The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-14
ANDREE'S EXPEDITION
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 @ HE expedition to discover the
 lessor Andree, the Swedish ex- plorer, left Danes island, Spitzbergen, In a balloon on July Il, 1897. Andree had two companions, Strindberg and Fraenkel. He was prepared to drop messages relat- ing his progress, and various such mes- sages were discovered during the three months following his departure, but no authentic news ever was received con- corning the fate of the balloon or its occu- pants.
 In September, 1899, buoy marked An dree Polar Expedition" with an anchor attached, was picked up on King Charles which Andree was to drop when passing the pole, but the general opinion was that it had been lost overheard or thrown out to tighten the balloon. In September, 1900. a bottle containing Note No. 14s was found near Vardoe. the most northeasterly port of Norway.
 Twice it was reported that Andree's DOQY ndQ Decn IOuiluf AASitiCA 0A eAANsN statements was substantiated. In July. 1902, a circamstantial story was recevied from York Factory, Northwest British territory, setting forth that Andree and his two companions had been murdered two years previously by party of Eski- mos several hundred miles north of York and near Ft. Churchill.
 .tn ant U balloon alight on plain of snow and three men emerge from it. The natives approached, and, as they did so, one or Andrees companions fired off gun This was regarded as a challenge, and almost instantly the natives fell upon the three explorers and massacred them. Every thing pertaining to the Andree outfit, it is alleaed was carried to the homes of the natives.
 Many expeditions. some equipped at great expense, have searched the Arctic regions unsuccessfully for the missing balloonists.
 Andree's balloon was so constructed as to be capable of remaining in the air over 5O days, but he took provisions for only four months The start from Danes island was made under exciting circum- stances. There was strong wind at the time. which frequently blew in fierce gusts. From the west side of the balloon waved the Swedish colors, side by side with white silk flag, with blue anchor embroidered thereon. Immediately under the balloon was fastened diagonally a niece of bamboo, to which was attached sails, like wings. These the aeronauts hoped to be able to manipulate from the car by means of ropes.
 Andree shook hands heartily with those friends who had assembled in the balloon house. nodded to be astonished trappers who stood watching him and addressed a few parting words to those whose hands he could not shake. Then the three men in the car severed the ropes, and the bal loon rose majestically.
 After narrow escape from being driven against a rock in Sweerinburg sound the balloon was seen moving northward ex- actly as Andree wished. The direction of the flight indicated that the balloon would be driven toward Greenland or the north coast of America.
 Professor Andree first began the study of air currents in 1877, when on voyage to the United States, with the idea of | crossing the Atlantic in a balloon. Be- l tween 1892 and 1897 he experimented In | Sweden with the help of King Oscar. The l famous balloon in which he started for the pole was constructed under the super vision of M Lachlambre
 | Danes island, the site upon which An l dree made his fatal start for the pole. was l selected by Walter Wellman of Chicago. as the point to make his start, 10 years 1 later on the second proposed endeavor to 1 get to the pole by means of an airship l Wellman returned from the island. how