New-York tribune., 1905-11-23
ALASKA WALLACE'S GOAL.
WIFE,S SPIRIT CALLING.
Explorer Reaches UngaUa-WM 90
Overland to Quebec.

When Dillon Wallace returns to New-1o 1ork
I next April, as he is expected to, he will take
brief rest and then prepare big expedltaon 10
visit the unexplored sections of Alaska. TINS is
/ the programme Wallace laid out before he
! started from New-York to cross Labrador. he
reached the furthest northern settlement on the
Labrador coast on October 16, according TO press
! dispatches. and by a trail heretofore unknown to
white man.
/ wallace has undoubtedly gained valuable
knowledge OF the topography of the land, the
| climate. air and other minutie of interest to
| scientists, and his experience has whetted his
appetite for new and more perilous trips.
wallace has the explorers fever said Alonzo
G. Wallace. his personal friend, land, if he sue
ceeds in crossing Labrador have no doubt that
he will prepare to penetrate Alaska. He has fire.
quently spoken of doing 80, and. that he has
made trail in the Labrador wild, he VIII
undoubtedly start out for Alaska. He has all
the qualities required in explorer. If he must
sleep on a rock, he'll sleep on a rock, and he
find as much flavor in an owl along the coast
Of Labrador as in a bird at Delmonico's or
Sherry's."
There is an underlying motive in the Wallace
expedition that is sad in tone but which really
spurs Wallace onward and keeps him at the
same time restless
1.-THE outside world does not know what that
motive is" said a friend of Wallace, "but the
motive is there just the same. 1t is the propeller
Of the whole expedition. Were it not for 1t
Wallace, I believe would have settled down to
his big law practice and felt content in the city
Some years ago Wallace lost his wife, to whom
he was much attached, and whom he can never
get out of his life. From the moment she died
the restless spirit set in and Wallace has never
found comfort except when on the trail toward
some new land. The call of the wild has tenn
!
in his Office here for a day and he becomes rest
less. That is what started Wallace out for Lab
rador again. That is what will keep him rest
less when he returns again, and after few
days you will see Wallace mapping out trail
through Alaskan fields
The news that Wallace and his companion,
Clifford Baston. had reached the Province of
Ungava was nowhere received with greater joy
than at No. 1000 Ogden-ave. where Wallace's
sister, Miss A. Wallace, lives. Miss Wallace has
always been optimistic the outcome Of the
expedition. and is confident now that he brother
will make the equally periious trip snow
shoes and sledges and arrive at Quebec next
April safe and sound. Miss wallace acconpa-
MED the expedition as far as ST. Johns n. F.
Somehow or other" she said, 81 have always
, though my brother would reach the North in
safety. He has an iron will
Wallace left the Northwest River on June 26
and reached Lake Michikamau the objective
point of the ilI-fated Hubbard expedition of
1904, on September 3. This lake is two hundred
miles from the Atlantic Coast, and the Hudson
Bay Settlement, further north is two hundred
and fifty miles from the lake. The settlement
was Wallace's objective point. He could have
made 1t by two routes-by following the river,
Mrs. Hubbard did or by making a new trail.
It does not appear from the dispatches that
Wallace plunged into the heart of the country
and established a trail, for experts say
he could not have done in such short time.
Te hall hcf ha -nEtn v,ISoI
for some days to make studies and then turn
landed at point the Atlantic Coast, The
Province of UngaVa. mentioned in the dispatch,
is a large Wallace will back to
Quebec on snowShoes and sledges by relays
st. Johns N. F., Nov. 22-Letters to-day
from Dillon Wallace. the Labrador explorer
and New-York lawyer, contained the news that
hs had successfully crossed Labrador. Mr.. Wal
lace is the first white man who has ever crossed
Labrador without either guides Indian assist
ants. With the lawyer one companion,
named Easton. The letters said that both were
well and had plenty of provisions when they
reached the Province of Ungava on October 16.
Although the most perilous part of the New
York lawyers trip is completed he still has
before him a winter of travel by snowshoes
before he reaches civilization He and Clifford
H. Easton at the time the letters were written.
were planning to start westward through I'm
gava for the George River post and thence to
reach Fort Chino, which is one of the most
northerly points on the mainland OF North
America
Here the two will wait until the coast water
ways are frozen over. Then thew 'nt"n9 70
start southwark toward Quebec the frozen
! rivers travelling with dog sieds and snowsAOes.
Mr.. Wallace said that he expected to reach
Quebec in April.
rrps HTRRaRD STTCCFEDFD SHE SAYS.