Evening star., 1928-11-27
ByRD'S MEN RUSH
WORK FOR START
Entire Personnel Striving for
Getaway to Antarctic
Region.
BY RUSSELL OWEN.

Special to The Star and New York Times.
DUNEDIN, New Zealand, Tuesday
November 27.-The Byrd expedition,
once more united, has been working its
collective head of to get away for the
Anarctic.
Yesterday the entire crew of the City
Of New York, just arrived after tire
some three months trip, met Comdr.
Byrd at the train, when he arrived
from Christchurch, and cheered him
just to show how happy they felt at be-
ing together again.
It was a remarkable exhibition of
morale, for any one might have been
excused for feeling bit morose after
such a long trip in sailing a ship through
the tropics, but every man showed his
happiness at rejoining his comrades and
the leader
The first day in port they spent
stretching their legs and seeing Dune
din, but this morning all were at work
on the piers, struggling with crates and
boxes, checking material and looking
over the supplies each one is personally
responsible for
Friends at home would have been
amused over the occupations of some
of the more versatile members of the
expedition. Larry Gould, the profess
Sor Of geology, was sorting stores, lug
ging boxes around and moving them
into convenient piles SO that they might
be selected easily for the various bases
and ships.
His assistants were Capt. Mckinley.
the aerial Photographic expert, and
Cyclone" HaineS, the meteorologiSt and
the New York Times correspondent.
All were respondent in dungareeS. Sy
Creason was busy marking boxes Down
in the other sheds Bernt Balchen, Harold
L. June, Dean Smith and Capt. Alton
V. Parker, the aviation pilots, were
loading cases and pushing trucks around
as If they had been Stevedores all their
lives.
Every man was bantering his neigh
Dor into working little harder and set
ting pace, with the result that no pro-
feSSional gang of StevedoreS could have
been more rapid in their movements. No
large group of men gathered together
from all over the world could show more
remarkable skill, cooperation and en-
thusiastic determination to conquer
every difficulty lying before it. And the
dltncultieS are many. Most energetic
OF all Is Richard G. (Dick) Brophy re-
Gently appointed second in command.
who, until the present has been in
charge of the ordering and assembling
OF supplies for the expedition.
Details Are Mastered.
The complex assortment of materials
gathered by him and Comdr. Byrd from
all quarters of the world would appall
any one but Mr.. Brophy. He seems
to know what is in every crate, whether
he has seen it before or not, and, by
being in about a dozen places at once
and encouraging and urging the men
to greater efforts, he has proved him
self masSer of details. The project
Of getting materials assorted and in the
proper ships is unusually difficult, but
Mr.. Brophy has groups of men each
working to bring about certain result
in each division of the expedition, so
there Is little confusion and there is
rapid accomplishment of each task.
Although the City of Nef York did
not come out of dry dock until this
morning, she was unloaded this after
noon, and it is hoped that she will get
away in three or four more days for
the base. Comdr Byrd himself has su-
pervised the major tasks of separation