| Show HEAR CAPT AMUNDSEN Noted Arctic Explorer Greeted by Large Largo Audience in Bar Barratt Barratt Barratt Hall Hail HallI I GIVES DESCRIPTION OF TRIP Illustration Slump Vivid Impression Of ot Hardships on un onO O age toad on the Iho noted Ca Norwegian navigator and discoverer passage and Magne Magnetic ot f the ho tic north pole P told M n a largo argO In hall hn last evening the tho Inter Interesting wonderful exploit esting story IO i of ot his ThO lecture nus Illustrated by views which gwo gave an On excellent Idea of or the thO Icy Ic terrors to w be hO eon con conquered ind md the tho tremendous t difficultIes encountered one In a ft country where the tho mercury falls to 79 degrees below helow zero The was ES advertised to 10 begin bel ut nt atO 7 SO O but It was wax before tho the speak speaker er el r ben The file fl Norwegian Glee club prefaced the thc evening with well won ron rem Ta fa V VI Elsher Olof Olaf dere songs SOP l and t under the 1 direction of or Prof Prot D BY GOV CUTLER The lecturer was Introduced by Gov Gus Cutler CUt who paid pall a high lili I to the tho intrepid navigator placing him himi i where ho he belongs In the th Same immo class classi i with Vasco dl di II Gama Oama Magellan lIl Desoto oa and md other renowned sailors I for tor or whom the deep possessed no ter terrors terrors terrors Ills His excellency y called culled attention I to the tact fact that tho flie great grent accomplish accomplishments ments were wen often otten only achieved by byth byth byth th price of ot human blood For the tho north northwest northwest years a passage through west waters had been Bought while In Inthe Inthe the th year yar 1000 tho the Vikings scouted tho the northeast const coast In III open boatH tho the en enterprise enterprise enterprise of or the Spanish and Portuguese guese guess adventurers In rounding Capo Cape Capot t Horn Born and Capo Cape of ot Good GooI Hope HOlle had hI tunica tho tha attention at or tho thu explorers of ot northern Europe to tho the possibilities of or a passage around the tho northern rn Am AmE American E continent Captain Ca Amundsen f hal hail finally accomplished what no one elo cHo had succeeded In doing before him himIn In making this thU passage around through tiit tho straits and down to San Frando APT CAPT A Tho Tile lecturer then told hIs Ills story It 0 1 ills His Imperfect knowledge of ot 1 h operated as a handicap In tho the narra narrative tIe live but the Ilia stereoscopic were vero FO PO o strikingly pertinent that they could have hare told tho t tb o story sto themselves Capt Amundsen showed first photographs photograph of or hi lii associates Thor They Tho were all men of 01 pronounced character ter marked In Individuality whoso fares faces acs would Im Ira Impress press prees any an observer tit lit sight Tho Thu ho lecturer said ho took time Iliac to pick his men aen so when whon tho the complement of seven was van made m llo tip up ho hu linow who ho he had hail hailand and aul what ho hI might reasonably expect to do Th little vessel In IIi which the party called was tas named the tho GJoa It v Vias as built boUt In hi 1572 for tor sealing scaling purposes purpose and arni was 68 feet teet long lonor 20 feet teet bourn beam floo rigged and drew nine nino foot feet of water Tho h heat hat left lert tho the Fjord at It t Christiana Juno 10 ic with l as second In Ii com corn command command mand and amI Anton Iund Helmet Holmer HaMen Peter Vete Gustavo Gustave wm sal art tin the last named being the cook a very Im Ira personage on any vessel but on oil such an expedition The Ite Jb lion GJoa was waa with a 39 horsepower or petroleum motor motol h would drive the tho vessel three an hour when becalmed ICE ENCOUNTERED The boat struck right across the tho i Atlantic ocean to the tho south capo of or Greenland and anil then turned north vest Tho The showed Icebergs In natural colors that stupendous great mountains of Ico len towering lowering high in the tho air for several hundred feet teet It was July Jul 9 when whon lio mu I o oIn In great groat quantities was encountered and after that It was vas a I tight fight to get through to King ing William Land on tho the northern shores sholes of I tho the American continent As one of or the principal objects of u uthe r the expedition ox was to locate tho thu mag north pole a 0 full oIl complement of nt mathematical reathe Instruments ments was wan carried sad and at King William Land tho the com corn company pany for tor CC 19 months taking observations b night anti and day dl Part of if It these had to be rondo mado by Inland trips when the observers were sheltered at it ati i eight by h b huts hats Capt Cup Amund B cn n said Halll experience showed that this Kind of ot th IB Iu ouch more inure coin eom than canvas tents ten Is and 1101 can CUI cani b I i mado warm varni enough to III take a 11 bath In 11 H until sait that when whan the tho members at 01 til thi party arty store WelO Urns titus the th from Iho tho warm water would w be b precipitated as lIS around the room roam The views IWo n 0 very vel nun ade adequate quate hiNt lilea of or cm the tho use ue nr o the tho Hov lov ho the tho powers of ot Ingen Ingemi IngenIO In en ull uit IO ol of I the were W IO taxed at nt times to In tf complete the th necessary u Uns As s the tho thermometer uk to practically SO below zero precautions wore Imperative to 10 keep from freezing OF 01 Capt lecture Icel re while suf Interesting na as 1 to mat matters matters telI especially c featured the tIme ethnological cal of or tho the trip In devoting n IL large shinto to descriptions of the tho na an natives tives so BO that anthropology was given Iven to nn an extent neer under tinder understood stood before by b most of the lIe audience Tho natives were friendly mid Ind were of or assistance lo tu the explorers but bul they thIC are aro barbarous they Ih tIie emit eat lIt their food CoM un uncooked uncooked Uncooked cooked arc ato absolutely absolute Ignorant of fir IJ every forum form of oC knowledge o beyond fishing hunting and merely existing An n tho the population is only about ono cue half us nil numerous OH as that of or tho the male polyandry Is practised that t Is 11 II wo we woman woman weman man hits has moro more than limn ono ella husband She Shel Is l essentially a me slave for tor the burdens of or tho time household and of or carriage fall tall fallon tallon on Oil her except where whelo dogs arc tue used to haul As to tho the personal habits of or tho natives an Idea IdeL of tit this thiH was Willi gained when whon tho the captain told lold how hol n IL young Es mother molher cleaned her baby by b licking It Groups of or natives were wore pho photographed on shipboard whore they came to Visit and Judging from tho the ox ex expressions on their thEIl races faces they the consid considered ered cd being told 10 to It look pleasant please us Its a ft very good Joke jok VESSEL VESEL ON FIRE FIllE 1 Ono One picture was vas a n trine trifle thrilling It showed the tho vessel easel on en lire As there gallons of lit petroleum gun gunpowder gunpowder powder and other othol things on board of or ofa ofa a 1 highly nature tho thio dan danger got ger seas startling the th lire fire was extinguished and the Iho expedition saved saed GRAVE OF OP Another view of ot particular Interest was OS the grave of ot Sir John Franklin l with a lL white stone stono slab laid lahl on the tho top and amul a cross at the head and tho Iho sur slur surroundings of ot tho the grave lagged flagged Time The first death III In the party pari occurred near tIme the mouth or of time the Mackenzie river March 16 1906 when Gustav Wilk died Owing to the ground being frozen frozell en elm tho body had to 10 be carried until until time the soil was soil soft enough to bo ho worked so IL a grave could bo be dug dugand dugand and anti tIme the poor follow tollow was left to 10 sleep on a II prominence marked by a cross I VOYAGE ACCOMPLISHED ACCO On Aug 3 an nn American whaler was sighted the tho Charles Hanson of ot San Francisco o demonstrating that the tho northwest passage had been beon success successfully succesSfully fully tullY accomplished The Tho GJoa reached San Francisco Oct 19 and has since been beell In caie enre ot of tho naval authorities of ot Island while her captain went home across the tho continent to report to his government RESULTS OF EXPEDITION Capt Amundsen was at tho Commercial and Ind Alta Aim clubs last I I evening and left lert this noon for the tho west Ho proposes to 10 return to time the Polar sea pea I I In 1910 be bo carried by b tho thu currents for toi tIro 1110 years eurs over oer the Polar basin to III find what shut there Is In III It II Ho lie says the north northwest northwest west went passage Is of ot no 10 commercial value alue to the shallows nat nar narrows rows tho thu value being only anI from a standpoint The Tho observations made during time the nearly two years ears stay at tho thu magnetic north polo are aro ar being worked out In III the tho observatory at nt which will some sauna two years ears Tho The compass s refused to act In Inthe tho the vicinity of ot the magnetic north polo pole for or Ol a radius of ot miles Tho expedition expedition expedition tion cost but while others have cost over Captain Amundsen i was 55 warmly greeted otter after tho time close of ot time tho lecture |
