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...Lincoln Ellsworth of Manhattan, still missing somewhere up towards the Pole (TIME, June 1 et seq.) the Norwegian steamer Ingcrtrc, sent to rescue them, dropped anchor in a Spitzbergen fjord. A party of aviators aboard her unlashed their two seaplanes and waited for Amundsen's base ship, the Fram, to come back from the icefloes with a weather report before taking off for a flight to inspect horizons further north...
...Sandor Harmati, first violin, Mr. Wolfe Wolfinsohn, second violin, Mr. Nicholas Moldaven, viola, Mr. Emmeran Stocber, violoncello, will play Ravel's Quartet in F. Major. The program, by string quartet: Quartet in F. Major Ravel Fram Divertiments, E. Flat Major Mozart By string quartet and pianoforte: Quintet in E. Flat Major Schumann
...unfortunate who voyaged too far into the unknown, and although explorers of the present can maintain radio contact with the world outside, the fascination of the Far North still remains. When Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, who speaks this afternoon at the Union, made his historic voyage in the "Fram" over a generation ago, which took him neither the Pole than any other explorer had ever been, he travelled without wireless, and for months completely out of touch with civilization. Arctic exploration in those days had not yet acquired the certainty of scientific research; it was adventure, romance, and it carried...
This gave Mr. Baldwin the idea of filling caches with provisions and fuel and then setting them adrift on the ice. The Jeannette had followed the idea of floating with the ice-packs, but it had to be abandoned because of lack of coal; the Fram, under Nansen, had started from the wrong point. Mr. Baldwin advocates starting during the summer, so that by the time the ice-floes have been reached, winter will have set in and the cold will freeze the open sea around the ship, forcing it to float with the current. The Arctic regions would provide...
...north, this intrepid explorer, finding his vessel, the "Fram," solidly frozen in the ice, started with one companion, Johansen, for the unknown regions of the North Pole. They left their vessel, equipped with three sledges, two kyacks, and twenty-eight dogs, with provisions for the dogs for thirty days, and for themselves for one hundred days. When this stock was exhausted they lived on seal, walrus and bear meat, when they could get it. The account of the months these two hardy men spent in the polar regions is most thrilling. When a dog died or fell...