Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-29
M'M|LLAN PARTY ,
IS SAFE IN ARCTIC
Members of the Croker Land
Expedition Now at Etah,
Greenland.
FIRST WORD IN A YEAR

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 29.-Donald Mac
MILAN, the explorer. and other members
of the Crocker Land expedition. which
went into the arctic in 1913, are safe at
Etah, on the northwest coast of Green
land, according to a cablegram received
today by the American Museum of Nat
ural History.
The cablegram announcing the where
abouts of the party. last heard from in
July, 1916, was signed by DR.. H. j.
Hunt. surgeon of the expedition. who
has reached the Farce Islands, on his
way to Denmark. 1t follows:
Macmillan, Conner. Small and Hovey
are at Etah. Steamer Denmark (the
second relief ship sent after the Mac
MILAN expedition) is at North Star bay
I50 miles from Etah). Ekblow, geolo-
gist, at Godhaven."
Plans for the dispatch of third relief
expedition were announced by the museum
only a short time ago. 1t was to have
been sent on the Neptune. in command
of Capt Robert A. Bartlett of the Peary
expedition.
George H. Sherwood of the museum, act
ing chairman, in charge of this and pre-
vious relief expeditions, said today that it
was clear from the message signed by
DR.. Hunt that he and Ekblow, the geolo-
gst, had sledged from Etah to Godhaven,
which is about half way down the west
coast of Greenland. At Godhaven. Mr..
Sherwood believed, DR.. Hunt had parted
from Ekblow and continued by sledge to
Holstenberg, where he caught the Danish
government steamer Hans Egede. He
arrived at Thorshaven, Farce Islands. to-
day.
The trip from Etah to North Star Bay
may be made by sledge and it is be-
lieved Macmillan and the remainder of
the party will board the Denmark
thfre.
fbe 10 CT word of tho axnod;+ion c,p,e
from DR.. Hovey in a letter dated June
10. 1916, and was brought out by the
George 3; Cluett, the first relief ship,
last fall. 1t is uncertain whether the
American Museum of Natural History
today cabled DR.. Hunt asking whether
the party at Etah would be able to come
out on the Denmark or whether it
would be necessary for the Neptune to
go into the Arctic.
The Macmillan expedition first got
into trouble soon after it started in
July. 1913. when it's ship was wrecked
off Barge point. Labrador. The party
and it's supplies were transferred to
fall.
In 1915 the first relief expedition
aboard the Cluett was dispatched after
reports had been received of the work
E. H Hovey, curator of the department
of geology in the museum. DR.. Hovey
reached Etah and brought away sew
eral members of the party.
The Cluett later was itself caught in
the ice. but several members of the
party got away. Meanwhile last spring
the Denmark was chartered in Green
land and sent north. The last heard of
her. before today, was on August 20
Last year, when she was reported to
have been caught in the ice In Mel
vile bay.
The Cluett released from the ice, ar
Conner. the ice pilot: DIR. Hovey and
Ekblow were not aboard the vessel.
They returned to Etah and all except
Ekblow are still there.
Macmillan went to the arctic under
the auspices of the American Museum
of Natural History, the American Geo
graphical Society and the University of
Illinois.