Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-16

/ and with his enthusiasm and the powers
/ and physique of the trained athlete
had confidence in him for at least the
86th parallel. but there was no alterna-
i tive.
| The best sledges and dogs were select
| ed and the siedge loads brought up to
| the standard. The sounding gave a
! depth of 325 fathoms.
| We were over the continual shelf, and,
| as / had surmised, the successive leads
| crossed in the fifth and sixth marches
| composed the big lead and marked the
| continual shelf.
On leaving the camp the expedition
| comprised Is men, IL sledges and 100 dogs.
| The next march was satisfactory as re-
| CARDS distance and the character of the
| going. In the latter part there were
| pronounced movements in the ice. both
| visible and audible.
Some leads were crossed, in one of
| which Borup and his team took bath,
| and we were finally stopped by an inn
| practicable lead opening in front OF US.
| We camped in temperature Of so de-
grees below.
| At the end of two short marches we
| came upon Hansen and his party in
| camp, mending their sledges. We de-
| voted the remainder Of the day to over
| hauling and mending sledges and break
| ing up our damaged ones for material.
Make Forced Marches.
The next morning put Marvin in the
| lead to pioneer the trail, with instruc-
| tons to make two forced marches to
bring up our average which had been
| cut down by the last Two short ones.
| Marvin carried out his instructions inn
| plicitly. considerable amount of young
| ice assisted in this.
| At the end of the tenth march, latitude
| S5.2S, Borup turned back in command Of
| the second supporting party, having trav-
L H. u -%o oil To G
| distance from THIS far to his farthest
| north.
| was sorry to lose this young Yale
| runner, with his enthusiasm and pluck.
| He had led his heavy sledge over the
! foes in way that commanded every
| ones admiration and would have made
| his fathers eyes glisten.
Changes His Plan.
| From this point the expedition COM
| prised 20 men, 10 sledges and 70 dogs. 1t
| was necessary for Marvin to take a
| sledge from here, and / put Bartlett
| and his division in advance to pioneer
| the trail.
| The continual daylight enabled me to
| make moderation here that brought my
| advance and main parties closer together
| and reduced the likelihood of their be-
| ing separated by open leads.
| After Bartlett left camp with Hender-
| son and their division, Marvin and ] re-
| manned with our division 20 hours long
| err and then followed. When we reached
| Bartlett's camp he broke out and went
| on and we turned in. BY this arrange
ment the advance party was travelling
| while the main party was asleep, and
| vice versa, and 1 was in touch with my
| advance party every "a hours.
Moves ExpeditiousIy.
| I had no reason to complain of the
| going for the next two marches, though
| for less experienced party, less adapt
| able sledges, or less perfect equipment it
would have been an impossibility.
At our position at the end of the Sec
| ond march, Marvin obtained satisfac-
| tory sight for latitude in clear weather,
| which placed us at S5.4S. The result
| agreed satisfactorily with the dead reck-
| oning of Marvin, Bartlett and myself.
| Up to this time, the slight altitude of
| the sun had made it not worth while to
waste time in observations.
On the next two marches the going i'm
| proved, and we covered good distances.
| In one Of these marches a lead delayed
| us a few hours. We finally ferried across
| the ice cakes.
Makes Record Run.
| The next day Bartlett let himself out
| evidently, for a record, and reeled off 20
| miles Here Marvin obtained another
| satisfactory sight on latitude, which gave
\
! est north of Nansen and AbruzzD, and
! showed that we had covered so minutes
| of latitude in three marches.
In these three marches we had passed
! the Norwegian record of 1914, by Nan
! sen, and the italian record of 1854. by
| Cagni.
From this point Marvin turned back in
| command of the third supporting party.
My last words to him were: BE care
/ full of the leads, my boy
The party from this point comprised
| nine men, seven sledges, and so dogs.
| The conditions at this camp and the APP
| parently unbroken expanse of fairly level
/ ice in every direction reminded me of
Cagnis description of his farthest north
| Danger is Encountered.
But L was not deceived by the appar-
| entity favorable outlook, for available
/ conditions never continue for any dis
| lance or any length of time in the arc
| tic regions.
| The next march was over good GO
| ing. but for the first time since leaving
| land we experie need that condition, fire.
/ quent over these ice fields, of hazy at
moSphere, in which the light is equal
| everywhere. All relief is destroyed, and
| it is impossible to see for any distance
/ We were obliged in this march to make
| a detour around an open lead. In the
| next march we encountered the heaviest
| and deepest snow of the journey, through
| a thick, smothering mantle lying ii the
| depressons of heavy rubble ice.
Temporarily Discouraged.
/ I came upon Bartlett and his party
tagged out and temporarily discouraged
| by the heartracking work of making
| road.
/ knew what was the matter with
| them. They were simply spoiled by the
| good going on the previous marches. /
| rallied them bit, ightened their sledges
| and sent them on encouraged again
| During the next march we travelled
| through thick haze drifting over the
| ice before biting air from the north
! east At the end of the march we came
/ upon the captain camped beside a wide
] open lead with dense black water sky
northwest, north and northeast.
Has Narrow Escape.
| We buiit our igloos and turned in, but
| before / had fallen asleep 1 was reused
| out by movement Of the ice and found
| startling condition of affairs-a rapid
| ly-widening road of black water ran
| only few feet from our gloos.
1 One of the teams Of dogs had escaped
| by only few feet from being dragged
/ by the movement of the ice into the wa
/ ter.
escape from being crushed by the ice
| blocks piled over them. The ice on the
north side of the lead was moving around
/ eastward The small floor on which
1 were the captains igloos was drifting
/ eastward in the open water, and the side
of our igloos threatened to follow suit
! Saved by Quick Dash.
/ Kicking out the door of the igloos
| 1 called to the captains men to pack
| their sledges and be ready for a quick
dash when favorable chance arrived.
We hurried our things on our sledges,
i hitched the dogs, and moved on to a
! large ice foe west of us. Then leaving
one man to look out for the dogs and