The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 11, 1926, Page 6

“PAGE SIX “—~" $BE KEY WEST CITIZEN WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1926. POLAR TRAGEDIES RECALLED BY BYRD’S FLIGHT | Success Achieved After Three Hundred Years of Failure Paved Aviation Pilot Floyd W. Bennett = accompanied Lieutenant-Com- mander Byrd when the latter flew over the North Pele in the Fokker plane. Bennett guided the plane during the greater part of the flight, Byrd reliev-; ing kim from time to time. This Joint feat of acronautic it piloting under, competent rection can do. shee : ae i af d- Ze Yyfys REDYY La WUNEXPLO a. BEAUFORT SEA LY FRANZ IOSEFA ee Fram’, 1895: “Ano t Leper a, Jansen’ ee F145, NY Byrd \¢ yrs - kL Vien NGA. . : ® Lower Circles, left to right: Sir John Franklin, 1845; Lieutenant George W. DeLong, U.S.N., 1879; S..A. Andrée, 1897; Rear-Admiral Robert E. Peary. U.S.N., 1909. ficent and tri jumphant romance, with the North .Pole itself as the bey re in beloved. ing out sharply on the gor- geous panorama of polar achieve- ment would: have been the Franklin cific, the deceptive: seas, of a northirest passage to the Pa- With two ships, the Erebus and. Terror, he hoped to penetrate ‘The expedition was last seen by a whaler near the entrance to Lancas- : E Pr ile aeiiee bets tt F { mystery, which haunted and puzzled the civilized" world for fates years. * Sloss hundred years after Hudson pees up waters of Hud- son Bay, Sir John Franklin of reat ‘Britain ssiled on May 19, 1848p. on bis third voyage, in search ter Sound on the 26th of July, of the year of sailing. And then silence for fourteen years. Not until 1859 was the mystery solved completely. An expedition sent out by L Franklin, discov- ered the recot of the missing ships. ‘The Terror and Erebus had been deserted in 1848, one year after the death of Franklin on board ship in li he officers and ere had survived the winter, numbering 106 men, landed, and all along the south and west coast of 4 liam Land the finding of m tons told’a terrible story and horror. Out of a total of 138 souls: who started, rot one remained. Franklin’s search for a northwest passage had ended. - But in’ the solution of the mystery of his disappearance, 7,000 milé of ‘Twin-Circles above: left, Captain Roald Amundsen; right, Lincoln Ellsworth, 1926, Upper Circle: Lieutenant: Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, U.S.N., 1926. new coast line were discovered and a vast extent of unknown territory was opened up and explored, mak- ing valuable additions to geographie knowledge. In 1879 came the famous cruise of started out on July 8, 1879. His object was frankly one. of discovery and all went well until September 5, three months later, when the Jeannette was caught by ack. On the 13th of the Jeannette, which ended so disas- trously, but which was the means of spurring Nansen to make his voyage in the F'ram in 1895, when he reached a latitude of 86° 14’ N. ‘ Lieutenant Delong, in the Jean- nette, finagced by James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald, the polar ice July, 1881, she was crushed and sank, the members of the expedition setting out in three boats in the hope of reaching friendly shores. Only one boat load ever reached safety. In March, 1882, the dead bodies of DeLong and eleven of the crew were found. mouth of the by one of trace of the others w: where so many pe For Andrée, toa, had air, not in a Fokker plane, balloon. His time to tell... . ig the shortest o! almost all of the accounts ef polar research in the grim annals, Andrée’s Disaster On July 11, 1897, S. A. Andrée, a Swedish aeronaut, set out with two companions, in an immense bal- ‘The balloon was last seen fading “into. the polar skyline headed due north, ‘That is all there is to the Andrée story. ‘These are the records of only three polar: ex] No-one can say that any of them were futile. Only by wisely following where their footsteps led were others able to surpass, Reference to the immortal. record of Commander Peary, who was the first to reach the Pole in: 1909, may well be made here: Peary achieved success, but only after repeated fail- ure. With unsurpassed persistence and personal bravery he devoted twenty-three years of his life to the pursuit of the north. No other ex- plorer, not even Sir John Franklin, as such a record, nor planned with such dogged determination to fol- low his quest year after year, build- ing on the mistakes of the past, until success was achieved, Peary Supreme Even with Amundsen and Byrd sharing.his honors, Peary is still the first explorer to reach the Pole’ by dog-sled—this achievement he shares with no other. The record of degrees of latitude attained, creeping up from Parry's 82 degrees in 1827 to the mystic 90 which marks. the Pole ond which three expeditions have achieved, tell the story. Accomplishment is the effior~ escence of all that has before. And no one knows than Commander Byrd that that which held us aloft in our flight was not only the wings of the Fokker aud the Wright engines. Some subtle emanation of coura; and aspiration, hovering over top of the world, also us in our course, and guided our safe journey home in fifteen hours fifty- seven minutes... @ journey it had taken over three huadred years of patient failure to accomplish. © ia on EBT AVN LEE OE Ps > STATE COMMITTEE OPENS UP HEADQUARTERS AT « GAINESVILLE FOR COMING ACTIVITIES ° * The Republican State Campaign Committee of Florida has opened Headquarters at Gainesville, and Yas siarted on the most active Gimpaign for the success of the Republican ticket that has ever} Been waged in the state. Lou hyneh of Gainesville, is chairman @ the committee, and Loon J. Can- @va,of New Smynra, is secretary, hoth of whom predict the success of the party’s candidates. The following are the nominees & the party: » For United States Senator: W.! BR. O'Neal, Orlando. | ~ For Justices of the Supreme; Court: W. M. Gober, Tampa; F.| G, Cubberly, Gainesville, and Lar- | ry W. 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For} all druggists. ‘POLAR RECORD It is a/enamel, keeps floors easy to ¢ 1827 1876 1879 1882 1990 ‘1891 1895 Parry 82° 45° (England) Capt. Nares 83° 10’ (England) Lt. DeLong -77° 15’ U.SLN. 1900 1902 1904 1906 1909 Duke d’Abruzzi (italy) 86° 33” (Norway-U. S.) Lt.-Com. Byrd (U:S.N.) 90° Pole Amundsen- Ellsworth 90° Pole (Norway-U. S.) beg gy el Made w teach the Pole.) © Jona Wanamater, New York 1926 1926 NOTICE The Registration Books for the General Election will he open at my Office at the County Court House for the Registration of Electors 3 days in each week, | Monday, Wednesday, and Satur- jday, from 9 o’clock A. M. to 12 |M. and 2 o'clock P. M. until 5 P. | M. from the first Monday in Aug- ust until October 9th. f JOSEPH ROBERTS, Supervisor of Regisiration. july 31-2 wks, Porch furniture enamel, Cer- tain-Teed brand, in all colors. Rich orange, the latest color. Certa Teed kalsomine, artistic, prac and sanitary, cold or hot wa it’s great. 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Tea aM: OA hh db had dh hd bd 5 cy ™ a Key West Electric Company's ad./ cx Shop Conference will hold i | | | | aug. 4-ti) “EFFECTO” granddaddy of all the thousands of| down in front of the machine before wi elaborate safety devices of today, and|the punch _ descended. it is probably the reason why De} fairly effective, but R still _has two good hands after | vent operators fron from the side. A | guards were adde 47 years of service. The most care- workman is likely to slip at least n 47 years. The successor to the little pick was a pair of tweezers, and these are still in use on much punch press work./t ous drawback. ing metal. 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