Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-30
SRACKLETON DIES
! ON ANTARCT|CS SHIP
Famous British Explorer Passes
Away Suddenly After
Thrilling Career
EXPEDITION LOSES LEADER
BY tho Associated Press

I,uenos Aires, Jan. 3O.--Morc than
three weeks elapsed between the death
NJ Sir Ernest Shackletoh. tho British
explorer. and its announcement 10 the
world. made yesterday when thc body
arrived at Montevidcc. The de'ay, La
Naclons Montevldeo correspondent tel.
esraphs, was ascrlbed by Captain l.,
Bussey, who accompanied the body, US
duo to n series of wireless mishaps.
Sir Ernest died aboard the steam,
slip Quest, on which he was making
another Antarctic voyage, while au-
chored Oft South Georgia Island on
January ). His body was taken to
Montevideo on the first leg Of the trip
home aboard the Norwegian steamship
Professor Cruvel. ...
CAPTAIN Hussey bore a death certti-
cate made out at South Georgia Island
reading: ......
n Alexander Macklin. certify to my
best knowledge and belief that the
cause of death was atheroma in the
arteries of the heart. Before Heath he
had not suffered an infectious Or con
tagious disease. This certificate was
signed by DR.. 'Macklin as surgeon of
the expedition.
Radio Out Of Commission
Captain Hussey told La Nacion' g
CORES pondent that the Quest arrived
At South Georgia Island with her main
wireless plant out of commission, due
10 damage by heavy storms during the
voyage, which otherwise was unevent-
full,
Sir Ernest had been in the best Of
health throughout the trip. The day
before his death he landed on the island
10 supervise the purchase Of provisions
and returned TO the ship apparently
we'll. After supper he went to the
cabin and talked with his companions.
At 9 80 O'Clock on the morning Of
January he felt sharp pains in his
back and called the doctor. who had
hardly begun preparing remedies when
the explorer died without utterlng an
other word.
When asked why the Quest did not
inform the Falkland Islands with her
minor wireless set Captain Hussey said
it was not sufficiently powerful. The
wireless equipment OF the Professor
Cruvel also was ont OF order.
Professor Gravel and the other mem
DpTS OF IUt tAplulNi - puiNS hill 'Oh
tinue the expedition.
On board the little 200-ton ship Sir
Ernest Shackleton left England last
September on what was to have been
two year cruise. Large crowds gath
cred on the docks in London to wish
the party a successful voyage.
The expedition was to have covered
10000 miles of uncharted sections of
the South Atlantic, the Pacific and the
Antarctic Seas. It had as its objective
not only occanographic research. but the
exploration Of petrified forest and the
location of "lost' island-Tuanaki-
the adjacent waters of which had not
been sailed for more than ninety years.
In add ition, soundings were to have
been taken of 'he ocean plateau sur
rounding Coughs Island, in an effort
TO determine the truth regarding a sup
posed underwater continental conncc-
ton between Africa and America.
The fame Of Sir Ernest Shack'etop
rests chiefly on the first of the eype.
ditons he commanded in 1907 1909 In
quest of the South Pole. when he located
the magnetic pole and got within nine
ty-seven miles Of the geographical pole.
He commanded second quest In 1911
Shackieton was born in 1874 In Kill