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OVER THE CLA1H AS TO WHO -j
MUST UEAl HEJO JSOJPEH. POLE
Xe.v York.*—it -friH never, he. absO-j
mtlljf ee'T-M\ , Afao Actually. was the
first man to fly oyer the North,-Pole,
Twenty-ni ve ;years; ago, with far
cruder e-(U*pTOentctha*t;ljthat jus-d 1>>
any of trt'e adventurer* this summer.
three Yi-kiny' airmen-tried -.to- ,«snil.
through the sk> to the.end- of the
■auth .The,rjir.ja some , evidence-.that
they passed .o-ver theiiBole. 'or , very
near ir, .lt&otigb what-fitfully liap
pened omiyt hre .'-elegateii .tv JEskinu
legend!
The if..ae> 0-* tfle party?- was- Pro
fesiov s <lHoxm Aflpst. vAndrce( a
Swedish s» ieotistt civit .engineer
interested; of .haUaetring.---His. com
panions ion c-y.ther-.swedes. Nila
Stondkerg ?»na; Uinut Hjalniar Ferdi
nand. Kraeneel., . “EfafeoSoi -Andree
was c#-nyuieeit-Uterfc we»e trade winds
d iving t.M«uugn-- ’the;. upper atmos
jiitptre»fcc»fi}- r-,pifebe>-gtyi, across the
Poly to Nueth- America, which would
.•ants .‘dxhailoUoniu safety over the
oolpr'jye eap.. -i.
He yanried trie,last yt owi in'scientific
ip0arai-*u tarfaisklay—only a genera*
tiop ago* Be piaee».-f. radio apparatus:
he carried .p-Iargs-quantity of bottles
that ha- could dtf.p- overboard., with
messages; and a few, carrier pigeons.
Professor Andrea’s bulletin measured,
-J7 d'eet from top to bottom, the hag ]
dope being 70 fjef >trom summit to
ipuning . ft* constated’of three- thick
nesges of silk glued together and cov
sred with five co-tts ot varnish.
In tfte baskc" »Gw * bedstead* on :
which- one .pera? j< might sleep while
the; other two-tiK;de..dt)setvatio«s ancfe
navfigated. ■ tfii-'f.vjr wen -a wicker cover
upon which the phseVvees eould stand
rnd use; rhe.ja-t-iiunj'ui« arranged in
a circle- breast- high around the edge.
A cooHidg .'atfit SvasMowierea; 15
feef beihSvskhv b&sk*t’ on a- rope. It
wax lightest hy.pulling,;^- string, and
the-fite was put oui fay 'pulling an
other sTjrrhg. 0-ag-roireviwereHratleti
behind with the expectation that it
would fae possible .v ..>tt»r .-dightly
with them. Diagonally Vaccose the*
balloon, .vbove thi-t ,-irjfj|wtsjt>n.-«Ting,-a
large sail could he digger! taj snee-d -the
highs. .
On - "'hi.-.' party left,
TroTHthjem; i-Vot-war., tt July a it
pasped North ’.due.-, opti on Sunday,;,.
July 11, at.2i30 in the afternoon,, it
took off froai Dane’s Island, Spitsber
gen, with .the- Dole 000 miles to the
north. The !««'. was., bar. and a.
strong wind wu#r. Howling, Vs thet.bal
loon star-edit narrowly-escaped strik
ing a .rockin. 1 he Hrt'eeranbu'rg. Sound.
As it . rose .txirNof the varstinv .under
currents of air it swung about like a
carrier pigeon getting its hearings,
and then meeting.the.upper currents
which Professor Andree predicted, it
started away at the rate of about 22
'miles an. hour ..
For an hour the balloon could be
seen from shore- It was equipped to
stay in the air for. fifty days.and car
ried provisions for four months.
One carrim pigeon returned a few
days later with the message:
“July lit. 12:30. p. m . 8?.2_degrees
north latitude. 15.5 degrees east longi
tude.— (Jood progress toward the
north.. All goes well on board. This
message is the third by carrier pigeon.
Andree.”
In September, .IrtD'J, .» buoy which
Professor Andree was to have dropp 1
overboard when he passed. over the
Pole was kicked up on the shore of
King Charles Island and identified by
the inscription “Andree Polar ..Expe
dition " .
A year later a bottli . containing
Note Number 143 . was .found near
Vardoe, in the most northerly part of
Norway.
That was all. Years, went by with
out another trace, of the. .expedition.
Liberal rewards were offered by the
King of Sweden .for. genuine relies of
the expedition. Many parties . were,
organized and spent thousands of dol
lars searching the.Arctic region for
remains.
At last., in December* J9QP,- a friend;,
ly Catholic .priest, who had won the
confidence of the Eskimo tribes near
Reindeer Lake, t)00 miles .north .of
Prince Albert, in the Province of Sas
katchewan,. Canada, brought .hack.an.
uncertain tale. Bishop. Pascal, of the
Diocese of Prince Albert, saw anjEsc.
kimo. carrying a revolver .and noticed
that other members of .the., tribe
seemed to have an unusual quantity
of ro.ie..
When he inquired they, told- him
that a great “white house” had..e.ome
down from the sky, that the men in it
had starved1- fb death and that the
rope had come from the house top.
The Eskimo, showed him brass, .in
struments and hunting gear they had
fashioned .from metal .they found; on<
the balloon, and also cooking utensils
and waterproof cloth,She® had-taken,
A month later Father Furquatile..
another, priest, brought. '-bucks . addi
tiomai news. The Eskimos admitted;
he said,, thtat-the white men hndrhunt
ed game. This angered them and they,
killed the white men, -.
These; reports stirred the' recollec
tion of William Irvine, who for fifty
five years had been connected with
the Hutfeaf»,.B-:y post g.t .-i'ert-.flood.
Hope. He recalled that in UW/the
post .had beelm notified- to keep a watch
for the balloon. One night,-he .«aids a
mysterious ljgnt passed rthiough the
sky. The..next Jayi.-.ytheo Eskimos
crowded the trading pysLiiseekiitg an
explanation. They .reported .that/; a
-strange star had .piirreu- :£rshign >the
heavens very^nea*- .the ieuetto andi that
as it passed they could. .-near .the
voices -rfr men.
Orte * other*-subsequent- repo“t with
the stamp of authenticity was made.
Christian Ledtr, a Norwegian ex—
Between. MfcGratH and\ Takotnra
jConneetinsf --Camer of Alaska Rivera Navi:
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j plorer, said Eskimos told hi mthey
| saw the balloon come from the sky
• and saw smoke and thunder- come
from strange sticks which “two
1 devils” carried. One of the “devils”
: was killed with their arrows, but when
the other made aigtts that.be.was not
j hostile, that h&-. was hunting - birds
! only, the tribesmen realised-that they
had killed a human being and fled in
fear. They saw no more of the other
man.
“NOT A COLORED BLOOD”
“CREOLE” IN NEW ORLEANS
New-Orleans.—The ire. of many a
“Creole’ has been provoked because
the innocent tourist thinks the word
means “of colored blood;”
“reeks," 'he native Orleanian will
tell you, means “of French and Span
ish.” The' Creole is one who is born
away from the country—whatever
that country may be. The New Or
leans Creole is considered the city’s
finest prodotfc. The women are lovely.
The men are brave. They have their
own language, their own-society and
their own customs. They are er.clu
sive and clannish.'
The New Orleans reole speaks a
pure. French.. The reason “Creole"
has been misunderstood is because
their slaves spoke' a Creole dialect,
bearing about the' same relation, to
French as the Southern negro talk*
does i*> Jvnglish purely spoken.- Then
there was the Acadian Ffenchj' or
“Cajen” French, bis spokeii in thd out
lying districts of .Louisiana... \nd
“Gumbo” French—that-..means simply
French .tnco-nectAy spoken.- .
BOUZK SKIZUKET UXSCLOSES
M M FROGS UKrtH-:Si 'AG.KNTS
New York.—Assistant Federal At
< torney -'■Rtcbuian'-staid that .a. record of
thousands of dollars, in protection
money, paid to police and prohibition
agents by. rum runneracoperaling the
steamer Eker, was disclosed by a
memorandum book found on-the ship,
which was seizedson the Hudson river
"last night with a $2,b00,000 alebhol
■cargo in net water tanks.
Attorney vStichnjaivsuid that the en
tries led him to believe that $20,000
was paid for immunity in some in
stances. He said:
“When twelve of the. crew .and sm
other man, found in a rowboat of the
Eker, .were, arraigned -in the commis
sioner’s. court, notations discovered in
■ their possession read: ‘Paid cops
$8,r>00, paid prohibition.agent $1300,
paid Red $o,Q00, paid cop *12g.’
. The crew of the Eker was.charged
with conspiracy to defraud the Gov
ernment. apd each was. .held, with bail
.fixed at f$3,500. The officers escaped.
The (icnenmadncle _
Secretary Lawson Purdy,, of . they
Charity Orgonization Society, said in
a brilliant address in New.-iYb.rk:
“The poor mustn’t be pauperized—
mustn’t be made to. think,?:, tnean*
that they’re entitled, to charity by Di
vine right: •„
“Once there was a hate':old" fellow,
whom .charit -. h ide, pauperized abso
lutely. For fifteen, years, he had .been
living in idleness on $8 a week, do
nated hy the rich ladies of the village.
“Well, he died finally, and then it
was found- that he had left a wilf. In,-,
this will he bequeather his $8 a week
to his niece in Ireland.1?..’’
PIQREER
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Machine* Black- -
smith and
Sheet Metal Work
Stoves Built
aad Repaired
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Tokotna, Alaska
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A Tribute of Tears.
Harry Harkness Flagler, the gen
erous patron of American music, told
a story at a nmsicale in New York.
“A male quartet," he. began, “was
singing plantation melodics at. a. con
| cert in Rochester. As the. melodies
went on, a man..in ajfbmt .-eat. was
| seen to wipe his eyas furtiyetj?, ..ad a
I few minutes later nC burst-into .tears,
i “The manager of ttte. quartet
j slipped round and touched-him..on the
shoulder-.,
“ ‘My dear sir,’ he said, ‘our quartet
'deeply appreciates the compliment
you have paid it by this display of
emotion. You are a Southerner, no1
doubt.’
“ ‘No,’ sobbed the man, ‘1 am a:mu
sician.’ ’’
Different Today.
Percy V. Pitcairn, the well known
eugenist, said in a Denver lecture:
“When the laws of .eugenics, are
lived up to, all our .babies will be
Jbeautiful, inheriting the beauties- of
their father* amt in other*-.
“It’s different today.
“ ‘Who does your httby take after?'
I said to a friend of fnine.
“ ‘Well,' said iny d'rlend, reddening
a little, ‘my wife’s people tell me he
gets his bow legs and pug nose from
my side of 'he. hduse:?. Anyhow, 1 j
know darn well that- his cross- eyes j
and pigeon breast have been the trade
mark of his motheifc family for three
generations.’ ’’ ’’
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