Evening star., 1926-04-25
WILKINS DOG TEAM
ATTAINS POLAR SEA:
FLYERS STILL LOST
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sons list and given his official O. X
Each mans personal equipment
weighs 45l. pounds. In addition there
will be three rifles and shotgun
and every one is equipped either win
a 5.inch blade hunting knife or
small hatchet
Each mans equipment and the
weight of each article follows: Pack
bag. Il. pounds; bacon. 2i+ pounds:
hard bread. -. pounds: United states
emergency ration, pounds; sugar. q
pound: Arctic BISCUITS. 3'2 POUNDS:
salt. l.. pound; ammunition. pounos;
sleeping bags. June snowshoes.
hounds: shelter cloth. " pounds; tea .,
- pound. total. 40k pounds: enough
food for 30 days.
Smail Cook Stove Included.
A small gasoline cook stove tea ket.
flo stow nan and five big spoons are
included in the equipment OF the
plane.
Tobacco. personal effects. extra
mukluks and socks and hrst'aid KnS
bring the total weight To 4oA pounds
per man.
Mai. IAnphier and Wisely prefer
cigarettes. Hufford cigars. myself
brier. Mason doesn't smoke.
! Therefore. the comma nder or the
petroiter added two extra cartons OF
faes with Wisely approving. Huf-
ford sneak ked in box or feriectos
and insisted on plug of whit
,iine" smoking tobacco. three corn
cob uipes and a few packs OF the kind
of alfalfa that helped In win the war.
If we do have to muSh the boys are
poinc to get lot of solid comfort
ant of sitting on top Of an t.ndlcott
Alp. contemplating the scenery anna
the haze of Missouri meerschau um
after the ''tailor-mades give out
Eone Of us have ever been lost In
The Endicotts. but IL We are ana lose
o,,r smokes At the same time we
aere. that the expedition is going 10
begin a pan on us right then. ana
there.
Two light kodaks. small motion
rict,,re camera. the radio gets and my
nortsble typewriter and writing ma
teriaIs complete the invoice.
Fairbanks Progressive Town.
The expe.lition has been in Fair
h. nks two months and during tnst
sho,t snace has become so well
known as TO be considered among the
| olds.st settfe,.s We seem to MT INTO.
This n,neressive little town on the
no,t hernmost frontier OF America.
At no point north Of here Is settle
ment large enough to be n1gninen
with the name of town.
rhe streets of the city are we'll kept
mn and Winter and Summer numer'
ous automobiles from the TN hZZie
TYNE 70 hich-price closed car modeis
roll along the macadam. Al hlsht
the mournful howl of malamute dogs
is heard above the purr OF gasoi'he
driven vehicles and the norIhern
lights fash into the star-stunoen shH
as the yellow lights twinkle on the
streets F'airha nks Ia CITY Oh uH
locked uo0rs. where men are ca''eu
hv their first names Joe husheS'
musher. but;onholes us on the S''e
and whispers words of advice on sun
.is,inq in the wilds. A housewife
conas to the door of her tiny log
cahin 40 we walk out to the aviation
field and asks If we are going 10 ny
today. nj.
No shall be sorry to leave Fair
hapks far the town has adopted the
pet roiter expedition and every cltiZen
has a friendly interest in It's success
1.vear-old SchoolboN planied MIN
Golf on the sidewalk in front OF capt.
WikenS, after the first return from
rar,-uw. and ask ed the explorer 1T ne
had had a plea sal mt fight. The cap
tain assured the lad that the trip
was highly successful and the little
fellow scampered off to school with
some history making information.
we are chechachos. or tendeifeet nut
we hope to see the Ice go out OF the
yukon before we quit this rugged
land. and on our next trip Wen come
in az sourdoughs-f once you visit
Alaska and 60 outside you are
never 90 atisfied until you return so
saw the pelrna nent inha Per-
hans they are right.
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