New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
Ensign Wins Through Ice
PeriIs in Vain Hunt for
"CrOCker Land"
NAVAL AID SAFE
AT COPENHAGEN
No Word Received from
Explorer or of Party
with Him.
tBy Telegraph to The TnbuneI

Washington, Aug. 22.-Ensign Fitz-
hugh Green, who represented the gov
eminent on the "Crocker Land" expe-
dition into the Arctic, arrived at Co
penhagen to-day. A cablegram was re-
ceived by the Navy Department an
nouncing this fact.
II was Ensign Green who was re-
sponsible for the almost superhuman
efforts made by the expedition to hnd
the supposed land. When Admiral
Peary, returning from his last polar
voyage, reported the presence OF
large body of land off the north OF
Greenland, which he had named Crock
err Land an expedition was at once
set on foot to reach this island and re-
port upon it.
This venture was organized under
the joint auspices of the American MI
scum of Natural History, the American
Geographical Society and the Univer-
sity of Illinois. In June of 1913 the
party set out under the leadership OF
Donald B. Mcmillan. They are still
believed to be somewhere in the Arctic
Ensign Green Leads Search.
Ensign Green was assigned by the
government to go with the party and
find Croker Land. They sailed on the
Diana from New York.
1t has been learned since that the
young naval officer was the foremost
figure in the frantic search which FOL
lowed for the land which was really
only a mirage seen by Admiral Peary
Starvation threatened the expedition,
but urged on by Green they pressed
northward.
When they came 20 the cliff in north
east Greenland, where Peary has as
serted he saw Croker Land, only the
tumbled wastes of ice and snow
stretched before them. Across these
the ice pack of the Polar Seattle ex-
petition pushed until it became defin-
itely established that there was no
Crocker Land. Then they turned and
tried to make their way back to civil
ization.
A relief expedition was sent out 10
relieve Macmillan in 1915. under the d.
rection of DR.. Carl Hovey, of the Mu-
scum of Natural History. The UNI
usually heavy ice pack of that year
drove her back, and DR.. Hovey drove
still further north in launch loaned
TO him by Rasmussen, the Danish eX-
plorer.
Hunger Menaced Expedition.
He got as far as Etah, where he
found the expedition in pltiable con.
dition, i'll clad and on the verge OF
starvation. With Green and jerome 3.
Allen. a young electrician Of the Navy
Department, with Macmillan, Or. hovey
tried to get back to North Star Bay
where he had left the relief ship. The
ice prevented this. Provisions ran out,
and in quest for food the party sepa-
rated. DR.. Hovey going to Cape YORK
and the two navy men departing IN
sledges for Southern Greenland.
Since then nothing has been heard OF
them. II was the hope that the re!ieI
ship might be able TO penetrate Tar
enough north this summer TO relieve
the party at Etah. II is hoped that II
Green was able to reach Copenhagen,
Allen. Macmillan and the rest Of the eX-
pedition are with him, or have at least
been brought to a place at safety.
Il is believed that the failure OF the
Macmillan party 10 find any evidence OF
Croker Land will bring into life again
the memorable Feary-COok controversy
Jerome Allen, of Masouekta, Iowa,
who was wireless operator on the motor
schooner George b. Cluett, which, un-
der the auspices Of the American Mu,,
scum of Natural History, endeavored
TO bring relief to the Macmillan expe-
dition lost in the Arctic near Croker
land. arrived yesterday aboard the
Hellig Olav, of the scandinavian
American Line.