Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-04
From the Boston journal. July ard.

DIR. HAYES ARCTIC ExPEDITIoN.-Th
arrangements of the expedition are so far com.
pleted that the vessel, Spring IIill," now n.y.
ing at Gray's wharf, will sail for the north on
Thursday. The officers are =
COMMANDMENTS. Isaac l. Hayes.
Astronomer, and second in command-Dr
August SOnntag
First Officers. G. Mccormick.
Second Officer-H w. Dodge.
Commanders Clerk-Geo f. Knorr.
Assistant Astronomer-Henry Radcliffe
Carpenter-Gibson Carruthers.
3 3rtist Not yet appointed.
The steward cook, and six seamen, seven.
teen in all, compose the whole ships compa-
ny.
The vessel is schooner of 40 tons, with
foretopsail. She is probably the strongest and
safest vessel that ever went into the Arctic
seas She has been strengthened like DR..
Kane's Advance, but with heavier and larger
beams. The Spring Hills beams are 12x12,
while the Advances were 8x10. She has
triple sheathing all around of two inch oak
While the Advances only went up to the
main chains her bows are sheathed like Dr.
Kane's vessel with 3-l6 iron up to the
fore chains and she is much faster vessel
than the Advance. These details seemed to be
necessary, as reports have been circulated dis
vessel. She has two fine boats "a feet long, of
the whaeboat fashion, and she will carry two
metallic iie-boats which can be run over the
ice on the keel, like slcdges. The great dan,
ger to vessels of ordinary construction is in
being crushed i'll the ice fields. The form of
the Spring Hill is such that when caught be-
tween the ice Tor "the nips," in the Arctic
voyagers' terminologyl, she will rise, some
times entirely out of the water, the crew in the
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The vessel will be fully provisioned for three
years, one half Of which will be fresh, as a
protection against scurvy, including two thou
| sand pounds of desccated beef and one thou.
sand cans of preserved meats. She carries
fifty tons of coal, that being an ample supply
for three years. The rate of consumption is
one ton month in the summer, and one ton
and halt i'll the winter. The crew will pro.
vide themselves with clothing at Greenland.
and there take on board twenty dogs and two
Esqumaux. The language OF these singular
paople is understood by Dr. Hayes and DIR.
Sonntag
The expedition is provided with complete
set OF magnetical instruments, and pendulum
for determining the form of the earth This
instrument has been constructed with the most
consummate skill by the Messrs. Bond of Con.
gross street, and is the first of the kind ever
made in this country. The pendulum is so
deHcately suspended that 1t swings five hours
by being once set in motion. A series of ex.
periments are being made with this instrument
at the observatory at Cambridge. A com.
plete set of astronomical, meteorological and
surveying instruments will be taken, all
of which will be used under the direction OF
DIR. Sonntag, who was the astronomer OF DR.
Kane's last expedition. DIR. Hayes is most
fortunate in securing the services of his late
skillful and and intrepid comrade. Dr. Som
tag leaves his position in the Dudley Observa
tory on furlough OF two years and half
ltor the government would not accept his res
ignation) and will resume his place if he live
to return.
We are sorry to hear that the expedition il
embarrassed by the non-payment of some o
the subscriptions to the fund, several "Metro
politan" gentlemen having "backed down,
because the expedition did not sail from thei
port