truihfuiy that be was n9t. Mosl
az the members Nere Young mep Wu0 hil
never been 90 an expedition. tus wiz eA'
plsin somc ~ the things said about nc.
Bat nm lBcinr done g great lAJustlfe "
had quite p pleasant time ~ i{. taStN hitE
gether Some ~ the meu took musicd
Instruments along with them and they
rresro6 "a un BIT Another feature Wa
the CInnudtograph pictures that We TOOK 81
Various ice scenes. We also took nnuufed'
~ photographs OU- most exciting Wl
tpUtzu was when we Wcrc coming h1'A
md we're caught iu the PACK Ice. NJ
rr,rnlisars n tho party were SGT I'D By wNin
hears cre day and had @ narrow escape.
we were sending balloons aud buoy
adrft daily containing messages alto
rether. we sent over J9o messages. FitteF'
hatiocns were sent up, hut they heNe
reached their destinations. TIE metnoro
logical observations taken 90 tle eNpeultlgl
ali IL ~ great infrres 10 science. ~
nude our oyn photographs with the bal
looms without accident
II stni believe that when the pole y
reached i win be found to be SURROUNDED
eThc fate Of Andre-I think he wen
down into the sea.