Show walter wellman has tried and come e back once more ceo ss S jg F Foia r a n umber number ot years pt past I 1 mr W Well ellman nian the arctic arale e explorer has es essayed sayed to rea reach I 1 the north pole pale by ship the place of amb emb embarkation ar kation on each aerial journey has been the island ot of spitzbergen Spitz bergen olt off the no norwegian we coast tar far up north and each ex cx tion ilon 1 has M met e t with failure up to date when the writer was in theold ld 1 world we met several several missionaries who had bad visited mr AVell Welli mans nans camp while the balloon was being inflated and ana inspected the outfit in conversation witia with members of the expedition who bytheway by the way were a lot of old soaks being halt intoxicated aa all 1 the time the elders re reported porte d that plat the men informed Ini ormed them they had no ilea of ever getting the balloon started off it was simply the intention to make preparations and continue the preparations until the summer season had bad so advanced that it would be impracticable to attempt a flight in other words the expeditions expedition expedit io ns were a huge graft each years developments go to prove the report and this beare trial was another dismal failure Well mans trip to the north pole via airship air ship is coming coining to to be an international joke |