Evening star., 1925-06-19
Drink Norwegian Way.

! cary Zapffe had another flag flying
| Monday.
Drink Norwegian Way.
Mr.. Ellsworth and l, living at the
Grand Hotel, join our leader for cof-
fee every afternoon. And since the
| Norwegian apparently never drinks g
i cup of coffee without liqueur along
| side of it, we two strangers to al
coholic beverages 1--WE are Americans
have learned to drink after the Nor
| wegian custom. 1t gees so:
| Ones host says "Skoal," looks you
in the eye, mods, drinks. looks you in
| the eye, renods, and it is over. Yol
must do likewise. Last night, at q
! formal dinner at the home of the har
| bormaster, up on the hill, Mr.. ELS
worth and l got it down to perfection
Even Capt. Amundsen admitted that
Today, April 6, the Farm, the Nor
wegian naval transport, which is to be
! one of our two ships. arrives in por'
from Horton, the naval station Of Oslo
We go aboard Immediately and sec
what an uncomfortable voyage we are
about to make between here and Kings
Bay, Spitzbergen.
Yet, we shouldn't complain. We
reckon the duration of this polar ex
| pedition in months, instead Of years
| Scott-as every Arctic explorer hith
| erto has done who depended upon q
ship rather than an airplane. Why
our party is going to be a de luxe one
| We're drinking foul-tasting cod liver
oil and are outfitted in furs, but we re
merely going up into the Arctic in
early Spring, to return by late Spring
It's the Winter that counts; then's
when the Arctic takes her toll of lives
AT last, April s, the Hobby arrives
and the Amundsen-Ellswor North
Pole flight of 1925 is for the first time
completely assembled. We are delight
ed to see them come stamping into the
hotel at breakfast time today. The
great, dark Viking, Hjalmar Riser
Larsen, and his handsome flying mate
Left Dietrichson. They are the two
who will pilot the two planes toward
the North Pole probably around the
middle of May. And after them come
the rest.
Roll of Expedition.
Here are the names of the full 2C
of us:
Capt. Roald Amundsen, Norwegian
and Lincoln Ellsworth, American
leaders of the expedition Hjalmar
IiiiserLarsen, Left Dietriehson an6
Emil Horgen, the first Hwo pilots OF
the planes and the third the reserve
pilot. and all lieutenants in the Nor
wegian navy: Oskar Omdahl. Norwe
gian, and Carl Feucht, German. flying
mechanics; Adolf Zinsmayer. German
and Fred Green, English, base me-
Chanics; Heinrich Schultz F'rohlinde
German, technical director of Dorniel
plant at Pisa; Jack Bierknes, Norwe
gian, and Ernst Calwagen, Swede, me
teorologists; Fritz Gottlieb Zapffe, Nor
wegian. general manager and provi
sioner; Paul Berge, Norwegian. film
operator; DR.. Johan Matheson, Norwe
gian, physician; Einar Olsen, Norwe
gian steward: Martin Rome, Norwe
gian, sailmaker; J. Devoid, Norwegian
wireless operator; Fredrik Ramm, Nor
wegian, journalist, and James B. Whar
ton, American, journalist.
The Farm, Capt. Left Hagerup
carries a crew of Norwegian nava
sailors of 50.
The Hobby, with Capt Holm and
Capt. Johannessen, designated as 'tce
| captain" carries a crew of IL.
The time of our departure has
drawn very near. At the moment In
drinking cup of coffee in my corner
| room of the Grand Hotel, from which
1 get a view of the main street of the
town. The Railways are in a hustle
Great boots are stamping on the stair
way. Dunnage bags. fur coats, rifles
shotguns, motion picture cameras
long, slender bundles of skis are being
! swished through the yard aboard the
hotel sleigh.
Now it is almost midnight. Every
thing is aboard the Farm, on which
most of us shall voyage away from
here into the north. The moon hangs
mistily over the top of a mountain
/ The air is laden with the balm OF
Spring. Outside my window the citi
zens of Tromso are singing song in
honor of one of Norway's greatest and
most beloved sons.
At am, if our meteorologists say
the weather is right, we hope to get
off. We're thrilled-just like kids
with the drama of it. It's bound to be
tremendous adventure. The drama
of it is almost as livid as that of the
war, and-thank God!-it is without
the certainty of terror that the war
held for those who really experienced