Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-04


ber.s Of his party whom hc had been
Obliged >to leave behind him in the
polar region.
Shacklcton reports that all arc we'll.
ENPLOIT WILL. STAND 0tT
IN GALLANT LIGHT
In the adventurous career Of Lieu
tenant Sir Ernest Shackleton, r. ~,
perhaps no single exploit will stand
out in such gallant light as this
climax of his logged and undauntcd
efforts to cNtricatc the bulk of his
devoted followers from their icy
prison.
Even II in The future he should
achieve his ambition Of reaching the
South Pole. it is possible that his best
fame in history viii res, upon his
success IN repairing. without sacrifice
OF life. tho misfortuncs Of an cxpe-
dition which he himself has acknow-
icdEed to have been a failure
Since his arrival at the Falkland
Islands. on May 81. with "a picked hand :
ful OF his men. after thrilling hard
ships and periis in an open boat. he
has not rested a single instant from
preparations and personal endeavors
TO go back for the bulk Of his fol-
lowers. marooncd. OF necessity, on an
'ce-bound island swept by the storms
OF the Southern winter
The men left OH Elephant Island on
Aprll "a, when Shackleton left in a
small boat for South Georgia with Cap
tain Frank ii. Worsley, master of the
endurance; Tom Croan, third officer:
McNish. carpenter. and two seainen.
Vincent and Mccarthy. were:
Frank Wild. second in command of
'hf expedition and commander of the
marooned party: James Wordie. eeol-
oslat' Leonard III. Hussie. meteorolo-
Sist: Clark. biologist: II. w. lanes
ph'sicist and inaSnetician: George
Marston. artist; T.. Hurley. cone ma.
'os rahher' Captain Ordc Lees. store
Keeper; br. Macklin. surgeon: Gree
street. third>> ofhcer; Or. Milroy, sur
scon' hudson. navigating officer.
''chinsoh' chief Engineer; Kerr. second
engineer; Chewham. Blackwell, Black.-
itoihess' Mcleod. Howe. Steven
son and Green. seamen.
'hANCE SEEMED REMOTE FnR
THEIR GETTING THROUGH
nat Shackleton and his little ion,
crew would get through seemed sufti-
ichiS remote. That their twenty
TWO comrades on Elephant Island
would ever see civilization or.ir
seemed still more SO.
ne marooned men, in addition n
the'r suferings from the climate. worc
race TO race with the mental ou,lool.
thdt thctr leader and his companions
would probably perish AT sea. and thar
their own predicament might never hc
known TO the world
Carpenter McNish had been riveu m o
job of fitting out the cxpcdition.s
largest remaining boat for shacj,lc,on,s
forlorn hope.
II was difficult job" he said. af
terward. but, with the help Of George
Narstoh, the artist, and Mccarthy. one
"f me seamcn, who made a great hand
h' sewing frozen canvas. the most
dihicnit proposition at sewing there is.
we managed to make good.
we dcckcd her with slcdrc run-
ners. box lids and canvas, and made
her as scaworthy as possible. but even
then 1t seemed n crazy craft i'm which
TO sail $50 miles through ice and gales
And tho Journey was worse than
We expected. For a fortnight there
was constant succession of storms
and gales. don't think NC saw the
sun half dozen times during this
period. Ice was constantly forming
on the boat. II was our worst handi. e.
cap. one man was employed all the
time in cutting it away with an AK,
but we could never get free from it,
TO Keep the boat afloaI we had TO
throw overheard almost everything we
had. even the oars.
~ week after we started. While
hove to in a gale. the rope of our sea
anchor was severed by the ice, aud
We lost the anchor That seemed the
last straw. but Sir Ernest rose to the
occasion. as usual and I never saw
him in better form than that day lie
said:
I've are going to get there. men,
And sure enough we did"
Every member OF the party was
frostbittcn, and they suffered greatly
from hunger. The boat had TO he
bailed continually, and serious perils
were encountered in making land
ing in storm on the Icy coast Of the
island OF South Georgia.
BEGINS EFFORTS TO SAVE
MEN ON ELEPHANT ISLAND
1t was Immediately after these hard
ships that Sir Ernest began his efforts
to rescue the men on Elephant Island.
The attempt which has now succeeded
is commonly spoken of as his third,
but that is without counting an at
tempt that he made from South Georgia.
before the world knew that he had
emerged from the south polar regions,
and while it was still anxious over
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