Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-07-26

Ian expedition, which will
leave this city this month
IN search OF Crockerland, the unex-
piored continent in the Polar Sea.
which Peary saw through powerful
'neld glasses and named in 1906.
BY means OF the giant wireless.
members of the expedition, which will
. spend three years exploring and map
ping the land which Peary observed
far to the northwest of Canada, expect
20 be able to report daily progress or
the work to New York city-to be
! Role to talk" TO the Museum OF Nat
Sural History, father of the quest. and
TO their families and friends during
the long absence In the Arctic wastes.
The wireless calls sent out from ex-
Jpedition headquarters in Flagler Bay,
JEilesmere Land, will be picked up by
: the big Canadian government station
. ut Wostenholme Island, LOO miles
distant in Hudson Strait. and thence
will be relayed via Port Nelson and
other stations to New York.
On addition to the huge wireless
plant which will be established to con-
\ meet the Arctic with the United States
n sledges used by members OF the ex-
q petition in exploring the Polar wastes
will be equipped with portable wire
less outfits that at any time can be
set up and communication established
with the main station at headquarters
on Flagler Bay. In this way. scouting
parties and the sledges that make
the dash across the frozen sea for
oCrockerland will always be within
talking" distance with the base of
supplies
Had Captain Scott, the ill-fated Eng
lish Antarctic explorer, been equipped
with such portable wireless and big
receiving station at his base OF sup
plies, he could have sent for aid when
he and his heroic companions were
trapped in a blizzard on the great ice
barrier.
Tn addition to the wireless, Mr.. Mac
MILAN, who gained distinction with
Admiral Peary on the successful quest
OF the North Pole, has several other
Innovations in Arctic work he will put
Into operation on his Crockerland
search.
lie hopes to grow fresh vegetables
IN hothouses by the aid of burning
glasses which will be brought TO focus
on the sheltered plants during the
summer season when the sun is Wis
ible.
Scurvy is one Of the chief enemies
ne expects to encounter, and he hopes
that, If he is successful in raising
fresh vegetables during the period
while the sun is up, he will be able to
hold at bay this grim-visaged specter
OF the deep Arctic silences.
Then, too, he may take with him q
Great South Bay scooter, the first
of her genus TO invade the Arctic
Circle. The scooter is an amphibious
craft, native of the Great South Bay
of Long Island. She is built like a
boat, but equipped with runners or
the bottom and goes as well on tbs
water as on Ice. On smooth Ice the
scooter sails at the speed Of sixty
miles an hour, and in the water a
the speed of a regulation sail boat.
The trip Macmillan and six com
rades will make is believed to b,
one Of the most perilous that coulC
have been selected. The safety OF tn,
expedition depends wholly upon the
consistency of the winter ice in tn,
Polar Sea- and those who have spen
much of their lives in the far NORTH
have learned that Polar Sea ice is al
uncertain quantity on which to pill
life.
Briefly, the plan of the expedition
Is to leave New York on July or 4
60 push north, with several stops 70
the last supplies, until Cape York
Greenland, is reached about August !
From there the party will proceed T.
EIagIer Bay Ellesmere Land. wher
the headquarters camp will be bulls
The ship, probably Peary's famou
vessel, the Roosevelt, which Mr.. Mao
MILAN is now negotiating for. vii
return to New York and the sevet
members of the exploring party wi
set about preparing for the long. dar
winter.
Some OF the party will then pus
north through the mountains of Files
mere Land into Eureka Sound, an
through hansen Strait to Cap
Thomas Hubbard. the point IN