Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-26
EIGHT BYRD men
REACH new YORK
Antarctic Explorers Casual
on Experience-Dog's Sui
eide Affirmed by Walden.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW YORK, April 26.-Six more
men of the Byrd Expedition arrived
here yesterday from the Antarctic Con-
tinent on the whaler C. A. Larsen,
maintain the sea connection between
Little America and New Zealand. The
8 brought the sleds and the rs dogs
that hauled the food and supplies Of
the explorers during their IA months
on the ice.
They reported that seven of the nine
penguins which various public ZOOS had
asked the Byrd Expedition by radio to
bring back had died shortly after leav-
ing the Ice Barrier. and that the re-
naming two were dropped overheard
while they were still in good condition
at Stewart Island, but with very little
hope that they could swim ,ack t.
climate where they would survive.
It was not until they came ashore
Yesterday at Staten Island that the
Antarctic expedition really came to an
end for the returning group. The six
who had previously spent IA months in
isolation together, including long polar
night of inactivity had spent 40 days
more together on the whaler. Their
rehabilitation yesterday seemed to leave
them, like men returning from war,
with little to say Immediately.
The only personal comment on the
Antarctic was made by Arthur 7. Wall
den, chief dog driver.
There was nothing but snow and
ice" he said. mo mountains like
Alaska-never again for me-"
To clear up the matter for his wife,
Walden told again about the end Of
Chinook, the leader of the pack Of Eski-
mo huskies which he had organized for
the Bryd expedition, half out OF his
own kennel breed at Wonalancet, N. H.,
and half out of Labrador dogs. Mrs.
Walden said she had always refused to
believed the story sent by radio by Rus.
sell Owen that Chinook had walked on
deliberately to die, and that she believed
he merely fell into an ice hole, the way
the members Of the party were always
doing.
Tells of ChinoOk's Death.
Chinook Walden said, twas
downed by three of the other dogs the
day before. and that means in a pack
of husky dogs that he has lost his
leadership. He was never off his feet
in a dog fight before. As told Russell,
he figured it all out. He was All
through. And he came to bid me good
by, but I didn't realize what ne was
doing until later. Then he walked on
alone 10 lu1Q RldCC W VAC WAeAA AsAS
boots on. The moment he went the
other dogs began fight for the leader
ship. Ballarat won, but he was so bad
ly hurt we had to shoot him. Alpin Is
the leader now, but think Chinooks
son. Kunokwin, will take it away from
him. dream of that dog yet. I can't
get him out of my mind"
Half of the dogs will go back to Wano-
lancet with Walden. who. at the age
ka1ra fNa
more prize dogs. The others VIII be
kenneled temporarily by Norman d.
Vaughan, one of the young dog drivers
lust out of Harvard, who viii take them
to his home at Hamilton, Mass The
other dog driver who returned yesterday
was his classmate, Edward Goodale OF
Boston.
father, DR.. Joseph M. Goodaie, a pny-
stefan.
His classmate and fellow dog driver,
Vaughn, was met by his mother. who
chung to him in long, fearful embrace.
George H. Black, seaman and auto
mechanic, who had previously been
with Byrd's North Pole expedition,
greeted his wife with q. call OF Hello,
Kate" and a resounding kiss. Then
they retired behind the tugboat smoke
stack to talk.
A similar conference occurred be-
tween Miss Eleanor Mcdonald and Clair
d. Alexander, who was engaged to her
when he went away to be supply omccr
of the Byrd base at Little America.
The outcome was the announcement
that the marriage would take place
within a few days.
Martin Rome, the sixth OF the men
back from the ice ledge. stayed on the
whaler. waiting for his son, who was TO
loft in the daV This Is his
fourth return from polar expedition.
Twice he was in the North with Amund-
sen. Once he went South with Amund-
sen on the Fran.
The two other returning men who
had gone back and forth through the
ice pack that incloseS the Antarctic
continent were Walter Leuthner and
DIR, Vacloo Vojtech, young CZecho-
slovak geologist, who went to Dunedin
on his own Initiative to beg post do.
ing any kind of work for the Bryd ex-
petition. He was put in charge OF the
penguins on the homeward trip.
All in Good Condition.
All eight were tanned and apparently
in sound physical condition, with the
self-possessed look of men Who have
grown used to danger. They all agreed
the isolation and the silence of the
polar night were harder to bear than
the cold or physical hardship.
The radio. which took the old-fash-
Toned triumph out of their home
coming, served, on the other hand,
according to Goodale, to defeat the
sense of isolation and supply CONVERSE
ton.
walden looked at it differently. 81
nate the radio" he said, but there was
a library of 1900 good books and that
was what made the time pass"
To the discussion of the mental
hardship of inclosing a small body OF
men on the ice IA months Vaughn con-
tributed an enthusiastic, praise of the
leadership OF Rear Admiral Byrd, to
whom he attributed the ernergence OF
the expedition from the Antarctic night
without mental distortion.
copyright. 1907