Evening journal., 1918-12-23
Plan AIR VOYAGE
TO NORTH POLE
Capt. Bartlett to Make Trip
Under Plans of Admiral
Peary
EXPECTS TO MAKE
START NEXT JUNE

NEW YORK, Dec. 23-An expedition
10 be led by Captain Robert A. Bart
lett. noted explorer, will be sent to the
Polar regions next June 20 survey the
North Pole by airplane. according TO an
announcement here tonight by the Aero
Club OF America. Tho plan. II was
said, was conceived by Rear Admiral
Robert L. Peary, dlsc0yerer OF the Pole.
The purpose Of this expedition,
which, II Is said, would be the most
completely equipped ever sent out, will
be 10 "oxplo-e, survey and photograph
the uneXplored parts Of the Arctic re-
glon5 and establish the existence or
non-exlstence OF land or lands in that
region 10 Is also intended. according
10 tho announcement, ITO explore the
upper Arctic and the bottom OF the
polar basin."
Results Of inestimable value TO the
United States and to science will sure
ly be obtained from this expedition"
said the announcement, which added
that the club would raise S250,0O0 TO
flnance the trip.
"The North Pole has been discovered.
bu. the major part Of the work still
remains 10 be DONE" the announcement
states. Both Admiral Peary and Cap
tain Bartlett want to do q great deal Of
so.ontl!lo research in the Polar basin, OF
which moro than 100000 square miles
remain unexplored, and they would
want TO have laboratory on The ship
where the flora and fauna from the
ocean bottom will be kept until the re-
turn Of the expedition. Little or no
.4ra. ~. A. NI.T T.N
Of the Polar basin and no meteorological
surveys have been made in the Polar
region"
Asserting that with the co-opera-
ton OF the leading geographical and
scientific bodies assured" II is planned
20 have the expedition leave the United
States next June, the announcement
continued:
There are six weeks OF fair weather
IN July and August, when even in the
Polar regions, It Is seldom lower than
sixty degrees above zero. The plans
arc TO have a ship go TO Etah. about
SIX hundred miles from the north POI, |
in June, when the fee is sufficiently /
broken 10 permit the ship 10 cross
Melville Bay. The ship would carry |
large seaplane or land airplane for the |
final flight across the top Of the earth /
and for exploration OF the unexplored 4
Polar regions, as we'll as smaller planes I
'or the scouting flights.
Immediately upon the arrival at Etah,
a base would be established, and while
waiting for the Ice TO break up further L
north to permit the ship TO go as far
as Cape Columbia, the small seaplancs
would fly TO Cape Columbia and estab-
llsh base there for the large plane. L
which is TO be used for the flight across
the top OF the world, from Cape Colum-
bia on the American side. over the pole
10 Cape Chelyuskin on the Siberian side
and for exploration over long distances.
For the six weeks after the middle OF /
July, when the weather conditions are
best for flying in the Polar regions, the
large plans, as well as the small planes,
be put into service. and the important
work Of the expedition will be done"
Asserting that only one-seventh OF the
earth's surface has been accurately !
and two-thirds only mapped
from rough sketches, officials Of the
club stated that by use Of airplanes il {
would be possible 10 do I'm twenty years (
what would require 200 years by usaul !
The committee, which. after two
years Of study, recommended that the
club finance the expedition, comprises;
Admiral Peary, Alan r. Hawley, Henry
A. Wise Wood, Henry Woodhouse, Rear
Admiral Bradley, A. Fiske, John Hays
Jr., Rear Admiral William n.
Little, u. s. N; Prof. Charles l.. Poor, Z
Colonel e. Lester Jones, u. 5. A.;
Charles Jerome Edwards. Major Cush- ]
nan A. Rice, U. S. A., and Augustus Z
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