Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-02-16
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NOVELIST
Barrie Comes Forward With
Handsome Contribution to
South Pole Venture Of Brit
iSh Army Officer

ESPECIAL eoRREsPoNbrEcE TO MORNING JOURNAL
New York Feb. 15.-The reason Sir
Ernest shackleton has been able to
announce that he has finally collected
the necessary funds for his Antarctic
expedition is that Sir j. NJ. Barrie, the
playwright has come forward with the
remaining sum desired it was learn
ed today
The Barrie contribution without
which the expedition would not have
been possible, was made with the sim
gle stipulation that If should be kept
private, Even now the donation is
not known in London.
The sum with which Barrie has
rounded out the funds deemed neces-
Isary for This newest dash TO the South
pole is $4,000 The entire equipment
needed can now be furnished accord
ing TO the estimate Of Sir Ernest
Shackleton. The expedition win start
from Buenos Ayres I'm October the
object being to cross the south polar
continent from the Weddell sea to the
Ross sea, q distance Of l,7G0 land
miles More than half this distance
viii be over an entirely new route
Charles Frohman, who has pro
duced an of Sir j. NJ Barrie's play
in England and America and is on
Of his closest friends explained to
night the probable reasons for Ear
rie's great interest in the Shackle
ton polar expedition.
Knowing MT Barrie's extreme sen
sitiveness TO any publicity concerning
his gifts" said Mr. Frohman, i d
not wish to be quoted ass confirmln
Tor denying the fact that ne has COM
peted the sum necessary for The
shaekleton expedition But il You
say it is SO, 1 can easily explain the
donation.
Two influences make Sir Ernest
Shacklctons coming polar expedi-
zion am event for j. M, Barrie one
is typical of Barrie sentiment and the
other of Barrie heredity
zone of the closest friends of the
late Captain Scott was j. M Barrie.
Peter Scott only son of the dead ex-
plorer, is Mr. Barrios godson and gets
his name from the playwrights pet
or Pam Captain Scott was Sir Ernest
ShacBletons chief and MIR. Barrie re-
CARDS the shackleten expedition ais
fulfilment of am ambition for which
Captain Scott gave his life Barrie
now possesses one of lhe last mes
sages found beside Captain scotts
body in the tent that finally became
his erave no is wonderfully heroic
farewell message I have seen It. il
was written IN lead pencil and toward
the end the words are very faint. goo
ing off finally into the obscurlty of
andeephorabie scratches. Then 1t
suddenly ends with the ahrupiness of
g thing written by dying hand
I'm the message Captain Scott con-
fdes his SON. Peter 10 Barrie's care
l particularly remember one sentence
ia il Give the boy "a chance In life
if the state won't do IT, lie ought to
have good stuff in him.
but heredity. too. enters largely
into the explanation OF AIR. Barne's in
terest In the Shackloton expedition.
Mr. Barrie is, above AN else. his moth
ers SON lie has told me that as
lad, his mothers fayorite reading was
the biography Of explorers He saws
his mother always expressed the hope
that every famous explorer would
have the sense to stay at home. after
finally getting there. but that She
would beam with admiration MS each
one disappointed her ana went forth
again
Whom Captain Scott failed Is re-
turn from the Never. Never Land no
man felt il more keenly than Mr.. Par
RE Tie had heard Captain Scott tell
hy the hour of his adventures IN each
Of the earlier expeditions. and these
left their traces IN the present perl
cd Of Barries life You can see q
most interesting example IL this in
his latest play The Legend Of Leon
ora, where the character. Captain
Railway described as am explorer but
newly returned from a perilous ex-
petition, is none other than Barries
friend. Captain scott. The beauty Of
Captain Railway as a character ia
Play is the beauty Captain Robert
Scott had in J. NJ Barrie's ewes as
character In life and as for Leon
ora and her love Of explorers. of
course that agoin is heredity. for the
Legend az Leonora Is the legend az
Rarrles own mother
so you can see why nobody in
ENGLAND will be more solicitous for the
safety and hearteniug of Sir Ernest
Shaekleton and his men ON their
Journey into the Never Never Land
next fan than j Nj Barrie
=--ss-
An English scientist saws the unfit
should ne put % death painlessy
What would we do for legislators af.
ter the unfit we're ait removed9
1t was Senator Theodore who
smashed the government in Haiti He
is now about to he smashed what IA
IL q name. after all2