New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-17
Macmillan Relief Ship
Starts for Greenland
The George B. Cluett Reaches Sydney N B. ane
HOPES to Meet Croker Land Expedition at
Ftab and Return by September.

tions for loading the collections OF
skins and apparatus on the reIlei shtp
as soon as she arrives. The george D.
Cluett will be ready TO start BACK lot
civilization within two weeks after snc
reaches Etah.
If Macmillan and Green, however,
have not returned from their long
tourney by the time the vessel arrives
all haste will be made TO load and pro-
ceed 10 Jones Sound in search OF them:
If they are found the schooner VIII
take the whole party back to Cape
York. in order to leave the Esquimaus
on their own side of Smith Sound before
continuing the homeward journey. II
thew are not found Mr.. MacMillan's in
structions are that the ship shall re-
turn. leaving the expedition at cape
York. and 90 back TO Etah to watcn
over the headquarters house and stores
against his and Green's return. next
winter. after Smith Sound has frozen
up again.
Macmillan to Stay North.
Tho George B. Cluett and relief
work are under charge OF DR.. Edmund
Otis Hovey, curator OF geology IN inc
American Museum OF Natural history
who has been chairman OF the commit
tee in charge of the expedition since II
was FIRST undertaken. Dr. Hovey takes
with him as ice pilot Captain George
c Conner. of East Haddsm, Conn,
Hudson Bav whaler with long and
varied experience in the frozen seas.
, The schooner is under the command OF
Captain H. C. Pickles, who has had
much experience along the ice bound
coast of Labrador. He has crew OF
twelve men.
Mr.. Macmillan intends TO remain IN
the Smith Sound region another year.
keeping one white man with him as q
COMPANION and assistant to complete
his chronological and archaeological
studies. He and his companion VIII re-
turn TO America by way OF Denmark
in the summer of 1915 The relef
shin carries for his use years sup
niles Of groceries and other provisions,
! thirty tons Of sydney coal, a new kltch-
en- range and a quantity of potatoes,
onions and cabbages.
Friends of the staff are sending by
! the Cluett all sorts of things for their
use, including not only dellcacies, ike
lam. lemons and cake, but also neces-
saries, like shore clothing and money.
The vessel, Furthermore, carries
scores of letters from wives, sweet
hearts. relatives and friends. and bum
dies of magazines and weekly news
papers.
Expected Back in September.
Daily papers go. too, which will be
six weeks old when they arrive, but
new 10 the men. Undoubtedly the
party, especially its naval members
will be keen to hear more about the
world war than has thus far followed
through 70 their far northern post
The Cluett will take from twenty TO
thirty DAYS for the northward voyage,
will stay two or three weeks In me
Smith Sound region and will reach
Sydney toward the end Of September.
The staff OF the Croker Land eXpedl-
ton includes Donald B. Macmillan,
leader aid ethnologist; Fitzhugh Green.
L. s. ~, engineer and physicist; w.
Elmer Ekblaw, geologist and botanist;
Maurice c. Tanquary, Phi. D., zoo logist;
DR.. Harrison J. Hunt, surgeon; Jerome
Lee Allen, electrician, and Jonathan I.
Small, mechanic.
The committee in charge is composed
of Edmund Otis Hovey, Herbert l..
Bridgman and William S. Bayley. The
honorary committee, one OF whose
chief duties has been TO devise ways
and means, consisted of Henry Fair
field Osborn, Chandler Robbins.
Thomas II. Hubbard, Walter B. James
and Edmund j. James.