Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-26
A DASH FOR THE POLE.
zeigler Arctic Expedition Party saiis
 From Hoboken.

From Hoboken.
 NEW YORK, May 26.-The party which is to join the Ziegler arctic ex- pedition will sail from Hoboken to- morrow on the Helig Olav under the command of William J. Peters of the National Geographical society. Ar. Pe- ters 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 Tron1so some weeks ago to superintend the fitting out of the Amer ica.
 Tn addition, the party will includes Dr. George Scharkley oI 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, rneteorolo- gist; Fl. H. Newconb of Bridgeport, Conn, veterinarian; Sergeant Nichols, Second United States cavalry: Charles E. Rilliet of St Louis, quartermaster and in charge of sledge equipments; John vedol of Everett, Mass, assistant quartermaster; Spencer ". 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- sci Land about July l. It 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 1 o'clock today at the Lawyers club.
 MT. Peters, who has been in the United States geological survey for seventeen or eighteen years, was born Tn Oakland Cal.
 Dr. Scharkley is graduate of Buck nell university and Hahnemann Med teal 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.
 Dr. Seitz graduated from the medical department of the University of Penn sylvania in 1899, was an interne in the Kings County hospital, Brooklyn. and later member of the Baldwin-Zieg expedition.
 pr. Vaughan was brought up st sea- has been a miner, prospector and trap per and ran pack trains in Alaska and Fhn HI1dSnY1 Trox fAa11y1 %xsvw
 Mir. Long was born in 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 it's sufr ferfngs at Cape Sabine.
 Mir. Newcomb saw service in the remount and veterinary departments of the British army during the Roer war.
 MT. Rilliet was the aeroaauticai engi neer of the Baldwin -ziegler expedition and was particularly successful in sending off balloons.
 Mfr. Vedol, electrical mechanic, ac. companied the -Ziegler expe. dition, taking part in the main sIedgs journey.
 MT. Stswart was the United States champion long distance cyclist in 1901, covering 22,036 miles, and last year was a member Of the New York Hes aids relief expedition to Afartinique.