New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-07
Crocker Land Committee
Will Send Relief Ship to
Etah Early in Summer.
EXPLORER MAY MISS
RESCUE EXPEDITION
Leader of Stranded Party Now
on Survey Expected to Return
to Base Too Late.

A second relief expedition will be
dispatched early this summer to seek
the Donald 3. Macmillan expedition,
which has been stranded for more than
two years on the northern coast OF
Greenland Macmillan set out in 1918
to discover Crocker Land
Already 100000 has been spent by
the American Museum of Natural His
tory, the American Geographical So
cety and the University Of Illinois to
find the land reported by Peary after
his dash TO the Pole. Chartering a
large steamer 10 bring back the Mac
MILAN party and the scattered menu
bers Of the first relief ship, now fast
in the ice. has made it necessary for
the Croker Land Committee to raise an
additional $4,000.
Macmillan May Miss Relief.
Doubt was expressed yesterday al
the Natural History Museum as to the
probability of finding Macmillan with
the rest of his band at their winter
quarters in Etah, Greenland. Accord
ing to the latest information, the leader
started alone early this spring on a
l,500-mile trip over the ice to Finlay
Land. If the explorer is not at Etah
when the relief steamer arrives hi;
chances Of returning that way will be
slim, since the steamer will have e
turn southwark soon TO avoid being
caught in the ice, the fate which over
took the first relief ship.
The Croker Land expedition origi
nally consisted of Macmillan. a sur
geon, DR.. Hunt; a physicist. Fitzhugt
Green, U. s. N; a geologist, Elmer Elk.
blaw; a BIOLOGIST, Maurace Tanqueray
and Jerome Allen, a wireless operator
In the spring OF 1914 Macmillan anc
Ensign Green made dash of 1870 miles
toward the supposed location Of Crockel
Land, but did not find it. Other mem
bers of the expedition carried on sci
entifc work on the northern coast OF
Greenland.
Cluett Caught In the Ice.
A year later the power schooner
George B. Cluett, chartered by the
Croker Land committee to bring baci
the standard scientists and explorers
was caught in the ice $50 miles soutf
of Etah. where the expedition wa
spending the second winter. Three
men of the MacMillan's expedition
meantime reached a port in southern
Greenland from which they could not
communicate with the world.
Mr.. Tanquaray, the zoologist. went
10 Copenhagen and will soon reach New
York with the scientific reports of his
imprisoned colleagues. Upon receipt
of the kilograms the Croker Land com
mittee Immediately arranged through
the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen
20 charter the steamer Danmark "a
search for the remaining explorers and
their leader. IL is expected that the
Cluett will be Abe to make It way
south when the ice breaks up, though
its disabled engine makes psrticipa-
ton in the rescue impossible.
The Crocker Land committee, repre-
senting the Natural History Museum
the Geographical Society and the Uni
versity Of Illinois, consists Of Henry
Fairfield Osborne, Chandler Robbins
DIR. Walter b. James and Edmund j.
James, president Of the University OF
Illinois. The frse relief expedition IS
led by DR. F. o. Hovey, curator of geol'
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