Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-23
M'M|LLAN CABLES ALL
HIS PARTY IS ON NEPTUNE

NEW YORK. August ga wireless
| dispatch was received here today from
| Donald B. >HcMillan. head of the arctic
exploration Nexpedition on the steamer
| Neptune. by President Henry Fairfield
| Osborn of the American Museum OF
Natural History. stating that all were well
and indicating that all his collections ana
| equipment safe on board the vessel
| This message supplements dispatches re-
, ceived from st. Johns n. F.. last night.
saying the Neptune was off the coast OF
Labrador and would reach St Johns sun
day.
Today's wireless. which was dated Au-
gust %. said
"AII well. Every one and everything
Egede in July. Ice very heavy, Mel
vile bay. Capt Bob did fine work.
Probably proceed to st. Johns
1t was understood by this dispatch.
Osborn. that the Neptune. which
reached the Macmillan party base at
Etah August !. took on board all the
members OF the expedition. who had
been marooned in the far north for
nearly four years.
The Hovey mentioned is DR.. Edmund
Otis Hovey. curator of geology at the
museum. who took relief expedition
for the Macmillan party. but himself
suffered bad luck and spent some time
with the marooned explorer. He ar
rived in Copenhagen two weeks ago.
it was said. and is expected here within
q u5S or TWO.
Capt Bob" mentioned in Mr.. Mac
Millan's wireless. is Capt. Robert Bart
lett commander of the Neptune. who
rescued the party The opinion was
expressed at the museum that the
Neptune would reach ST. Johns in a day
or two. and that the explorers would
reach this city by rail within four or
five days.
NEW YORK. August 23.-Capt. Rob-
| ert a. Bartlett took command of the
INhr
June 20 and started the next day for
Sydney. c. B.. where he took on eight
tons of supplies for the Mcmillan arctic
expedition. which had been marooned
, in the Arctic for nearly four years.
few days later he left sydney for Etah.
Greenland. where the Mcmillan expedi-
tion was then quartered.
Already three attempts TO find the
Mcmillan party had failed. Capt Bart
lett when he started for the north ex-
pected to return by early autumn.
The Mcmillan party left New York
July p. 1913. on the sealer Diana. The
American Museum of Natural History.
the American Geographical Society and
the University of Illinois contributed
! to the expedition. With Donald r. Nc
MILAN. who was in command. went En-
sign Fitzhugh Green. l. :. y, engineer
and physicist: W. Elmer Ekblaw. DR..
Harrison Hunt. surgeon; Jerome Lee
Allen. wireless operator. and DIR. Mau-
rice c. Tanquary. Ensign Green. Dr
Tanquary and Mr.. Allen previously re-
turned to the United States.
The expedition was unfortunate from
the start. Within a month the Diana
was wrecked on the rocks on Barge
point. Labrador. and the whole party.
with supplies. was transferred to the
sealer Erik On July 81 a start was
again made for the north. After many
hardships and adventures the party
reached Cape York and several months
later established itself at Etah.
Early in 1915 Mcmillan made jour-
ney in Ellesmere Land as far north
as Cape Thomas Hubbard, but failed
of 1915 the George Il. Cluett eXpedi-
ton. led by Dr. Edmund Otis Hovey.
left to carry aid to Mcmillan. This
party was trapped in the ice of Mel
willie bay Hovey finally contrived to
reach four members of McMillan's
party and in January. 1916 lacking
provisions started back over the ice
in an effort to send word for another
ship.
Ensign Green and DR.. Hovey reached
civilization. and in response to their
Etah She stuck in the ice of North
Star bay. On June :, 1917. the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History re-
ceived word from Mcmillan at Etah.
1t was carried out by DR.. Hunt in
15O0-mi1e dash over the treacherous
ice of Melville bay to Hoistenberg.
from which place a steamer carried it
to Copenhagen.
McMillan's cable informed the au-
thorities of the American Museum of
Natural History that the expedition
was comfortably quartered. with plenty
of fuel and food to last until August
] 1917.