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Show Over the Top of ihe World by Airplane to Be Tried This Summer CAPTAIN' ROBERT ABRAM BART-iLETT, BART-iLETT, famous Arctic explorer, expects ex-pects by an airplane f.iirht of but a few hours next summer to achlovo the v.orK'.-o'ld dream which so many have sought to reall-o by years of travel and hardships, and in which all except Peary have so utterly and, many of thcni. so disastrously and tragically failed. He is going- to reach tha North Pole. If any one is qualified for this task it most assuredly is Captain B'nrtlett, who for twen'y-two years has been more or less at homo in the Arctic regions than anywhere else. He commanded com-manded the, Windward and (he Roosevelt Roose-velt cn the three exploration expeditions expedi-tions made by Robert E. Peary; the ill-fated Karluk of the Canadian expedition, expe-dition, he.uiel by Vilhjalmar Stefans-son, Stefans-son, and (lie Neptune, the relief vessel which lv.olu;ht back to cividzalion Donald i. lUac.Miilan aud his party. Probably no other man alive today has had such varied and thrilling experiences ex-periences in the i'ror.en Norlh as tills hardy son or' Newfoundland fis'.-ierfo'.k, who has just attained his forty-fo'irt.i year. The Aro Club of America and Rear Adr-:iral 1 iry are backing Captain i;ar:'.cdt. w I.e. it Lis been piar.r.ca. :s to set out on his expedition m-.Tane. i with r.tah, Greenland, as his nrst objective ob-jective point. Triah is t'Oa rni'.es from the Pole. It :s to bo the chief bise: and while wait- ice, the exploration party wiil make leisurely flights to Capo Columbia, on the American side, to esta.blish another base, for the large airplane or Eeapla.no In which the eventual dash to tile Polo is to be undertaken. A third base is also contemplated a.t Cape Chelyuskin, on the Siberian side. There is an area 1.000.000 square miles in extent which has never been explored. How much of it is land, how mucii water, nobody knows. Peary, who was the only man whom history records as having reached the Pole, had no time to make anything like a survey. Ho had to be content to plant the American dag a.t the point which he ascertained to be the northern axis of the. earth, and then to mako haste to get away from it with as littio delay as possible. One of the chief purposes of the expedition of Captain Bartlett will be to spend at least six weeks at and in the neighborhood of the Pole, making observations of every kind of scientific utility ar.l exploring not only the surface of the land, but the bottom of the ocean as we'd. Captain Bartlett says it really is a tiiree gears' job 'and that the expedition expedi-tion will probably stick to the work that icn-th r.f time; but the best period for actual observations at the Fcio itse.f is during- the sis weeks f:-em the middle of July until the end ct August the most agreeable part cf the year for the Arctic re?io:i. In the e-ci.pm-nt ct the party will b-5 a ccntpiete laboratory as'weihas a surface investigations, and the best kind of instruments for meteorological and magnetic findings. There will also bo several scouting pianos and instruments instru-ments for wireless communication between be-tween all the planes, the bases and the two ships which will carry the supplies. sup-plies. "It is a wonderfui undertaking," said Captain Bartlett. "We have all of us been looking at it from all the different angles and talking it over and planning it out, and we haven't decided upen u'.l the details jet. We don't know just how- large fee erpedi-tion erpedi-tion will be nor th size of its personnel per-sonnel though I've had a great many applications already. "Toward the end of the winter we are going to have several meetings and work out the details. E,u one thing is certain: the fact that the Aero Club has taken it up nior-tns that !t is sure to be carried through to t access.'' The Aero Club has voted $:oo,OOQ to fit out the expedition. Captain Eartlett has been doir. a great deal of f.yir.g lately, especially in a combat machine making 107 miles an hour. lie b-gan to take lesions in PyheT in Hi-ll. Capiain Bartlett was hern in at Brig-es. Concntioa Eae Newfoundland. Newfound-land. He re-celvt:) lilt cde: ration at the Me-tho-Le: Coll'-:- at St. John's and at the K.ilitax Na-ii.eai Acaele-my. where he obtained his d'plcma. as a As a lay, Itetrre Lo entered ced- vor-se'. transshipping tic-nee lo a whaler. , He accompanied Peary in the 1S97-9S Arctic expedition as captain of the Windward; and threo years lat"r ho was in the Hudson Straits and Hudson Hud-son Bay expedition. He n'M hecame skipper of a Newfoundland whaling vessel, but in 130", on the invitation of Peary, he superintended J ho construction con-struction of the Roosevelt end afterward after-ward took charge of this stTiiiisliip as captain. He navigated it through Kane Basin and Kennedy Channel to Capo Sheridan, reaching in the summer sum-mer of IDOlj the famous "oic-bty-s'-e r-n-six." the highest northern latitude ever attained up to that time. Bart-left, Bart-left, in charge of supporting parties, was on the '- 1H0 days. The ice then broke and the expedition returned re-turned south. A fi-o-h at'emnt was made the next yenr lli and this time the party reached i-itiiude C3 deerre s. Peary thn, fearing a. genera i disaster to the entire r'r'y. tv-rit Captain Bartlett Bart-lett and the others beck and himself prt-sr-el forward toward tbe Pr.le with but one eoner.anion, f-Iattbe-v Her:::on, a negro. In isio Captain Bartlett. as skipper cf the Eoethi'-, tori: Harry layr.e WLPriey and F'au: fl ..iney on a hunting hunt-ing eeepedi'ie'n to E'ah. Tr.err to" lowed an era of eompara-t;--e rest ur.tii 1 f-1 3 . when the Canadian Cana-dian Oe.'Vernme-nt fiefd out an Arctic eiepe J.tlon iir.ilu- Vhhlalnea r Stefam-ser: Stefam-ser: ar.ei put Captain Ba;-:ic-:t i corn- It. was on this expedition that Captain Bartlett exporhmced an epic of hardships, hard-ships, to survive-which required an almost superhuman r-nduranoo. Tiie KaiJuk was crushed by ice, and on the journey from where she sank (o Wrangel lfjanrt eiaht of the party perished. At. Wrangel Island three metre succumbr-d and a, fourth one was killt-d by arcideit.il shooting. Among the victims wre Dr. Forbes Mnckay, biolcgist. and James Murray, or-ea ri'jeera pher, who had di' tinjr.ijshed thrm: Pees in one of tbe Shackleton Aniarctic r-xpolitions and also in con iH ' iit'n w ith the Bolivia Peru delimitation delim-itation commission. The t'aniji of Captain Par' left to summon aid for his rm-n o;i Wrangel Island ranks as r.ne of the most daring and memorable feats die Arctlo has ever kiiown. In October, 1017, Captain Bartlett became marine superintendent in the army transport &..rvk-e in New York. He had been naiurahzed as an American Amer-ican citizen in l'jll. The National Geographical Society awarded to him in i:0ii the Hubbard 2-old mdil. In the fame year he re-cei-. ed the Hudson. Fulton silver medal, in 1910 tbe English Geographical Geographi-cal Su-My-u ; iiver n;dal, the Kane rne'ja! of the Philadelphia Geo-raphl-ca.l cocety and the. It-aLan Ccgrapln'. sal Society's silver medal. In 191:1 the. Harvard Travelers' Club bestowed upon him a goid medal. He has also be'-n e:e,r't'"d an honorary member of tevcra! s''ie:it:f,c and historical 1 set |