Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-11
BY HERBERT COREY.

| LONDON. July :.-Imagine a wireless
S o s. being sounded from the antarc-
| tic pivot of the world-from the south
pole itself:
| "Hurry-we are dying
And then suppose this answer flashed
back across leagues of polar snow from
| the quarters on Weddell sea from which
the Shackleton expedition will start for
its march across the antarctic continent:
Cheer up. Motor sledge No. is on
| the way to your rescue"
Not probable. of course: but possible.
For Sir Ernest Shackleton will in his
forthcoming expedition depart from
formula and tradition in attacking the
secrets of the utmost south. Always in
the past polar explorers have placed
their main reliance upon legmuscle and
endurance and q capacity to eat dog
| when the pemmican was gone-and when
the dog was gone to get on somehow
| without eating anything. If nothing
happens-that if killed Scott and once
before cost Shackleton the pole-two
striking innovations will be introduced
in this sortie through Antarctica:
Shackleton will travel in motor sledges
driven by air propellers.
He will seek to remain constantly in
wireless communication with the expe-
dition's base.
Then add certain novelties in polar
work which will insure positive luxury
to the party-unless that polar ''if' in
tervenes. 'Shackletons men will carry
with them:
A hot cupboard for drying soaked
clothing;
A steam cooking plant on which to
make "hoosh':
Tents that can be put up in two and
one-half minutes In any sort of wind; =
A new sort of food, which is not only
higher in Matchmaking value than any
yet tried. but will do away with one
source C frost bite.
Shackleton Well Prepared.
Shackletons expedition. upon which he
will sail from London upon some bank
holiday in August. is greater in its scope
| than any previous polar project. 1t some
what lacks the sporting interest OF the
| repeated dashes to the north and south
| poles. it is true. Peary pegged down the
| flag Of the United States the finale to
| a series of daring rushes toward the top
| of the world. Amundsen, for the Nor
] wegians. travelling fast and light. beat
Capt. SCOTS British expedition for the
southern honors in the tragic competi-
ton that is too well remembered In
each instance the pole finders sought
only TO get to the pole-and then back
again. Shackleton hopes to get to the
south pole-and past it-and march the
| full length of the antarctic continent.
| This is not less than 1900 miles.
| why are YOU going to try to do it,
| asked Shackleton in the rooms of the
| imperial transantarctic expedition. New
Burlington street. He looked at me i'm
patiently. No doubt the question seem
ed a foolish one to him.
| possibilities of MISUNDERSTANDING
interest-trace course of the Victoria
range" he snapped. Then the Impotence
went out of his eyes. and he smiled in a
| thoroughly human, boyish. sporting sort
of way that made one understand why he
is such d wonderful leader of men. For
a moment he tried to explain to me just
| what attraction lies i'll league upon league
of ice and continuous billiards and dis
comfort which at any second may merge
with tragedy The impression he left
upon me was later voiced by one of his
men. to whom | put the same question.
| Because it is the one big thing left in
the world for man like Shackleton to
lido"
| Exploring Continent.