Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1912 — POLE CHEW IS LOYAL [ARTICLE]

POLE CHEW IS LOYAL

Amundsen’s Men Are Now Ready for Arctic Trip. - / ■■ ■ ■ V Many Are on Way to Norway, Where Thoy Will Await Arrival of Notod Explorer—ls Highly Praisod as a Leader. London.—Fourteen of the officers and crew of Captain Amundsen's ship Fram passed through London recently on their way to Norway, where moat of them intend to remain until they sign on to accompany the discoverer of the south pole on his projected expedition to the north pole, where Peary first flew the Stars and Btripes. Amundsen’s men are modest fellow*. Some difficulty was found in getting any of them to talk for publication, but eventually It was arranged that one should speak for the rest, and to a reporter this one said: “The 14 of us who have come Into the Thames Include all the south pole shore party exoept Captain Amundsen, who is now busy In Buenos Aires writing tbe book of bis experiences, and will not come to Europe until later. Toward tbe close of the year he proposes to rejoin the Fram at Buenos Aires and make an attempt via Cape Horn and ’Frisco to reach the north pole. Seven or eight of us intend to rejoin him on that expedition. There will only be 14 In the new trip, Instead of the 21 who sailed south, but In attempting the north pole there Is no need to furnish a landing party. “Even apart from the achievement of reaching the south pole, our voyage has been a great success, and In the conditions under which we made it there was no risk. None of us have at any time had any feeling of having been In trouble. “There have been toll and dangers, hut the surmounting of these has been a question of organization, and that vas the work of Captain Amundsen. He is. a splendid leader, supreme In organization, and the essential In arctic or antarctic travel is to think out the difficulties before they arise. When that Is thoroughly done everything goes smoothly and tbe difficulties resolve themselves Into a test of endurance.”