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The Seaforth News, 1930-10-09, Page 6Andree' Diary Reveals Explorers' Heroic Fight Party Apparently Wandered Without Any 'Definite Goal in Mind—Andree Praises Comrades Stockholm, Sweden—.Salomon Aug- use their canvas boat, but their hope vast Andree's own story of his expedi- tion's attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. 33 years ago was told on Sept. 19th by the Swedish Govern- ment, in a digest based on Audree's. diary. The wavering flight of the baleen northward from Danes' Island, Spitz, Bergen, its descent on the ice, and the vain struggle southward of its three occupants across the cruel, jagged ice fields Were thrillingly revealed, eyed- dngin the last optimistic entry almost three months after the start, when certain doom faced the Argonauts: "With such comrades, one should be able to get through under any eumstancee." So wrote Andree on Oct. '2, 1897, pencilling an unwitting valedictory to his two companions, Nils attend - berg and I{nttt Treelike!. The diary began on July 11, the date of the established their camp and thou start - start, and ended with a fitting fare- ed huntiug with the guns they had well ou Oct. 2. The expedition prob. carried from the balloon wreckage. ably perished not long afterwards. Their success was great and three Andree, the oldest of the three men days later they had a large supply who dropped from the shies to the of polar bear and seal meat and other ragged ice fields of the Arctic, reveal- provisions—enough, they estimated, ed 10 the diary the courage of the lit- to last until April of 1898, when they tie party as they fought their way might hope to continue southward 'back toward safety. Andree stood again In the Springtime thaw. up under the' terrible hardships with Apparently Andree was well pleas - the strength' of a man many years his ed with their circumstances. He•was junior and he constantly spurred the a veteran who could stand hardships hopes of his two companions, Nils and his two companions were young Strandberg and Knut Fraenkel, with and strong. Andree himc,elf was only words of .courage when necessary or 'with jokes. Continue scientific Researches The diary did not reveal the actual cause of the descent of the balloon on the ice, although it mentioned that Andree opened "the two valves of the big bag to permit a safe landing on July 14. The men were confident 'when they started their long home- • ward trek, over ice and Arctic waters that they would reach safey, but they were forced by weather conditions of reaching Sezen:Island was frustra- ted by the shifting icer. Oe September 12, just two months after their departure, from Danes Is- land, a period of cold and sterns set in, adding greatly to .their suffering, The next day the weather -was worse and 'their, progress delayed. After Several days in which the storms in- creased steadily they were forced to decide on their next move and agreed to prepare for a Winter on the ice. Sighted White Island They trudged on through the storm until . Sept. 17, when they sighted White Island. Andree, with hope that they could safely pass the Winter there, celled Its" white -blanketed surface "New Ice- land." Despite their hunting, the supplies were dangerously low again, They 43 years old. They started work on their camp, building a hut which the called their home for the Winter. They could escape the storms and cold inside their "home" and the confidence ot the leader of the expedition appeared great as they settled down for the Winter. He continued his efforts to keep up morale and to end humor in their experiences. Lost provisions and Equipment So it went for a week, then a few when they reached White' Island to more days in which they must have prepare a camp to the Winter held much bope that they would yet return alive to their homes in Sweden. Audree was working on the 14 -page Prescotont, firm electric tug to be built in Canada, is launched at book, entitled "Ice Observations,"I Lauzon, Que., a spot already famous in almai% of Canadian shipbuilding. months, They killed polar bears and seals for food—Fraenkel was chfgt cook— and they made a "lime" at the camp which he bad compiled during their' in which they finally died of exhaus- overland march, tion and cold, Audree enjoyed in- On October 2nd a storm struck the tensely "the delicious polar bear meat island. It was more violent than the and pancakes" which Fraenkel, who storms through .which they passed was suffering from stomach and tooth successfully la September and prob• trouble. prepared. ably marked the real setting in of But perhape most amazing of all Winter in the Arctic. The little as indicative of the courage ot the camp suffered much damage under three men who attempted the first the force of the wind and the meal aerial exploration in the Arctic was made a valiant effort to save their• that they continued their scientific 'hone,. 'ark almost until death closed their Despite their struggle, part of their icy camp on the little island north- provisions were swept away and some east of Nortiteaatland, Andres wrote of their equipment—with which they of how they collected 20 samples ofmight have improved their situation soil, ice and Arctic plants and made —was carried away or destroyed, many obeervtttlons which the , were1t y weret They y sea seed by their ltard- confldent would be ot great historical ships and Strandberg and Fraenkel, at and scientific value.least, were ill. The havoc of the Destination Never Definite I storm was a heavy blow to their Their exact destine:le was never hopes, definite nu the journey of several Audree wrote again that night it mil -s a day toward civilization, i Ills diary, "I a 11 a bit doubtful regarding the To Fraenkel and Strindborg he actual goal of our ice wanclerings," i made cheerful remarks ss he inscrib- wrote Andres on July 22. They had ed on Page 142 of his diary-: first honed to reach S�pitzbergen. On i "With such comrades, one should July 30, they decided instead to be able to get through under any car•' proceed to Franz Josef Land, but' cumstancea." were forced to make a camp for Win -1 ter on White Island. They sighted, Spain Raises Tax On U.S. Cigarettes Madrid.—Cigaretts imported from the United Stator now cost in Spain about three times their price at home. They used to cost only twice as much. The price was tilted as a result of the new Spanish tariff and the continued depression of the peseta. The new tariff does not list tobacco, but "the government tobacco monopoly has a little private tariff of its own, which it has revised upward. ti Beware -Poison! To avoid mistakes with poison, in the dark or through carelessness, when it must be kept in the house, push two stout, sharp -point -pins cross- wise through the cork of the bottle. The pricking points warn even the mast dateless of danger, When poison has accidentally been swallowed, mix 2 teaspoons of mustard in a cup of warm water and swallow it, A doctor should, of course, bo called. A Canadian: Product White Island on September 17, after five days of increasing cold and storm, Andree called it "New Ice- land." Later, on October 2, they were to have a desperate and losing fight against the storms which crashed over the barren island, destroying dart of their cherished provisions. The communique, giving the story of Andree's diary, covered the 142 pages of the little book found on the explorer's body by the expedition of Dr. Gunnar Horn, a Norwegian scien- tist, who visited White Island August 6, last. The first :rotation in the diary was on July 11, 1897, the day the big balloon with its double-decker basket departed from Danes Island for the North Pole flight. The last notation was on October 2, when An- dree was still confident that the party would get tough to safety "under any circumstances," The diary did not give satisfactory details of various happenings oa the polar expedition, and it failed to clear +up many circumstances of the flight 'which will be revealed only by min- ute study of all documents available, !the Government experts announced. Tried to Hide Suffering The diary indicated, however, the manner in which each man had tried to hide his suffering and continue (southward. They told anecdotes ie hen forced to rest atter a particul- arly difficult march of perhaps lees than a mile, and made a brave effort ito maintain courage. On the fourth_ day of August, waren rthey gave up hope of reaching Franz Josef Land, Land, they were at 82,17 north, 29.43 east. With desperate Courage and great endurance they bad progressed about 40 miles in 12 days. The shortage of food, which became their most serious problem within the arext few days, forced them to hunt bears and seals. Andree, in one en- try 10 the diary, observed humorously that Fraenkel was "chief cook" and commented on the delicious food he prepared in the midst of barren wastes. An insect sting or bite on the upper u r Late. as they approached nearer' lip is said to 'be much more danger -I A safety, they had an opporturlty toons than one on the lower lip. "Say, Pa, what do you call a pe 'son that reads heads?" eA phrenologist, my boy." "Gee. Then Ma must beg one of those things. She felt my head this afternoon and said right away, 'you've been swimming'." Milky Way Merely Star Clouds �. Not Stars, Astronorir><er Holds Probabilities that elsewhere in space there aro stellar universes like ours are increased by a new interpretation at Harvard of the shape of the Milky Way, The idea is proposed by Dr. Ilarlohv Shapley, director of Harvard Observe- tory. It promises to help clear up a mystery which bas puzzled astrono- mers. This mystery is that our sun seems to belong to an organization of stars immensely larger than any other star group, Suck oversize Is Inconsistent with other modern discoveries that, even out of the linri" of telescopic vision, everything Is made of much the same substance as the earth ,and that the same physical laws prevail. If this Is true what accounts for the swollen size and shape of our section? The solution is new evidence that there is no such unique grouping of stars near earth. They have only seemed so massed because of compara- tive nearness and our incomplete an• alysis. Now our stellar system is being sep- arated into sections by information obtained from thotlsaads of Star photo- graphs. So it begins to appear that our "galaxy," the Milky Way, as astrono- mers call the celestial organization surrounding us, which is so wide that light takes about 250,000 years to cross it, instead of being a somewhat con- tinuous stream of stars, is a group of star clouds, each one from 5,000 to 40,000 light years in diameter. The sun is a member of one of these clouds which probably is 6,000.to 8,000 light years across. These individual star clouds have about the same sizes as galaxies ob served elsewhere in the universe ,thus conforming to conditions visible else- where. There is a further conformity in the new evidence. If our Milky Way is a group of star clouds instead of one single system, then in size it is much like other families of star clouds which can be seen at vast distances. Our own home star cloud may be whirling, Dr. Shapley says, about a center located iu the constellation Carina, Otto domestic group is far from a crowded area in the Milky Way where star clouds se'm to gather the thickest in the direction of the con- stellation Sagittarius. That area ap- pears to be a massive center of some kind. Musical Wite—"It's strange, but when I play the piano I always feel extraordinarily melancholy," Hus- band—"So do 1, dearest" A certain. lift -boy in one of the big stores hated to be asked needless questions, One day a rather fussy old lady entered the lift. "Don't you ever feel sick going up and down in this l.ft all day?" she asked. "Yes, ma'am." "The motion of going up?" "No, ma'am," "Is it the stopping that 'does it?" "No, ma'am." "Then what le 1t?" "Answering questions ma'am" Modern Relief Methods ro-wthF 'of the Boy- Scouts. Revealed by World Survey, Membership Npw Nearly "2,000,000, Forty-three Countries in All Being Represented A world membership of nearly. 2,- :twenty-four out. of twenty-five targets. 000,000. with organizations' ht forty. to .win the Grand American` Handicap. two codntrles comprises according to In the. matches held at Dayton, Ohio, this shoot -off was necessitated when recent compilations' ` of, the Interna- ;ging broke 997 "ot 1,000. targets to tie tional Scouting Bureau, of London,. Dan Casey of Toledo; J. L. Scott of made public by Dr. Jaynes E. West, Kansa* City and -5.' L. .Crampton of Chief Scout Executive' ;of the . Boy Dayton., Scout I{ing;was wildly ac - Scouts of Ameripa: The report of elalmed by 10,000 spectators of the :the International Bureau also an- contest when he clacked .his -last tar- nouuces the admittance of the Boy get. The new "grand champion has Scoots of the Republic of Guatemala shot at but 1,500 registered targets. into the international organization, He began trap -shooting a year ago effective Nov. 22. This will bring and had never won a trophy of any the nations listed to forty-three, The 'sort until his recent victory. His figures of the report show that the `.unerring marksmanship in using the Boy Scouts of. America have the lar- saine gun with whici_ his father won gest enrollment of any nation, the doubles championship in 1922 The new Guatemala Scout organize- brought him out at the head of a (Boy Scouts Guatemaltecos) have as field of 966 experienced"trap-shooters. their president, pr. Lazaro Charon, Scouts Aid With Harvest president of Guatemala, and. as Chief Boy Scouts of France to the num- Scout, Charles Cipriani. ber of 4,000 rendered conspicuous Records of the Bey Scouts of •service to their nation this Summer America. show than at the close of by aiding in the harvesting of crops. the year '1929 there was a total of. Faced with the prospect of having 842,548 Scouts and leaders enrolled, their large crops destroyed unless an increase of 22,767 over the pre- they could be -quickly -harvested, vious year. French farmers appealed to the Chief Great Britain, with a total mem- Scout of France and'.as-a result the bership of 054,130 at the close of Stouts volunteered 'their services. 1929, was tire: second Largest of the, .There are three different organize - Scout organizations, followed by Ja- pan with a total membership of 49,- 611. A Young Scout -Marksman Allred R. T{ing Jr., 15 -year-old Boy Scout of Wichita Falls, Texas, is king of American trapshooters. The Texas boy made trap-shboting history when In a shoot -o8 with three vet- erans, all much older, he scored streams. tions of Boy Scouts in France and all of them this year report increased' memberships. In the United States, Boy Scouts of Dodge City, I{an., duce ing theadrought removed more than 10,000 fish from water holes in small streams that were fast drying up' and, as a community good turn, transplant- ed ransplanted the fish to other and larger Canada Adds 378,400 H.P. According to the Dominion Water Power and Reclamation Service of Canada, the total number of hydro- electric. installations in the Dominion is now 2,727,600 horsepower, au in- crease of 378,400 horsepower during 1929. Mr. Slowit: "I-ereer-am going to tell you something that er-er-will no doubt surprise you. bar-er-:!link—" Miss Knutting: "Well, that is a sur-, prise. Tunny I never noticed it be -e,' fore. How long have you been think- ing?' A Greengrocer's Window -'»Granges gleaming in tawny splend- our, Lemonsand limes of the palest gold, Grapes with the bloom on them soft and tender, Sung in their mantles of purple roiled. "Turnips like chaplets of pearls a -I glowing, Carrots rose -flushed as the skies at e'en, An old Negro was very late for his work, and when his boss reprimanded him he said, "Well, sir, it was like dis. When Alt looked, into de glass dis morning I couldn't see myself there, eo Ah thought Ah must hab gone to work. It was two house tater dat Ah' discovered de glass had dropped out ob de frame." Butterflies' AIso Go South During the Winter' "Most people know. ,.that locusts migrate, but few realize that similar movements take place• among other insects, particularly dragon flies; but- terflies, and moths,." said Mr. Ce B. Williams, speaking oar the migration, of Lepidotera. "In the tropics ctrl servers have seen hundreds of thous-" ands of butterflies. moving steadily in one direction, sometimes' for !lours on end, sometimes even• for days: Or weeks_ "The monarch or milkweed' butter- fly of North America is found during the summer throughout the greater part of the Continent. In the. aum- tunnt they collect together in groat bands, and fly a thousand or so miles'' south, where they winter. Ia tire' spring they fly north, laying eggs: as' they go. In Europe,' North Africa, and Western Asia the greatest mi- grant igrant is the Painted Lady butterily, which in the spring crosses the Sa- hara and Egyptian deserts from some unknown sources, crosses the Medi- terranean, files more or less •north- ward through Europe, reaching Brit- ish shores in early June. Some- times individual stragglers are seen in the extreme north of Iceland or Within a few degrees of the Arctic circle. 'The whole distance of these Rights Is between 2,0.00 and 3,000 miles, but it is not possible to say with certain- ty if any one individual bidet -fly cov- ers the whole distance or if at is cov- ered by two successive generations, for the butterfiles lay eggs as they go. "Butterflies appear to have an urge to fly continuously in a fixed direction, and to maintain it lit spite of dis- turbances due to wind and obstacles in their path. They have even been recorded as flying through railway tunnels." "Play Only" Schools During the recent summer holiday, London County Council schools were all opened as "play centres," games. and toys being provided to amuse'the children and keep them off tire streets ih-uWet weather. Use of Cumbersome Teinais Is Deplored by Scientists Humble Bumble Bee Has Technical Name Composed of Five Words—Small Fish Equally Burdened A movement. ie on among scient-: lets to simplify their cumbersome technical terms. It is under the lead- ership at a group of Cornell profes- sore. Many scientific terms used to- day . are almost too long and too un- wieldy to he pronounced by the in- vestigators themselves. In some cases, scientists giving public lectures have contented themselves by display- ing the names of specimens on a screen, thus avoiding the problem. One name against which a protest is raised is: Oullumanobumbus silent- semonolr tiauehansliyl Shorlltov,. It is long enough and big enough to be the name for a dinosaur. Instead, these five words constitute the name of a small, humble member of the bumble bee family, Even biologists have trouble with suck a name. The bumble bee is not an exception. Other specimens have as long and as hard names. .For instance, the name of a certain very small fish is, Mi- crostonratiwichthyobartts basltfocd Loading 5,60Z1'blilids of surgical dressings, antitoxins and anaesthetics I deanit Nicholls and Criscora. A' g g ' small crustacean bears this unwieldly Mi - aboard United States naval aeroplane for delivery in Santa Domingo to relieve hurricane stricken oityc series of names: Brachyuropuehkyder- matogammaruegrewinglf mnemone- , ( thus Dyboweki. Part of the use of these terms Is due to the fact that when a discovery is made, the discoverer is allowed to give his own name to the find, Hence, a biologist, for example, discovering insects adds his name to the rest of his description. Professor James G. Needham of Cornell University, pro- testing against this practice, says that the custom has ' multiplied "beyond reason" the volume of scientific terms, The Cornell University professors say that the advance of ,science is hindered by the existence of this Un- Wieldly Sad cuiubereotne 'lingo,' An inyesi gation is prox1054d to develop a net plan for' creating names, work - ng on those three: suggestions'' First, that a name should be a name and not a deflriition; Second, it shothi pot be a melno2tat inscription, find third, that it should not be a treatise on relationships, Professor A, A. Michelson is among those who find the present scientific terms in need of change. The fa -1 motes Chicago scientist in a, recent address found himself bothered by the pronunciation of the name of a cer- tain afar and on -he spur of the mom- ent substituted another name, Sea -Sickness Is Bone of Contention: Eminent Physicians and Sun. goons Say Ship's Doctor "Kiiocwrs• Best' "Drink whisky", "Don't drink. whisky", "Smoke strong. cigars" ' "Don't smoke at all", "Eat five good, hearty : meals • a day", "Restrict you,' self to very light meals", "Get Aleut;. of ' exercise", -"Lie ,Around arid take things easy", "Eat all your. meals lri. the dining saloon", "Take your meald; on the deck if you, feel squeamish and a dozen other rehredies for sea, sickness were discussed' recently b,►' 100 of Great Britain's foremost Physi- cians and surgeons before they sailed for home on the Canadian Peels liner Duchess of Richmond. The diversity Of opinion was so great that before the liner sailed the medical party had'' divded ltseli tote,. two schools of thought. One Irish= surgeon told interviewers that a simi- lar discussion had 'taken place when they departed from England. "IP that. subject had been on the agenda at the British Medical Association meet. ing we, attended he Winnipeg the dig- oussion would stilt be going on," lei said, "and not. one of us could have offered a constructive suggestion. "Sea -sickness is a mental condo bine;' a Harley street physician said, "if you.'make up' your mind that yen are not going to lee ' ill you won't bet" Which sentiment might have got by had. not a colleague chipped in .with the remark, "Then you must leave made up your mind to be sick on the: way- to Canada„ doctor. And 'slime* deseend'ed upon the group. By. the. time the lest wkfstte Wave fleie minutes before the Duchess of Richmond east, off her hawsers, one conclusion was. reached, and the 101 doctors: agreed as one man what theft course• would, be' If overtaken by blue malady. Cuollectively they agreed that the proper practice• would be to call im the. ship's: dontor. He know' more. about itthane we: dbf"' F x -Food. Left. High. And Dry on. Shoals Pilot Whales: Stranded' While Chasing. Small' Fish. Near P:E.I.:oast Lox farmers o£ the Summerside. and. Barden districts of Prince Edward. Island. havereceived an extretnely'use- ful visitation, fr0rm the sea- (lo, the. afternoon. of Friday,, August 15, no. less than 72 pilot whales„ a blacklela were stranded en` the shoals !between, Seven -Miler Bay- and Barleton Iieatl near Barden,. News of the stranding spread, throughout the district, and crowds hurried to the beach where the laig; mammals were caught by the ebb, tide and unable to escape. The work of despatching began. Some of the carcasses were hauled on shore by horse or motor, while others were tow. et. to Summerside by steamers requt- sitioned for the task. All the following day fox men of Summerside and surrounding settle- ments were busy capturing the strand- ed whales and preparing them for cold storage. In Norway, whales of this type are used extensively for for food. In atleast one instance, the captors were treated to an unpleasant surprise by their haul, for an express wagon was completely demolishedby a whale coming back to consciousness an the way to a ranch. The weather was fine at the time the animals dame' in, and the assump- tion is that they were following small- er fish. They have been seen around the Prince Edward Island shore on numerous occasions chasing fish, and, indeed, a few years ago a number were stranded in such the same man- ner near Summerside, and at Pictou, Nova Scotia. SHARK-LII{E MOUTHS The pilot whale, fir' blackfish, range in size from sighr to forty feet its length, and weighs from 500 to 3,500 pounds. They have a large square nose and very small eyes, and a mouth shaped like that of a shark with two rows of very sharp teeth. Bank of England notes are regard- ed as sight' notes of a commercla] company and not as British Govern• meat notes in France; it is, therefore, not a criminal offence to forge thee& in that country. • A man was given a carpet to beat, and on bringing it beak to the lady of the house, she.. reproachfully said, "Those holes were not there when E gave you the carpet." "Well, ma'am," be replied, "it they- weren't there, wherewere liley?" Hubby—"Here is ten dollars, dear: Don't you think I deserve a utile epi' please for giving it to you withodt be. ing asked for it?" • Wife—"Applause!. Why, darling, I' think you deserve:tux encore!" Ali 014 WOW—atwas g1W2Y9 9lt nr Ilei' various diseapas Were to her the most interesting topic in the world. and apparently she thought they fa- terested others also, for She tallied of nothing else. One day a visitof found her eating a hearty meal and, naturally, asked her how eke was. She sighed and answered:—"I feel very well, ma'am, but I always feel bad when i feel well, because I know 1 am going to feel worse afterwards."