Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-09-20

Every object of the Il months voy-
age which carried him and his seven
companions coo miles north of the
magnetic pole WAS attained with one
exception only. the explorer said to-
night. Ice conditions and lack of food.
he said. prevented his wintering i'll
Ellesmere Land according to earlier
plans.
Macmillan told of many observations
OF terrestrial magnetism. atmospheric
electricity and static which were made
in the Far North and which will be
studied and classified by scientists at
the Carnegie Institute at Washing
ton. II. &.
j. A Fleming of Washington. d. ..
assistant director of the department
of terrestrial magnetism Of the Carne-
gle Institute, arrived here tonight to
receive the report and records observed
during the expedition by Captain Mac
MILAN and Richard Goddard of Win
throp, Mass, representative of the in
Stitutc. bearing upon atmospheric. mag
netic and electrical conditions in the
north and around the magnetic pole.
Studies of the variations of the mag
netic needle in the vicinity of the mag
netic pole as recorded at 10 magnetic
observatorics Sc: UP by the expedition
are expected to benefit navigators, it
was said
Never before, Macmillan said. has n
II agnetic observatory been established
at IL point as far north as the one set
up 600 miles north of the magnetic
pole. The II others were established
IN Greenland and on the Labrador
coast Eventually the information OBJ
tanned will be made public for the use
nf nc Il nj,
world.
The Objection of the compass near
the magnetic pole varied widely. he
said. ObScry ations of these variations
We're made and photographed through
the entire Is months period spent in
the vicinity of the magnetic pole.
Turning from his description of the
scientific ends attained by the trip
beyond the Arctic Circle, the explorer
asserted that E;skimos are rapidly
adapting themselves to the white man s
ways
More than ever before. he said. Es-
kimos are coming to use rifles in hunt
ing. and steadily. he said, as a result
Of contact with civilized man, they are
adopting civilized customs. including
the prepare ton of food, whereas re-
Gently. as in 1908. they consumed their
meat raw
Macmillan said that on his way
down the Greenland coast. he gave a
motion picture show to 200 Eskimos.
using a piece of sail as screen
aboard his vessel Most of all, he
said. the Eskimos delighted in the
animated cartoons which danced
across the screen.
A church, he reported, Is being
builf Ivy ,,,icuinpary NJ Eobna n
northern Greenland. Lumber from
Denmark is being imported for the
church. he declared. the church be-
ing constructed by Danes in Green
land. In greater numbers than ever
before. he added. the Danes are 60
ing northward to trade with the
Eskimos
Most cheering.s the explorer said.
was the radio newspaper issued daily
during the long Arctic night by OPP
orator Donald II. Mix of Bristol.
Conn. sent with the expedition by the
American Radio Relay League. Every
day the news of the world penetrated
through the night to where. the little
craft lay frozen in the ice and every
day Operator Mix issued his little
newspaper made on a typewriter and
distributed it to members of the
tiC". Hc Htte paper was VI STcdt
help to the members of the exploring
party. he stated.
AS spring approa ched and daylight
came it was found Increasingly diff
ficult to receive news by radio but
this loss was offset by their ability
to centure out on sledge trips at the
end of the six months of darkness.
They received the news when they
needed it most. Macmillan said.
Operator Mix said that most of the
news received came from radio sta
tons in England and Germany. He
said that he would like to take a trip
back to the Arctic in another year.
Explaining his failure to winter at
Ellesmere Land. Macmillan said that
the little schooner BowdOin was UNI
able to penetrate to Cape Sabine.
where it had been planned the party
should winter. owing to ice condi-
tons. And because the expedition
had insufficient food to last through
another year he said that he could
not risk getting caught in the ice at