Show TO THE POLE walter We laia plan pin to reach beach there it was recently announced in the new york herald that mr walter wellman was to be the leader of an expedition into the polar region three years ago mr wellman was the head bead of an expedition which penetrated far into the tee ice at the north of SpItz spitzbergen bergen the new expedition will start norto some time next june taking the franz frani josef land route mr bellm wellman has just returned from eu europe rope and he held id a long conference with nansen namen concerning his plan which nansen approved with warm terms mr wellman says my plan is very simple we shall establish a supply station at cape flora which has just been abandoned by jackson the english explorer who returned without going as far north as nan nansen en did next autumn we expect to throw out a second supply station two or perhaps three degrees further north or within seven or eight d degrees agrees of the pole there we shall winter the following spring as soon as there is light enough to travel by we shall set out with sli six men sixty or seventy dogs and sledges determined to take make the best possible use of the favorable season the favorable season for work in that region is while the cold is still great say at temperature from sixty to fifteen below zero then the surface Is hard and sledging at its best in june the power of the summer sun produces slush slosh and renders rende rs travel difficult it if not quite impossible ble therefore we shall have from one hundred to one hundred and ten d days ays in which to make our effort actually all attempts to teach the north pole now days a are dashes dr nansen made his dash from the frato frata peary proposes to make inake a dash from the th t north of greenland dr nansen jamen be alieves liev es if he be had had a base of supplies to fall back upon and a large number of dogs he could have reached the pole dole he says it can be done in the way I 1 propose and I 1 am naturally eager to have a try at it and if possible to plant the american flag at atthe the spot where there is no other di direction action than south I 1 am well aware that many persons dersons think nothing practical is to be ga gained 1 11 ed by reaching the pole it chances that fam an enthusiast in this field and I 1 asli ask neither public subscription nor universal consent my party win be a mixed one as to with a few american scientific mm men and the others norwegians Norwegia ns 11 |