Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-05
PREPARING FOR
Trip TO POLE
SIR ERNEST sHAOKLEToN
HAS PLANE WELL IN HAND
Tol JOURNEY.
HAs FOOD SUPPLY DATA
Will Have sladges With Air Pro
pellors; Also Takes 100 Can
adian Dogs.
|HAs FOOD SUPPLY DATA

pellofS; Als0 Takes 100 Can
adian Dogs.
London, July ALI the provisions
for Sir Ernest Shackleton's trip
across the South Polar Continent are
to be packed In sausage skins. ''They
are the most nutritious part of the
composition" says Sir Ernest. Eve
tried them In Norway but did not
succeed. We shall no doubt do bet
ter at the South Pole when we are
more hungry
The menu prepared for the party
is not an enticing one. It has been
decided upon however, under the ad-
vice of the Royal Army Medical Col
lege and is made up of food that Is
easy to transport and at the same
time will keep the 'Dody warm and
strong. The rations will be 36 ounces
a day, compared with 4he average Of
three pounds q day eaten by the or
binary person. In the latter. there Is
a lot of waste which has been elimi-
mated from the rations of tho ex-
plorers.
There will be daylight during the
whole five months the party Is on the
march SO the ordinary day of twenty.
four hours will be disregarded, and !
new day Of nineteen hours establish
ed. Surprising the hour for rising on
the first day n seven O'clock, the
time table will work out on these
lines.
The Daily Menu
IS A. APPROPRIATIONS for the
start and breakfast, consisting OF
three ounces Of lard pr man., two
ounces of sugar. one ounce OF dried
milk, wheat protein and oats.
8-12 M.-March.
12-1 p. M--Rest and lunch, consist
ing of nnt food. composed of Brazila.
almonds, and beach nuts, mixed with
oil; and dried milk; oats.
Is p. M.-March.
~ P. M.-Pitch' camp, rest and
take dinner, consisting Of the same
food in the same quantity as break
fast. "
Il P. M. to 3 "A. M-sleep.
F ! AOG 60AAAAO 1VUAEU VI u1uOVCCu uOU1 |
will then be repeated.
Lard and SUGAR Give Heat.
Sir Ernest explains that the lard
and sugar supply heat; the protein
builds up muscless the nuts are the
most ~nourishing bod In the world;
and the oats, mixed with other rar
lions, afford the bulk necessary to
keep the organs from becoming afro
phied. "You. may feel rather sick
when you hear Of IL" said Sir Ernest,
Its rather q greasy compound. In
deed when we tried It N Norway we
thought 1t q very unpleasant sort Of
ration, but l can assure you that, SCI
entifically considered, II Is the finest
that has ever been devised. hope
that this time hunger win play a very
small part in our troubles."
Travel 1870 Miles.
AS the party intends to cut right
across the continent, march of 1900
miles, they will nave to carry all their
food with them, and cannot like pre-
vi0us explorers, whose objective was
the pole, depend upon. food depots on
the return march. Therefore the
greatest attention Is being paid to
provisions. The organization is per-
feet so far as human ingenuity can
devise. They are allowing fifteen
days food for billiards, but they can
go on much shorter rations II neces-
sary. To carry the food motor sledg-
es with aerial propellors will be used
for the first time, and in addition
there will be one hundred Canadian
dogs, which can carry 100 pounds
each.
Use Sleeping Hood.
For protection while sleeping q
sleeping hood, something after the
fashion of an automobile hood, is to
be used. This weighs 81 pounds and
accommodates six men, whereas the old
tents weighed 80 pounds and accomo-
dated three people.
The first nine hundred miles of the
Journey will be across land. never be.
fore covered by nan, and It Is here
that the chief difficulties are looked
for. With the last 500 miles Sir Err.
nest Is fairly familiar having crossed
and re-crossed it on his trip to the
pole.
The two ships for the expedition,
one to take his party out to the We'd
dell sea, and the other to bring them
home from the other side Of the con-
tinent, the Aurora and the Endurance,
are now getting ready for their voy.1
ages. The latter Is in London and
the former in New Zealand.
GETS ELECTRIC LINE.
Williston, N. D., July 4.---That the
electric railway line will have Crosby
for its other terminal had been def
1itely determined by the directors.