Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-23
PARTY BACK
FROM ARCTIC.
Explorer FiaIa Tells Of Attempt
to Reach the North
Pole.
NEW ISLANDS FOUND.

HULL, England, Aug. 23.-Anthony
la of Brooklyn, leader of the Zieg-
er polar expedition, the members of
which were rescued by the relief ship
Terra Nova, under the command of
William S. Champ, secretary of the
late William Ziegler, arrived here on
ais way to the United States. Mr..
Fiala said:
This has been another in the long
list of failures to reach the pole unless
she three determined attempts made to
reach high latitude should be consid-
cred as not having proved altogether
futile: but, although the great question
Of the pole remains unsolved, we have
brought back data which should prove
Of scientific value and have explored
and surveyed the archipelago from
Crown Prince Rudolph Land to Cape
Flora, discovering -four new channels
and three large islands.
"Failing to find an opening to the ice
III longitude 30 degrees. 81 minutes
east, latitude 70 degrees, 81 minutes
north, we determined to force a way
through at the forty-eighth parallel.
"Here we were imprisoned for four
days, finally getting through with the
use of gun cotton.
cat the end of August. 1903, We
reached Teplitz bay, the most northern
harbor of Franz-Josef Land, where a
base and camp We're established. The
America had a narrow escape on Oct.
%, 1903, when she broke adrift, finally,
however, being brought back to her
anchorage, where she was crushed just
about a month later.
"A shelter was built on shore, and
the members of the expedition were
kept busy during the winter preparing
for the spring sledge journey and in
scientific work, which was retarded by
severe storms.
1.-THE first sledge party left March Z,
1904, but was compelled to return DIV
Ing to injuries received by several Of
the men after reaching Cape Fligely.
A second attempt made Oh March %
likewise resulted in failure, the sledgeS
being smashed when but a short dis
! luUNG llblu ldlu. ItaN ms Ct Hliihi lfti
ty at the base, l returned to Cape
Flora, the trip occupying sixteen days.
"Relief failing to arrive in SepteIn-
Der, 1904. l, accompanied by William
]. Peters of the United States geolog-
ical survey and a small sledge party,
started back to the base, which was
reached Nov. %, 1904, after Il most
ouon4cnI AND 1nnroVotc ft,itN r.oIIul i1n
having to be crossed in dense darkness
and the men and dogs falling into
holes and ~crevices and running against
walls of ice.
Crossing Hooker island two Of the
men fell into Il crevice for a distance
of sixty-five feet and were wedgcd
between walls of ice. Their rescue
was attended with the greatest Difficult
ty. one being so injured that he had
to be dashed to a sled.
with the exception Of a Norwegian
fireman, who had died, W. found all
the party at the base in good health
and preparations We're again begun for
another sledge trip to the northward.
THE weather delayed the party I'M
til March 16, 1905. On this day the
party left the base, which we renamed
Cape Abruzzi, for the ice pack to the
north. Crossing a glacier east of Cape
Rath we forced Il way to the north
ward, but our progress was slow, the
ice being rough and the men having
to first cut a way and then to assist
the teams over the rough road.
High temperature and fogs also
helped to delay I'LL progress. For two
days and three nights we were in a
temperature of 81 degrees above zero,
when it should have been below zero.
and the ice was constantly cracking
under the tents.
Under these conditions and with
the pressing need for the sending of
supplies to the party at Cape Flora.
together with my poverty in dogs, J
decided to return. The conditions on
the southwark trip were worse than
on the northward one, but Il fortunate
drop in the temperature allowed us to
cross Il network of open lanes, and We
reached Cape .AbruZzi April |. Mr.
Porter, third in command of the eX-
petition, was sent south to explore
the archipelago, while the rest Of the
party worked ut the moving of stores
south to Camp Ziegler, making pro
vision in case we should be compelled
to spend Il hard winter in the arctic
In the meantime the scientific worl
continued without interruption.
'tOO Julv IN unNv4 pup,n nf tbO NJ
rival Of the relief expedition, and We
made Il trip of owe twenty miles on
rotten ice TO join the Terra Nova
Mr.. Fialh has not yet decided on the
date of his departure for the United
States.
Kermit Roosevelt In DcndwoOd.
i ON ALLA M. A.n -. L..a.i.