Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1901 — OFF FOR THE POLE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OFF FOR THE POLE

Evelyn B. Baldwin, the American explorer, has sailed from Christiana and hopes to plant the flag of our country at the north pole before this time next year. The explorer expressed confidence that the American energy and money enlisted in the enterprise and the novel methods brought to Its aid would bring success to the efforts of himself and his associates. Three vessels, well provisioned, a large company of scientists and everything in the way of equipment that experience could suggest make up the expedition, and all are now on the seas bound northward. Mr. Baldwin, on the steamer America, the flagship, will go first to Archangel, where he will take on 425 dogs, fifteen Siberian ponies and six Siberian dog trainers. Forty-two men in all accompany him on the America. This

is the first time that Siberian ponies have been used in arctic exploration,

and the voyagers expect important results from the experiment. The America was preceded northward by the two other vessels of the expedition, the Frithjof and the Belgica. The America and Frithjof, which sailed together from Christiana, parted company at Honingsvaag, the Frithjof sailing direct for Franz Joseph Land. The Belgica sailed for the east coast of Greenland to establish supply stations. From Archangel Mr. Baldwin expects to skirt the northern coast of Norway to Vardoe, from where he will start within a few days to begin in earnest his dash for a new farthest north. Chekib Bey, the new Turkish minister to this country, is a keen-going sportsman and extensive breeder of thoroughbred horses, in which he takes a great Interest.