HOPE TO" SOLVE EARTH'S FINAL PUZZLE-ICY CROCKER LAND

Donald B. MacMillan and His Hardy Band Will Be in Wireless Touch with Civilization in Their Search for the Undis¬ Er/e277Zo J&*y»7èk. is invariably good.a tact ittOStOd b) Continent Which and Tradition their symmetrical bodies and perfect covered Theory health. Admiral Peary tella of having seen only one Ks«iulmau kllol u« all hi» Place North of Alaska and Siberia. yuan ol soso latkm oil tbem." Smith Sound was rocentl] swept by an of sad most Of the In¬ his l ¦. [«. i.i «.. smenU bj th« «¦ ¦¦. si "phleini«' typhoid, Wlf.L. the spirit of adventure ev after I'eary had reported finding habitant..about i_ men snd r*> ostaga* the land he had named after one of hi i.'i« «'tri«' Compan) In Bcheneetady, die? were tna.ie ill. It is I" II« red to have so i- that the physl it will h« a station capable ot trans* Will there ever be a time whi patrons, it »Brooklyn been brought to Smith gotind by one of u enemies bava asserted thst sli "r. milting messages al least LUV milis, and n « ii ...,II fear to go forth to face clan's the missionaries from goutta Gi«.inland. further north than Crock«r »«ml »«a of coursa «>f reeetvlag them from *m> known perils to snatch the laurel as ., th< .tire ex¬ .¦. for Taking this warning - «listan. The point «hosiii OlBtSI lame'.' only a gu« will be VSCClnsted against ty¬ The that a eontinent. or at luí¬ quarters is si the bead of riaglei Bai pedition The answer of the centuries has bei theory ol before leaving New fork, ".«1 ta ai an archipelago, must exist in that Ml m Kane Basin, on the essl eoaal phoid "Xu"' la spite of the toll of life will vacillate all th« :.-., amain is on the w irk of lJr Lsnd, This is In Isl H I doctor liuil«, men have gone forth into the ui known wast«» based Qrant .<< Hi- Unite« from lh< \>"'- upon reuching Smith BSUad. known places, willing to risk all, that tl it. A. Harris, tidal BXpStl only est miles am ¦. a 11 be better because they live States Coast and (ieodetlc Sur» <.>. Prom tin- ...,,t th« mils radlu world may .lull". 1>'l. II li I PROFESSOR MACMILLAN. died. thst puh'.isht-.l by him ill enable the expedltlori to keep and Ii » "The Nati«.nal stations i.i civilisa .... t l'r°v- And as the ages have answered "No, Q<***»g**apblc Magsxine." with several ri oftisser M,...Mi: waa Brave ms a monograph he goes exbauativ« ly int.. t Ion. The 111 daon Is «mpanj la Mass., about thlrty-sev« m> is the présent answering. al Incetoarn, asMj still Uve. Fame calls not in vain. Jui study of tilles, arlada, Ice conditions Ing tins summer a wtrelses station ago. His father and grandfather were ..lean ste. Hi shows tbs 11, »- northern es <¦ fro!t' as the Norsemen of old. just as Colun temperatures, Cape Wolatenholme, aid Beoteh salltng and of COf » the Cabots, father and soi the movement of the *.iue tremlty of the Uagavs Provh.f Csn th.in be Inherited tale enture. bus, Vespucci, fron *^.»*. Halboa. Magellan, Hudson and scores rent« setas« tin- lop of the work!, sde, about latitude ¦ Ai Bpltxbi raen Ills father w.i~ lest at SCS m ITS i'ianz Josef ru*chlpalago «'""i Bpltsbergei «lu«: east across tin Greenland i« a nothing bavins others turned their vessels' prow» in tow retard twenty-Bve yean ige so srlU s llttl to Bering Strait, is mysteriously there is another stetlon, nearer« by Ih« ever been heard from tali vessel or crew. ard the unknown, just tide ««'ill war band of hardy Americans leave this cit led, and tin only thing that 'way, than the one «it Battl« Harbor Th« Kver since he was ¡,«»'^'lt t«i read he Is land. ¦<¦ to find.a new continent. for, argues, Csnadlan government Is constructing an«! understand bonk explora¬ a. soon Lave bean EV Take down your atlas or your globe an station at Fort .Nilson, and has r/o«"**«« tion Dr. MacMillan- dreams DRIFT OF THE JEANNETTE. to tl " Nor»1' Ef you will see north of Alaska and Siberi Of joining an SXpedll after .' «tnniander W a vast territory which la mapped as th The drill of the Jeannette from s pom' Pole, flirteen >"««rs Ocean. between the merle! north of Siberia tn another neat Peary was graduated from BowJetn O* Arctic Lying «ss*s hf ians of 106 west and IM east, there is Island, i.'.tw.eii »Septembei ¦.. IJÏS, an« legs Dr. Ma« Millau « n., mber of shaped section wide June 12, Iffja, and th«- marly tin <¦». .« sai sUtutl. there t., on rough triangular WrWt * Is the sole remaining spot on the earth drift «if IfansiW. m the l-'imn, from ¡i .i thermos bottle, to keep the inner hou« ii,.- football and t,a th I of tin teacher of athletl« « surface which has remained unexplore« point a few hundred mil«» «reel «« aim. Usadgta, which tha foot of a white man has nev« j point where the Jeann.-tte was lost t1 This house will be furnished «vtth mo« After his graduation ft©« of milei another north of also at« the civilization. I in 1-9». Mr. MacMillan ta ghl at princi¬ trod. A half million square gfritsbersjsn, of home eomfOrts of Me. mora or less, it represents the sole rldd cited. will be by electric lights, from pal la Um high school at Uorhagi, lighted .'. Swarth- of the earth which is sti'.i ananswsret Tradition among the KSglllmSU« shM tine.- kilowatt run by an oi then m the preparatory echo generator, u til And it Is to wrest from the icy finger bears out the deduction. Dr. Mmpson combustion ein-iit«'. which also will sup aaore, Peon« and after thai fefaarg last secret, that tr of the which wnit tn tin A ««t! In Ht«, he was phv- of Nature this, her surg-on Plover, ply power for the «atriles»-. [the Pesry expedition iMa**-1 Crocker Land expedition has been orgar Arctic In l**::!', ret.orted that the B0QUl< »known Besring *M**hi*t*i nianuf.i<*t'irini Ica! director In the W-Mroester that sonic Academy. feed. maus of Point Barrow believed companj has p**-****mbr*i ¦ specially bull m of their trlhe had been carried to tht the k- Dr. MacMillan win be sccompsnieti COUNTRY. searing machin« ta be seed by North by Profea- THE UNDISCOVERED north on the Ire hroktn ur' in I MUther.) making of thei his Invasion of the frozen .¡'liman women In the B A- .** fastnesses, it 1 gale, arriving, niter many mi» hIs, at u harness, thus sav sor Maurice C. TSoqvsry, A. Hera in these iceoound akin clothes, dog St*., of the gute AgricuHsrO undiscovered land, th hilly country Inhahited by a psopl« Ilk« il time and labor. I'll. D., zoologist believed, lies the I College. Manhattan, Kan W- BbBtO«-** the twentieth century. Guare spssklng the Ks«iulmau lan¬ La. h man will havs a comfortable mat Atlantis of ¡themselves, blaw. A. lt.. AM. :,i boU' It has resisted th guage, and by wi om th«y STOtS well it !.¦ with warm skins for Th« ed by the eternal cold. bedding. nlst; Green U B. N., cngineer but I ceived. >." utensils will be o ntShSgb efforts of men of might, hope eating and king an«i Theodors Auen, r\ptt Donald B. Mae After a long stay, one spring. In which enamel, and an amazitiKly latgl physicist, bright that In Professor White electrician and wlrel.'ss ,.,. r.,t( r, and leader of the expedition, and th the ic«» remained without mowment, theji supply baa been bought. Brsn peppa Millan, to th« ir owa Jonathan «'. Small, of lY.»vincetoe»«. membera of his party Nature will mee returned «rtthoul mishap and salt shakers, and such small lux not been se¬ and their Mass. The SUrgeOB has yet her Those who are pinning thel country reported adventUl-M. uti.s a» tea strainers are Included. match. since then been lected. faith to Professor MacMillan believe tha Other l'squimau.s have to civilization it will b« carried away on the Ice, and are supposed THE TIN BATHTUB. OF EXPOSITION. when he returns fr<«m SPONSORS of a new world, a worlc to have reached the northern land, of with the story Th«' A tin bathtub will be among th« The is analer the auspice« but still a new world. T< whence they have not yet returned. latg« espedHfon llla- of Ice maybe, also in the Mr. MaeMillan declares nothin> the American Museum .«: Natural back that story every member o: Smith Sound »TSSjIlllllglBI point BUPpliea *".' bring and sa« sons Lsa so natas s sana si a good "tui».' tor/ and th«' American leagSSPfe* Si is to face death.tc direction of Crocket I«an«l rejuvi wr . the party prepared in And don't think they bathe in les «tatet ct.tv. with the ire of the If need be. of their tribe have disappeared that epersUss die In the effort. ink. winter houses «ill make (he dash gCfOSg Ihe ice t'> unie..I, the water Used Is melted |0I versify Sf Illinois, which has reader be inclined to ask how direction. teered lo relay all messages relsUva lo lumber for thelt NO, ,lona^, The may « .-TTit^itr^«» So it is seen that the expedi¬ th'- The «hip ««111 then go to Smith Sound cker l,and, one division going north, Mai in«.I to a i OmfOI table degree. 510.00». The bsnsrary it Is known that such a continent exlstt proposed r\jnditlon. '^'"'j'*Ro° on a dream. It was former the win re ti. t ««ill kill «« bale and ««ii« south snd one anst. The ri>».|iiiniaii house at winter quarter? Henry Kalrfl.-l«! OSSOTn, ChSOttSf there. The an¬ tion is not founded Thus, while In exploitions gpion if no one has ever been on the new will «lep« mi will be .iliiuit same as the expedition Thomas H. llubi.ard, *M** to have been undertaken last summer men have gone into th" NÜdenteSS and walrus ami gather Esquimau« and dogs Their stay land the bins. . swer to this question la one of the moat Ii while the co-leadership of Donald I!. hav». lost to tin- world while It is 111« « ma« be able |ii |m,| tlinsl upon the ¡heracter and condition of the bou»!. e\,«pt (hat it will be smaller. JsflSSS and Edmund J James, interesting aspects of the whole subject. under been there, hoped Ma.Mill.ui and ('(orne licrup. also of the the < rocker Land exploran win know of the **£sf|ulmaus who were with Pear) si ir.- behind them An early breaking up by II f.et, and built with a shelf iiroiin«! «.on.mittee in charge is ItSSaSSSSd S^STT First, it la known that there is some win the t«. re* of *M°*y Peary party, but Borup's untimely death. from t" day just whai is gotas on in thai experi**aoe makes them Invaluable, of the lee compel explorers tin- walls about two fe«t from the «found muii.l Otts Hovey, curator land there, because It has been seen. day t«, Natural in by accidental drowning near Crescent th" world. I-|.,.,k-a »lein and Ab-¡. lab. «« b.i WSM treat to the mainland avoid being eut OH ««hl'h to aproad skins for their beds. tha Am.tl.'aii Museum of Second In Importance, though chrono¬ ««ir *t *** lt I ¡each, «'onn., on the afternoon of April "You have no Mas what this means t«» with Dr. 'ook, will undoubt. dly be nil« .1 b) .'pin water, "When an Esquimau joins an itpsBflng tory; Herbert L BfMgmSa, first, it has been demonstrated, is logically an end to it at that time. the men.'' said MacMlllaa deligbl by Um if Dr, Harris's theory eorroet they part« he always insists upon taking his Arctic «-lub. an«l William B PSBeT' one 1». 1912. put ProfesBOf yea* with genuin« Esquimau theoretically, by of Uncle Sam's . m"" tii. 11 erlll Und here half a million square miles and said noteenant lo tah -Vflxaisjtm After the Idtter's death it was decided to terdaj-, erben asea at i«i- boms m Central thougbl >.f working for wife children along," Many srs Inclined n» scientists that there must be "i Siiiii a ares will mean at should men greatest continue the work this year as a fitting Park West "The thing is t«> white friends, in whom they havi an ,«i- land. large IfacMlllan, ''Wonten not having »seossgi Baa SSSSe Of It all.' Why land there- greal keep .least two ami three years "i eoti*Je*en.» memorial to the young explorer. the party amUBSd. A man gmused Is a mosl s«,-r«d faith. posslbl) militant SB >.l :ii that part of IBS world. their uves t. sad an kseded there are Esquimau legends. W.'lk sew. Si « <"r Third, man Mitistiod. and a «llshatlstii'd man, Th.- sralrus inning in Smith »Sound wHI Hie Wives ate li"t In the way. The« l...d that will BSVST The known continent wa« sighted by F'iii.iuiiii: ir make them- answer i- that .."__J EXTRAORDINARY EQUIPMENT. whe'hir he le white n Csquimau. «s bad, be greatly facilitai. .1 b) Un g a of Mr. their retreal pom the pol cook, help build igloos and habitation ?" Th« Admiral (then Commander) Robert K. si'i.iitiii«' \»««ik on is mas¬ ultímate r*"1'1 to say the bast, for an rxpedlUOO." MscMillan'a motorbtrat, lbs t3eorg« sea, will be carried al sslves generally saefuL But man n.av b.nelit. and the Peary, discoverer of the North Pole. The Never in the history of Arctic explora¬ T atnter quartet a al Plagier Bay. Her« family, sad if to science is 1*80»! t" f***9*! Professor Ma,-Millan Speaks th« Bsqul- l'niup Sin- is M le. long and feet ter always Is the Ksquiinau I,,,,.-,.) is time was June 30. 1906. Tho place was tion has an started out with iii" summer months win be «ven so R»j-jeevelt. expedition mau perfectly« and his knowl¬ "Aide. e.|lll|)|.«-i| with II IV IIOI »cp'l«« \\,.< 'lining they his belter half «llspleases htm in Ba-Prsoldant Theodora Thomas Hubbard, the northern ex¬ such wonderfully equipment as langnage insu» in stitches Huseum «*** Capo complete edge of their habits enabl« s him to ilo verlas kerosene engine. The hull engaged In laying Ihe ertnter'a small it mattet a.» the sl/.es of the ,,..,,. m the Asssrieas of Axel Helberg Land, weft of Professor Mac.MlHan's gasolene» meat ittnl in« n. In th«' tu- c-xp-dlttae, tremity «vill bs carr*l(?d by much to ke«'p tin,.- from hanging Heavily sheath«.! with Iron plstlng, to prevent SUPPl) for «logs she puts in bis raiment a beating Is likely .ral History relative to Haut Land. Writing of his discovery, everything that modern science |g spring of ii"« the to Crocker Land party. . on their hands during the long wint« damage i.«- lea, Last Butnmet sfi M 1« trip t>> bs bet portion sa id : ...i Admiral Peary said: «an devise will bs taken along to study may be it it is, found lo be as are and work thai B ****** night, when the sun Ig not gOSfl for BSsrl Millau made a '.'.'>»'-tin!.¦ trip with lid in repented, "Bui »pm-iali« lli-y simple "The scientific clear day greatly favored my th.- its Its plant and big as is balk »eil. .,,. The country, geology. half th" year. It is possible, in- says, t li.i t tin- aa.it.i- if Labrador, and sin- 1» ROW ! pi sceabla with the minds an«l faith of in geology, biology. work in making a round of angles, an«l animal life. A meteorological faHiinal»'«! !."i''i'»»»v'^T.«*'. complete he will issoh tbean to play Imseball. ami at llattl. Harbin-, «.bete In- will pick In r WINTER QUARTERS. ¡children. They aie **"***atly by olorv. miigm'tlsni. gtactology. ^ with the glasses I could make out, ap¬ sub-station will be set up tn the Arctic, and professor MaeMlllan Is tak¬ cou of importan«v. he promises some great games under tin- up on the «aa*. north. iiu'works. se. prime un,- a little more distinctly, the snow- with Instruments to measure tempera¬ first from t«. me parently Arctic moon Utter their return Crocker ing a gnat quantity with him t<» ch-brate pUstted it will ad.l materially « lad summits of distant land in the tures of air and water, velocity of winds, SELECTING ESQUIMAU DOGS. I.ami m I'.'ll the) will «ai r\ on s. lentltl«' the IVurth «T July and to artius»' the of braaSSS knowledge and should I"*t<* northwest, above the ice horizon." barometric pressures, precipitation, etc. WITH w.ik in liiaiit l.ind, working l.a«k giud- of certain IN TOUCH EXPLORERS. At Smith Sound about otic hnmli-d ,.I" .'huskies" lieu.,- und«.standing "1,ld';1 There will be a seismograph, to record I nail) i.i winter quarters al Plagier Hay greatest fear Is «>f the which form the daily environs***** .- AGAIN, DR. COOK. But It Is not that the wireless will the strongest Bsagulnaan dogs ««,11 be "The lv.«|uimat;'s earth movements, sounding apparatus. only land arriving there Is July. During the devil, and il Is t<» him th, y pray-to stay inanity.to Instance SCslf ataWahtÊ. In news from eivlliza- t.. «Ira««- th«- sledgsa Bight dogs 1 '¡is discovery was made from the top everything. These are being supplied to be useful receiving picked summer <>i Istl the expedition ertll g" t.« foaling that Um spirits do not it will enabl«- the to tell are USttally allowed for each t.-am sight then away good CONDITIONS- of a great cliff, two thousand feet high. the party by the United States govern¬ tlon; exploren- Whale Sound (Ingtefleld Gulf), dl« attention. han no laws ami STUDY OF GLACIAL from Ixllig equal In oh«' hoi s«- III po««.l. Tin- demand They this that Dr. Frederick A, ment, to which reports will be made. of their accomplishments practically rectly east t>» the summll of the Green¬ man own boss, It was at point cross Smith Sound to im chiefs. Kvery Is his A thorough study of glacier-*. of the day to day. Kven when the party is »bip ««ill lb« rt land at tin' widest of that »' Cook spent his celebrated Arctic: winter, This much for the scientific side lee esp part ami y«t crime Is practically utiknoivn. ice and gla«-ial motion will PJJ away it will in touch with wint« r Klai»!er I!ay, «'.."'» miles fnun tin- pole flat« win return t<> the Halted caps and from which he said he started on his expedition; most Important, it Is true, keep conUnent They are and never steal. solving the and th«- wire¬ it'ide T'.i.l'», nortbi, passing «ape Sahim or Mntders rate, they for the purpose of "record breaking" trip to the North Pole. but not half so Interesting as the human headquarters by couriers, Btataa Late la the summer of HU seul) what is untrue Is land moulding underProblen^,n. will th«- to the at tin- h«»adiand of Plagtet Bay. in To hint that they say the BtOCSSS of Cook did not «limb the clin*, or, at aide. less operator flash SOWS soothers mg, their s SJJ But the trota un.« they will to insult them beyond pardon, for tlnooua moving lee cap. so. Iti line with tills one his lirst iolt ether, e/henea it win be plotted sp sad )<- aar-ggg bay point Aside from s. i.utilic the *»-_¦ hast, h<» never BNOUoned having done gets in its «'«luipinent, is 'To lie does no Ih not v.-t tialltgllld ThS of th,? layed lo New York, so that the OhOie eslablisb ««Inter quartets sieht of philosophy good.' f*B_«_J ,r"\.*"* Whether Cook really did disco», .-r tta¬ when hi hears that the standing outfll being prepared Is undoubtedly the "Primitive as they are, however, they .ff the roast of (Irant l-and ****** b* to world may know within a f«w hours of "Stai vation .'amp," WhetS BlghtSSS "I taken into the pólo will be, incidentally, one of the great «.Hants and Yankees will known most complete ever polar have beaten ua in the matter of trial ticularly Interesting field for *aMT' _¿ end of the season what has be»n done and of the dally Uves the «¡reel«« exi i-ditioti petisli.-d in the winter two real from mwaa points to be settled by this expedition. the expedition until the réglons 41 quarters marriage. A man going on a hunting on the return of the party at and all of next. of the modern Norseman F.ven UtS «lis winter of IM, houses will be Imllt «me for the white or 1915. one « 'ook's records which he left (.'ape b, may Ixjrrow the wife of unother, to er I.nd. either In 1914 of Cro« ker I_nd, though It means Wlnu ««int. r .|iiaiters ha«.- «m «ttali- ni.-n of th«- mi.I the BtkSff for th« trip Thomaa Hubbard will be brought back, How? eovery puitv satisfaction of the husband. tion will tie detailed to make *****»' a trip of about tares hundred lisb.d th«- slrip win return boma sad by Ks.puinan ililv.is. The house Cor the tin- perfect as will Admiral Peary's «'«»ok said that Why. by wireless. sledging rlog littl»» affair doesn't *br«'«k up the t«. th.- m.uthw.st of Pitees tant "f ma¬ miles hack to winter quarters, will pa the muidle of s.-pt,.mi,,., tin part] win white men, will be hunt i,y the. The ¦*atr,''K,|conne«' ..S on Ids way north he PS.Sad land to the »Om nf th»» must Impôt "tSSOM which Ot alter the love of husband or This section, it is boned, may latitude. t» be set up at winter quarters | known within g few days. bsgla «1.-lent: suppii.--; t,, Caps Tbomiu ships esrpentera win be .'-' feel square, a igloo' which .» west. In about M.'M north He chinery wile. If a chilil Is horn the husban.l the BllfSlsSinn expedition, Is also win leave New Fork on llubbal.l ThlS ««"Ma ««ill take nil Wllil.i house within a house, as it OSTS, a slx- 1- named his land Bradley I ami, as a Ig a powerful wilt-less «nitlit. This TTm sipodlIhHi own. In he working. If condition* permit. at IBS HHmiilii'ht p.-ili.'l imh Inside and outside nu'«»' tot il as If it were his J tribute to hla benefactor, «'ook's "«Me« being supplied by tht United States gOV« July :i. stopping Boston for ILtM during I space between the northwest of Prince I'atrlck'a Lan«. and at to dawn, in lVhi 11.11 ¡, 1:>I the ¦belli the manner at sidle of all this their mural character oovery" of liradley Land was two ysarg ernment, and is now being built lj meet pounds of pi-nimlian Sydney At 1, party senlng quite after