Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-08

men who have done good work in the Arc
tic and Antarctic since 1906:
Sir Martin Conway, the explorer Of Spitz-
bergen; A. Trevor-Battye, Of Kolguey
fame: DR.. ]. w. Gregory and Mr.. Gar
wood, whose work has been geological; II.
E. Conway. English artist, who has
gone out with expeditions to paint Arctic
scenes and won fame by the striking can
vases he brought home; +. s. Jackson of
the Jackson Harmsworth expedition. who
discovered new sea and called 1t after the
late Queen Victoria Arnold Pike. a daring
Englishman who took his small yacht into
the eternal ice above SpitZbergen in 1897
and corrected all the maps of the region.
striking off islands which did not exist;
Lieutenant Amdrup, the Dane who ex-
plored the east Greenland coast up to ~
degrees N. Lat; Captain Tinker of the
trading ship "Naranja,' whe proved the
practicability of the new Siberian sea route
from Russia to the far east: Lieutenant
DE Gerlache, Belgian. who went to the
Antarctic some years ago with a small
badly equipped expedition; c. E. Borch-
grevink. another Antarctic explorer; Pro-
fesSor Neumayer who led a German expe-
dltlon on a dash to the south pole: DR.. X.
j. V. Steenstrup, a Dane: DR. A. G.. Nath-
orst, Swede, who conducted an Arctic
expedition in ship called the Antarctic
ana was the first to circumnavigate Spitz-
bergen; Herr Theodor Lerner the German
explorer of the King Charles Islands; NJ.
Stadiing, Swede, who failed to find the
lost balloonist. Andree; Baron Won Toll
the Russian nobleman. who has devoted his
large fortune to Arctic exploration; Cap
tain Stalker, an Italian. who went out to
look for the missing members OF the Duke
or the AbruzZfs expedition: DR.. ]. Hort a
Norwegian friend of Nansen; Babe and
Bauendahl. two German commanders; Herr
Erich Won Dryalski, leader of a German ex-
petition to the Antarctic, to cooperate with
the great English expedition in the ship
discovery; DR.. Otto Nordenskjold, who
led Swedish party into the Antarctic to
WORK with these German and English eX-
DpUltiOng.
national Scottish. expedition to the Ant
arctic in rivalry with the English one. and
captain Amundsen, who led a small expe-
dition from Christiana last June to deter
mine the position of the north magnetic
pole.
Here are over two dozen distinct expedi-
IONS, put they by no means exhaust the list
oil recent efforts in the Arctic and Antarctic
lhere are many small parties constantly
gong north and south with hardly any
equIpment, and seemingly not the slightest
clahce OF success; but sometimes they do
wonderful work
Remarkable Expedition.
one Of the most remarkable of these little
expeditions was led by a Mr. Stein in 1900.
There were only three men In the party.
and they were very poorly provisioned. bnt
when they landed at Dundee, Scotland. in
November 1901, after rearly a year in the
Arcuc they were able to report that thew
had explored many hitherto unknown nor
'iofs OF Ellesmere Land, and gone further
north than many explorers whose fame Ia
world wide. 4Aie ~
BauendahL daring German tool, an ~
bIi,aiy North sea fishing smack. manned
ny elght men. up into the eternal ice o,d
i niue S some remarkable northing Although
ne , pIIke no records, he did great deal of
valuable geographical work with HE No.
equipment and resources P
Aicuc ana Antarctic explorations have
,niss;, ritans martyrs in recent years The
Ahrmzz5;,s members of the Duke of the
AN uzzi party were rever found altbonob
an expedition was sent out to IooI- fo,
,aoa,,. Lr. Euzensperger. a member of the
on Ee, herman Antarctic expedition. died
on 81, herguelen Island oe berf-beri last go
i nope that Andree, the balIoonist is aIi,a
i iIaS been given up. The death of ieonidae
in " .I OF starvation In Labrador is fresh
IN the memory of newspaper readers rrbnrn
are only few cases out of many iese
-, - me present time fears are entartaipod
Lot a. least two expeditions have been
JjeI,toonr ~ - mat taken to the Antarctic by
I, ieu t De Gerlache the other is Raro1
Won Tolls expedition to Bennett Land M M
f 'eiaache mas not been reported for three ar
1857 sar rsiie so 1 Ton, not since July 10.
latter, but it failed to find h m 'i0
Lack of Funds.
Inc loss of an Arctic expedition is usu,II,-
TO De attributed to lack of funds for proner
equipment. for relief parties and for the es-
y
though good work has been done by small
padly equipped parties like those of Stein
and Bauendahl, it is nevertheless true that
money talks" in the matter of polar ex-
plorat1on as well as in most other things
Give me your millions to play with and
Will give you either the north or the south
pole. whichever you prefer" says the polar
explorer to the millionaire; but the mil
Honare does not respond as generously as
the explorer would like, and consequently
the poles remain unmarked on the maps
Pearys expedition will, however be one
OF the best equipped that has ever sailed
north He says he is confident he Will get
the money he needs. He may not reach the
pole, but he VIII have am excellent chance
of doing So: If he fails, some future eXpedi-
ton with an even larger sum of money at
its command, will surely succeed. That is
the judgment of nearly all geographers who
have studied the subject, and of explorers
who have had practical experience in the
Arctic