The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-03
Says He Should be COngratu-
 lated Instead of Condemned
EVERYBODY TREATED FAIRLY
Entire Trouble During January to Arc tic Regions Was Caused By Dis agreement Between Ice Pilot
 and ths Sailing Master.

New York, October 2-Evlyn B. Bald win, the arctic explorer arrived today on the steamship Germanic of the White Star line
 MT. Baldwin made the following state- ment:
 There is not wo.d of truth in the report of our not having sufficient sup plies. It is easy to explain the trouble between myself and Captain Johannsen. He wanted to be the whole thing. The trouble first started between the captain, or to give him his proper title. sailing master, and the ice pilot, whose name is Arnsen. The ice pilot took up his place in the Crows Nest on the ship when we were in the ice fields and should have had, and eventually did have, complete charge of the directing of the ship. The sailing master objected to the ice pilots holding absolute sway over the move ments of the ship at any time, and that is how the row began. l of course took the side of the pilot and saw that he was kept in command while we were in the ice. The pilot had had twenty-nine years experience in the ice fields, while the sailing master had had practically none
 Entire Party Brought Back.
 '.,rne expedition went away with forty two persons on board and we brought back the same number The Tram drift ed around in the ice for four years, while in one year we did almost as much and established all outpost. Why, we ought to be congratulated instead of, as you say in America, jumped on. I have learned one good lesson though-never take a Swede and a Norwegian together along with you if you want to avoid trouble. The Ice pilot was a Norwegian and the sailing master a Swede. There's the whole thing in nut she'll" | In response to alr. Baldwiis's request for l information he was shown a published interview with J. Knowles Hare. an artist on the expedition. The interview stated that there had been disgraceful row be- tween the captain of the America and | Baldwin, and also that there had been an insufficient food supply. Mir. Baldwin was | also informed that F. s. Vineyard of Du- rango, Col, a member of the expedition, said that he would never go north again with MT. Baldwin.
 Everyone Treated Fairly. q don't believe it." sa.d the explorer. Every one was treated fairly, and no one can say truthfully that he was not. The members of this expedition were mostly young men, and very few>of them had ever undertaken such trip before. This might explain some of the things said about me, but l am being done a great injustice.
 "Ws had quite a pleasant time of 1t, taken altogether. Some of the men took musical instruments along with them and they cheered us up a bit. Another feat ure was the cinematograph pictures ehat we took of various ice pictures. We also took hundreds of photographs. Our most exciting adventure was when we were coming back and were caught in the pack ice. Two members of the party were set on by white bears one day and had narrow escape.
 "We were sending balloons and buoys adritt containing messages. continually. Altogether we sent over 300 messages. Fifteen balloons were sent up, but they never reached their destinations The meteorological observations taken and the dredging will be of great interest to science. We manufactured our own hy. drogen gas for the balloons without acci- dent, which is another thing I think we deserve Creuit for.
 q still believe that when the pole is reached 1t will be found to be surrounded by ice
 'The fate of Andre2 think he went down into the sea-"