The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10

| From the New York Illnes.
 l ". H. McPhee better known the length and breadth of Alaska as "Bill' | McPhee, arrived here from Fairbanks, Alaska II was he who, with B. w. Grif-
 fin and Gus Peterson, financed the Lloyd
 party's successful march to the top of l Mount Mckinley in April of last year. | MePhee says he came here to see the city.
 but at the same time admitted that he
 was thinking about organizing another expedition to 'the top of the continent. When it was announced that Lloyds party had reached the summit of Mount Mckinley there were some who were skeptical. Among them were Prof. Fl. C.
 Parker of Columbia university, who him. self had failed to reach the summit in previous attempts The polar controversy was also aglow at that time, and the supplementary announcement that the Lloyd party had found none of Dr. Cooks
 records in a cartridge shell" on the peak of the mountain gave rise to the charge
 that the Lloyd expedition had been planned simply to discredit the pole dis coverer."
 T want to tell you one thing said McPhee, and it's about some people not believing that the Lloyd party reached
 the top of Mount Mckinley Any one who
 wants to tell me to my face that the ex-
 petition, which l helped to finance, did
 not get to the peak and plant the United States flag there will have to go back with me to Alaska, and I'll fix it so that he can see the flag for himself"
 When McPhee talks it is with the weight of his 290 or more pounds behind each word. Although only little past middle age, his hair is almost white He is miner of gold. and owns the Hotel Washington at Fairbanks, Alaska.
 'I'm a pioneer" he said. "and I want you to say so. I did see New York once, io years ago, and every time I look to right or left or up or down, I'm more surprised than ever in my life at the wonderful things in this city but for all that, l guess I'd starve in New York, and when I've seen everything l want 10 get back to the mountains of Alaska. I'll tell Tom Lloyd everything I've seen. "Td been in Fairbanks for a long time before we decided to scale Mount Me Kinley had seen it so often-were
 the nearest town to it, only about 1G0 miles from the base of the mountain l that I felt sure no man could ever climb | to the top. It was then I ran across
 my old friend Tom Lloyd. Tom told me he didn't believe that pr. Cook ever got
 to the top of the mountain. He said
 that there wasn't one man in 10000 who | had the lungs to climb above four miles | in the air on a steep mountain side. He
 told me that lie himself knew the noun
 tain better than anyone alive, and said he knew another man who also knew
 it from A to z, and that he had mo-
 ton to try his luck with the other man. | 'I planked down $500 on that idea, and
 then I met Gus Peterson and Griffin, and We decided to stake the Lloyd party to
 round trip. They made it. those boys | cid and they can do it again. Why, do
 you know, I don't believe more than
 few men outside of Lloyds party in l the whole world could do that trick It
 simply takes pioneers. men who were | born on the top of a high mountain. q don't deny that I'm thinking about
 starting another expedition. I hate this
 idea of anyone doubting Tom Lloyds
 word, and the only way to fix that up,
 suppose, is to take one of those doubt
 ing Thomases' along on the trip"