Show STEERING FOR THE POLE Seeking the Bubble Reputation Even at the Risk of Death Washington Feb 24An expedition with the north pole as the objective point has been quietly organized here this week and will start onthe journey soon Walter Wellman who for a few years has been a prominent newspaper correspondent here is the projector and leader of the enterprise In the party are three other Americans Professor Pro-fessor Fenoon of the coast and geodetic etic survey who goes a scientific observer ob-server Dr Thomas B Mehund of I this city medical officer and Charles C Dodge of the navy department a tist and photographer The expedition abandons the Greenland Green-land route which has been followed by so many previous expeditions and goes by way of Norway and Spitzen bergen In Norway ten or twelve men join the party several being scientific investigators connected with the university uni-versity at Christiana and the others nwjn of experience in the Ice fields The staunch iceworking steamer Ragsvold Jan of Ralesund Norway has been chartered by the expedition and will carry the party to headquarters headquart-ers which will be established at northwestern north-western Spltzenberg |