The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-05-23
SHACKLETONT TO
TEST OUTFIT ON
TRIP IN NORWAY
Will Try Out Rstions and Equip
ment for Antarctic Expedition

London, May 2l.-With the thor
oughness which has always character
lied his work. Sir Ernest Shacklcton
is aboat To make preliminary trial
expedition under Arctic conditions i'm
the glaciers of Norway. This will he
for the special purpose of testing the
rations for his trip across the Antarc-
tic continent, which he hopes to make
i'm four and half months time. No
party ever started out without hav-
ing food depots, To make such a dis
lance as that in straight line. hut
Sir Ernest and his men have made
special preparations for the attempt.
They have, with the aid of the Royal
Army Medical Corps, evolved the per
feet ration" II viii average only 30
ounces daily, as compared with the
three pounds or more consumed 10y the
average man. but it is believed it ..p-
rcsents the highest nutrtivc value ror
! polar travel
Sir Ernest will be accompanied 10y
five members of his stan when he goes
To Norway To conduct experiments
with these rations and also test his
tents and motor sledges. The party
will don polar kit and travel among
the glaciers. While the cold will not
be as intense as in the polar regions,
the country will furnish the same sort |
of sudden billiards. as are experienced |
i'm the Antarctic.
The party will test the effect and |
potency of the rations i'm most detailed |
fashion. Such al experiment never
has been made before.
New Ship Well Equipped.
Shackleton's new ship the Endur-
ance, has been almost completely fit d
in Norway and will arrive at the Lon
don docks this month. She is eighteen
feet longer than his last ship Nimrod.
She is beautiful specimen of wooden
ship building, ana probably the last of
her class that will be constructed. Her
whole keel is made of solid oak five
and half feet thick, and her sides are
two feet thick. She belongs to the
class, has the latest Triple
expansion engines, and will steam ten
knots an hour. She is fitted TO con-
ice. oil will be substituted for coal,
which will mean economy if she is de- ,
ayed i'm the pacll--as the boilers can
be kept warm and full heat generated
quickly. When the oil has been used :
he tanks will be filled with water bal !,
asst. The Endurance will take on 100
-ons of coal briquettcs at the South
= - iGlg |
Neddell sea with full bunkers.
The second ship, Aurora. intended
or the Ross Sea side of the cXpcdi-
ion, has been purchased and will bee "
delivered at Hobart, Tasmania. at the
md of August.
The Endurance which is to operate
m the opposite side of the Antarctic.
viii leave England early in August for %
iuenos Aires, whence she will finally "
tart for the Antarctic base i'm Octo-
'er Most Of the members of the ex-
edition vii leave England i'm the En- .
urance but Sir Ernest Shackleton viii i
raVel later by mail steamer, and join =
is ship at Bucnos Aires. %
Dogs Especially Selected. .
i' u'SSr WHICH constitute an I'M |
ortant factor in the expedition, arr ~
cross between wolf and q Scotch
tag hound, and have been bred IN -
orthcrn Canada. The ightest of them
ill tuln the scales at eichty pounds -
'hcreas the heaviest dog with the las. %
hacklcton expedition weighed a.
ounds. They have been selected ~ r.
ne experts of the Hudsons Bay COM r
any, ana will he under the charge of
ne of the most experienced drivers
ON Canada. who was chosen by the
OF the North West
ounted Police.
The latest appointments To the OK "
stationary star are Sir Philip Lee
rocklehurst, who was with Shacklc-
N I'm 1907 and 1909 and who made the
st ascent of Mount Erebus, and his
other Lieut.. Courtney Brocklehurst OF
the 18th Husars. Hundreds of ap- ia
icants for positions with the cxpdi- IN