Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21
DUE IN NEW YORK IN JUNE.
Byrd and Party Are Expected to Return
With Little Difficulty.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. February 2l.-Real
Admiral Richard E. Byrd and members
of his party, now en- route to Dunedin
New Zealand. from the Antarctic, ere
exuected to reach New York during the
first week in June. The explorers ship
the City of New York, on which he
now is starting the $4,000 mile voyage
home, left this port August %, 1928,
The trials Of the expedition are be-
Heved to be nearly over and little dim
cultv is expected when the ship, which
will be met probably within week
and thereafter accompanied or fol-
lowed by the Eleanor Boiling, en-
counters the Ross Sea ice pack, now
at its Midsummer ebb. The City OF
New York expects to reach the ice
Sunday.
The ice pack, about 500 miles wide
In the Antarctic Winter, Is now be-
Heved to be less than 100 miles in
width, and the City of New York Is ex-
pected to duplicate its feat on its re-
cent trip to the ice barrier when 1t
encompaSsed the pack In 81 hours
The ship will probably reach the pack
by Sunday.
The Eleanor Boiling, now about 800
miles from the Barrier, Is bringing coal
for the City Of New York, which will
be transferred as soon as they meet
on the northern edge of the pack. The
two ships will then proceed together
and the Eleanor Boiling, as she has
done before, may tow her slower sister
ship. The average daily speed of the
Eleanor Boiling is 400 miles and that
Of the City Of New York ITO miles.
Due in Dunedin by March Is.
Although the distance from New York
to the Barrier is about 5000 miles, the
circuitous route Of the two ships, which
viii be, it is expected. much the same
as on the southern trip, viii carry them
over $4,000 miles. The first stop will
be Dunedin, New Zealand. about 1880
miles from the Bay of Whales. The
ships Will probably reach Dunedin to-
gether n to "a days from the departure
of the City Of New. York from the ice
barrier. about March IL or Is.
The last southern trip Of the City OF
New York, from Dunedin to the Bar
rier, took from January 5 to February
16, but this length of time was necessi-
tated by delay in finding leads through
the pack and then q storm blowing the
ship far west Of her course.
At Dunedin three members Of the
expedition will be met by their wives.
Joe De Gananl, mate Of the City of
New York and a resident of Little
America during the whole stay, will be
met by his wife, whose home Is in
Scarsdale. She is already there, as are
the wives of Capt. Ashley Mckinley of
St. Louis, the expeditions aerial pho
tographer, and of Lloyd Berkner of
Washington, D. c., the City of New
York radio operator.
Berkner's wife joined him in June at
Tahiti, whittier he had gone following
the return of the City Of New York
from the Byrd base.
Itinerary on Home Voyage.
The ships will probably stay al
Dunedin for a week or 10 DAYS in
order that the City of New York may
be overhauled. They will both take
on more coal and are expected to leave
separately, the Eleanor Boiling several
days after the City OF New York.
II the City Of New York leaves
Dunedin about March %, as is likely
and takes the same time as she did Ia
1928, when she left Tahiti on Novenn-
Der and arrived in Dunedin, about
2,7l2 miles distant on November rs
she should reach Tahiti about April IL
The Eleanor Boiling, unless close tc
her, should reach there several days
IN advance.
The chances are that the two ships
will remain in Tahiti for from "a To
% hours for coaling and any needed
oVerhaullng. The next lap will be from
Tahiti to the Panama Canal. This Il
the longest stretch, being about 4,5oe
miles. The ships probably will reach
the canal, stopping there a short Pc
ROD Tor coaling, on or about May IS.
The dnal leg of the voyage to New
York, about 2,211 miles, will then be
made. They probably will arrive to-
gether, any time from the 1st to the
18th of June.
1t is impossible to estimate exactly
now long the northbound trip will
take because allowances must be made
Tor shifting winds and unforeseen de-
lays. 1t has not been learned whether
any Of the expeditions members viii
return by other ships.