The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-25
|SHACKL ET0N PLANS B TRAINING TRIP TO
 NORWEGIAN GLACIER
Perfect Arctic Ration Will Be Tested by Companions
 Of Explorer.
Big Canadian-Bred Dogs Chos- en For Journey Across
 Icy Continent.

London, May 23.-With thoroug- ness which has always characterized his work. Sir Edward shackleton Is about to make a preliminary trial ex- petition under Arctic conditions in the glaciers of Norways This will be for the special purpose of testins the the rat1ons for his trip across the An- arctic continent. which he hopes to make in four and one half months time. No party has ever started out without having food depots, to make such a distance as that in a straight line. but Sir Ernest and his men have made special preparations for the at lstempt
 They have with the aia of the Royal Army Medical Corps. solved the per feet ration It will average only 35 ounces daily, as compared with the 3 pounds or more consumed by the average man. but 1t is believed it rep resents the highest nutrftive value for polar travel
 Sir Ernest will be accompanied by five members qa his staff when he goes to Norway to conduct experi- ments with these rations and also ! test his tents and motor sledges- The among the glaciers. While the. cold wall not be as intense as in the polar regions. the country will furnish the same sort of blizzards that are exper- fenced in the Antarctic
 The party will tesls the effect and potency of the rations in the most de- tailed fashion. Such an experiment. has never been made before.
 Shackleton's new ship, the Endur- ance has been almost completely nt- ted in Norway and will arrive at the London docks this month. She is 8 feet longer than his last ship Nirnrod She is a beautiful specimen of wooden ship building and probably the last l of her class that will be constructed Her whole keel is made of solid oak i've and half feet thick. and her sides are two feet thick.
 She belongs to the barkentine class, has the largest triple expansion en- zines, and will steam ten knots an hour. She is fitted to consume both oil and coal When In the Ice oil will be substituted for coal, which will mean economy if she is delayed dn the and fulI heat generated quickly. when the oil has been used the tanks will
 be filled with water ballast. The En-
 durance will take on q hundred ton Of coal bri1uettes at the South shetland Islands, so she will enter the Weddell
 Sea with full blinkers
 The second ship, Aurora. Intended
 for the Ross Sea side Of the expedi-
 tions has been purchased and will be
 delivered at Hobart, Tasnanias at hhe
 end of August. lzs S=
 The Endurance which is to operntel
 on che other aide Of the tAnfarcfEc
 will leave England early. in August
 for Ruenos Aires, where she will fin
 ally start for the Antarctic base In
 October Most of the members will
 leave England in the Endurance but
 Sir Ernest Shackleton will travel lat
 CT by mail steamer, and join his ship
 at Buenos Aires
 The dogs which corstitute. an ir,,r,e,r
 tant factor in the expedition, are a
 cross between wolf and aes scotch
 stag hound, and have been bred in
 northern Canada. The Iishtest of
 them will turn the scales at eighty
 pounds whereas the heaviest dog with
 the last shackIeton expedition weigh ;
 cd 45 ID s They have been selected by
 the experts Of fhs Hudson Bay Com
 panysand will be und fer the charge Of
 one of khei most e1 1pertenced drivers
 from Csanar1e. who was chosen by the Comm iesioners of the North West
 Mounted Police
 The latest appointments to the ex-
 pedit tionary staff are Sir Phillip Lee
 ErockIe1lurst, who was with Shackle- : ton on I907 and 1909 and " kaos ma de
 th . first ascent af Mount Erebus@ q nd
 his brother Lieut. Courtney Brockle-
 hurst of the 11th Husears Hundreds
 of applications for positions with the
 expedition have been received.