The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-01-30

cover another march, eat and sleep
"a few hours and repeat this daily"
They actually managed to main
tain their desperate program, and
reached Cape Columbia on April 90.
Every man and dog Of US was lean
hard" said Peary. But they made
their food last through and reached
land before the ice broke up.
Peary's trip was made at tre--
mendous rate OF speed, as compared
to other expeditions through the
tragic arctic wastes. Until the idea
Of airplane travel was suggested
plorer
Dr.. Fridtjof hansen spent three
years in a trip across the polar cir
Gle, which fast airplane might
make in a day. Having studied the
drift of arctic currents, DR.. Nansen
1893 on the sailing vessel Fran. He
allowed his ship to be frozen into
the ice pack and then sat still, wait
ing for the shifting floe to carry
him across the pole to the open sea
on the other side of the world. He
did not reach the pole, but actually
did pass t tn Sg the Gs sda and
spitz6ergen three years later.
A similar voyage was undertaken
ast ipns the captan Of a0n iha
south pole. 1t was his intention to en-
ter the ice ;1 near Bennett it, island.
crushed thirty years before. c,t The 9.7
belong, of the United States navy,
was lost on June 80, 1881.
Several years later fragments
of the vessel appeared on the
other side of the ice pack, a
thousand miles away: 1t was be-
lieved that parts of this. vessel pass
sen hopes to be driven over SINH
lar course, and is prepared to spend
six years in the arctic.
Amundsen carried two aeroplanes
with him on his ship, the Maude,
and thus anticipated Captain Bar
rett by nearly a year in attempted
aerial eT CPL bd He rds is not
es the Aero Club expedition is ex-
pected to make, however, and in
tended to make short flights only
from his vessel. His main depend
ence for travel was placed in the
ice-resisting Maude.
Other attempts to visit northern
failure or disaster; salamon Angus
tie Andree in 1897 tried to drift
across the pole in an ordinary gas
balloon. BY careful study of the
air currents he reached the conclu-
sion that a seasonable breeze would
carry him over the coveted goal in
the course of two weeks journey
side of the world. He left Danes
island. 70 degrees, 40 minutes north
latitude and 10 degrees, IL minutes
east longitude.
His balloon floated away north
ward before stiff breeze at about
twenty miles an hour. Forty-six
hours later Andree dispatched this
Hoa b Ry fa!ri stod2f EEeGm to the
July 10, 1880 p. m.-Good pro-
gress toward the north. All goes
we'll on board. This message is the
third by carrier pigeon. Andree."
That was the last word received
from the intrepid voyager, and no
trace of him or his balloon has ever
Walter Weliman, the Chicago
newspaper correspondent, was bit
more fortunate. Wellman under
took to penetrate the arctic mystery
by means of a huge dirigible bal
loon. He made three successive at
tempts to fly across the circle, but
never got more than an one one d hundred
UcyOuu lid SCdl IAAS POlHL "
Spitzbergen, and finally abandoned
his project.
Living explorers generally agree
that the Bartlett party stands bet
ter chance of achieving it's objects
than any expedition that ever ven
tured into the north: The Aero Club
will spend 100000 to foot tn the bills,
elaborate ever taken into polar reg
iOnS-.-NeW York Tribune