New-York tribune., 1918-12-23
Explorer Expects to Get
Photographs of Top of
World ON Expedition
Map Making Is
Chief Objective
Aero Club of America
Announces That Trip
Will Be Started in June

The Aero Club of America announced
las. night that an aerial expedition to
photograph the North Pole and points
q interest in its vicinity would set
cut next June under the direction of
CAPTAIN Robert A Bartlett. Several
ssroplsnes will be taken, one of them
big one, in which a fight will be
made straight across the top of the
world from northernmost America to
northernmost Asia, distance of 1900
miles.
Funds for the trip, which it is esti-
mated will cost s25OOOo. will be pro-
uded by the Aero Club of America.
Want Floating Laboratory
Both Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary,
tiscoyerer Of the pole, and Captain
Bartlett" said Alan r. Hawley, presi-
dent Of the Aero Club, last night, want
to DO great deal of scientific research
in the polar basin, of which more than
100000 square miles remain unex-
pored, and need g laboratory, or part
.. the ship where the flora and fauna
from the ocean bottom will be kept
until the return of the expedition"
This phase of the exploration, while
important, is not the principal one,
which consists Of Photographic and
nap work, which mem bers of the Aero
Club believe may be accomplished by
tie use Of aeroplanes. Admiral Peary
Eas member of committee which in
Wstigated the project and reported fa-
verably to the board of governors of
lie club December IT. The other
Numbers of the committee were Mr..
Hswley, Henry A Wise Wood, Henry
Woodhouse, Rear Admiral Bradley A.
Fske, John Hays Hammond, jr., Rear
Admiral William N. Little, Professor
Charles L. Poor, Colonel E. Lester
Jones, Charles Jerome Edwards, Major
Cushman A. Rice and Augustus Post
Will Start in June
ship will be sent to Etah as soon
as the ice breaks up enough to permit
it to cross Melville Bay, which Mr..
Hawley figures will be in June. The
ship will carry, besides the usual polar
supplies, large aeroplane or flying
boat and several smaller planes.
While a base is being established at
Etah and before the ice to the north
has broken up sufficiently to permit
further progress by sea, the small
ssroplanes will fly north to Cape Co.
lambla, the real jumping-off place for
the aerial expedition, and establish a
base Cape Columbia is the most
northerly projection of Ellesmere ISL
and, near the Grant Land shore. From
that point the objective will be Cape
Chelyuskin, the northernmost tip of
the Taimyr Peninsula in Siberia
During their spare moments the
avlators will fly about taking photo
graphs to be used in mapping the
country and possibly in locating min
efa deposits.
The suggestion was first proposed by
ADMIRAL Peary more than two years
ago. said Mr.. Woodhouse, "as a plan
70 be carried out by Captain Bartlett,
and the club has fostered the develop
men: of the idea.
War Tragedy Is Object Lesson
Ihls is q stupendous conception
AUG is to start the use of aeroplanes
vi the Important work of exploration
winch, on the face of what the war
ls taught US, is most necessary. Ex-
S"'stion to-day is necessary to take
'Ock Of the worlds natural resources
y "'nat We may know exactly what are
~s natural resources Of the human
ice.
recall wildly the tragedy created
-" our lack of a supply of mica for
600 masks upon our entry into the
'''' When some British ships which
g. ,s's carrying mica to the United
s.s'es were sunk we faced the tragedy
" :, not having the material with which
" make gas masks to save the lives
ehs of thousands Of American
s' AT that time, when we all felt
" aopeless, happened to talk to Ad-
,s'a srs' Peary about the matter, and he
..'s. ~ me mica was plentiful in the sub
.s ssc regions. Also that other min
~ 'sH which were in great demand
gions. - ~ V W. =
IL. NE aeroplane makes all explora-
O.. ~ easy, ard it's employment will
.ev.I I''' exploring and mapping tho un-
v.p s'''eo part of the world in a few
n... whereas by following the old
Years" @''''' wv
p, Expect Normal Weather
No.. s"e aerial explorers do not even ex.
N. 20 md it really cold on the trip,
Al, a"iey declaring that, during the
no.. "seks of July and August when
wos,, VI the work of the expedition
W be done, the thermometer rare