Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-15
FAREWELL FEED TO
MACMILLAN TONIGHT
STARTS SATURDAY

! Wiscasset. Me. July 14.-(SpeciaD.
! Tiny Wiscasset with her old build
ings and Indian forts and her quiet
I rich are experiencing these days the
most excitement in her history. 1t is
all due, Of course, to the arrival in the
inner harbor of Prof. Donald Il. Mac
/ MILAN, the Arctic explorer, and his
crew OF six The boat arrived Tues
day and Wednesday pulled into dock
and is now being loaded for the Is
months trip into the Polar north.
! Prof. w. H. Pierce of Harvard Col
! lege has installed tho wireless outfit.
! This can only receive and over the
! apparatus will be taken the personal
messages to Macmillan and his loyal
band from their wives and swecthearts
las as the ',fficial government mes
sages and the messages from scicnt-
| lists at the Carnegie Institute Wash
! ington. who are sending two expert OBJ
servers to measure the stars. the
northern lights and do various scien-
tifc stunts in Bafin Land which if
successful will prove of incstimable
! value to the world.
"Jop" SmaA will go with the daring
party.
"Jop" made the Croker Land trip
, with Macmillan. The explorers will
go within a few hundred miles of the
pole but their objective is the mag
netic pole. This they will relocate.
1T has been missing" for 80 years.
Macmillan expects to find the orig
inal houses of Norsemen who were
extermnated by wild Esquimo tribes
generations ago. Dawson Howell. the
young Pittsburg observer, will do sci
cntific work on the north coast of Lab
rador. Macmillan expects to find in
Baffin Land unknown tribes with
whom he expects even his Esquimo
interpreter will be unable to talk.
Bath and Wiscasset members of the
Rotary Club are asking other Rota-
rians in all parts of the country to
wire money and order supplies for the
departing vessel. There was a story
Tuesday that Macmillan was very
short of funds and that he had not
supplies enough to last him till he got
/ 70 LdDfduOr. MdcMllldn utnicu thlS
u a reporter today. Well have plcn-
ty to eat and money is coming in from
all sides" he said.
A pathetic figure will be at the dock
to wave a starting farewell to the
popular adventurer. This is Mrs. w.
G. Fogg of East Boothbay Harbor. She
is the sister CT Macmillan, the fond
CT M hyDn OIL i'm hn1
when he was left an orphan. the sister
who through hard work educated the
lad who is no walking the place OF
Peary.
The Bowdoin leaves Wiscasset at
go Saturday afternoon. Governor
Baxter and staff are expected to see
her off as well as hundreds Of friends
fro mmany sections, scientists from
Chicago. Washington, Boston and New
York and the alumni of Bowdoin Col
lcge.
On Friday night Landlord Billy"
Lord of the Wiscasset Inn gives an in
formal sit down" luncheon to 100
friends of Macmillan. Governor Pax-
ter and Gov. Cox of Massachusetts
have been invited to this dinner as well
as general Edwards, a personal friend
of the observer. Dawson Howell The
first stop after leaving Maine will be
Sydney, N. S. about August first Later
ports in Labrador will be visited and
finally the little SS-foot ship will go
into winter quarters still farther
| north.