Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1902 — DEFERS DASH TO POLE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEFERS DASH TO POLE

BALDWIN EXPEDITION ESTABLISHES PERMANENT BASE. Food Supplies and Packs of Dogs Ready for Arctic Night Elaborate Equipment Handy for Next Year’s Work —Season Had for Progress. The Baldwin-Ziegler Arctic expedition is back at Honuiugsvaag, Norway, having made no attempt ut the northward dash to the pole. Advanced stations have been made with stores of food supplies, packs of dogs and several Siberian ponies fire stabled in the far north, permanent cgmps have been erected where a full equipment may be found, and all the preparations are made for a vigorous dash north in 1003. Evelyn S. Baldwin, the head of the expedition, summed up the result of the year's trip in yjue sentence. “We have been baffled,” he said, “but not beaten.” Air. Baldwin pointed out that the trip was expected to last live years and that but one year had passed. He stated that the Ice formed so early last faJl that the steamer was unable to ’advance far enough to establish the-supply stations anl that it was necessary to wait for the spring for this work. So much of the spring was taken up that in June it was found necessary to go hack upon the reserve supplies, and in order not to (ripple itself in this manner the expedition returned home. Baldwin continued: “t dispatched fifteen balloons with 309 messages and in June I obtained the first moving picture of Arctic life. I also discovered Nansen's hut. recovering original documents and securing paintings of the hut-. I shall remain at Tromsoc a weak for repairs to the ship, which was lamaged by the ice on the return voyage. Return Rendered Imperative. “In the field work thirty men. thirteen ponies, sixty sledges’ and 170 dogs were

employtsl from .lan. 21 to May 21, and this severe work resulted in the destruction of sledges and depletion of the food for ponies and dogs, thus rendering our return iniperntive.” The America and Ilelgien, two of the three ships of thcTlaldwiu-Ziegler Arctic expedition, sailed from Tromaoo. Norway, July 17 of last year. The ships proceeded to Arehanjfe in Itussi:», piekeil up the third ship, the Frithjof, and then sailed to the Island of Vardoe, off the coast of Norway, from whence the departure was finally made for Franz Josef Laud. Front there the trip to the pole was to have been made with all possible rapidity. The expedition was the best equipped, perhaps, that ever sought the pole. Much

Ar.-tl s explorer »t nullity, with three relatives sea toil below. of the planning anil work of preparation was done in Chicago. The fund* Were furnished by William Ziegler, a wealthy citizen of Brooklyn. The staff of the America, the flagship, ennsisted of forty men, half of, them Americans, and all men of education. The crew consisted chiefly of Scandinavians. Provisions were taken for three years. The food consisted chiefly of concentrated foods, valued at S7S,(XX), Four hundred picked dogs were taken along ami 100,000 pounds of food for the dogs’. Forty balloons, mode In Quincy, 111., were part of the equipment. Before sailing Kveiyn B. Baldwin, the chief of the expedition, refused t<# gnhornice what his plans contemplated after reaching Franz Josef Land. Commodore Baldwin was born in Springfield, Mo., thirty-Gve years ago, •nd received his education ia Illinois.

THE AMERICA. CHIEF SHIP IN BALDWIN ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

EVELYN S. BALDWIN.