Washington, Aug. 6 (AP)—A fight with a herd of walrus was described by Commander MacMillan of the MacMillan Arctic expedition in a message received tonight by the National Geographic Society.
The message, dated today, and relayed by A. A. Collins of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, related that “In a walrus hunt yesterday, three members of the Peary crew, in a Bowdoin boat, were attacked by an infuriated herd of at least 100 walrus.” The kyack of one of the Eskimos aiding in the hunt was capsized, but he was rescued.
Great temples with roofs of solid gold, a huge lake of solid salt, weirdly impressive rituals of a barbaric religion, strange people and animals—these were some of the wonder of Tibet shown by motion pictures In the Italian room of The Olympic Hotel Tuesday night.
Douglas World Cruiser “Chicago”, (A19250008000), on display in the Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight Gallery, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC. (Smithsonian Photo by Eric Long)
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The Douglas world cruiser Chicago, flagship of the Army Air Service world flight, which has been sitting in a hangar at McCook Field. Dayton, Ohio, since last November, awaiting final disposition, will be placed in the aircraft building of the Smithsonian Institution in a short time, it was announced today by the War Department.
The decision to bring the Chicago here was made final by Acting Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis, who wrote Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the institution, yesterday that he had instructed the chief of Air Service “to take the necessary steps to have the Chicago brought to Washington and turned over to you. for the purpose of placing it in the exhibit of the Smithsonian Institution.”
At the Army Air Service it was said the Supply Division already had received instructions to prepare the Chicago for shipment to Washington by rail. The suggestion had been made that Capt. Lowell H. Smith, leader of the flight and pilot of the plane, fly it to Washington, but the Air Service did not wish to take the risk with such a historic and famous plane. Its exposure to all sorts of weather and salt water on the globe flight may have caused a structural weakness in some isolated place, which, it was argued, might fall when the plane was off the ground.
Kings Bay. Spitzbergen, Monday, June 22—(AP)—Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth and the other members of the expedition which recently made an ineffectual attempt to reach the North Pole by airplane from Spitzbergen, will sail tomorrow from King’s Bay for Oslo, Norway. They will take with them the seaplane which brought them back from the Arctic Circle to Spitzbergen.
Monhegan Island, Me., June 22— (AP)—The schooner Bowdoin, which left here yesterday noon with Lieut. Commander Donald B. MacMillan and other members of his Arctic expedition, was well up the coast of Maine today. With fair weather, friends of the explorer here believed she would be off the Bay of Fundy by nightfall.
MacMillan Leaves Boston Amid Great Outburst of Enthusiasm
Boston. June 17.—(AP)—The arctic expedition of Lieut. Commander Donald B. MacMillan sailed from the navy yard at Charleston shortly after noon today In the steamship Peary bound for Wiscasset, Me. From Wiscasset the Peary and the schooner Bowdoin will sail on MacMillan’s ninth trip
The big guns on the navy craft thundered farewell as the little steamer slipped away on the first leg of the trip beyond the arctic circle. A navy band on the pier played “Auld Lang Syne.” The crowd which had crammed its way into the navy yard cheered. The harbor echoed with the shrill of marine whistles as craft at anchor joined In the parting tribute.
Tradition That Has Lured Many Adventurers to Seek Hidden Gold.
From the New York Press.
Mexican tradition says that somewhere in the Central West are the ruins of a populous Aztec city, in which Guate Motzin stored the vast treasure which Cortez tried to find after the conquest of Mexico. Expeditions under Mexican and under foreign directions have tried in vain to find this city. The story of one attempt to locate the wonderful city made by Col. H. C. Haddington, a civil engineer In the employ of the Mexican government, certainly is curious. He says:
“The story of a lost city is familiar to all Mexicans, and believed in by most of them. When I visited Mexico for the first time in 1872 I became interested in the subject from associating with Mr. Early, an English engineer, who assured me of his belief in its existence. Before leaving the City of Mexico I inquired in government circles for information to substantiate the story told by Early. I found the officials in different departments ready to credit the reports, which they believed plausible, as at that time no complete survey had been made by the government of that district.
The Pyramids of Sakkara may easily be visited front Gizeh by donkey, but having deferred this visit for another day, we took the train for Bedrashen and from there went over the desert. This little village was formerly the centre of Old Memphis, the famous capital of ancient times, built of sun-dried bricks, made out of Nile mud, Memphis stood on the borders of the Upper and Lower Kingdoms, and was founded by Menes, the head of the First Dynasty, about four thousand years before Christ. The narrow streets of this large city were a half a day’s journey long and extended as far as Gizeh, its several quarters being known as the “South Wall,” the “White Wall,” and the “House of the Spirit of Ptah.”
But as Thebes rose Memphis declined. It was a shining mark for Cambyses, who took it by storm, and it competed for a season with Alexandria; and, at the time of Augustus, though many of its buildings were laid low, it was still a populous city. The Mohammedans appropriated a large part of its ruins when they built their mosques and dwellings on the right side of the Nile, but its vastness could not be used up in a moment and up to the 12th century it is said to have been a wonderland; finally, however, every stone was taken to make Cairo the beautiful city it is today.
Found Everywhere, But Luxor Seems Their Natural Home. Everywhere in Egypt one will find fortune tellers, but no city boasts more for its size than Luxor. Those who read the…
The problem which the Franklins and the Kanes, of Arctic science and discovery, have labored so long and with such heroism to solve, has had no new light thrown upon it by the voyage from which Dr. Hayes has just returned. When, in July of last year, he left our shores in the small schooner United States, having on board only sixteen persons and the usual outfit, we felt in no way sanguine that the expedition would be successful in clearing away the mystery which surrounds the North pole, and the result is, therefore, only in accordance with our anticipations. This conveys no ill compliment to its projector, whose enthusiasm, talent and perseverance are undoubted; but we formed our opinion from the weakness of the exploring force. It was an attempt, with very inadequate means, to achieve a great object. Everything about the expedition was on far too small a scale; and, being insufficient, it became a foregone conclusion that it would fail. We are still wanting in scientific data relating to the geography and meteorology of the Arctic region, and even of its navigation and zoology. We are only slightly informed; but this expedition has discovered nothing before unknown on these points, and the death of its astronomer has only added another to the long list of Arctic victims. Had the expedition been larger, and provided with a good scientific party, much might have been attained, where, for want of it, the result has been simply a blank. Dr. Hayes succeeded in making his way by dog sledges no farther north than latitude 81 degrees 35 minutes, which is a lower degree than even Hendrik Hudson reached about the year 1600. We refer to these facts simply to show the folly of fitting out Polar expeditions that, from their very diminutiveness, are unequal to the work for which they are designed.
