Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-02-27
one carries a flask inside the clothing,
and this stopping uses uD time.

one carries a flask inside the clothing,
and this stopping uses up time.
'Snow Is bad for the mouth and I'm
time makes 1t sore, besides not being
sufficient to quench the thirst except
for the moment. The worst feature of
eating snow is that IL one gives way to
the temptation there is no stopping for
the rest of the day. for while Il
Quenches the thirst for the time being,
it only serves to increase 1t in the long
run, and shortly after taking some
snow one is more thirsty than before.
81 found that by drinking in the
morning l seldom was thirsty until
night and had no great desire to drink
unless a halt was made in the middle
of the day and a fire started for tea"
Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, arctic ex-
plorer, who was the meteorologist with
the Peary expedition of 1894, second
in command Of the Wellman expedi-
ton of 1880 and leader Of the Bald
wtn-Ziegler polar expedition of 1902,
said the other day in speaking of the
New York to Paris automobile race:
'I think the race is entirely feasible.
Having passed so much time In the
arctic region, naturally feel l am
competent to Judge Of the likelihood of
the contestants in the race getting sue
cessfully through the upper part Of
Alaska and Siberia. although, of course,
arctic explorers bave not much to do
with automobiles, as will be readily
understood.
"I think the contestants would find
their journey greatly aided If they
make use of horses whenever such use
might be necessary. On the Baldwin
Ziegler expedition 1 caused a number
Of tough little ponies to be purchased
in Siberia and shipped to the north,
where we made excellent use of them.
"They are extremely hardy, and one
pony will haul as much as one entire
dog team, or about 800 or 900 pounds.
They do not eat their heads off, as
the saying goes, and compressed hay
can be carried along on the loads. If
the occasion arises they can be utilized
for food, as was done on the Ziegler-
Baldwin expedition, and those who ate
the meat were not aware that they
were not eating beef until some time
afterward.
"Reindeer cannot haul much more
than ninety or a hundred pounds, so
it will be seen at once how great an
advantage 1t is to have ponies instead
of reindeer. 1 paid about $50 apiece
for ponies in Siberia. Eskimo dogs
cost me about SO each in Greenland,
but much more than that to have
them delivered on board our ship.
by taking ponies along with them
the contestants In the forthcoming
race will find their troubles greatly
lessened, for the animals will extri-
cate them from many bad places tn
the road. The horses will travel on
an average almost as far each day as
can the autoists with their machines
through the worst parts of their trip
that is, in Alaska and in northeastern
Siberia.
"The party must have some means
of transporting extra parts for their
automobiles, food and other necessities,
for they cannot carry sufficient sup
plies of this kind ON the machines
without loading them down so that
good progress VIII be impossible. If
horses are not utilized. dog teams
will have to be used, and they are not
as serviceable. need more looking after
and collectively will eat more than
will Siberian pony.
"As for obtaining them, they could
be purchased in western Siberia and
sent along the route through northeast
ern Siberia, say, as far as the Kolyma
river, where the autoists could be met.
AS the ponies would not be needed
until next fall, there would be plenty
of time to send them from points
where they might be purchased to the
Kolyma river or thereabout.
"Of course l am most anxious that
the American contestants shall win,
but whatever their nationality / hope
that the best sportsmen and those who
do best shall be vtctors,"
SURGEONS CHARGES.