The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-03
CHICAGO Man
SAYS AlDREE STILL HFES-EXPL0RER
EN INTERIOR OF EARTH.

EM INFERIOR Of EARTH s.
Chicago, Oct. ss.-ExplogerAndeeI
is not lost. He's alive and well,
aud SO are his two companions.
He is living on the interior surface
of the earth.
! Hewinbe found BY a Chicago man
IN Chicago airship.
There IS no North Pole. :
There is nothing but hole where
the pole is supposed to be.
Thus does Patrick Enneas McDor-
nell, Chicago, pumping engineer by
profession and inventor and theOrist
by nature, turn the accepted state
ments of Arctic explorers upside
down and decide to his own satisfac
ton, at least, that neither Cook nor
Peary reached the North Pole, . but
that they simply descended into the
hole" far enough to make their In
struments give an observation of the
required 90 degrees necessary to FIX
the location of the top of the world. |
And Andree, the Swedish explorer
who has been missing since 1897,
went the same way.
But Andree did not come back. In
his great balloon be sailed over the
topofthe world, hangover the ''hole
that leads to the earth's interior sur
f ee, descended, found habitable land,
attempted to return, found that he
could not, and today is alive and
well, living among the happy race of
people that exists on the inner side
of the worlds crust.
So speaks the Chicago explorer to
be. And not only does he speak,
but he is going to act upon the idea.
He is building an airship. In the
airship, or, rather, with feet of
three of them, he is going to the po-
lar regions. He is going to sail up
to and around the shoulder where the
outer earth, ends, sail down into the
great opening at the top of the world,
and there, on the inner side of the |
world, where life is to be found in
abundance, he will institute search
which event lally will result in the
discovery of the missing Andree, and
at the same time of the race of hui
mans that today are living, breathing
and having their being in interior
earth,'' hitherto supposed to have
been solid, filed with volcanic FIRE
''Innner earth, says Mr.. Melon
nell, is as well populated as outer
earth"
1t is from this race of people,
jewellers on, or in, the same planet as
our own race, and of whom we have
no more knowledge than if they
dwelt on the planet of Mars, that we,
dwellers on the outer earth,'' had
our origin.
Once communication has been 'es-
tablished with them, via airship, the
secret of human origin will cease to
puzzle and all the mysteries of hui
man creation be as clear as day. Such
it is to be repeated, is the promise of
Patrick Enneas Mcdowell, Chicago
engineer and dweller on the banks of
the old ship canal.
Altogether it is as weird and mar
velous tale of theorizing and plan
ming as may perhaps be found in the
width and breadth of the world, and
the little machine>shop on the south
western limits of the city is the last
place one would expect to meet with
it.
a long, long journey on dusty
archey road street car, walk of
three blocks across prairie, noun
tain climb over the spoil banks Of
the old canal, and the goal of the ex-
plorer who goes hunting after the
man who will hunt for Andree is at
an end. 1t isn't as cold as a Cook
Peary itinerary, but it is not without