Show CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN RELATES CONQUEST CON OF NORTH PASSAGE t Explorer Describes Des ribes Famous F Battle With Ice Shoals aud Arctic Cold Plans to Drift Five Years in Arctic Ice lc Pack Starting g in 1910 j t In plain simple s language one of oC the worlds most renowned renown d men last night In Barratt tall hall told of f C the achieve achievement achievement ment mont which has sent ent his name down into history Captain Roald Amundsen told of the conquest of o 0 the I passage Captain Amunds ns lecture was il It illustrated illustrated with stereopticon views the illustrations being reproductions of pho photographs photographs taken during the memorable expedition The noted not d navigator avoid avoided ed all technical descriptions and used the map only ani when it was necessary to make his points more clear His description of the life and habits and customs of the was intense intensely ly interesting Captain Amundsen al although although though a native of Norway and edu educated educated ted In foreign schools speaks Eng lish Ush fluently He Ho embellishes his lec lee lecture lecture ture with dashes of humor Barratt hall hail was filled at the hour when It was announced the th lecture was to begin o lock There was de delay dela delay lay la however and the address was not begun until an hour later In the tho course of the evening the sigel alger Norge or Norwegian Song union under the direction of Anton sang three numbers and at the close the audience joined in the singing of America The selections 0 by the chor chr chorus ch r rus us were Ta VI Elsher Olaf and Nord havet haet Captain Amundsen was introduced by Governor John C Cutler who delivered delivered delivered ered a complimentary address of some length S Battle With Ice Captain lecture was largely in the nature of oC the presenta presentation tion of the log of his ships voyage Each step In the program was illus illustrated illustrated with pictures thrown on the screen On the night of June 1617 1903 said Captain Amundsen the Gjoa sailed down the fjord of Chris Christiana Christiana Christiana tiana This little vessel was built in 1872 and had been a sealer ealer She was feet long and twenty feet of beam and drew nine feet of water All told there were seven seyen of us on the Gjoa Lieutenant Godfred Haneen Hansen was wag second s cond In command and other ther members of our company were Anton Lund Helmer Hansen Peter Perer Gustav ilk and aud Adolph Lindstrom We Yo were supplied with a small petro petroleum petroleum leum motor engine of oC 33 indicated horsepower hor and capable of driving the vessel at the rate of about three knots an hour when we became becalmed On June 9 we sighted ice and there thereafter thereafter thereafter after it was a battle until we made ma e Gjoa harbor on King ICing William Land The purpose of oC the expedition was to locate the magnetic north pole and for this purpose we carried a great many man instruments We e established our ob observatories on land and for nineteen I months we took observations night and day We Ve made sled journey journeys to va i ious Ious ous points In the surrounding cOunty country and took observations Captain Amundsen had photographs of the observatories taken tak n both in win winter winter winter ter and md summer He described minute minutely ly the building of snow huts after the fashion of the and said that these were found to be indispensable Indispensable sable b Natives Are Friendly Captain relations with the natives were extremely pleasant one family going to the extent of of offering offerIng fering the captain their child when in reality it was a dog he wished to borrow At one time the gravest grayest danger threatened the expedition Fire broke broko out on the Gjoa There were gal lons Ions of petroleum on board besides large quantities of gunpowder By dint of the most desperate efforts the fire was mastered and the ship was wassa saved sa ved It was not altogether summer wea ther thor as you OU know it here said Cap tain tam Amundsen referring to weather conditions The average of the ther thermometer thermometer thermometer was about 47 4 below and the lowest we recorded was 79 below Be ing log in a comfortable snow hut how however hower however ever er and the entrance sealed we did not it so much During the win winter winter winter ter blizzard follows blizzard The sum summer summer summer mer lasts about two months July and August During one winter the ice was twelve feet thick Narrow and Shallow When we set sail sall for Gjoa harbor we encountered great difficulty The passage is extremely narrow but this is not the worst of it for it Is also ex shallow Once Oice we struck ground and for thirty hours we were fast being unable to move the vessel off orr Luckily a north wind helped us usand usand usand and we went over safely the only damage being to the false keel under the ship We were constantly compelled to keep the lead out and to keep a man In Inthe Inthe inthe the cross trees It was trying work and most mot of it was performed with a minimum of sleep On Aug 3 1905 however we sighted a vessel and presently we were speak speaking speakIng speakIng ing an American whaler the Charles Hanson of San Francisco The north northwest northwest northwest west passage had been accomplished The Th photograph showing howing the meeting between the American whaler and Gjoa was received d with long Jong continued applause With touching tenderness Captain Amundsen told tola of tho the death of one ol 01 o othe the members of the brave little crew Gustav WOk which occurred on March 16 1906 west of McKenzie river The body however could not be burled buried un until until until til late In May Mil In the meantime m antime it was placed in the shore station of ice huts grave is on a command commandIng commandIng commanding Ing rise of ground and is marked with witha a Ii cross and is easily seen from the sea Passing from Bering sea the Gjoa made a stop at Nome Alaska and was left leCt at that point by b Captain Amund Amundsen sen who left the vessel in charge of Lieutenant Hansen The rhe Gjoa arrived at San Francisco on Oct OcL 19 1906 She Is now in the care of the United States naval authorities at Mare island Plans Another Trip After the lecture last evening Cap Captain Captain tain tam Amundsen Amund n shook hands with a large largo number of people He will leave this forenoon for the west He was the guest at dinner at the Commercial club and last evening had luncheon at atthe atthe atthe the Alta club Speaking of his future plans Cap Captain Captain tain tam Amundsen said I 1 shall go into the Polar sea again in 1910 It II is my intention to become sealed In the ice and to be carried by the current through the polar basin to the coast of Greenland I calculate that it will re require reqUire require quire about five years ears to make this drift It will be my aim to divide the polar basin into two parts and to find out if possible what there is in It The northwest passage Is la of no com corn commercial commercial mercial value owing to its Ha shallowness and narrowness It Is valuable only from a scientific standpoint My object in making the attempt was wa wash to discover the true north magnetic and I be believe believe lieve that this has been done although it will not be known for four or five years exactly what the observations will show They are now being worked out in the observatory In Christiana Therefore it is Impossible for me to tosa say sa whether hether I 1 have found the magnetic pole or not for I would not like to tomake tomake tomake make an assertion at this time that would be disproved later on Compass Fails Falls to Act The compass refused absolutely to act when we were in the region of the magnetic pole One might as well have tried to steer by means of a stick The compass was fiat flat for a radius of miles from the spot where the pole is believed to be Captain Amundsen Is an Antarctic as aswell aswell aswell well as an Arctic explorer He was with a Belgian expedition in 1887 when the expedition remained in the south southern southern ern em seas for three years icebound finally having to saw its way out One highest compliments ever paid to any explorer is contained In an Interview in the Christiana Morgen blatt with Prince Princ k the Aus Austrian Austrian Austrian trian enthusiast who has with the Em Emperor Emperor Emperor Francis Joseph expended large sums of money in the furtherance of polar exploration Prince ends a lengthy laudatory article thus The observation of the magnetic north pole by Captain Amundsen Amunds n is the most Im Important Important important and In my opinion the cul eul culminating culminating point in north polar exploration tion The conquest of the northwest pass passage passage passage age by Captain Amundsen was remark remarkable remarkable able for its low cost The expedition cost only said Captain Amund Amundsen sen sec proudly others have cost and Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Captain Amundsen though is his age Would WOl d anyone anone believe that this man is only 35 Well that Is Ig what he is He says sas so himself |