Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-15

will accompany Commander MacMil-
Ian out to Monhegan. Included in the
fotilla will be three United States
! Eagle Boats with Naval Reserve men
aboard, which will accompany the ex-
plorer along the coast as far as Cape
Sable.
Special sea planes will be on hand
to aid in the ceremonies and the Fifth
Infantry Band will furnish music
throughout the ceremonies.
Arrangements have been made to
look after the thousands who will be
present so that all will be able to OBJ
serve the equipment that is aboard
the Peary and the Bowdoin. Special
ferry trips will be made from Bath
and special excursion boats from
nearby ports along the coast. Police
arrangements will be under the di-
rection of the State Police.
The farewell dinner at Newagen
Inn at Southport, the night of June
10, under the direction of Joshua l..
Brooks. will be unique in itself. The
menu from soup to cigars will con-
sist solely of Maine products. The
music will be furnished by local
quartet of real Lincoln County fisher
men. The dinner, will be attended
by government and state officials; 1of-
ficials of the National Geographic So
ciety, which is sponsoring the trip;
members of the United States Ma
! tional Geographic Society; represen-
tatives of the United States Navy,
and men Of national prominence. Ac-
cording to present plans. special ra-
dio receiving sets will be installed
and farewell messages will be re-
ceived in the course of the dinner
from President Coolidge, Governor
Fuller, Of Massachusetts, and from
the governors of other states.
Bowdoin College Students Coming
One of the most interesting feat
ures Of the farewell ceremonies at
Wiscasset next Saturday will be that
extended by the students of Bowdoin
college, Commander MacMillan's al
ma mater, and after which his ship
; Bowdoin is named. They will as
semble in body at Brunswick and
have arranged some new stunts in
the way of farewell, which they will
spring at the proper moment.
Another equally interesting feat
ure will be the farewell to be ex-
tended to Commander Macmillan by
his brother Rotarians of Portland.
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appropriate emblems and will whoop
it up all the way from Portland to
Wiscasset. Present plans are for
them to go by a specially chartered
boat. Due to the fact that practf-
cally all of the available boats along
the coast already have been charter
ed for the occasion, extreme diff
Guilty is being had in getting the re-
CURED number.
Several civic organizations from
outside the State will send special
cars to Wiscasset.
Announce Personnel of Crew
announcement has been made that
DR.. Leo NJ. Davidoff Of Salem of
the staff Of the Peter Bent Brigham
hospital would be the surgeon for the
expedition.
Aboard the Bowdoin, the ship COM
manded by Macmillan, will be:
Ralph Robinson, chief assistant. of
Merrimac.
John Jaynes. chief engineer. of
Somerville.
o. D. Melkon, motion picture oper-
ator, South Weymouth.
John ReinartZ, radio operator.
South Manchester, Ct.
BenJamin H. Rigg, topographer,
United States coast and geodetic sur
vey.
DIR. Walter N Zoelz, ichthyolosist
United States bureau of fisheries
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Jacob G. Gayer, color photograph
err National Geographic society.
On Board the Peary
me Peary will have aboard three
Cnl.eo states navy amphibian
planes, in charge of Lieut. Comdr
Richard E. Byrd, U. S. n. and also
the navy personnel:
| Lieutenant (junior grade) M. A
Schur, pilot. Portland, Ore.
Chief Boatswain Earl E. Reber
pilot, Chicago.
Aviation Pilot Andrew S. Mold
| Mattenan, Ind.
| Aviation Chief Machinist's Mate
| Nels P. Sorensen, enlisted at Grea
Lakes naval training station, Chi
| cago.
aviation Pilot Floyd Bennett, War
renburgh, N. Y.
Machinist's Mate (first class,
Sharles F. Rockville. Colorado
Chief Aerographer Albert Francis
Honolulu, Hawaii. -
IN command of the Peary will be
APT george Steele of Roxbury, and
others aboard her will be:
Il. f. Mcdonald, in charge OF radio
Chicago.
L. Hosmer Freeman. mate, South
Weymouth.
Dean Publico, chief engineer. somer-
VILE. 'oiiei
r. D: Dawson, second engineer.
Portland, Me.
Maynard Owen Williams, staff cor
respondent National Geographic So
ciety.
Complete the Preparations
Commander Macmillan, following a
conference with Governor Brewster.
said that everything was in readiness
for his trip north. He said that he