Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-24

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TO secure for the British flag the hon
or of being the first national en-
blems thus 10 be taken from sea to
sea across the South polar realm, and
to conduct scientific work relating
among other phrases to meterology
geography. geology and goedic
survey. The expedition was financed
for the most part by large gifts from
persons interested in polar eXplora-
ton. Funds amounting to more than
100000 were raised, including s5O,-
600 from the British government,
In Two Sections
The expedition left England in two
sections about six weeks after the
European war began but it was not
until early IN January, 1915, after de-
lay due to unfaVorable ice conditions,
that the party headed by Sir Earnest
himself set off on a 1,700-mile voyage
from South Georgia, an uninhabited
island in the South Atlantic Ocean,
About 500 miles due east of Cape
Horn, for Ross sea, on the other side
of the South pole.
From Tasmania, on the New Xea-
land side of the Antarctic the second
section meanwhile had sailed. also for
the Ross sea, there to meet Sir Ern-
ests expedition with supplies neces-
sary for both sections to return to
New Zealand. Sir Ernest hoped orig
inally to come out of the Antarctic by
April, 1915, but conditions far from
propitiouS made necessary and
change of plans. The Section which
started from Tasmania was obliged to
spend the winter of 1915-16 at the
Ross sea to await Sir Ernest's arrival
which had been expected some time
this month.
Many Scientists
Sir Ernest sailed in the Endurance,
a three-master, with auxiliary engines.
which gave her ten-knot speed.
This vessel. OF $50 tons was built with
wooden walls two feet thick of al
most solid oak. Oak and plant pitch
pine were the only woods employed.
sons and the party which sailed in
cluded fifteen officers and scientists.
Among them were: Frank Wild, Sec
ond in command. in charge of pro-
visions; George Marston. in charge of
general stores. artist; p. .. Tom
Cream, in charge of sledges; Captain
Orde Lees, r. n. l.. l., i'm charge of
motors; Lieutenant l.. Dobbs. Royal
Dublin Fusiliers, in charge of section
of dogs: Lieutenant Courtney Broclkle-
hurst, assisting with dogs; j. Wordier,
geologist; r. W. James. physicist:
Leonard Fl. Hussey, meteorologist: +.
Hurley. photographer and kinemato-
grapher; T.. Studd, Cambridge Uni
versity, and Lieut.. Frank A. Worsley
OF New Zealand. Lieutenant Worsley
was in command during part of the
voyage and later was to have taken
part in surveying and exploring the
Antarctic coasts. The Endurance
carried seventy dogs and a number of
motor sledges.
The Ross sea party sailed on the
Aurora in command of Lieutenant
Aeneas Macintosh. r. y. r., who was
Ifn charge also of the chronometers
and meteorological instruments. This
party included III. G. Lemard. second
officer. \. III. MINIS, in charge OF
motor. a cousin of Lieutenant MINIS
j. Y. Stenhouse, X. y. r.. chief off,
geography at Glasgow University
Spencer Smith, in charge of the pho
togra phic department; ]. J.. Cope. BIZ
ologist; ID. $. Mason. chief engineer:
\. l.. Larkman. second engineer; II.
Wild. in charge of stores, and Hay,
Stoker and Manger, carpenter. The
Aurora carried &c dogs.
pa on iurora
The Aurora carried 20.
After leaving south Georgia Sii
Ernest aud his party. although equip
ped with q limited wireless apparH-
tuS. had no communication with the
civilized world. Friends of the eX-
plOrer. however. did not express anN-
iety. explaining thar difficulties IN
erecting and insulating musts on the
| tce after the party left the ship made
lIt improbable. u not impossible. thai