The Ordway new era., 1906-01-05
R NORTH POLE
I.,e PLAN OF WALTER WELL
IN AND SANTOS OUMohr.
MODERN APPLIANCES

WVU.
-. Reeord.HeraId Correspondent
orders to Go Ahead With the
..us-To start Next Summer
,m spltzbersen.
I,c.ro-'Bnild an airship. 70 find
north pole and report by wireless
r,pby and submarine cables the
ness Of your Efforts
i. was the startling assignment
n few days ago to Walter Well.
the washington correspondent Of
chicago Record.Herald. by Frank
,oves editor.in.chief OF the paper.
the commission has been accepted
N, Wellman. As an assistant on
daring expedition Mr.. Wellman
have the services OF Alberto San
,umont of Paris. who will have
re of the construction OF the .9ir'
and will act AS aeronautic director
oiIot for the ship on Its voyage to-
the north pole.
/, aIrship. the order for which has
given, will be built by Louis God
of Paris under the supervision OF
Sastos.Dumont.. and will be com.
n by the end OF next April. No
bIie date has bekn decided upon
the explorers will start on their
uey. but IL Is expected that every
will be In readiness to get away
July or early August. After com.
lon the airship will have several
in or about Paris. and In June
b. paraphernalia will be assembled
lpitrbcrgen, where the explorers
await favorable opportunity for
dash for the pole. which. according
II. Wellmnn. should the expedition
with n good run of luck. should
cached In less than u week.
announcing his accepAancc to-
h Of the proposed expedition. MT.
Imam said:
| did not believe that the chances
nccess were greater than those OF
ne. | would not accept the com.
bon. Mr.. Noyes acted on no sud.
whom or impulse when he gave me
order TO try and locate the much
ID, north pole. rs he had before
report submitted to him as to
pu,come of two visits to the inner
regions. -
he problem OF reaching the pole
means OF an aifship does not re-
high speed. and the prcsentstats
e art OF aerial navigation by gas
led and motor driven ships-is am
for thar purpose. From an easily
he'd base of opefations in northern
tbergen we have but $50 geograph
miles to go TO the pole and N like
lnce for the return voyage. 1t we
the whole at 1.200 dniles. 1t means
100 hours OF motoring at twelve
an hour. Santos-D,im6nt has fire.
lily made from nineteen to twenty
miles an hour with small air
equipped With relatively small
prs.
he airship in which We propose. tc
n the northpole will be the largest
licablc airship ever built.
will carry $500 pounds of gaso
and It's distance capacity. sdurine
weather wiz be eighteen mnei
s,than equal TO the. .,distancc fsnn
tenbergaa straight ACROSS tho An,l'
the Whole Arctic ioceaht 10 Alaska
BUR airship will be .&AA2kructed. II
be able To make -i1eS dwsy. .aeaipNl
birds of. all the. winAs that bI1w
though squarely. adyersc and II 4
Of our project to fh6HG Only with
able winds and 10 slechOr our .shiI
Ice and lie to- in all unfavOrablt
Of velocity exceeding one-hal
eormal speed ,pf. our, craft. The
VIII be eqiibDed Tor safe anchor
" the highest winds ever knOwr
eArctic regions. In fact, the shiI
oe subject to the will and hand oi
navlgg!or. just like steamship
the'6tean.
esides the $500 pounds OF fue
'oned, the ship will carry also 1--WE
. comfortable car to live dn
"iso DOat IN case OF ne0VJ
sno supplies for seventy-five days
i 10 draw them over the ice, ,Rpd
y, a completely organized, ant
ped sledgtng party, ready at any
en', should II be.netessary, tt
'0n the airship and take to ths
lreless telegraph stations will bt
.sned at Spitzbergen and at Ham
~ Norway. 600 miles distant
'eI than this. a wireless equip
H,ll be carried in our airshiy,.' and
oe our effort to send daily dis
\. 10 the outside world through
me time the expedition is In the
lesions.- even from the pole 1t
"ou'd W ebe successful in reach
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