Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-09-11
Macmillan Sails Friday
Continued from Pace One)

carry them more than 2,100 miles to
northern Greenland. The trip was
the explorers tenth to the Polar re-
gions in fifteen years.
The schooner, named after Bow
doin College, MacMillans alma ma
ter, was said by the explorer to be
the best scientifically equipped YES
sci ever taken into the Arctic. She
was expected to reach Cape Sabine
in the trip in which much scientific
work was planned, including explor-
alton in Ellsmere Land. Supplies
were carried to make possible two
year stay should ice conditions pre-
vent return this September.
Included in the party north were
three members of the expedition
that Macmillan took into the Arctic
on previous expedition to Baffin
Land, returning in 1922 These were
Ralph Z. Robinson of Merrimac
Mass, chief assistant: Thomas J
McCue, Brigus, n. f., mate; and
Richard Goddard. Winthrop, Mass,
sent by the Carnegie Institute to
continue the observation in terres-
trial magnetism and atmospheric
electricity which were begun in
Baffin Land.
The other members of the party
were Donald II. Mix. of Bristol,
Conn. an expert radio operator, sen.
by the American Radio Relay
League. composed OF 5000 boy
operators in this country: w. +.
Lewis of East Lynn. Mass, cook, and
John Jaynes. Somerville, Mass, en-
gineer. Abram Broomfield. driver of
Eskimo dogs, was to be picked up ut
Jack Lanes Bay, near Davis Inlet.
Labrador. for his second trip on the
schooner.
The expedition laid out, and des-
cribed by radio reports, carried the
schooner to within GEO miles of the
North Pole, the principle exploration
was to be made with a dog team
over the ice cap of Ellesmere Land,
an elevation of 1000 feet, and down
the other side into Eureka Sound
where large coal deposits. found by
Macmillan in 1914, were to be inves-
tigated.
The expedition. it was hoped. too,
might give additional information on
the slow southwark movement of
glaciers earlier reported by Mac
MILAN.
The tale of tho expedition will be
told largely. it is expected. before
tHt eNpluTeT dCtNdItE reaches MS
home port for the American Radio
Relay League had arranged for a
radio station on the dock at Wiscas-
set where much of the intimate de-
tails of the trip to the far north will
be received before the boat docks.
During the expedition. much infor-
nation regarding radio conditions in
the Arctic was gathered. For seven
months. according to the A r r l.
on the complete cycle of Arctic day
light and darkness. reliable commune
cation was maintained. In the re-
naming months, the daylight period.
intermittent contact was maintained.
Most surprising of the phenomena,
some of which have not been explain
ed. was the directional shift of the
Bowdoins signals as the vessel went
farther north. On her way north
ward. equally good communication
was maintained with points on either
coast. but as her destination farthest
north was reached the signals. in
stead OF being heard in New England
We're picked up almost exclusively
on the Pacific coast.
For months. after signals became
less and less frequent early this year.
only an occasional brief message that
all was well came through the ether
from the Bowdoin.