The Washington times., 1906-07-24
FIVE EXPLORERS
HEADED FOR POLE
Peary, Wellman, Harrison,
MikkeISon, and Erickson
All Seek HonorS.
TO SEND WORD THIS YEAR
Two Of the Americans May Be Heard
From Within Eight
Weeks.

NEW YORK, July sA-Of the fve eX-
plorauon parties now out. two are def
hitely trying for the North Pole and re-
ports CT their attepts for the current
year are expected within eight weeks.
Pesry has not been heard from since
he sailed cut % North Sydney Nova
Scotia, Just a year ago, BY the middle
OF September the Peary Arctic Club
looks for word from him.
Walter Wollman. II his dirigible bal
loon stands tho tests. may start from
SpitEbergen In August and as he as
sumes his aerial voyage viii be over IN
ten days, the result Of his efforts for
1895 win be known about as soon as
peary's.
These are the parties now within the
Arctic Circle
Peary. American; sailed July 26, 1905,
from North Sydney IN the steamship
Roosevelt IN an endeavor TO make Lady
franklin Bay and thence by sledse the
North Pole.
Wellman. American at present at
Spitzhergen preparing for the cOnstruc-
tion and test Of balloon which is de-
signed TO take him 10 the pole In from
% to 10 hours.
A. H. Harrison. English. set out July.
Banks Land and explore Beaufort sea
Was at HerscheI island February last.
Messrs- Mikkelson lAmericanJ and
LeffingweH tEnglishj started May %
from Mackenzie river in search OF new
Arctic land
In addition 10 these Mylieus Erickson
tDa1lsu) viii leave Copenhagen next
week 10 explore the northeast coast of
Greenland and Try 10 reach the pole
with auto-siedses.
Look for Great Achievement.
'Peary is nifty years OLD and no longer
in his pristine vigor." remarked Dr.
Hurlburt. Librarian of the American Geo
graphical Society, yesterday. This is
hi7 last polar voyage and he. on that
account, set out on the most determIn-
ed attempt OF his career We have high
hopes OF a remarkable achievement
I'm September "a cable dispatch is eX-
peCted from him from a telegraph sta
tion al South Labrador Should no news
come from him then, il VIII be evidence
that he requires another year TO COM
rlete his work. No doubt. in that event.
he viii have started some Eskimos south
with a message where he will winter
on the north side of Grant Land. This
message should arrive in the United
States in November
DIT Hurlburt regards the Peary expe-
dition as the most promising of all, be
cause Peary knows so we'll what the
difficulties are and how to prepare for
them.
Peary never has come home without
altering a map or bringing new scientific
data. records. and geological and eth
uological specimens. He started with
out expecting too much of himself. but
eager as ever He took crew OF TWEEN
ty for the steamship Roosevelt, also
forty Eskimos and two hundred dogs.
Cant r. A Bartlett Navigator George
a Wardweu John Murphy. and Dr-
oLuis j. Wolf were his chief companions.
Weumau intends TO prepare with care
and as his balloon viii in itself De an
experiment he will not start this year
al all unless the mechanism bears out
the designers promises and seems cap
able OF taking him where he aims 10 go
His Is the most picturesque dash 20
the Pole" now attempted, Tor besides the
dirfgible balloon. which even In thlS
favorable latitude has never neeh kept
sustained in the air for more tnan fpr-
t,--ryyo hours, he will carry motor
Wellman's plan resembles Andree. $
U1-farad one. but has the advantage OF
ir0nroved knowledge Of aerouauucs ana
better apulicatiOn Of motive power.
An6ree Starting from Dane Island for
his fight. hoped 10 sight Couunental
land al Rehring straits ana he abir 70
reach San Francisco lie nglefed'
like Wellman, on a speed OF twelve 20
fifteen miles an hour, ana tlaI Itv
Pole could be reached in six days al