The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-01-10
BY AIR SHIP TO NORTH POLE,
Novel Enterprise Of Chicago News
paper.

air snip. 90 ma :hc North Pole and
report by wireless telegraphy and sub
marine cables the progress Of your
eRorts.'
This was the startling assignment
given few days ago to Walter Well.
man, Washington correspondent of
the Chicago Record Herald, by Frank
s. Noyes, editor in chief of the paper,
and, the commission having been ac-
cepted by Nj. Wellman, it was an.
nounced tonight. As an assistant in
this expedition, Mr.. Wellman will
have the services Of Alberta Santos
Dumont, Of Paris, who will have
charge Of the construction Of the air
ship and will act as aeronautic
director and pilot of the ship on it's
voyage toward the North Pole.
The air ship, the order for which
has beer given, will be built by Louis
GODDARD, Of Paris, under the supervis-
ion Of NJ. Santos Dumont, and will be
completed by the end OF next April.
No definite date has been set Tor the
start Of the journey, but it is expect
cd that everything will be in readiness
to get away next July, or carly in
August.
After completion, the cir ship will
have several trials at Paris, and in
June all the paraphernalia for the
journey will be assembled in Norway.
Early in July, headquarters will be
established in Spi.zbergen, where the
explorers will await q favorable op.
portunity for the trip toward the
Polo, which, according to Mr.. Woll-
man, should the expedition meet with
q good run of luck, should be reached
in less than week.
In announcing his acceptance TO-
night Of the proposed expedition, N1r.
Wellman said:
'The air ship in which we purpose
to attain the North Pole will be the
largest practicable air ship ever built.
1t will be 1876 feet long and it's great.
est diameter will be forty-Gve feet.
It's surface will measure 23, 900 square
feet, and its volume will be 5000
cubic feet. Inflated With hydrogen,
it will have total asoensioual force
of 1890 pounds. Seven thousand
pounds will be the weight of tho ship
and its equipment complete, leaving
5000 pounds for cargo. The ship
will he provided with three motors,
with u"mbined encrgy Of 20 horse
power. X the winds hinder nc more
than ,.hey help, and there ere no de-
lays, this ship can motor from North
Spitz5ergen to the Pole in forty five
hours. ~,
1.-The air ship will have an ondur-
ance capacity in b1oyanoy sufficient
to enable it to remain Is to 30 days in
the air. It will carry $500 pounds
Of gasoline, and it's distance capacity
during calm weather will be 1900
rifles more than the distance from
Spitzbergen straight across the Pole
aud the whole Arctic Ocean to Alaska.
The ship will be equipped for safe an.
ohorese in the highest winds ever
known in the Arctic region. In fact,
the ship will be subject to the will;
and hand Of the navigator just like 3
steamship upon the ocean. Besidea
the $500 pounds Of fuel mentioned,
the ship will carry Eve men, com-
Portable car to live in, (which is also
o boat in case Of needy food and sup:
plies for 75 days and q conplete sledg.
ing outfit ready for; ase should it be
necessary 70 abandon the air ship and
take to the ice. ::>:.;=. s;,
"At no time VIII our air ship be
out Of touch with the surface Of the
Garth. Our guide rope, .so.csllod, but
in our case q month; tapering line of |
steel, is TO drag it's lower and over The
ioe. yet keep the >ship s III, q fairly
stable height, (150 70 300 feet, j The
altitude most favorable To- wireless
teiegraphy, and 30 mainsainissI under
ordinary conditions the ;:vertipal sta.
.bility Of the craft.:*ss ! ;::.s
L ! Wireless telegraph stations will
be established At spitzbergen aud
Hsmmerfest, Norway, 600 miles die.
tant. Further than this q giraless
equipment will be carried In jonr ! Saiir
ship. and j will be our effort to send
frequent, if possible daily; dispatch.
es TO the outside:wosld throughout alt
the time the expedition is in5she Arc:
ZIG regions, even from tho Pole itself.
should we reach it, 'is: 81
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