Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 29, 1901, Page 15

Off for the North Pole ' (Copyright, 191, by K. B. Baldwin,) it as a matter of course that there woull OLOMBALA, Russia, July 28.~At bo no rcom for the fish on the “America’): last we are offt Our faithful old «of course you will be obliged to pay me pllot has fulfilled his task and 18 4 commission for taking the fish off your waving us a farewell from the pands.' o "l“‘k of a l\f“m ship f‘" the far ““‘f" He was not a little astonished when 1 as i s O NOtWay, Three steamers, gipeq him that every fish would be taken America, Frithjof and Belgica, are dip- iboard and it was only when bale after ping their flags to the civilized world be- | i hind them, and their crews are listening o bale of this dog food had been taken away By 1 s velvn B. Baldwin, Commander of the Baldwin-Z¢igler Polar Expedition. the faint hurrahs from the shore It ;s B large lighters that he gave up the idea a gorgeous sunlight night - the Arctic cirele of an extra gratuity. By separating the miles to the south of us—and we are bound Pales and stowing the fish a handful at a for the mysterious and fascinating realms '1Me between boxes, barrels, tins and, in of the north, whose scerets so many brave '4¢t, wherever a small space appeare Wi men have attempted to discover at length solved this most important prob Not without unusual toil and trouble has '*M- Finally there remained but the three P ouP start been brought about Pethaps in Portable houses and the “Frithjof" took truth 1 should say that thi little even 'wo of these and the third one was lll‘“. a our farewell to the world -is uot our rt on the \merica.” This last task was com at all. We made t many months ago, Pleted on Saturday night and the Sunday when our labors e in with clecting our following was a 'l"-‘ of rest ships and their crew getiing together We were not able to get away with our the members of the expedition and pur heavily loaded ships without accident, how chasing equipment and vrovisio \roer ever While all hands were at dinner teans already know how these things were on our first day of rest America began to accomplished and are proud of the fat drag its anchor on the starboard side before that Ame fcan generosity has fitted out the a strong southwest wind and a very swift most completely equipped expedition that sea current. It was being driven rapidly | has ever sailed away to the frozen north. toward the shore when we dropped the an- And not only to Americans are these thines chor on the port bow and stopped the vessel known, for at every podn our progress before any damage was done, Strange to along the northern coast of Norway, even relate, a similar accident occurred to Ant at little fishing hamlet We were wrected arctica when, a year or two ago, it lay at with cheers and sped on our way with anchor in this same port. Our chapter of good wishes for success accidents is made complete by the record- It was at Tromsoe, Norway, that we ing of but one other. On the following assembled our little flect Here we took Tuesday, the day of our departure from on cargoes which most sailing masters Tromsoe, one of the large whaleboats would bave hesitated to attempt carry- dropped or the foot of one of our seamen ing. Indeed, so confident were many of and an amputation of the little toe was 843 the ship owners in Tromsoe (hat we Bece ~-llr\ The operation “nr quickly .xll."‘-l 8 2d ans e ranSLOr v « skillfully done by our own doctors, e 4 4 8 5 S i) ; 3 : : l};'\:‘lll""‘“.“l;t‘"“;"l“;‘r’:l‘l‘l'l’ .Ilu»].”r';.:.'.l.:l‘“u::v“d:::t {njured man pleaded bard that he be not FIRST DISTRIBUTION OF FOOTGEAR.— Photo Copyright, 1901, by E. B. Baldwin " [ ¢ 5 H 1 urse had steamers ready to offer me (at a good 1¢ft behind, and with such a spirit of ¢ © been accustomed should h ) th sht of denying him to just such ways as had entrusted all to me “as to a father,” Owing to (he care we had to give to hire) when I arrived. They all said the “© “'l'"‘l "“" ”‘"“ l‘"‘”" " ", “' :‘“I“" these for a lifetime. These are the kind of and at this very unusual appeal o me as our overloaded craft ft was arranged that “Frithjof" was considerably overburdenedq €¥€B had he sullered a grea : . uen who are facing the dread terrors of a young man without family ties 1 could a “pilot extraordinary’” should accompany and that the stores awaiting shipment on “r('m":'- “"‘I“l."""‘l Hl‘;lh;'l).v a type of the o = o with such courageous spirit— reely repress a smile. The contracts us down the river. When we had passed men who make up our party N y 3 » “America” would require another shi Dickson from the mechanical cngineer's were arranged to their complete satisfac- the second bar we no longer needed his the America 1 I'nqm' AnO r P On board our vesscls many professions ., 8 . . : L., i ’ L : e . . . at least, There were 5,000 separate bundles n a . 3 hi ctlice, Seitz and Verner from the practice tion services and our own pilot took charge i P 3 X ¢ are represented, vet every man does 3 ¢ jyedicine, Flala from the phot i : v o atte we! y in the warchouses and the first sight of SHAIB Oh Lhb M vd Akl WOtk AN NOOB - s ) ‘| phnn“nu.n‘m,. By the time our live stock was aboard the 1t was no easy matter, however, to (nk'n them in scattered confusion was somewhat 5 e room, Porter from the draughtsman’s office, ¢ 3 e p ap our craft out into the open sea. We as we were out at sea--on the way around oy, Nt } W 3 oo keel of the America was very low in the disconcerting. But when we had dispensed 18, BolotbETn . wHOHG -We -toclt 681 buT. AbEE r. “T“' ll\llll‘ t |4'{-1I||.‘I Ity, Darnard O and 1 decided not to take on the were obliged to proceed slowly toward the ¢ Sol ala, 'K ) b rom business are from the studio, San- 3 LAY b " \ TN ag ¢ with the _useless crates and packing and last lot of equipment- the men busied .” :1 ;I e 'll ¢ fll‘“ ’h : ”f "™ hay and oats required for the ponies until Outer bar, at which point we arrived nearly bove@rour Tour years' supply of food as- gy o T ag our cargo into better ‘\_"'” 3 ;""'I'I 4 1 Ix" ';““)\' “I'”'""‘ ‘I'“' IWO i ifter passing the two bars on our way 4n hour too soon. We had let go the A o 4 ¥ ¢ dde iro Crs ) t . i qp sumed such a compact appearance that the gp,po. On the forecastle a group was busily | S b pBa Rl As llrl & o ';I ”” ““‘ "I't‘: down the Dwina, We thereupon betook anchor in order that the ship might not J we r room, dree fro " need of another ship was not apparent and o, vioceq in breaking up crates and boxes, 1 il A “I‘”““] ”_'I ”::“" )‘ { .: | ourselves o what might be called an in- drift from its position; the two lines of the vessel lying at anchor by our side goping the wood in the engine room to Vineyard from the mercantile 1ife "! ternational love feast, a sumptuous repast stakes which mark the deep water channel silently spread her sails and stole away. save fucl: another group was willing to on ‘““. aftertioo of the dav of I. kiR ys laid by the British pro-consul, Mr. Pactz, drew closer and closer to her until but Besides a general cargo of provisions anl! 1 cken han and faces in heaving coal . . at Bolombala, ‘in ‘_““”.'I’m Clth ;h and participated in by several Russian a few rods separated them. That we were equipment I had contracted for ten tons from between decks into the bunkers. Here British l'r:l:l’l)ll‘?nl l‘l'l"w«'u'tllwl‘ i and German officials, as well us by more very close to the bar was painfully evi of dried fish for our dogs and now that the was an example of the sudden and strange ATobangel o nav. a. call "0 A \ l!mn half of the membe of our expedi- dent from the sullen thudding of the pro extra steamer had set sail the merchant transformation from the gentler American Alexbadar |-‘nu~-l‘h‘lr1“‘ BOVE rn‘nr of Arch- tion. Many were the expressions of heurty peller and the trembling of the rigging from whom the fish had been ordered be- life which many of us have just left behind ngel district Iv’nrl e “]““”H‘ i1 good will \\Ilnrh '\\Inn- qvxnhzlnuiwl between g one on the bridge cognizant of the real p . P 2 8¢ ara ) » ) donec for at- . . - - ® g Lo¢ and republican, an the governor ' ) i 4 ' N | came alarmed and without waiting to sec a comparative ease abandoned for what i state of affairs it seemed as though the co, tnergetic and affable man had shown a of Ar gel e t is o whether we could take the fish from his ever fate or fortune may have in stor -Vllll‘;‘l”l’“" fnterest in our '\l'“ll‘l n QL AN ‘.lllwll I;l'l ue l\‘\‘,“" hl. After all.oxt instant we should stop Less than : » 8 s d g *Xpedition, ) i ars !’ same g ' warehouse quictly remarked to me (taking everyone lending a hand as though he hal * Torim it We are @ik brotners Ith the same gen- e o0 he ship's length intervened to the y and upon our arrival immediately extendod erosity of sentiment he voluntarily trans e f A last stake. Then a few more turns of the his congratulations upon our apparent goo! lated for me a lengihy dispateh publishod o p % 4 propeller sent the bow beyond the outer prospects and expressed a desire to sce the that day in a Russian gazette detailing the matle; (Hs rlgging. forwata - staadicd itastt A dogs and the ponles. No one was more plans of Admiral Makarofl. Makaroir, o Ml the (Fhe I‘" St i welcome than the governor of this great seems, will first circumnavigate Nova Zem .llw. w"“,““’ “ll '[ ‘IUHW :’1‘ i |‘“‘ Russian district to receive and enjoy the bla iw his famous ice breaker, Yermak, and IN'IN““ :" i A8 '.' acld qgeep. 3 e old pilot, . freedom of the expedition. While the goy- broceed thence to Port Dickson on the north "‘“'"l"‘ a ",'“‘ ""“"‘ ‘:\'“'I“l“‘“"““'-l his arms ernors of other districts, particularly those ¢Cast of Russia in order, if possible, to “bon ' '.l' , slgnified his relief from M in Siberia, had prohibited the gathering ‘Ommunicate with Baron Toll's expedition ’l‘ ’”ll;md:,Nll',“m\:‘h“ '; h“‘l‘ shadd I,‘,N A of 50 many dogs, Governor Engelhardt haq 18 addition to ,\-ln‘nrul Makaroff's plans l” “"“ m ]-| : 'I b v“"“ him aboard the personally found time from his official for exploration in Franz Josef Land, it is Illp,lh:ll wh ‘l‘ always o8 lnt Arm;lhur .ul P i DOSEe ave i d 8 ace 1 as v g > Pt duties in directing the affairs of a terri- also |,.‘,4 purpose to leave information at R IR0 BRG. .04 We goLuURMEE Sull- 4Des o . , y Cape Flora, the proposed first rendezvous ahead he waved us a parting signal of tory larger than all Germany to bring 2ithe A 1 Frithiof Yhat vorsis.’ BEVELYN B. BALDWIN D ca o sy . ) IYage 2 1 PR Al ¥ the gathering of the Siberian contingency of ¥ i OLICa AR ol ARV S the withstanding colleagues in authority, expedition to a the strong successful opposition issue, not of his Our chief task at Solombala was the taking on of the dogs and ponies, Four hundred yelping, wild Siberian dogs, which, it free, could have torn us all to pieces in a few minuteg, are not easily handled and there were many exciting scenes in the transfer to lighters and then to the dog quarters on board ship. Trontheim, who had gathered the dogs for Nansen and the duke of the Abruzzi, had been engaged for months in collecting the animals for our party and right glad h as to sece them safely lodged with us. The six young Si berlans who assisted Trontheim were taken on as recruits to our expedition forces : Unable to speak a word of English they THE AMERICA AND THE FRITHJOF AT TROMSOR, - % NORWAY - Photo Copyright JOHN KOTZOFF, PILOT.—Photo Copyright, 1401, by E. B. Baldwin. explained through an interpreter that they 1601, by E. B. Baldwin, Incidents in the Lives of Noted P 1 ; : when you pay little attention to far abler low of the Royal Geographical society in that he applicd for membership and wag re- own request He believed that the coufir HE LATE Bishop \\hlm-h.. Ill,ll; sermons in Washington In Washington, I“"\ He has written two books on the celved. He and George Washington were ing desk work as chief of the Burcau of autobiography, |'u|\| (hr» story of Mp Webster replied, ‘they preach to Daniel Canadian Rockies, besides many articles the only two Virginia Masons who were il Equipments in the Light House board wa hie first parish, Zion church, Hnm:‘ Webster, the statesman, but this man has fi‘n' the .lgmn..l of Geography of the Royal legally initinted. M Kinley, because he had making inroads upon his health, He used < N. Y.: ‘Like most young clergy, heen telling Daniel Webster, the sinner, of Geographical soc ety not been a resident of the state for a year, '0 take his meals at the Metropolitan elub 1 was overconfident of my theologi Jesus of Nazareth, and it has been helpiug B according to the regulations of the order, corner of Sevemcenth and M streets, in attalnments and of the “”“.‘1“" him.' ** It may be sald that the motto “All work and Washington, who was taken into the ‘Washington, exactly one block from his of my philosophy Rev. Dr George 8 | emnftion and no play makes Jack a dull boy" cannot Jodgo at Frederlcksburg, when he was 20 ©Mcee. The menu was cholee, but Dewey Leeds, my neighbor in Grace church, Utica, Henry G. Bryant ‘\\hu .|Ihm[“-~l‘ the e ipplied literally to Rear Admiral Georg vears old, 21 years of age being the minl- COmplained to his friends that his digestion had asked me to preach for him, I selected ascent of Mount Assiniboine, in the Cana- W Molvile, who has bee n chief of the mum limit was not the best. the sermon which 1 considered my best. dlan Rockies a few weeks ago, has returned pvoay of steam engineering about four- z You must eat lo was the suggestion The following day I met Judge Beardsley, '0 his home in Philadelphia. In company yeon yeupg Except for his trip to the Richard Croker's visitors at his English S0mo one voluntecred who had known me from childhood, and, l“!““]_“‘“:""f """“"‘i' ‘l“"' "if“ "“{‘[“(‘b'“l ‘," Pacific coast with President McKinley re- country place, Moat houge, give a glowing That's Just it replied the future hero ) f ographlcea 300 ' 4 4 . i ' A + laying his hand earnestly on my shoulder, ““ rn:“:rhln»l ".nuku;:illn l:‘ ;’.!' 11125 fe '"“"“lo' cently and one week at the Chicago exposi- nccount of his public services as a bene- ©f Manila, “but you sce 1 can't dispense as supposed to commend my eloquence of N¢ L Q¢ d L Jded fee t » has nc p 5 ¢ . Aty anton 4 g y 4 with my evening walk after office hours as 1 8 ‘x po 0 e € ‘)' '“l. altitude of the summit being 12,000 feet, fon, he h|‘\ not had more than a forty- factor of Letcombe. Not content with o B T T TP S R e T T the preceding day, he said enry, RO o hopes to be more successtul next time. ©IEDL hours' leave at any one time in the beautifying hls own property, he’is improy s A pens ‘“” ) : P ap long ve ve, mever preach L L v e % 2 Dil1a ma ide Rl S “Shorten your tramp, wen" was o the :‘;”'“l "_;II::‘“ Il:_ in! Hl “l:nuw m‘un[ I"h“ In 1861 he explored the Grand Falls of fourteen years, Ing the \ "”"‘"l by “"l “Hl” and "‘:'"Lh" admonition a 8¢ ) aga J o e & g § PP . . cning the public roat 1y extending a P " osophy than you have learned. You must :""‘f::"‘I':l',hlf”]‘l"l““:tlr':}':‘ \:‘,lr:'”:'H":‘:“"."‘I“;;I Masons at Richmond, Va., recalled the piciyresque wall and by placing seats for Can't very well," responded Dewey not try to preach to the judge, but to the ‘.l.,nl.:.vnnl of the ;'v‘nr\' r‘t-h«]l <.\l..| tion Initiation of President McKinley as a mem- yijlagers in the T R R T W ’5_', £0; how much of a walk do you tempted, sinful man. Tell him of the love \'.-‘:rlh YT '"“I‘ In 1894 “‘”'“ T4 ber of Hiram lodge of Masons at Win He has a!so licensed the village boyvs to """"__ ; +of Jesus Christ and then you will help him.' unm’n-uul of the Peary auxiliary expedi- chester, Va,, and comment on the way in bathe in his new lake at certaln hours and n "lnlm ln\I office to the club was s y 4 At a¥y " , v » was N ajor K . cwey's reply My aunt, Mrs. George Whipple, a niece of (jon e also commanded the Mount st, Which he was taken in. I‘“J”' MeKinley pug promised to provide a fountain near one The :ullnllml enjoys humor of quiet Dantel Webster, told me that when MF. pjjag Alaska expedition in 1897, Mr, wil. Joined the lodge May 1, 1865. He had been of tho old mills. He has furnished employ- find e EataR T SRS B DL Webster was visiting in the country he at- (ox was sraduated from Yale university 10 the valley campaign with the federal ment for a large force of workmen in im . s 2 ’ ' [ nature. In courtly grace and in polite reti tended the little church morning and even- iy 1863 and since that time he has traveleq !'700ps and was greatly struck with the kind proving lis estate cence he is the personification of the w M ing. A fellow senator sald to him, ‘Mr. and made sclentific investigations, ¢g- Way in which federal officers who were Ma . v bred gentleman He ¢:I|m. M ‘lhn-llt‘:lll' Webster, I am surprised that you go twice jpecially in the Canadian Rockles and #0ns treated confederate prisoners who he A el known, Admiral Dewey wa ; y ~> on Sunday to hear a plain country preacher Hawaiian islands. He was elected a fel- longed to the order. This 8o impressed him assigned to the Aslatic squadron at his (Continued on Eighth Page.) ) .