New-York tribune., 1910-03-30
SHACKLETON'S POLE
If HE LOST III
British antarctic Erplorer in
Lecture Tells of His Dash.

Carnegie Hall was packed last night TO
hear from the mouth of their leader the
story Of the daring. bravery. determination
and loyalty of a small party of British
subjects who risked their lives TO add to
the prestige Of the English nation by plac-
ing the nag OF their country on the south
Pole The story was mOdestly and enter
tGiningly told by Lieutenant Sir Ernest H.
ShackletCn. the man who planted his mai
esty's ensign within sight Of the South
Pole and who would have accomplished
his ultimate purpose had he had hfty
pounds more Of provisions"
Lieutenant Shackleton won the hearts of
his audience last night before he had
spoken five minutes Physically he is rep
resentative Of his country. Broad shoul-
dered. broad chested. his every motion
shows latent power and strength He told
the story Of his fight for the pole. aided by
numerous Illustrations and some interesting
moving pictures which he succeeded in
having taken in the Antarctic regions The
hEmor Of his descriptions kept his hearers
laughing AMI almost hid from them the
dark scenes Of privatiou and the suffer!ngs
which ever mar Of the party endured
There was some slight trouble I'm getting
the pictures properly on. which worried the
explorer considerably. II say. is this all the
point we have got:" the lieutenant asked.
disgustedly. when he was handed a rather
abbreviated rod ith which TO point out
particular spots on his pictures This re-
mark somehow caught the audience and
they made Carnegie Hall ring with their
laughter for several moments. laughter in
which It's cause finally joined.
Rufus H. Choate introduced Commander
Peary in a speech I'm which he lauded the
great American explorer and urged that
Congress give him soon official recognition
for his exploits. Then Commander Peary
introduced the speaker of the evening as
"the worlds leader in Antarctic explora-
tiou, the man who had won the title which
God Almighty alone can give-that of a
man When Mr.. Shackleton rose 10
acknowledge the introduction the audience
cheered him for several minutes
Lieutenant ShaCkleton rapidly sketched
the financial difficulties under which he
labored in getting his expedition started
its departure from New Zealand: the bad
weather encountered soon after the start;
and how the good ship Nimrod had missed
| by scanty fifty yards being crushed be-
tween an enormous ice foe and the great
fee barrier in Ross Sea. Then he told
of the hazardous work in scaling Mount
Erebus. the highest mountain of the
Antarctic region. He described the party's
winter encampment. and the long winter
night. lasting 120 days.
ION October Is. 1893, we started for tbs
South he continued. 'and on November
. we sent back our supporting party. and
the party consisting Of Adams, Wild Mar
shall and myself pressed on. We had soon
to begin relaying in carrying our provisions
and equipment, which meant that we had
10 walk three miles for every one We got
further south"
As they pressed on and on up the in
terminable glacier and still on south the
hardships became more intense billiards
and continued high winds became incessant
and the food allowance had to be fearfuIly
diminished. One day they advanced. only
six hundred yards Finally" the speaker
said. I'VE reached a point where I knew
we could make the pole. but If we did We
! could never have got back. With fifty
/ more pounds OF food we could have reached
, there and returned. IL was then that we
planted the British flag and turned north
That return trip was marked by fear
full sufferings from hunger. Full and tech
nical accounts OF the expedition and the
printed. but the public has never seen so
closely gIimpses of the every day life of
the men OF the party than were shown to
them last night.
The man from farthest North and the
''n,an from farthest South" sat side by side
yesterday at Z table in the Astor Hotel at
the luncheon given by the Explorers Club
in honor OF the latter while on the left
hand of the English explorer was Captain
Robert Bartlett. who commanded :he
Roosevelt during Commander Peary's last
dash for the pole. Aroung these men were
seated many OF the most prominent of the
American explorers. with a scattering OF
men from other nations who nave distin-
guished themselves in such work
l. Commander Peary made i short address
Of welcome TO the English explorer, during
which he told him OF his election TO the
Explorers club. Short addresses were made
by Captain Bartlett and William j. Peters,
OF the Carnegie non-magnetic yacht expe-
dition.
Among the guests We're Professor II. c.
Parker. % Columbia University; Marshall
RI. Savilie. vice-president OF the Explorers
CLUB: Donald Is. Mcmillan. OF Cornell Uni
versity. Henry Arctowski who led d Bel
sian Arctic expedition; Antony FiaIa. who
comma anded the Ziegler polar expedition;
Herbert L. Bydgman. Henry C. Parker.
who will attempt To climb Mount Mckinley
shortly John g. S5etson and Henry c.
Walsh.