Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-08-16
FROM THE NORTH POLE.
The Canadian Explorer PrOpOHes to
Send wireless Communications.

Send Wireless Communications.
The automobile in which he proposes
to make the last stages of his trip to
the north pole are adapted from Rus
sian invention. Instead of having
wheels they have rollers. Such inven-
tions have been used, it is said, with
success on extensive ice packs similar
to those of the polar regions. The near
er the pole the closer the ice Is packed,
presenting after snowfalls a compar-
atively smooth surface for many miles
at a stretch. Rough masses of ice and
large spaces of open water are less
common. The captains plan is to place
his vessel in the ice-pack of the coast
of Siberia, at point where he calcu-
lates will drift him to the nearest point
attainable to the pole.
When that point is reached he will
disembark working parties, who will
carry wireless telegraph apparatus.
The parties will drill holes in the ice
and plant poles as landmarks as they
proceed and establish their first station
and storehouse about fifty miles from
as practicable as possible, the automo-
bile sleigh will be put into commission
to stock the station with supplies. In
the meantime other parties will be
working on toward the second fifty mile
station, and so on. There will be Sec
ond automobile in reserve or for use
where two can be usefully employed, as
we'll as dog sleighs with teams of thirty
dogs.
The sleighs on which the motors are
to be placed will be so constructed as
to be capable of being used for navi-
eating open stretches of water, where
such cannot be avoided. In case rougn
ice is met with that presents an insur-
mountable obstacle to the automobiles
the machines will be disconnected and
taken to pieces and portrayed, a work
in which Canadians, such as will form
a large proportion of the exploring COM
pany, have been familiar with since
infancy.
Power for the electric dynamos will
be furnished when the conditions al
low, by windmills, and there will be
regular wireless communication with
the civilized world through Dawson
City. Captain Bernier's plan of drift
ing with the currents that carry the
pack-ice to the coast of Greenland is
based on actual observation by men
experienced in the polar seas, among
whom are several members of his own
family.
The ship in which Captain Bernier is
to make the first stage of his trip is to
be 1873 feet long, % feet beam, IS feet
depth of hold and Il little over 300 tons
register, to run under both steam and
sail. She will have a perpendicular
stern post with outside rudder, so that
either rudder or propeller may be un-
shipped at WILL This will prevent the
rudder and screws from getting frozen
in the ice, as with other arctic vessels.
Captain Bernier's ship will also have a
flush deck, which will prevent her being
overweighted by flooding the forward
deck with water and slushing snow.
The engines will be more powerful
and better protected chan in any other
arctic vessel hitherto constructed. She
will have three masts, and her total
sail area will be 1000 feet more than
that of the Fran, or 1000 square feet.
She will be provisioned tor six years
voyage and will nave a company of
fourteen. These will consist of six sci
entific men, including a surveyor, an
astronomer, geolOgist, biOgraphist,
an artist, photographer and doctor.
There will be three navigators all quail
flied as captains; three sailors, one en-
sineer and one assistant engineer. who
will he Il mechanic and electrician.-The
Marine Review