Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1906 — CAN’T GO THIS YEAR [ARTICLE]

CAN’T GO THIS YEAR

Wellman Will Not Try to Balloon to the Pole Until Next Summer— Couldn’t Get Ready. Hammerfest, Norway, Aug. 29. The following dispatch was received here from Walter Wellman, leader of the Wellman-Chicago Record-Herald polar expedition at Spitsbergen: “I have decided not to attempt a voyage this year on account of defects in the mechanical equipment of my airship. * • * The expedition will continue next year. My party te now completing a great balloon bouse and other features of the plant, and making experiments with a view to the campaign of 1907. “This year will be one of preparation and the next will be one of action. Our conrtdence of success In 190 T has been increased by this summer's work and by our weather observations. The motors work well and the balloon Is in good roiidition. but the car awl mechanical equipment will be entirely rebuilt in Paris during the winter. The expedition will arrive here next May and will find everything ready.”