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Show ) IS ANDREI TET" ALIVE ? It is Probable that He Perished Soon After Departure For the Pole. It li now three year and four month since 8. A. Andree. lb Hwed-lth Hwed-lth aeronaut. In hit balloon row In air on Amsterdam Island and conn-dently conn-dently Mt out Cor the north pole To him w attracted at onee the hopeful and the nnxruu notice ot both the nclcntlDe and the unscientific In every country. It wa the most wondertully daring attempt ever conceived of In aeronautic and It absolutely eclipsed nil provlous enterprises conducted In ships and looking to Die discovery nt the north pole Mr Andre had been known ns nn aeronaut for twenty years, but he was something more lutor 8 a ANDiti:i:. than that Ho was n theoretical mechanic, me-chanic, who theories were believed to bo more sound than any other man's In Sweden's He was Indeed more than n theorist he had accurate knowledge of the practical arts nnd Invention of his time So well wcro his knowledKe and abilities known ,r .. that the Bwedlth government appointed appoint-ed him chief engineer of the patent office of-fice These facts, being generally In possession pos-session of the world public, strongly predisposed a large part of that public pub-lic to believe that ho would be successful suc-cessful In surpassing aeronautic undertaking un-dertaking Ho was no mcro visionary, nor light-headed adventurer so much was evident, and considering that ho had the encoursgement of tho most famous neronauts, tho pecuniary ns- tlitanco of sound business men and the oager sanction of King Osrar, there did not seem to be substantial (rounds for the belief of some In over tountry that Mr Andree giant balloon bal-loon would couvcy him In safety to the place where ho wished to be the place u yet undiscovered Nor was the Idea of crossing the polo In a balloon a new one It was of Trench origin and first conceived by Hlvel, who In 1873 laid his project before be-fore the Trench Society of Aerial Navi gation llut Hlvel lost his lit soon afterward af-terward In the accident to the balloon Zenith The Project la) In abeyant e until ISM. when It was taken up again by two 1'arlslnns Hermit and lleean- on who submitted a plan that was carefully and scientifically thought out to the minutest detail, but the means could not be raised to carry the plan even Into experimental effect Mr Andre, however, carefully examine! It and compared hi own with It and atlldled the daslan for tho balloon that vns not built Definite new vs expected to 1m rewired of Andrew before he had leen many days out for. M ha bees stated he was prepared with supposedly reliable mean of e o in m n Bleating with the low.-r world, but day pad and no new came V month elapsed an I still no news of him out of whl",i anything much could lie made Then Andrees friends and I ho wl entlela and tho pulille began to feel great itnxlety Six week elapse I nnd os nothing wm hoard of the nero-nam nero-nam that could be credited ah expedition expedi-tion waa sent out by tho Swedish tto- nXIM'.HTfl CON8IDI2II THAT AN ACCII1T.NT LlKi: thi: oni: iini'iirui) was i:ncuunti:iii:i ogmphleM and An- w' thropologlcal society In acarsh of An-dree An-dree This expedition reached the neighborhood ot the Lena delta, where n most perilous portion of tho Journey lay before them There they built n boat and In the necessarily frail craft crossed the open sen to tho mouth ot tho Olrnck and thenca proceeded to the new Siberian Islands, where, It waa believed, traces ot the Andrea expedition ex-pedition might be found Hut no traces ANOUUirs HALLOON AS IT Al'I'i: Vltl'l) JUST ATTKIl ITS A8CKNT FIIOM Sl'ITfellUllUKN JULY 11. 1837, AT : IS P. M TUN MINUTES LATT.Il IT WAS I-OST TO BinilT TOIH'.VKR were found and tho searchers mado their wny back to Sweden as best they I could Since then the search has In various ways been continued, but all without avail Imagined or faked reports ot Andrea's An-drea's safety nnd exact whereabouts have from tlmo to time been aent over the world whose effect has been to keep alive In many people the hopo that ho may yet bo found nllvo Hut the opinion of tho most Is that bo waa lost but a few hours or possibly a day I after his floatlrg sway from the sight ' of his friends and Vet If mi. h wrr i the fart It would seem et.atiji lit it ".-me indjspntaL o evidence v.' s nut iciig bgo dlstuvared llut It is not ru strange that no evidence of the disss ter ha been discovered, s would be Andre' survival after all these er lu the polar region An I now agalt men of nleme and meteorological ob-, ob-, servatlon are going ovc the known I facta and so long after the almost ter tain ratastmi In an able sitlsfictorlly to thernaehi to ea'ihllidi that Andree was ignornnt or dlKrexardfuI of me-teorologlial me-teorologlial enn . n and that he was more foi lhsrdy than any nt his predecessors had lieen And this appear ap-pear to be true enough Tor what warrant had Andree to conclude thil the favoring brerie direction nt Am Btirdant Inland was continuum i nil would tnus continue for several da)s7 SI hundred nnd Wo do know that there Is n limit to the uplifting tapaclty of any gas find that through the closest silk there Is still leakage If the Andree party came down In the great Siberian tundra with Its hundreds of mUes ot that Minos, knee deep wet moss, so well describe 1 by (loorgo Kennan as a terror to tr v el, to say nothing of the most i asperating asper-ating warfaro that would be ward by tho Illimitable, mosqultu pist. there would nine been scarcely one cbancs In 1.000 of their ever reaching flvlll-tatlou flvlll-tatlou These men were not trained. In Arctic Arc-tic athletics ns was Nansen and on what n slender thread hung thai explorer's ex-plorer's succor snd that ot bis comrade com-rade after they left the Tram and mado the foot Journey over the lea. Tho northern part of North America and Greenland would havo presentc I but little better chances for nuvli.es In perilous situations Would they make n voluntary descent des-cent with u view of rising again' It l bard to sea why They could do so only on land, nnd with lot of gas and great risk, nnd why, unless they sife ly reached the pole and descended to observe and explore should they do so, all ot which Is most unlikely In tho light of common mttr-oroUgy' The fata of these men has long since undoubtedly been settled Tho preponderating i bailees arc that disaster dis-aster camo soon after leaving Amsterdam Amster-dam Island, The chance of a long pi rlod of erratic sailing Is most remi tc No ono knows We ran do no mom than to present hypotheses, as cl conceited by strict nnnlngy as we tan construct them to old us In dciv ng Into the unknown We may think of .theso men In tho pathos of tender regret, re-gret, but In this matter It Is Impossible Impos-sible to accord to them tho posicsslou of tho self-evident sanity of common sense |