Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1926, Page 26

26 T0 NORGE EXPERTS - REACH KINGS BAY American Artist Among Group to Arrive on Royal Yacht. Many Outsiders Land. BY RUSSELL D. OWEN. By Wireless to The Star S BAY, Spitzbergen, April landing crew of the dirigible ived in Kings Bay morning aboard the Heim yacht and gunboat from Norway. With them were sev eral Ttalian officers and an American artist. Seventy in all arrived on the Heimdal. early | U. S. Park Official To Receive Gold Stephen T. Mather, director of the National Park Service of the Interior Department, will be pre- sented with a gold medal awarded for distinguished social service by the National Institute of Social Sciences at the institute's twelfth annual dinner, n New York, on v 6 Mather, who is one of four sons receiving the honor this from the institute, was rded the medal in recognition | rvices in the development { stration of nations <. Presentation of the be made hv Henry Since 1913, the & arited gold medals shed social service to 37 With this sudden incréase in popu-| Florida real estate pro ke latitude resort lation a good moter could probal 80 nortt this vear. formatior if_one doc mitles to needs nothing plete but a hot dog stand - morning the morning t on white peal ducing th snows 1 a few minute d in a snow drift, in hand paint lying about Was With The Arctic is not 1s about 60 years new to him. lie little man ing pictures of gions. He was with on the west coast « 1893 and 1594 jold in the Antarct is an old friend of and when he was for Oslo ¢ him along. So here he is, the spend two months in § determined to get out of the mount Among the Tta day are ) Frecerutti and a brother of Col pilot and builder will aid in land A making necessary repair attempt to fly over the Noi Point Barrow, Alaska. Norge Awaits Orders. The mooring nearly rigged. The Italians. unaccus-| tomed to working in snowstorms| which cut the face and chill the hands and feet, have labored hard in protective pipes for hydrogen, swarm ing up the steel structure in boat swains’ chair hey have rigged up | the heavy bloc at th foot of mast by which the airship will drawn in during the morni As soon as evervthin which will be a few d will be sent to I the Norge will take advantage of the first favorable weather to make its flight | to Spitzerbergen. It will be a tough go, for the weather shifts here in wn\ . hour and these m ans let out bottled winds without warning. J Kings Bay echoed yesterday to strange sounds when stuttering and snorting was heard at the end of the village, ar the main street over ten-foot d slid a | Fordson tractor E | | Tractor Gets Balky. | The Arctic had neering. Instead of dog sledges, men | were using machines; thir northern- | most village of the world busied itself with the products of modern science. Santa Claus probably drives rdsen expedition and left aid take the chance | s he be ready. | . word | cumbed to engi- | a| tractor turned up its toes in a snowdrift, but Lieut. Oscar Omdel, airplane mechanic of the expedition, | turned it inside out and made it be- | have. He thawed it out with a blow torch, coaxed it with hot water, plugged the radiator holes, and after a few explosive coughs, which would do credit to a rodeo, the tractor went to 1 oared, from the % land the ice hefore an in snow N&| his arms is | nis chest | dock midst to the mooring of a st white mast, field, in the towing lanet, so are bewilderi; m the blue glacie them. where the eep white mountains, to lls wheeling like ghost A black and gloomy cs toiling in jumpers, rs climbing o gres green bulk nI everyhing unreal Aloof and silent, ains seem to reprove such \ston One turns seas play to snow-white cks Are Excavated. one of the busiest places | )t two days, in a snow at times blots out the mysterious curtair d of the world and have been work snow are ur 1d been tucked and their efforts to that of the e locomotives way for the \Winte will soon be added tractor. ¥ shovel v one has taken part in the =, 1t is now about half done. Nearly 2,000 tons of supplies shipped here must be moved in a week, but these workers, caressing aching backs and hlistered hands, swear more than ten t es that amount of snow has been shifted. The only unforgivable thing here is to be idie. If a box is to he c ora od, every one takes s Uninitiated Face Problems. boxes and b: cooks of the expedition. 7 fit for Vikings, is a task in which all f p.umnmo in the ‘presents a_problem to the un initiated that would puzzle Archimedes, Siand the experience of picking up a 50-pound butter tub, missing' one's footing and rolling 10 feet down a snowbank with the tub clasped in vere blow to personal After the tub is lifted off one rises frosted. to greeted by shouts of laughter over another mishap to a tenderfoot Probably never before have so many men, h intense effort, so much money, such complicated ‘apparatus. been di ted towal polar explora tion, and all this erergy and expense is to enable 14 men (that is the largest number permitted aboard) to spend hours in the The time is didiculously small, com- pared with the effort of long months spent by Peary, Nansen, Amundsen and others in former polar journeys. It was origin nned to have 18 | men aboard the Norge during the voyage, but the necessity of carrying every possible drop of gasoline com pelled Amundsen to reduce number. Many Go to Island. The advance guard of already arriving. that Kings Bay v flh)yN S “her dock than ever before. A ship bearing a German camera arrived last The gunboat | Hoimdal arrived today, also the Hobby, and then soon Comdr. Byrd's ship. Rumor has it that another cameraman {s bringing a plane to fly to land with pictures after the Norge makes her flight Probably ind a traffic squ to keap people f dignity. others will arrive, A will he necessary Medal for His Work seems | in | over the Arctic basin. | the THE other in the little main street if it keeps up. The sleds, which will be taken on the Norge for use if the ship lands | before she reaches Alaska, were um- | packed today. They are beautiful ex- amples of northern craftsmanship, made by Capt. Wisting of the Maud, now aboard the Norge. Although light and elastic and bound together with thengs so that every joint is flexible, each will carry 10 persons. A large kite will also be taken so that the radio antenna may be set | up and communication be maintained, |even on the ice. There is nearly al- ways a slight wind blowing over the Cannot Lose Derby. cle that it is now arry will be the most of its kind in the world | the trip—that derby hat of Lin- | Fllsworth's, which caused | so much wnnovance because it | vs turns up when he leaves it. After findins it hanging in his room | vesterday he hecamé reconciled to it Perhaps it 1s my masc % | the use of beinz unkind it longer”" he said. So now he planned to make the howler famous by stowing it in the Norge. the only derby ever seen north of 80, It's a good hat. too. 1t would be a shame to it," said Mr. Ells- worth | Some of the newly arrived tender- | feet have tried skiing, but their efforts huve not been successful. Irof. Nobile rolling backward down the slope. kiing looks easy, but it is an’art and it is impossible to walk more than @ hundred vards here except on | skis or snowshoes. Children 3 and 4 | vears old walk around on skis taking to it as naturally as the Kanakas do to swimmi us thin, lose it EVENING | Corall | nigh wind t Distance land. One s slide or | cier only | prodigious labor th ther off than before. Bath night is also deceiving in this ts out to take a short | roll on skis to a nearby gla to learn after an hour of it is a little far- Is Steam Cooking. Tast bath night, and athi tlement men con- | red house in which | v large steam room, forming a Ro. ! 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Th ater cannot be piped to the hou: for it is impossible to prevent it freezing, ®o it is carried in huckets, Once there it is easy to heat it, for Kings Bay has buckets of burn- ing coal, with 20 {o 25 per cent of oil content and two sheets of newspaper are sufficient to ignite them. Set Out to Solve Tragedy. started from Kings Bay miles in a rowbd to solve one of those wth, A trap- Two men today to travel d over the ic eries of the ) Pederson, with companions at St. Johns Bay in Fore: land Sound. ahout 50 miles south of here. Winter he left his friends 1o go/tg at hut. That was the last seen of him, and when his com- panions returned they learned nothing had been heard from him. He had plenty of food, and the only reason for his aisapne would | wilderness alone. 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