Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — The Polar Expeditions. [ARTICLE]

The Polar Expeditions.

The Peary relief expedition, under the command of N. L. Bridgeman of New York, has at last sailed. Mr. Bridgeman expects to find that Peary has discovered the pole, and failing that, has made some important explorations. Mr. E. B. Baldwin of Illinois has also left Tromsoe, Norway, with a first-class outfit, a stanch vessel, and plenty of dogs, and expects to reach the pole. Another north pole expedition is that of Captain Bernier of Canada, who intends to enter the arctic regions through Bering strait and drift to the pole. In the meantime four expeditions, German, British, and Scandinavian, are about to sail for the south polar regions. The frozen North and South have lost none of their fascinations for adventurous spirits bent upon solving the polar mystery. Thus far, however, the outcome of exploration has been principally the sending Of relief expeditions—an experience likely to be repeated in the cases of Baldwin and Bernier.