The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-08
HERO OF FARTEST SOUTH TELLS OF
 THE ANTARCTIC
Ernest H.ShackletOn Who Came Within 93 Geographical Miles of the South
 Pole.
Modest Narrative of Thrilling Ex- plOifS is Illustrated With
 Wonderful Moving
 Pictures.

A very large number of Bridgeport ] CTS saw as much of the South Pole last night as anybody has ever seen. | The pole consisted of an asterisk on 1 one of the light thrown maps exhibit ed by the Irishman, Sir Ernest H. 1 Shackleton, who came within 93 miles of the farthest south, and then was obliged to turn backward for lack of food.
 A large audience was present. but
 it was not a matinee audience. Never thelesS the intrepid explorer is young, and much better looking than most of
 the matinee idols who attract such
 audiences, and he had story of real
 heroism to relate, in which most of
 those present were seriously interest
 ed.
 It is not too much to say that
 shacl1leton's lecture brought the Ant
 arctic regions more wildly into the
 consciousness of his auditors than vol
 pictures, which accompanied the Iec-
 ture, and which had been taken main
 ly by other members of the expedi-
 tion than Shackleton, were wonderfully
 vivid. Especially did this apply to
 certain moving pictures taken during
 the early portion of the adventure.
 te. see that strange region something
 as it really Is. these moving pictures
 were an almost priceless pleasure.
 The Nfmrod, leaving New Zealand
 under escort. bearing 37 men. and sup
 plies for two years, escorted by a
 great steamer load of well .wishers, opened this portion of the exhibit.
 The film shifts the scene to Ross Sea, which is filled with pancake ice, leagues of flat cakes of ice.
 Again, the wake left by the Nimrod ice attracts applause.
 But more interesting to most, per- which showed those wonderful birds. 1 the Penguins, which weigh TO or 80 pounds each. stand as high as three l feet six inches, and walk upright. with 1 a waddle stately. yet indescribably 1 humorous.
 Absolutely fearless are these queer l expedition approach them freely. form | them into column, march them before | the audience in excellent formation by | twos, a spectacle seldom seen by men. 1 but now brought within the vision of l any who will take the time to see.
 Another. queer sight revealed by the which is being urged into the water | by a member of the expedition who is aided by stick. The great animal | is not in the least afraid of his hu- man companion, but doesn't like the stick, and slides his great bulk into the water with manifest reluctance.
 Other portions of the film show the process of. breaking camp. and sledg- ing with the aid of Manchurian pom Ies, and sledging as it finally had to be by members of the expedi- tion.
 Has anybody ever walked home mile or two in a stiff wind. through hausting work. But Shackleton and his men walk some hundreds of miles under just such conditions. hitched to 3 heavy s1edge, trudging through deep snow, which is sometimes crusted and sometimes soft They are obliged to climb great ranges of mountains; feet, so that they are comparable as elevations with Pike's Peak. There is no instant. in which the party must not be on it's guard for a deadly covered with snow.
 This is a trap ever yawning for the searcher after either pole. Shackleton narrowest of many such escapes. One of the Manchurian ponies broke through and was precfpitated into un- depths. Chunks of ice drop 2ed in where the pony disappeared gave back no sound
 Day after day the party was strug- sling nearer to it's goal. until< a. day came when they had food enough to ake them to the southern axis, but if hey reached it no food upon which to make the journey back. And for months now Shackleton and the three men who accompanied him upon the inal dash. had been on about half ra- ions; were not eating enough to con erve the animal heat and restore waste.
 shackleton set the union jack, which rad been given to the party by the Queen, and started hon The distance was 93 miles from the pole.
 The spectacle of that lone party of nen, turning their faces northward, with the symbol of their conquest tapping in the strong wind that blew, invited the auditors to applause that vas long and vigorous.
 The hOmeward Journey was made Inder enormous difficulties. The food ave out and they ate what was left f one of the Manchurian ponies, which they had left behind, dead. The ony made them so i'll that for num- er of days they. were unable to travel ar, or fast, and upon one day they ouId not travel at all.
 Hunger became their permanent tate, and food their favorite subject conversation. With much quiet umor did Shackleton describe their ak of what they would eat when hey once more reached their base of applies.
 The margin between themselves and cath was narrow indeed at the time Then they finally struggled into the eighborhood near Mount Erebus rom which they had begun the dash. 1g the main expedition, had hoisted he union jack at the south magnetic ole and had been relieved by the Tirnrod. The actual pole and the mag etic pole are some hundreds of miles E eparated. ne expedition. It was the climbing E Mt. Erebus, an active vo1canoe. ome of the most interesting of the ictures were of the sides of Erebus, s crater and of the great clouds of .eam that continually hang above it's eak. This peak is about as high as ripple Greek. It was conquered af- \ 1T many days of toll, but without loss life. Indeed, as the lecturer said
 was one of the unique features of i