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Show SATURDAY JANUARY TOt 1919 18 SALT LAKE CITY Australia Wants German New Guinea, and New Zealand, Samoa -"Fate of the Marshalls and the Carolines Should - Unde Sara Have the Ladrones? Queer Features 0f Kaiser-Wi''helmsland and Its Half Million Natives Bismarck Ar chi pel-- " ,ago, Where The Keep the Girls in Cages Story of Queen . Emma .How An American Girl Built Up the 'Trade of the Islands and Married a German Robert Loois Stevensons THE: STAKES OF PEACE Germanys Island Empire of the PacifitVhich Will -- at Paris. Be-Redistributed EIGHT PAGES UTAII voted this. vu Ins than 11,1)99 J. MOO acres were tn meres. bv a firm of third as many native as the island Kranc4sCo!and practically controlled sided, for a time then went back to Samoa, where she iTumburg, known as tKe"D"H. iTPTJ. belonging loathe Herman, huf oTir" had She and amanuensis. Gesellchaft and happy. intrepreter some money and became interested tn de Sued See Insein Xu- - Hamburg firm was TTIE Neve Zealand government Is This Apia; Sea Islands. Along about 1K79 she an agenf of the German government, 4 now the affairs of bought of the native, In the Bismarck and its bus'neus was to stir up trouble German administering Samoa, 'and the Australians large tracts of kind, on and finally get the Islands for Gerarchipelago, what is now known as the Island of For years the trade had been have taken charge of the Marshall IsNew Pommcrn, and established a trad- many. divided between the German and lands. which are away off to the Khe bouse had there. many ing had Yankees, and the -German westward, not a great dist,p.Tir from one of whlc.h inQliuleit revoltwhich the German possession of the tn New GuiHer holdings, which King Malletoa, 15,00(1 acrea had been who recognea. The Marshall as well as the were - extended 4o KieerlVtlhlm-land- , nized by Germany, Great Britain and Carolines and farther west, were soon Increased to 150.00U the tnlted States, was oppoed by were captured Ladrone, by the Japanese at the acre, and within a short time she had Tam lose e. who claimed the throne. war. of the beginning They adminisalmost monopolized the trade of the During the revolution King Mafletoa tered the islands for a time, but about islands., She -- grew . rich, she em- was the and Germans a year ago they handed part of thent'1 by ployed ih uplands of natives and takencaptured to the Marshall Inlands In a over to the Australlairforcea Ai It is knew hosr to handle them. They . The United German now. the Islands south of the equa- loved her and she denounced "the sent States and protested Capt. tor are administered by the Austraof the Germans toward them cruelty gunboat lian commonwealth, and those north Mrs Forsythe got the title of Queen, Leary and the American Adam As into came he to the of It by Japan. The Caroline and Apia Emma, and was known pa such when harbor, the German war vessel Adler Ladrones are of especial Interest to us, she again married, taking this time Saluted the Adams., but the Adams as Guam belongs to the Ladrones, and a Toting German officer, named Kolbe She went to Europe with him and did not return the salute. To this the we are. as it were, in the very heart cMected and af Ihjf" iwnlain C..riYi,n becamir popular at (he tuui i of liei-!f- German ehlpl- bhe died In 191? in Monte Carlo. Capt. Geary replied that the United ago. States did not salute vessels which The Germans bought the Caroline were engaged In the and the Ladrones at the close of the. ETLJRMNG to the German he Ger- fipanlsh-Americdenounced trade. the Later, I les in war, when we took they, aonslst of a mans for their violation of internapossession of Guam, and they Werw group of islands Just west of those tional law, and for a time It looked about establishing wireless stations that belong to the United States. The as though we might have war with there when war was declared. They area of the protectorate is a little less Germany on account of this trouble. had tried to seise the Carolines as far of Rhode Island, end its back a -- 1 985- - when they, hoisted . tha than the German flag over the Island of Tap. population is about 40,000. In 1914 It DURING my stay in Apia, the had about 600. whiles and 2.000 offensive and dictator The Spanish protested and the ques- Of the whites, 272 were Chinese. to foreigners. They had possession tion of the ownership of the islandsGermans, consisting chiefly Of offi- ial . was submitted to the pope, who decials and planters. When war was of the trade, and moot of the plant.-- elded In favor of Spain. The result Louts declared a New Zealand expedition tion. including that of Robert was that Spain held these islands un- started out for Samoa. They were Stevenson, who had set out some til after the war, when soon Joined by three British cruiser, thousands of cacao nee "from which were sold to Spanish tor about they, Germany and the little fleet called first at he expected to make his fortune. I took 000. New Caledonia, to the a belonging and rode up the mountains The Ladrones were discovered by French. Their it was joined by a to carriage the Stevenson home. I found it in in 15?1, and were taken over French fleet and two Australian the hand of a German, who had Magellan in 1688. They were by the ships, and all "moved on In force bought it for about half the amount bought Spaniards of Spain at the same time as toward Apia, the capital of the that Stevenson had spent upon it. He the Carolines and are now in the Island of Upoln, the chief German was the house and destroy- hands of the Japanese. None of the rebuilding of of world. that the had part stronghold 11 of the author. He island Is of - any great importance. vntge Tbs German for their ing over the entrance gate printed They consist, for the most part, of litown fleet, and were surprised when ain signhalf dosen different languages tle of coral which have been they saw this squadron come in. They and builtpatches Elngang verboten up from the sea, and their prodsurrendered without fighting and a beginning French in English, to on say ucts are going chiefly copra and other tropmoment later the German flag was Samoan that strangers were pro- ical frutta Some- of them yield, also.-pea-rls torn down and the Union Jack went and Inside the gate coming and shells. The people are Since then the hibited from to up in its place. Robert Louis Steven- mixture of Chinese, Malays and the r islands have beep managed by the I climbed up and It found overgrown tomb son's aborigines, who have largely mixed and New Zealand New Zealanders, with the others. will surely Insist that they be given with weeda The United States has, in Guam, over to her as one of the terms of to Is cloee Samoa about the largest and best island in peace. AMERICAN We have three that part of the world. It haa a good and ita people are more civiSamoan Islands formerly d Islands, and the best har- harbor, lized than those of the other Islands. to Great Britain, and when bor so the in neighborhood, We have established a naval station confer there and have a garrison of marines the at they were given to Germany, New that, peace Zealand protested. This was along ence. Australia and New Zealand can and a shore naval force. We have a station, and cable about 1900, when we pot possession hardly object to our administering the wireless telegraph all connections with parts of the group If t of Tutu 11a and the ether islands wholeour method have been civilizing world. Oar army transports, going adjoining. At that time Dr. Solf was far, , with those from Ban Francisco, via Hdneiula to administrator of the German inter- and uplifting, in contrast on call ests in Samoa, and he may be de- of the Germans We have a naval Manila at their waybutwestward, the port t Guam, and wireless monthly stations and there, station to any upon protest against pended Closed to foreign vessels of war and aurreader of ths Islands. At the the naval commandant is the gover- commerce, and permission to visit the although time the inlands were given up. nor and practically supreme, island must be obtained of our navy Richard Seddon, then premier of New he - works through the ournatives. Isdepartment. The people are far better have organized Zealand, denounced the action, saying We treated than those-- of the German posthat the surrender of Samoa had dis- lands into three political divisions, sessions have good They heartened the natives, disappointed each of which has a native governor echools nearby. and an excellent judiciary of Australasia, and lowered and under him. native chiefs, who in of the island la Inthe prestige of Great Britain in that torn have village chiefs under them.a system. The trade This makes the country, practically, creasing and It is more prosperous part of the world. I visited Apia, the capital of Ger- republic We have established village than it wka under Spanish rule. It man Samoa, shortly after the country courts with a supreme court of ap- would be of great advantage to the was taken over "by rhe'ltaltier. The peal: We are orgaoiatog schools, and rcmainrtffpf theLadrones and the Germans had born there a merchants doing ail that we can to better the Carolines ff they could come"finaeF and planters for year preceding their condition of the people. At the pres- - the administration of the Fritted actual ownership, and the trade was ent time, we have only about one- States. . FRANKjO. CARPENTER. Of cocoanirt be-ric- HajcdeU-und-llantnge- 1 2ss-SSS;- 1mtl d' about-Astrolab- the other " Tnceming- 1 ltiriM n. on the islands archipelago adol.tW to Austra- joining, are wUd to an extreme. Some ave for long ago. of the tribes go naked. 'Jrtfsessaot south breech cloths of-- bark for the men d Torn strait, eorosof gad short- petticoats- ofwoven grass p.ndkftddfor the women. Along the extreme northern coast, the natives are" entirely node, wfth the exception eof a shell necklace and feathers a Sler, I crossed bird of paradise which they stick In N.VTTVTM OF and Ne Zealand, their hair, gome - tribes- - wear only P1 and girls tn cages from the ages of six or VssrtMrard-t- o APIs. red. of yellow white, stripes where 1 saw black paint. and others decorate eight years until they are married and their themselves with scars made by horn- The cages are made of the sprouts of the kaiser. ing. as the Japanese burn themselves the palm tree. They are sometimes with themnoxa., . tit Inside the houses The girls ar bp known The different tribes have different never allowed to leave the cages exy NEW OCINEA la having sorts of dwellings. In some parts of cept once a day when they are tal3n they have what out to be washed. The girls are said these conditions. They might be called apartment houses, to thrive under built Upon pole. Theseareof enor- grow as fat as the penned -- u p geese he wrld sire. The- framework In of used for making pate -- da fois gras. to the Brit-- h mous with-mats T,n.sd belongs of woven leaves or They mature early and are ready for poles, Ita Germans. and the The mats marriage at 11 or 12 years of age to them. fastened grass and Holland tit ia owned by are . so arranged that they may be A girl who is not married at 15 or 16 by Great raised or lowered to keep out the m it is an old maid. ia the The island of Neu Pommem is the oea Other tribes build their houses haa the title of in trees one of the Bismarck archiprincipal in to order defend themselves about la H pelago. It Is S50 miles long and about In times of danger. more the easily Inof state wide. It is more or leas Itrga ss the best The natives of New Guinea like to It miles The natives are among the part of fight comprises the as welt as the Huns. I met a rolling A hall seas Both women wildest 8outh more than of the u has n who had spent his life In and men which Is over missionary go naked and cannibalism Is tativesk island. He the me told of a system Moot to be common. of their eatsiinr ss are to be found in of vendetta among some tribea which said In the raw state, lories of the Dutch or the goes on for ages. He said that can- -' ables are consumed pork and human meat are nibalism exists In certain localities although cooked. The people live in Small huts of and that It is common in the of a beehive shape, surrounded by It Is well rugged. archipelago. He spoke of the overed with such dense natives as natural beer drinkers and bamboo fences and the young unclubhouses, where be to as using a beer made by chewing the married men have The t the roads have live together. girls are con-latcheta A days march root of the km plant and fermenting they rtldemess Is. often little! the spittle-soake- d mixture. Laid away fined in the cage.The climate is) It soon becomes Intoxicating and Is mile New Guinea and the I t and the rainfall Is then used in ceremonial fsast In BOTH Wand has a great deal British New Guinea, over the Way. It archipelago have been exer. snd among the trees! Is against tha law to sell intoxicating ploited by the German. , They have 1 banyan, which form I liquors. been increasing tbeir coacanut planvlth roots running up tations and the export of cocoa and Much IHAVE before me a report of one of dried ling the ltmbs. cocoanut meat haa now reached still unexplored. jr is the queer describing a value of one or two million dollars Germans have had their customs of the Bismarck a year. In 1912 phosphates to the archipelago !e going over it and This man says the inhabitants are amount of more than a million dollar of one kind or an- principally Papuans. The men are were exports, and skins of the bird valued at more than 6100,-- ! frequently over six feet In height; of number of cocos n ut they are of a dark brown complexion, 000paradise were sent to Germany. The lm- err - a tmcrnited --to --more than lime have thick, black curly Tialr.'ISrg? been built at the flat noses and symmetrical bodies. In four million dollars, all from In 1914 the Euro the Island of New Britain, which the tpororrh and the trade was was only 3 Germans know as Neu Pommem, the of land culti- - natives have a custom of confining the as the war broke out. ths eisbborbood-- here, snd T.HE natives the Bismarck O JATSrn-WXUrEITSLAT-D. SLnd. Bis-ma- rk Ger-iou- nt slave-carryi- a, ft f an sie of-th- fonder colon-Samo- t -- - f i. man-of-wa- r.. them.. - f 1 plan-tation- s, -- u""' I i in-F- an and and the balance in .rubber h in cocoa. The land Is bald to mines hare mineral wealth, bat the the and Into-thfutu ownership difficulty of fretting machinery used for the wilds. Native labor tadetemlned. she the planters rule plantations, apd method tbt of the Gerafter the usual Some of the land ia irrigated mane. whouae tubes otbam- by.,lh4jnUi i boo to carry the water Trom one level the tribes carry to another. Many-.o- f cott-th- e on farming. They are growing yama UP expect to be Mar- - eweet potatoes and bananas, anrLof lata. Indian corn. The German colo- ' Enft-- bl the nists have been experimenting with tni cotton and tobacco. They have plant- - j ed several plantations ' bay. one of which haa produced an 2" , lth Guam. and average of about a bale to the acre have great I am to)d that the planterstrouble getting labor. - They say that raoee are the native dying out. - and e.t. - ' iranWTiiorl that some means of legislation will pmtme ' - - Home Desecrated. Australian navy sent its vessels northward to capture New Odinea. They landed men in Neu Pommem and put the wireless station there out of commission. They took the town Herbertshohe, notwithstanding the Germans had a network of mines along the shore and had built trenches from which they fought the Australians. The Germans had also native, soldiers hidden in the Jungle, and these fired on the Invading party. Within less than a week, however, the various settlements were captured and the Australians took possession of Now Guinea and the other islands about. It looks now a though they bad come to stay. They have begun to reorganize the administration, and are butlding roads throughout the territory. They have taken over the little fleet that belonged to Germany, and have tbeir officials moving about from island to island, keeping order. I understand that trade ie already increasing and that the government revenues are rising. At the time that the Australians came in. the German authorities made a wholesale" distribution of the public moneys. They destroyed much of the property and attempted to wreck the colony. Notwithstanding the change In ownership, the German settlers have concluded to stay. They are baying and selling and increasing tbeir i n he .Y t 1jmi V i 24,-0- 00 -- were-looki- t, ft- i ng i - THE of the Bismarck and German New Guinea was largely due to an AmeriThis was Emma E. Cos, can girl the daughter of Jonas M. Coe. a former American consul to the Samoan a Islands. Coe marned.a Samoan, prln-ceoand Emma was the result of the Samoa and marriage. She was bom innamed Formarried an Englishman, sythe, After her husband died she re- - THE - development -- good-size- 1 s A L CAPTAIN BARTLETT NOT ONLY INTENDS : T0 FLY OVER THE T0P0F THE WORLD, BUT TO CHART TERRITORY. From the New York Times . BART- - ROBERT-A-." 'YUTAIX LETTS flight to the pole uDder the aus-9e- s of ilie Aero club of c and the general supervision kw Admiral Robert E. Peary ts 'toned by scientists as an entirely which promises an project a advance in mens knowledge IP arctic region. th actual f Capt Bartlett s Tughri only one plan. "The next June is to be a large tolttsjve caravan, with the eqqlp-- u llr, comprehensive exploration le "ever before. Yever the top attempted of the world is a 54ous adventure; but what Capt. el:,KT.Admlral teary, and the America have in sSr is ?tot tar bigger than that.mind Capt lU hU ,Lnkr Kto r J to that, .. shite-space- he .TlU'Un,Iplor,,1 territory. Ahan ml,llon 11 hJt ri hn wept hi We space. it awav And then he w 06ht to take W 1 d much two! bil tC were ant to wipe that mmd F tTcwll!ne Up P ItwaionYft toward phrs briefly Bight to the inten- i8 toian ne Journey of JrdflT K Jr!y rlon t Alaska of that Be top of Beafy.aetthe e WtVch ten year Ko. - ectlon in lh do not even bmd, though t'i , nd ri believe there he first to be vered f, airp lanes. of fours? ' ir hf explorers from h nature of hmd. if hSTJJJJ and of he snd the teTsls whr.mU le whether?!? ere w lt r?.,? 'dirioTrP,;?ittnhvtnevelr p an include r use-- of a ,'tostory as w2,?Ulppd hips when a man faced great several scouting planes will arcom- - delay, and from there we will fly. well followed out by various exploring i Ice at the river months is pushing unexplored regions from the air." he was a timeand dangers Nansen lived hardships But the bases at Cape Columbia parties; but it is only that outline of away from the coast, we can do it. summed up hi plans, "there are tothree PnF tha big hydroaeroplane in which do. in a bear cave one winter but that Capt. Bartlett will "fly over the pole! and Ktah are not the only ones we coasts really except for the discovery Then we pan be exploring the depths things the expedition purposes it.e!f-r-h- at ia know n What of tbs ocean. And we can be working First, the flying across the top of the day Is past. Danger If a man is golpg This comprehensive polar caravan plan to eetabljahj It to Yt pakt of the of the worid-feo- m tn Cape absolutely to avoid dangere he'll never'J his been a dream of Capt Rartlett general'" sc heme thatthere shall be we" arepole after now is the Inside of the all rst p ."h e'TniK' for years. Some of the dredging work, base on the Siberian aide, too, and that triangle. Up to the time of the die-"This ship will be fitted out with Chel unskin, to start things off. Second stir from nil own do ocross d be afraid to which he hopes to carry to a satisfac- we will fly straight across from Cape covery of the pole, of course, that was the best and most complete lnstru-whto conduct the soundings I have just ss well street! tory conclusion, ho began on the Kar-lu- k Columbia, either to Cape Chelyoskin, dredging been speaking of, making a map of the every one wa after.. Then ths ments and a big, most "We shall the have complete colHe and Admiral Peary have ia Siberia, or to Nicholas II Land, the pole was discovered. Now. with that apparatus And just think what, in floors ot the polar basin, and , wireless equipment-on-shi- ps talked: foe years of flying over the island north ot Siberia which was dis- big achievement over, there is a tre-- 1 connection with the airplanes and in lecting flora and fauna from the ocean and perfect our and bases. at and planes aeron top of the world and of the work covered by Russian explorers in 1912. mendoua field for important explore- j addition to their work, it can acoomp-tio- bottom And, third, sending up sound- The different parties will be in conflndlng-ou- t what the nature lish. There are all the meterologlc il ing and scouting balloons and planes stant touch with planes could accomplish for science To establish that base and set up a just The . each other. in the north. The war put an end cache there we shall need another of the polar region, in every point, is. and magnetic; findings to be made in and exploring the uhper air of the planes, for Instance, will always know for a time to the fulfillment of the Bhlp. -Jknd the plan is to send another who commanded that .Bartlett, meteorologiCaptain region. polar regions, gathering where the ships are. We shall make dream, but the war itself brought ita big boat, with equipment, either from the Roosevelt In Peary' expeditions ( weather observations from new points cal data. this perfected wireless coramunicaQon and was captain of the COM t0 the pole, and various complete accomplishment the nearer Norway or from- England. of 1905-0of the data youd get In a part think Jut of every plan we make. As I he has been an tails that ought to be of a great deal one long, In 1913-1by Ita development of the mastery of it is about 1,333 miles across from trip' Why. said, there ia almost always game to the air and the impetus it gave to Cape Columbia to Cape Cbefyusktn arctic explorer since he first spent one in more this' for can we weather bureau, accomplish be had, somewhere or other. I can l Now and about 412 mile from Cape Colum- winter with Peary at Kane Basin in of use toas the popular interest in sir work ex adding immensely Journey than all the other arctic ex- - see any danger of starvation ahead. well Instance, the dreams fulfillment is in sight. is as enthusiastic over the to our scientific knowledge. ' bia to the pole. With these two bases 1897-98- ), As for the flyinglt will be Just plora tions put together have been. able. It is a wonderful undertaking." well established, with plenty of gaso- flight to the pole and the possibilities It isn t half so Then there is the dredging. That to do straightaway We ha ve ail of line and extra parts for the machines, of air exploration as is Peary himself, said Captain Bartlett. lnterviewer-put-iu a ques- dangerous as flying. tho slums aviators are Here the never been more than attempted us been looking at it from all tho dif- - and with a good big machine to dq and Rear Admiral Peary I very en- has n which a subject doing now, In the arctic regions We did little in tion. a lay 4nqulry-ferent angles, and talking it over, and f the big work, with, say, four engines, thusiastic indeed. But Captain Bart- the You know. the mind of the publlt. the explorer continKarluk. but that was almost noth- always troubles planning it out; and we havent deeld- - so that if we did have trouble with letts plan for an exhaustive investigaCan about how ued. it seems funny to me that peoyou "But supplies" We don't one, or even two, we could run along tion into the nature Of the polar re- ing compared to what is yet te be done. et ed on aU the details a fnss about a trip-t- o of exploration Is won- take enough for men and Rjachtnes to ple- make-suknow Jost .how large the' expedition on the other two, and with experi- gions does not stop with air and And that kind as If it were something ter- - t " three the north, last . notYou years" helieve ms derful,might enced men, there is will be, nor the size of ft personnelin the stedge trlps, nor with the exploration No trouble at all. Captain Bartlett rHMvHiaaardous end full Of strange ( world why we shouldnt stay up there of tne surface of land and ice. . If his Captain Bartlett smiled buj It Is like though Ive had a number of applica-it isnt It cant be comA I said, well have two hardship tions already. Toward the end of the1 three years and explore that Tegionrcompiete ideaf the projected Journey a mans planting a gasdenuand watch- responded. pared, fbr instance, to what men go grow! You make your or three caches with gasoline We shall through winter we are going to have several thoroughly. We can fly across from is carried out the expedition will in- ing his flower who tzplcue the Tropical reyour send up two ships. one to Etah ahd gions. The men meetings and work out the details. But j Cape Chclj us kin to the North Cape, clude a drift ship ss well, to move- big hole In the ice, put down wonwho come through Our little drift one to Karof Ice tt snd Chelyuskin. to the north the wait too one thing is certain the fact that the there are various good landing with the dredge, bring op; experience alive are usually that it will not such Aero club has taken it up means that j place along the river mouths on the Inks famous wanderings and to ex- der so excitedly what is going to be ship will burn oiL-s- o wrecked by fever for the rtst of many men to manage it. I think it is sure to be carried through to sue--1 Siberian coast. we look at u we plore the ocean's currents and the bot-to- in it!1 Then up come the things from need the bottom of the sea, the flora and we eould take gasoline and equipment come down While cess. And I'll tell you some of the j of the sea. There is 'a tremendous amount of from the north In perfive for the for You years, Ocean fauna of that Arctic easily planes depth fect health things we want to do. IVeve had a fiqe time, "Ton can accomplish a lot with air- are territory of which wa know only what In and doubt about that, finding nut new and wonderful and all the food we'd need, too. we Captain Bartlett pulled a map of thtw, pear front the whalers a it g good for us There s nothing planes, there's noysaid. for three if time. years, course go all And of the fact, and from his "But things cant to make a fuss about-- . And yet every you regions pocket thumb method of finding out about it Captain Bartlett pointed to Etah, on the west coast of that is! And there is all that enormous fly ths .Arctic Circle for more than a youve got your vessels with alcohol shall take supplies for five. time a man starts out on a trip to the Greenland, across a narrow atrip As far as the question of food goes; polar regions people make a tremen-dountouched region of which we know few months in the year; and of course to preserve all this, and you make min hulla-balo- o 1 water from Ellesroeye Land. , about the risk b you can do ute reports day by day and keep your there is ofteq game to be had in the nothing at alU- - With jhachinee. and there ts a limit to orwhat I even And a time at goeeeo you- polar regions You can almost always run . . hydro- specimens This is where we plan to send the money, and men. and patience, there from an airplane exbear find are been able all to out to dont a' it And have realize, either, seems do the I What help to something be people no we is to end plot first big ship," he xaid. the the things polar wanting This plane Initial base, where Rear Admiral Peary qgn. find out. Just on one good long for years, and what I am now plan- plorers fjnger moved over the map 'out a lot. In our sledging trips we what good weather we have up there. . , here and here aqd here and egA light from the plane, explore the Why,-l- t seems to me that the further , ning to work Into this expedition, ia again expects to tnaka his headquarters and trip. boat up here the undersea depths are thus and country a bit, find out the possibilities north you get the better the weather to whlchwe will start In June. When But to do it as it should be done, to send a small, it s clear and we reach Etah and establish-ou- r base, We shall need a third base, and that through the Bering Strait and into the so. In time you cai plot out an im- in regard to game, and then set out Is. Around ihe pqle sledging with good prospect of not calm. And in the summer season the , we will tn the first place send out we plan to establish at Wrangel drift between Alaska and Wrangel Is- mense region. In tha to go hungry. ' neighborhood weather up there planes to explore the country land. That would be the base for the land. All the drift ships so far have "It take time, of course, he added, having I said. we shall certainly go of the eightieth parallel Is like Octoroundabout, get our bearings, so to exploration of the unknown region drifted along the coast, but evidence sort of work withA athe "but you can-d- o this The snow two and ber brisk of bright. here out staying It expectation far Alaska you over get and the Bering shows that toward enough speak, from the point 6t view of aerial every day in the year. You can do that and I hope it will be three. entirely disappears in the exploring, and plot out the details of Strait With base set up at these from the Alaskan coast, to the east and your sledging, when you eant fly year, And in Kew deal ts summer. the the way to get a greaL regiong-l- n That .. future work. Then, we will send the three points, we could Inclose a and slightly to the north, ths Ice ftow v. a ! in . ... done. la one trip." Gardens, in JactidonJ there are Lfr.??, big plane probably a hydroaeroplane triangle Which wsulir inritiae sn the WE he "tmfVtngrwn mv.ng-y.-wita) have eummer twenty';' The reporter asked another ques- flowers Shat I got bn the northern north to Cape Columbia, and estab- unexplored region - and the pole- itself, it, put toward the pole itself. Both four hours of light, you ever can do little a a and yon shore of Greenland only tion here; lish a. flying base there. It would be and with our big"- plane, our- scout thy wreckage of tbe Jeanette, which lot HoWr ahour "the danger.? 400 miles from the pole. I got them with airplanes In a short time. But quite possible, of course, to send the planes, and our dog sledges we could waa sunk off the Siberian coast in in the winter no is and tast time we were there, and sun, Isn there Tns t there Oh. Cltpr danger. which any wefe later ship itself up Vo Cape Columbia. Wq make thorough, exploration from the 181, and tits of ftre busy Bartlett said lightly, and edited, with them to the governor of Newfound- s, have gone up that passage before. But air and in rip bv sledges that wduid picked up south bf Greenland, and the that Is the time when you convicIdea in that .The land, and he sent them to Kew the eniptiasi of unshakable if we eet out with that, a eplan-- we clear up- the surface .of .ail this tc, finding on the other side of the pole with other things. and there .they a are- just frozea lnto,i tinn! l'A. nian can kn oclfcjin y n (f th e of caaka set adrift off the coast of should have 'to resign onrsrive to eeak it la. pretty well. "J haven t any doubt of ottr Captain Bartw arctic JutK a safely a be can knock of Alaska show that there is a drift Idleness la alt .wrong, being and waiting for the ice to break up. It ia - All the coast -lines along here, enough Get away from this equipment the big advantage of flying that you Alaska, Siberia,'- Greenland, Grant across the pole. I want tot get a ship let laughed. There la work jn the around New York, and polar Idea of hardships perils in There at the orth every day in the year. dont have to wait. We can take the Land, and the islands to the south- Into that drift. If we (Continued oa page of Ia addition to the surveying of Jhe exploration. That all over. ship to Bab without any trouble or west of Grant Land, have been quit proper season, when the break-u- p Cpe-Coiumhla Forty-secon- at I j 4. ( I their-existe- m lc us - sub-aret- io 4 , Oar-den- tor' bw. ' kakklyeahut,,t001 tefc?? WirS! Work. And 5 Plane ptot ta . ahip"to an 1m- -' J 9, n aw land.-whatev- set-ou- t nce. - . i -- - to tt- I |