Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1902 — NEW DASH FOR POLE. [ARTICLE]

NEW DASH FOR POLE.

Mr. Ziegler Has Another Party in the Arctic Circle. The north pole is yet to be made to give up its secrets by an expedition of ■which William Ziegler is the backer and which is now in Franz Josef Land, but the leader of that expedition is not Evelyn B. Baldwin. Mr. Ziegler in New York stated that, while Baldwin had not been supplanted, lie had left behind him in the arctic region on the Frithjof an expedition which has received instructions to proceed without the former leader. This expedition sailed on July 1 for Camp Ziegler. Alger Island, Franz Josef Land, with William S. Champ, Mr. Ziegler's former secretary and confidential adviser, on board. Mr. Champ lias instructions to'leave the expedition at Camp Ziegler and take the Frithjof back to Tromsoe. Mr. Ziegler gave the following statement of the situation: “The truth of the matter is that Baldwin is only one string to my bow. I always try to have two. On the Frithjof •with Champ I sent a fully equipped party, entirely independent of Baldwin. I gave them explicit instructions. If they didn't find Baldwin they were to go forward on their own hook. They are under a competent leader, in whom I have Confidence. "Baldwin is still lying in Norway, and if I am correctly informed, it is too late in the season for him to reach Franz Josef Land this fall. He has planned to go back next summer and make his trial in the spring of 1904. If everything has gone well with the Frithjof party they are now in Franz Josef Land. They ■will pass the winter there, after establishing themselves ns far north as they can get. They will not wait for Baldwin, but will make their expedition independent under the man I have chosen to lead them. If they reach the pole, well and good. The man who gets there first is the man who will get the glory.”