The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-07
TO FLOAT AT POLE.
OUR FLAG FIRST FOR THE ES-
IRENE NORTH.
Evelyn Baidwiu's p ans to Make a Dash
TO the North Pole-He VIII Take the
Franz Josef Land Rouie-E Explorers
Confidence. =

The vessel chosen BY Evelyn B.
Baldwin for his proposed dash to the
north pole" has been named the Am
erica. The expedition will be distinct
" American. II the daundess captain
VINO has quietly and unOstentatiousiy
devoted many months TO preliminary
study and investigation before en-
barking upon what he feels viii be
the voyage Of his life, in more senses
tnaa one. reaches his goal at latitude
~ degrees north and stands on the
spot beneath the north star. where
Ahere is neither east nor west" ii will
be the stars and stripes which will
tnere be first unrolled and frozen. Mr.
Baldwin Is now in Washington re-
cruiting the party for his expedition.
says the Chicago Chronicle. His idea
Of polar exploration is diametricaIiy
opposed to that Of Lieutenant Peary.
SO far as the personnel Of such a party
IS concerned. Peary has said the
greater the party the greater the dan
ger OF accident, and necessarily OF de-
lay Two men, the right two men,
can go north over the ice faster and
farther than 1000. he is said to have
asserted. Baldwin thinks that polar
exploration is like any exploration,
and that in the union OF a moderate
number OF strong. active, hardy men,
there is greater strength. He admits.
however, that like war fleet, such
party is only so strong ard SO fast
as its weakest and slowest member
There viii be about thirty in the BALI
win-ziegler expedition. but there W II
be none but the hardest. Mr. Bald
win has been very reticent in regard
TO his plans. After his return from a
three months visit in Europe ITO
gather information Of all sorts" as
ne said when he started out, he would
make no definite disclosures in regard
to the plan which the expedition had
adopted. 1t was only through the an
nouncement Of Capt Bernier who has
been chosen to lead Canadian ex-
petition that he was considering an
overland voyage by sledge from Franz
Josef Land, that it became known that
the Franz josef Land route had been
chosen by Mr. Baldwin. The English
and Scotch newspapers. in comment
ing upon Berniers change Of plan.
censured The Canadian captain most
severely for what they termed an en-
croachment on the declared plans OF
the Baldwin-ziegler expedition. Since
this statement it has transpired that
MT Baldwin, after long and careful
study Of all the known charts Ci ocean
has decided to allow the Am
erica to be frozen into the drift ice
somewhere in the neighborhcod OF
Franz Josef Land. The explorer has
a confidence which amounts almost to
certainty in his mird that the ship
will sooner or later be swept across
the unknown seas within striking dis
lance of the pole. Mr.. Baldwin. hay- /
ing settled in his mind the question
Of reaching the pole, is now possessed /
by fear that Lieut.. Peary svill get
there before him.
The long list OF efforts. wi h their
failures or only partial sue /.
,ess, is sure to arouse doubts in the
minds of even the most sanguine as to
he ultimate success of the Baldwin
liegler expedition in reaching the
ong sought goal, but it is a striking
commentary upon the character OF
hr. Baldwin that those who know
lin most Intimately, and have dis
'ussed his plans With him with great
st care place implicit faith in the ex-
,edition to do all that is possible to