Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-31
FIALA PROPOSES PLAN
MIGHT REACH THE POLE BY RE
LAY SHIPS.

Anthony Fiala. the Brooklyn artist who
was in charge OF the unsuccessful eXpedl-
tion sent to the arctic by the late William
Zegler to discover the north pole, arrived
in New York on the White Star liner
Oceanic yesterday morning His two Sis
tiers, Misses Amelia and Anna Fiala, and
his tanCee. Miss Claire Puryear of Nash
Vile. Tenn. met him at the pier. Speaking
of his expedition Mr.. Fiala said:
although we failed To reach the pole we
have brought back data of scientific value
We travelled over the archipelago from
Kronprinz Rudolf Land 10 Cape Flora and
have discovered four new channels and
three large islands. The result Will be a
new map OF the north polar regions.
II believe an expedition has poor chance
of reaching the pole without a large party
This party must be composed of men will
ing to remain in that region for five years.
or, II necessary, for ten years. Ii might be
necessary to send other ships, the ships to
act as stations. a great point toward sue
cess is the training of the men and dogs
Indeed the dogs are invaluable and success
depends upon them In a large measure The
men must be taught to feed and take care
Of the dogs AMI become used TO the cli-
mate. Without all these preparations one
might just well try to sail the Atlantic
without "A rudder
ther north than any other. Another way
to get to the pCle would be to have a drift
beat OF steel. but II must be of great re-
sistance and able to crush the ice. Then
again an expedition must be equipped with
wireless biography. But | have said. a
great deal depends on the men and dogs.
Mr.. Fala said he would like to try again,
bu- did not know what young Mr.. Zegler >
iHtentona were Until then he could not
discuss plans for further expeditions. He
said an expedition would need a great deal
% money The caches left by the Duke de
-AbruzZi he said, were found in good con-
ditiou and helped him materially.
1t was n most trying time while the
America was adrift with her mooring lines
parted" continued Mr. Fiala. I'VE watched
for her three days. and when she finally
drifted back with her lines tangled In the
propeller 1t was a great relief. On Janu-
airy 80. 1904, during terrific gale-the vino
was blowing about seventy-five miles an
hour-the ice in Teplitz bay broke up. The
breaking of the ice meant the last of our
vessel We lost some 100 tons of coal ana
about forty tons of provisions.
We had planned to send out the first
sledge party in February but the condi-
tons were not favorable until the next
north. Then two attempts were made TO
penetrate 10 the far north, but both were
failures. On March the first sled party
go away and reached Cape FIgely. They
were then in bad shape and their sleds
were badly crushed and not of much ac-
count, and Il was decided to return to
camp.
The second party started out on March
=, but their sleds were smashed. and they
had to cut their way back to the camp
across the ice with ice axes. This ended the
attempts TO get north that year. and we
went into camp and gave attention 10 sci
two days aud three n rhts afloat on an ice
cake. The temperature was "a degrees
above zero. and the ice was constantly
cracking under U.S..