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Show Adventurous Life Ends. In 1906 and 1909,' when Walter Wellman, who recently died, attempted at-tempted to reach the North Pole in airships, he was popularly acclaimed acclaim-ed as a "nut" and became the subject sub-ject of many jests and much ridicule. ridi-cule. This was not lessened in 1910 when he, with a crew of five men, attempted to cross the Atlantic O-cean O-cean in the airship, American, a dirigible of the balloon type. Mr. Wellman did not succeed In any of his expeditions which he organized or-ganized in a definite scientific spirit. spir-it. Earlier in his life, in 1894, and also in 1898, and 1899, he attempted to reach the North Pole on foot. Regardless of the failure that dog-forts. dog-forts. Moreover, he managed to surged sur-ged his attempts, Mr. Wellman lived to see others succeed in similar ef-vive ef-vive all of his expeditions and to bring back alive all members of his crews. He passed away recently at the age of 75. His 1909 Polar expedition ended when its airship collided with icebergs ice-bergs and the earner effort was a-bandoned a-bandoned when one thousand tons of provisions broke loose. The effort to cress the Atlantic, which certainly certain-ly captured public imagination, w?s made with a gas bag 228 feet long and 258 feet wide, with various appurtenances ap-purtenances dangling underneath, including three engines capable cf sending it along at twenty-five miles an hour. It also carried a wire'ess set which reported good prcgresi for several hours after the flight began and until a strong wind blew the dirigible off her curse. The flight lasted for seventy-nine hours and the survivors were picked up about three hundred and seventy miles off Caps Hatteras. |