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ADASH FOR THE POLE
ziegler Arctic Expedition Par
ty Sails From Hoboken.
WINlEa IN FRANZ JOSEF LAND.
And In the Spring Of 1904 wiz Push
For the Long Sought spot of
Earth 60 Plant the Amer
lean Flag.

NEW YORK, May 26.-The party
which is to join the Zlegler arctic ex-
petition will sail from Hoboken to-
morrow on the Helig Olav under the
command Of William j. Peters Of the
National Geographical society Mr.. Pc
tiers Is chief of the scientific corps and
also second in command of the expedi-
ton itself, whose commander Anthony
Fiala accompanied by w. S. Champ,
started for Tromso some weeks ago to
superlntend the fitting out of the Amer
lea.
In addition, the party will include:
DR.. George Scharkley Of Camden. Me-,
chief surgeon; Dr. Charles L. Seitz Of
Evansville, Ind, and Dr. J. Collin
Vaughan Of Newark, n. j., assistant
surgeons; r. r. Tafel Of Philadelphia,
assistant in the scientific department;
Francis Long Of Brooklyn, meteOrolo-
gist: II. H. Newcomb of Bridgeport,
Conn, veterinarian; Sergeant Nichols,
Second United States cavalry; Charles
Il. Rilliet of St Louis, quartermaster
and in charge of sledge equipments;
John Yedol OF Everett, Mass, assistant
quartermaster; Spencer w. Stewart Of
Brooklyn assistant steward
The party will join the America at
Tromso and the expedition will leave
that port for Archangel and Franz Jo-
sef Land about July 1. 1t will winter
in Franz Josef Land and make the
dash for the pole if all goes well in the
spring Of 1904
A luncheon will be given to the mem
bers Of the party at l o'clock today at
the Lawyers club
Mr.. Peters, who has been in the
United States geological survey for
seventeen or eighteen years, was born
in Oakland, Cal.
DR. scharkley is a graduate Of Buck
nell university and Hahnemann Med
zeal college, Philadelphia. He was for
ten years an officer in the national
guard of Pennsylvania, was In the
United States volunteer service in the
Spanish war as first lieutenant Of the
Twelfth Pennsylvania volunteer infan-
try, was member of the Peabody mu-
scum Honduras expedition and was
surgeon to the Baldwin-Ziegler arctic
expedition.
DIR. Seitz graduated from the medical
department Of the University Of Penn
sylvania in 1890, was an inferno in the
Kings County hospital. Brooklyn, and
later a member Of the Baldwin-Zieglef
expedition.
DIR. Vaughan was brought up at sea,
has been a miner, prospector and trap
per and ran pack trains in Alaska and
the Hudson bay country.
Mr.. Long was born I'm Wurttemberg
and educated in Germany and has been
a weather observer in the New York
bureau. He explored Alexandria har-
Dor and westward TO Cary island and
was noted especially as the hunter Of
the party during the time Of its suf-
ferings at Cape Sabine.
Mr.. Newcomb saw service in the
remOunt and veterinary departments Of
the British army during the Boer war.
Mr.. Rilliet was the aeronautical engi-
neer Of the Baldwin-Ziegler expedition
and was particularly successful in
sending or balloons.
Mr.. Vedol. electrical mechanic, ac-
companied the Baldwin-Ziegler expe-
diton, taking part in the main sledge
journey.
Mr.. Stewart was the United States
champion long distance cyclist in 1901,
covering 22,O36 miles, and last year
was a member Of the New York Her
AIDS relief expedition to Martinique.