1 1 ,' f l S AMUNDSEN WILL CHAT WITH REST OF WORLD WHILE DRIFTING OR FLYING OVER NORTH POL , , evening -pbblicledgeihidadelphi. mendax jwe, -19, -1022 -;j, .;,u r :y7mmmm . . , 1 , ,- a " j'i 'v J1 ma ' -Se nJH I' T..At4 A Tnen sfrr sti Secrets of Storms, in Five Years' Trip ' Inte Frezen Fastnesses; Will Make Great esPGift te Science if Successful BRAVE CREW SEATTLE UPON CROWNING TRIP OF EXPLORER'S LIFE Man Wne Discovered Seuth Pele Will Climax 30 Years of Battling With Elements at Earth s End by Journey te Uncover Mysteries of. Arctic Sea by Airplane Flights TCTHEN Captain Reald Amundsen set sail from 'Seattle this month en W the geed ship Maud, he embarked en the most romantic adventure the world has ever seen. He will be gene from three te five years, possibly longer. It is his plan te lock his ship in the ice and drift across the top of .the world. If lucky, he will land in Norway and be home. He will pass the Pele en route. Such is the purpose of the most intrepid living explorer of polar regions an explorer and scientist whose contributions te the knowledge of life and physical conditions there premise te surpass in extent and importance these of all his fellows who have gene before. Discoverer of the Seuth Pele, holding medals for firs't forcing the northwest passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific, and later the northeast passage, he has spent his life in the ice. He laughs at his perils and hazards. It is all in the day's weik with him. New, te cap thirty years experi ence in the Arctic and Antarctic rcgibns, Amundsen has started1 north again. This time he gees as the .dentist rather than the ex ex pleier. He will chart ocean and wind currents lather than coast lines. And he will have, te aid him and relieve the tedium of the trip, the benefit of scientific inventions and discoveries net available te his predecessors. Will Get Radie Concerts While in Frezen North Frem the depths of the silent Arctic, Amundsen will keep in touch with civilization by radio. His ship is equipped with a powerful wireless $et and radio telephone equipment. He will send daily weather reports from the day he starts until the day his journey ends. And he will listen, at the top of the world, for cheering messages from the world's most powerful radio stations, and for the news of the day And while the ship slowly drifts across the polar sea, Amundsen and his party of eight will gather im portant meteorological data, take scientific observations and soundings, and record the rise of the tides and the movement of ocean currents. His field of operations will be the endless white waste where life cannot nor mally exist. As the ice pack moves, airplanes operating from the deck of the Mnud will be used for observa tions. Onlv n limited group of scientists are familiar with nil of Amundsen's hopes. But It can be wild thnt If nil room well, nndjils theories work out. the farmer In Knii'ns nnd the vincynrdlsl In France mny hencllt from his venture. The. In fluence of nlr nnd ecenn currents en climate lias only been suggested by the studies of these hubjects te dnte. Amundsen, when he returns te civiliza tion, may he nble te tell the world of science where, when, hew nnd why storms eriglunte r hew the eecnn flews, and limv the flew of the polar cur rents nlr nnd water nllke affects the affairs of the earth. It In from these tedies, ami the plans for conducting them, that the project derives Its Im portance. Beside what Amundsen niny discover en his present trip with re spect te the w 01 kings of physlcnl laws, the mere discovery of either the North or Seuth I'ele would pale Inte Insig nificance except as a tribute te liftman hardihood nnd ceurngc. When he comes out of the North three or live years hence he hopes te nave explicit nnd comprehensive data en the dead cnlms of the pelur night, the nurera bereulls, magnetic storms, the origin and course of hurricanes and the nffinlty of the sens. This knowledge, linked with thnt already ava Inhle en slmllnr subjects, will prove or disprove theories thnt have long been a source of controversy nnd study, os ell 11s prove of the utmost prnctlcal value. In Itself. Stanch Little Ship Heme of Nine Men All this contemplates and Is con tingent en the siirvlvnl of the stout mile .f(K)-ten, egg-shaped ship which Amundsen will lock in the ice as the nema of himself nnd associates for the ?KXt v ycnrB !t ' blllt for ube in jne Arctic. It 1ft constructed te escape tne crushing ferce of polar ice. It has Proved Its worth In the pnst, having gene thieugh the northwest passage, iii i W0Ht severe test Is te come. It will bp called en te icsist the pressure ei Icebergs weighing millions of tens, s they shift iibeut lit the sen. And jhe airplanes which the party carries it its ozenations must withstand the mrce of ImriicnncH which move the ice "ergs about, which sometimes travel tnouBends of miles nnd which some authorities held te be a part of the sic forces which cause the earth's " bierms. 'pfcn.. There lire chances te be taken, but S?y i?) n" ,n the K,,l,0' An cxplor cxpler " life is net one of euse or safety. t Amundsen laughs at its hazards. f"8 own I'fe nnd thebe of his compnn cempnn wis, he declares, are safer than that n Chestnut street stroller. -.Airaund,icn Panned his present trip twelve years age., This was before he flrOTe tar Clie Mm.tW 11. ..! .ll... wecMt December 0, 1011, Prier Je JTaaJ sis 1 T .. SAILS FROM thnt, in 1003-00, he had forced the. northwest passage, the first te de It. And In 1018-21 he forced the north cast passage, the first time it hnd been clone. That completed his circumnavi gation of the Arctic nrchlpelnge. He hns circled the Arctic ocean. He hopes new te drift across it. In this attempt he hns no rivals or competitors. He Is net engaged in n race. It Is secondary whether he cresses the North Pele. It the Ice drifts the way he thinks it does, he will cress it. If net he mny try ngaln ! But prebnbly net, for Amundsen Is get ting along in years. And trips te the Pele take time. In the next few weeks he will pass through Bering Strnit, the gateway te the Arctic, and the North will swallow him up. After that only the rndle will keep him In touch with the world. Ills course will be set for Chrlstlnnia, Nor way' up one side of the world nnd down the ether where Cnmilla and Cnkenita nwnlt him. Cnmilla nnd Cakenlta are two little girls from the Arctic whom Amundsen ndepted. They nre members of the Tsjuktsjl tribe. They nccempnnled him te New Yerk when he enme te this country te study and confer with scientists nnd make ar rnngements for his trip prier te his de pnrturc. Then they returned te Nor way. There they will nwnlt the re turn of their fester-father nnd bene bene fncter from the grip of the frozen North. They fully believe he'll come bnck. Still few hnve ever clone it. Tells of Great Things Explorer May Find Henry Woedhoue, president of the Aerial League of America, friend of Amundsen nnd one of the ergnnlzers of his present polar expedition, says concerning the venture: '.'Ne one hnR ever drifted with the Arctic lee ncress the top of the world! "While It Is known thnt the Arctic lec drifts, there nre no dntn available regarding the speed nnd exnet direction of drift. The Amundsen expedition en the Maud mny be carried by the drift ing ice from a point north of Bering Strait, In the vicinity of Wrnngcll Islnnd, across the North Pel te the Greenland Sen. but no one may nntici pnte exactly when the drift will be and hew long It will take. On one of thi mnps he marked for me the approxi mate distance he expects will be cov ered each year, but that Is te be n secret. "Onptnln Amundsen anticipates that It will require at least four jenrs te drift across the top of the world, and the expedition is equipped for seven j cars. While the ship Is drifting there will be made scientific observations nod soundings and airplanes will be used te conduct surveys and tale neilal photo graphs of the Arctic men about which untiling is known today. "It Is n revolutionizing expedition in many ns lcvoliitienl.lng the most ancient branch of science exploration. Only one-seventh of the earth s surfnee has been necurntcly mapped, nnd two thirds have been mnpped only from rough sketches, nnd the remainder has net been surveyed nt all. "Our present knowledge of the earth, Its form, size, I lie configuration of Its surface features, their measurements nnd representations en maps as we see them today Is the result of many cen turies of strenuous endeavor and con quest ever obstacles. Yet, nt the pres ent time, only one-seventh of the earth's laud surface hns thus fnr been accu rately mapped, nnd It would take at least two hundred years te complete the task with the usual methods. "Aircraft will make it posslble te de In twenty years what would require two hundred years with the usual methods. Heady te Use Airplane If Ice Crushes Ship "The Amundsen expedition hns two airplanes, but only one, the metal JL, can be used te fly te the malnlnnd In the event the ship is crushed by thp lce. the melius of the ether being in adequate for such long (light. It is, micnueci ler use ictr oeservnuun uuu flights of n few hours' diuntlnn. "The metnl airplane was selected be cause it made a non-step flight of twenty-six hours nnd nineteen minutes In the bitter cold weather of December UO-.'IO, 1021, nnd bus been flown te Northwest Canada ns fnr ns Fert Nor Ner man, near the Arctic Circle. "Modifications were iniide te carry sufficient fuel te permit a non-step flight of ever two thousand, miles, se that Captain Amuudsen and nn aviator and a mechanic can fly out of any plncn where they may be in the unknown Arctic regions. The dlstnuce from any point te the mninlnml In any direction is within two thousand miles and can be mndu by this airplane if nothing in terferes. There are a number of big problems In this If but Amundsen Iuih carefully figured out hew he can solve them '' Woedhouso tells a story te Illustrate the sacrifices an explorer . makes In "losing" himself In the unknown for periods of several years. They were "seeing" New Yerk and talking of va rious things, when Woedhouso aBked : "What did you think when you heard the Atlantic had been flown?" "What did you say?" Amundsen asked, puzzled, The question was repeated, but Amundsen professed net te understand Didn't Knew Airship's Had- Crossed Atlantic "When will It be flown?" he asked. As Woedhouo tells what follewed: "Don't you knew It was crossed four times once by our navy's flying bents; once a non-step flight, by the British nvlaters. Alcock and Brown, and twice by the British .dirigible, the R-34?" "Wlthcfut step across the Atlan tic?" he leked at me Incredulously. I told him the details of these four epochal flights. He was amazed. "Without step?" he kept repeating. Then he proceeded te explain hew it happened that he did net knew about these three-year-old achievements. "I was at Cane Chelyuskin when It Amundsen's ship, the Maud, sailing from Seattle happened. I have been In the United States six months since my return from making the northeast passage nnd have been se busy with my next expedition that I have net been able te find out what has happened." Te friends, afterward, Amundsen re plied when nsked whnt he would use the radio for : "We are net going te appear te be simple-minded ignoramuses any mere." "Whnt if the ship is crushed?" "Then we will be ngaln primitive ex plorers cut off from the. civilized world," Amundsen told friends. "We mny tell the world before the rndle plnnt sinks with the ship. The nir- i.iniw, .,. ni,r. kaa A ! Unni, civilization. We would get up an aerial expedltlen te rescue the ethers. Neth ing else could get te them. One Native te Ge With Eight White Explorers Captain Amundsen is in eemu.nnd. The personnel of the expedition Is Usear Vvistnig, master; II U. Sver- drop, scientist; O. Olenkln, engineer; engineer; Lieutenant . Syvertsen, All-metal Omdal, .T. Fullerton nnd Sergeant N. Dahl, aviators nnd radio operators, and Cnket, a native. Amundsen's first scheme wns te enter the ice cast of the New Siberian Is lands. If this had succeeded, it would have taken the party across the Pele In the course of three years. But had It been unsuccessful, he held, then he dared net try again. In entering the Ice at Wrangell Islnnd he figures art four, pcrhnps five, years, with n greater chance of success. The wireless rndlus from the Maud Is 2000 miles. The Stavangcr wireless station will be able te reach him the whole of his absence, If nothing gees wrong. Amundsen will send weather reports, which will be transmitted by way of Washington te Christlania. On part of his trip, at least, he will be In touch by wireless with stations In Alaska, Bering Sen nnd Norway. While In New Yerk In March Cap tain Amundsen said of the radio : "We cannot Ignore the possible ben efits of the radio telephone en this trip. Advances in rndle have been se great In the lest few years, particularly in the field of wireless telephony, that It is probuble that a voice, from the silent North may call out each day te tell the known world what lies locked with in the lce of the polar seas." A powerful rndle telcphnne set bought in this country Is linked up en the Mnud with the 200-mile Marconi wire less set carried by the vessel. The monoplane which he carries Is equipped with wheels, pontoons nnd skis for landing and taking off en lnnd, water or snow. The machine it self weighs about 2400 pounds, has a uurtyieut wine sprcau anu is capable of carrying 3000 pounds, or ena ana one-ounrter times its own wcleht. (I feel this is going te be the crown -lng J achievement .of my life," he said recently. "The north .polar basin is included In a territory of some millions of square miles which have never been visited by scientists. There is no way te penetrate that region by ,vessel be cnuse of the drifting lce. We will take our metal plane 'hundreds of miles away from the mother ship and operate in dependently. We will use the smaller plane for scout purposes and te show us the best course ever the ice." Lieutenant Omdal, et tha Norwegian navy, is the chief nlr officer of the expedition. The element of danger 'In their plans te survey the polar basin from the air Is suggested by the fact thnt Amundsen, Omdal and three flying companions narrowly escaped death in April when -this same metal moneplnnc, In which the- were flying from New Yerk te Clcvelnnd, was forced down in a field near Clarien, Pa. Its occupants were scratched and bruised. Captain Amundsen attributed the accident te nn overheated meter, which forced him te descend after he hnd reached an alti tude of C00O feet. In making the land ing the piano turned ever. Amundsen Doesn't Hepe te Colonize the Pele There is slight possibility that the expedition will point the wuy te utili zation of the Arctic or te the intro duction of civilization into these re gions, ns Captain Amundsen views it. He is convinced that hnbitnblllty of re giens above the eightieth parallel is doubtful, and above the eighty-fifth Dnrnllel lmnoAqlble. Se IV hh nn nntlier l" than Nnnsen. when he drifted across the nelar basin back in the 00's. found no evidence of life nbove the eighty-fifth parallel. Belew thnt Captain Amund sen thinks there might be a possibility of inhabitation te n limited degree, but his own observations in the North compel him te agree with Nansen that conditions above that are tee severe for human beings te live there. As te resources, such as coal and minerals, tbere might be quantities uti- plane Amundsen will use te fly ever Map of Arctic reBieiu Amundsen will explore, dotted line showing proposed route of drift ( w m-;-'?-'4 ' " V- " ,.-'" II W l VM.V SwsS' ' w I; .' A'-v-. ; ' "'" '.-, -'siJi .1 mIi 1 l TS. - m ilM: -'A' fy - '-' & r v r-w whBBBIHRSP rarnsj xmti .,. ? "?f:;;v r,--. 7 tWWWWYVl l W7i ., .-'7', ::.! BB 111 Ks W - " j&SSMKk'fH W 1111 H ?"" '' " V,;BS: llOTv KSf s" - " .: - jSM: wmiMimmiiimimMiMM a wl - izm&imtzxJ&F' llwllRllKfl9B7M9wj( i)EbsvwH3&. BUr1 wi.m ' ' ' bI BkSB 'vw y .w."a: I ' rt ft , ' ', ice fields i lunniu mu urcr I OH) AB.asBsiaHHp uvi sisr.'jmL: s: i-vr j f ibubiiw it .eh miMiiiH i amiiiiiiiiiiiiiH MA4BbUBjuulHII touched nnd undiscovered in the Fer HnnAi.h' ri ,S TW."1 '""K'lftm nncl ,,trao3pi,eio at this hitch olevatlon mucin North, but the condition-, naturally j xH'bt iw' neW,8 I'l "tiling difficult Storms delayed preclude their development, in his epin- a,,, i''m r , mf , ,(1Vlb--1)1 tl.e them, but they pushed en nnd t cached ion The shifting th.uactcr of the ice, ' j,,"', " ,?.,,?, u',',, '!,'.le l ""'h l ' ' ,e leJe -"n"w 1 . htnjlng there for he holds, would nmke it iinporaible te ? '.'i ' "V ,e; ' :'-" l ' observations , three davs. The pole Is nt an elevation operate even in territory which is L ZmrrvL fiJ ''"m' " ih.Ue.iln .f 1()"'00 f"et- Amundsen reports n lefty occasionally accessible. This condition i?. ,"" "f Ilp, ",N), mi1 a, vlsit ,V'e clwln 'f uieuntnlns, some attnlnlng 15, 15, ceuvlnces him thnt legions which might ""se u"i . a ."St,'.:1!1 d V ?00 f,'?t- 'I"'B southeastward ns be habitable one year would net be n u ,n 'i,.,,? sr "UI ?if s,dntIst,s ds fnr as he could see. The chain Is prob preb prob fetmd se consistently. S; " 1" ". "In s(-ientltl- dnta rein ting I nbh nn extension of the leftv nnca- Neme, Alnskn, Maud -nlll H3PaiMfcIW53Hv XtZ mBr Wf step te take en dogs n smaller number than Captain Amundsen usually takes. Fer feed he ex pects te use seal, bear nnd ether animals, ns well as fish, though Insisting that the expedition will enrry lueu supplies for a seven seven jcer absence, Conferred in America With Noted Scientists Before departing rer tne 7"erth he spent eight months In the United States preparing for the trip. He made sev eral trips te Philadelphia. On Jcc nary 10 lat he visited the Department of Terrestrial Mncnetlsm of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, te cent Amundsen at wheel of his ship tSff0".1!0"1", for. ce-P"?t'v,p ! reh. and thence onward his greatest iK-twcen the department nnd his i iffictilH worn .,,......t r,.,' ' .", , (.eegrnpliy, ocennecrnnhv. meteernl iegj, gravity, terrestrial magnetism nnd . atmospheric electricity. Ur. Sverdrup, his chief scientific ns I sistnnt, ussecinted himself with the itumegie institution last October te "'miuuia me reduction and publication ief iiiu luiiKiiecic niiservimniKt nhm no. in uie earlier Arctic expeditions. Although the expenses of the expe ditions ure paid by the Norwegian Gov ernment, it is generally acknowledged Hint American scientists ami support ers lunu centiibuted in Important mens mens ure te the success of the expeditions. Hr. Sverdruii intends te devote hit t me particularly te investigations f the physical condition of the Aictie Nn. On account of the connection be tween the Pelar Sen nnd the Northern Atlantic, it is of far-rencbing Impor tance te determine the temperature, cur tents, salt per cent and ether conditions of the Pelar basin, unci the fncilltles for scieutiiic observations one this linn should be most excellent, in s,. fnr .1. . .... . . .' . " " uiu vessel drifts w-icii (in. ..vn.. d.,. .. . .. ---- ..-. W ,(,1 l'elnr hen la its entire length. Other investigations pinnncd Include the mag netic observations te be carried en in co-operation with the Carnegie Institu tion, and collection of zoelogiciN mn terlnl and meteorological observations. The latter will he of special importance. Dr. Sverdrup voiced great en thusiasm for the spirit of helpfulness and geed will demonstrated by this and ether scieutiiic Institutions In Wash ington. The Department of Terrestrial Magnetism hns placed nt the disposal of the expedition instruments for ulr electrlcal observations, electrical ther mometers for determining the tempera ture of the ice tt nil ether valuable scleu scleu tltie tools. Important services hnve likewise been tendered by the United States Weather Buienii, the Smith- seman Institution, the United States riHiuui jii?!hiiii"IIi um uiiurii mmen Const and tleedclic Survey and ethers. tain Amundsen has been feted, icJ orated and honored In many ways. The Hubbard. Medal was bestowed en him by the National Geographic Society in 1007 for forcing the Northwest passage and the definite relocation of the Mag netic Pele. The society also bestowed a special geld medal 'in 1013 for hie Antarctic achievement resulting in the attainment of the Seuth Pele. When word was flashed that he had discovered the Seuth Pole the Nntleaal Geographies Magazine, t official "paWli entien of the Nntlennl Geographic So ciety, said concerning his expleit: "Mnny geographers hnd feared thnt Amundsen would yield te the tempta tlen of following, for n considerable part of the wny te the Seuth Pele the route previously discovered and opened by Shnckleten, but his ncceunt show tnnt he wns net satisfied te .de this, nnd in consequence he hns made dis coveries nnd surveys thnt are entirely new. "The whole distance trnversed by him npprexlmately 700 miles from his base, where he moored his ship te ice front te thn pole itelf nppcnra te have been ncress previously untravcrsed nnd unknown Ice and lnnd. He hns de fined the Eastern nnd Southern boun daries of the Great Ice Barrier, -that vast plnln of floating ice which flews down from the great Antnrctlc Conti nent, and whose Western beundnry hnd been defined previously by Shackle Shackle ten. This cnormeuH glacial Ice plain N one of the. wonders of the world. It Is n solid mass of Ice. floating for the meFt part, approximately 800 te 1(500 feet thick, and covering nn nrcn of about 100.000 square miles, or considerably larger thnn New Yerk. Massachusetts. New Hampslilre nnd Vermont com bined. "Amundsen found traveling ncreM the hnrrler comparatively easy. Hr marched 3S2 gcegraphlcnl miles due Seuth ncresg the plain until he wns confronted by the high mountains. Here he wns co fertunnte ns te find a glncler route up te the inland plntcnu easier than the Benrdmere Glncier, which wns used by Shnckleten te nscend te the inland plnteau three years before. "Amundsen and four companions ac complished the ascent from the ice plain te the plateau. 10.500 feet, in the mnrveleusly short time of four days. He wns new about 275 miles from ihu wmmmmmmmm !aii iiSVt vr . y. . x AV v-- i. v?1. -T ...-.. ..,..1. 'Illil'llivi, J IIU il seen hv Shnckleten. nnd nrehnhlv stretches nciess the Seuth Pelar nrea te Wnddell Sen. Amundsen's Skill in lice Ranked Next te Peary's "Shnckleten in 1001) reached n point se near the Seuth I'ele thnt we have known pretty accurately the icindltieni at that extreme point, se thai the part of Amundsen's nnrrntlve dealing with the i'ele Itself, while highly entertain ing, is net se Impertnni or novel na It would otherwise huve been. "Amundsen ewes his success re his very carefully prepared equipment, te his splendid dogs nnd his skill In hnn dllng them, and te many years of ex perience in battling with the ice nnd snow of the fnr North. Next te Peary he is the most experienced traveler en ice In the world." The following notes from IiIr cable te the New Yerk Times Illustrate tne i niinute care with which every detail was iltif l'llintn.l - i "Washing wns n luxury never In dulged in en the journey, nor wns there nn shuving; but, us the beard has te be kept short, te prevent Ice accumu lating from one's breath, n benrd-cut-ting machine which we hnd taken along proved iuvnliinble. Anether article taken was a teeth extractor, and thin also proved valuable, for one man hail a teeth which became se bnd thnt it wns absolutely essential thnt It should be pulled out, and this could hardly huve been dene without n proper In strument. "Fer feed we relied entirely en pern mienn, biscuits, chocolates, powdered milk, nnd, of course, deg meat. The" dogs were fed en pemmlcan. "In my opinion we had the best anj most satisfying previsions possible. In nice, mini i ne ucgiiming te (he end' of the. Journey we never felt nn timliin ,.,.,. I, ,' f,.l ,,,,il,i-j i I 1, ' r ..T'V ..? tic for Komellilner' t m...en. I feeling of net having had suiicleut l JJ itAt f S ) J 1 1 mi&i !-iisi.!iiLi:.4 6iIarjZi&lfy .&.& fevir .. tElflfrfefr-" Fer his prcvicjttt explorations Cup j is explorations Can- nniiriHliiiieiiti"