| Show Proving roving the North Pole i iI I How lIow an Explorer Takes an Observation So as ilS to Know When Me tic Reaches His Mis Goal Danger In Inan j i jan an Untruthful Report I UN t U l IM an en arctic explorer l I m wh P n he h has line found the tho thoi r i irth rl h poi puli Is the way tIt th thee the e Z a la IH i a man Inan t n an n k the question In is there an Sll sue i ni that the ex x poorer lorer could to h r IB la another a estien In view slew of the III caused eau by bythe ti the Ihl claims or of ir mm Peary loory and Pr Cook look tits llie questions are lire not only natural but bul they lIl ure er Interesting anil Important Another question that has h hIten been Iten asked Ihk d I is rould an all explorer fake B II report on the discovery of the poleT Ioler The Th r In to the last luit query Is Yea Yee if 11 the th r wee wai Ingenious It If he hadi hadn had lad n i for far cheap notoriety and MI II thoroughly unscrupulous and had mul hadn n Intimate knowledge of polar peer lion hose and tho IhA necessary nith Ith astronomy he would be beW beable able W to revert resort to 10 trickery that would rte like i C geographer and ewd scientists sit up day diy ind tad night Bui But the th dexterity In style tylo stylend end nd closest t attention to detail would hate to 10 t b I observed as sa a the t MW flaw III Ir 1 10 Io I discovery and undo nt hg Thu The pr production of ot th tire tea explorers pen pent ud II diary n o be wm d tend HIM nd k pt pi from day to day with ru 14 II at al sights and ad rough reo re re for tor latitude e and longitude therein MB hla meteorological observations j i jand and general remarks would go far tar to establish his hi claim Such u a diary I a period of months would be a avary avery very vary and dangerous document to forgo That no ono one on has lias ever eer at attempted tempted to hoodwink the public In con connection election with the th north pole prole lOle Is I the boat beet reason lIOn for not believing that a fake take dash duh to 10 too the th polo will ever er broom become Popular The fact that noted scientists have not reached the pole lola and sonic some leave have never oven attempted to make mahe the nho dis der discovery dl covery overy does doe not stand eland In th the way of at knowledge that would enable an ex ox explorer poorer to know whether he lie had found fouled the pole pol One scientist L U C tier Her late physicist to the Use discovery of oC the th antarctic expedition has ball Just given Niven an opinIon whIch In part answers the fret question In this thin article As All Ashe Asle he le 1 Is Ie an eminent authorIty his Ida opinion I i U is of vitae He lie says lays Knowing the tho Pole I Traveling toward the th north pot pol and anti when whan wh within roll resell of his hili goal oal oalI ate HII ax z would exercise eure th the eke minutest t ear car earIn carIn I In ilk his astronomical observations and 1 greatly Hr U multiply them th Tb Ties b beat t In he strument under such conditions Is III per lwi IIRI leaps a I small mall aa Ita used by b Captain Scott In tit III Title Instrument la is I steadier UlAn lean a small sextant which has to bo tee 1111 In III the theland he land hand and und probably more moru a accurate ecu rule The readings a of altitude of the sun should be checked If possible by an another other othir member of th the larty and care ORro carefully carefully fully full noted In the live travelers Held field book look or 01 diary with a 8 record of the temper temperature at the time tine and the barometric pressure prea ure so 80 that hot corrections correction may mil be lie applied for these two Influences The altitudes altitude would he be roughly worked out outon outon outon I on the spot It to 10 Indicate how closely ly he hewet I wet was approaching to the pole Having leaving I readied reached whit he lie believed to be the i po 10 position 0 of the polo laic he Ile would be careful to 10 take a very ery Urge large number of differ diner different different ent altitudes over a period of hours hour or even day days and the mean me n of these th ob fib observations would undoubtedly give him hima a fairly accurate result These The e original notebooks notebook absolutely unaltered and acid the testimony tUmon of et t ills his fellow travelers are practically the only evidence he could produce of having the tha pole ole If JC he possessed a II camera camra It might be bo of some value alu If It he h wr wre on per perfectly I ro level sea Ice Ie to take taka a photo photograph graph of the lire sun lIun showing the unison line below This opinion of rr Professor virtually virtuel answers th the second question In this article At the th poles pole of th the earth rth which are arc ar mathematically peaking Oakl singular points th the definitions of ot meridian ef et north and south eta ale break beak clown down In Inthis Inthis this latitude we w sp speck gk k of th the smith di dl above our heeds heads and we e are ac ec c with the ties pole pol star tar so ao called because t 1 slowest almost coincides with the pole pol celestial At the goal final al which Peary Jeary and Dr Cook soy say A they reached the celestial poll Pale and coincide I and any number of circles circle may teal be drawn through the two points which I become one The Th horizon and nd equator coalesce cual and the only direction I Ion tion on the earths rth surface le Ie I due 1 lIe south Muth or north at the south tale East blest sued ami west t vanish A single step rennet Nom remedies NomI I lies dies lie the confusion zenith and anti po p 11 separate and the Ih meridian again aln be becomes becomes comes coin determinate Day and Night at the tho Pole I Th sun un Is I visible at the north pol above the tee for six 1 months Unit IB is from March tl 91 to t Sept 11 th dates date mt of the ernal vernal anti and autumnal o i ino flex no x respectively or when the sun I crosses the celestial equator coming I north and going ping south If Dr Cook had reached the pole Idle March SI tl 1 hi he hei i iI I would have m seen Hen n the sun un gradually rise rl j I jI 1111 I In hl the south and lid move right round hl hla hie i horizon In sight the whole time and anti return again U 14 the south lOuth point It would not rise rIM or fall with r repass ard to th the meridian as all th lit the sun un does doe do with us but would very try gradually rte rise along Its II whole In n 11 tin to th form of ot a 1 spiral and n this the clangs In altitude would b bi be bej i j equal t to th the tha chance change In the n I of the sun aura After the sun suet un ds In September the stars elan become visible that bat Is It all th the stars star between the tb pole pol and aad the equator and the t stars star neither rIN rl nor art t but de treat greet t circles around round the th observer According to scientists who are re to th lb tara star to would be ti t th lb tha most mot satisfactory and 1111 ac u accurate curate guides guld In determining tn t the lati Istl latitude I tude nude when th the pole had been be r roll especially the pole pol otar which would be 1 e In the zenith and free Cree from UM lies u un on uncertainties certainties due to refraction retraction fiG eta staThe The Th conclusion Is I that an explorer I with proper equipment HOUld know knew I when la It h at th the polo pol Th The 1 culty cult Is I to arrive arnu A DAVIS DAVISI I Held Up by try a We Weman man manI I Vir or r the Aral arse time II nl an Jec fI n in ur tier uri eMrI i many has wen been h tn held up by b a women woman I A in la WM WIN err en entitled no 1 titled to cast allt a II proxy prosy vote otto at a municipal that her name had bran been wen left lea tilt off the th the lb baroness protested When her bar protest protect pro was u unheeded and the tilt warn waa hill 11 11 sir h to the lh Ih law The Then n re fl quashed lie tha n iId I t 0 i irl r u it hold held over again a a aIn u uto In 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