DEPARTURE DELAYED

Evening Star, Issue 21620, 16 January 1934, Page 9

DEPARTURE DELAYED

THE BEAR OF OAKLAND It was at first hoped to dispatch the Bear of Oakland for . Little , America to-day, but this has. been, found impps-' sible, and she has iemaine(i at the wharf. .• The additional equipment which awaiting her arrival'mere, which.bon--sists mostly of huts, has beeh loaded and stowed on the fofe dick/ and ifchp" vessel now presents an overloaded appearance as she lies at the Victoria wharf with her decks .piled high with the wooden partitions and the large Citroen tractor pmidships. ‘ ■ I This morning the ship’s company were kept busy setting up and overhauling the rigging, so that when the storms of the Antarctic seas are encountered the vessel will be fit to meet them. The members of the crew are all well and looking forward to reaching the ice.- ; , EXPEDITION STAMPS. Self-addressed envelopes , posted -; in Dunedin hy stamp collectors for 3 carriage to the Antarctic for reposting there are not being i accepted by. the Bear of Oakland. Lieutenant English to-day explained that a special three cent, stamp for' the .' Byrd Expedition had been issued by the' United StatesPostal Department;, These stamps are to be used on covers. The cost of the stamps, however, was fifty-three cents, which was a handling, charge, the "revenue to go to the United States' Government. Letters from the States are being handled by the: Postal Department in Washington. - The„suggestion is made by the Beap’s commander that stamp collectors should first make inquiries at the local Post Office, before, sending, letters to the ship. .... L FAR AND WIDE. The members of the first Byrd = Antarctic expedition,; which left, Dunedin in December, 1928, are now scattered far and wide over, the. length., and breadth of the United States, and several have even crossed the boundaries of that country. ■ - • Captain F. C v Melville, who was master of the City of New. York, is now in command of an American-five-' masted schooner in the. Atlantic Trade.' Captain G. R. Brown, of the Elinor Boling, is "'pier superintendent for the Baltimore Mail Line. R. G. Brophy, second in command of Byrd’s previous expedition, is now connected with the American Legion in Chicago. . , -.. ~: _ L. M. Gould, Byrd’s geologist,- has obtained a professorship of geology., at Carlton,College,'lllinois. : When last heard .of; L. Reichart (cook) was chief steward on one of the City Service Company’s tankers, and had been blown up with,_his ,ship..,, It was not known if he-was injured. v* Paul Siple, the Boy-Scout who was taken on as a seaman, is the' biologist aboard the Jacob Ruppert, . / Bernt Balchen and C. Braatben, aviation pilot and ski expert respectively, are at the Bay of Whales with The .Lincoln Ellsworth expedition. A. T. Walden, who was.Jn. charge of the dogs, has: retired to his farm' in New Hampshire. S. E. Roos, who was on the scientific staff of the 1928 expedition, is oceanographer .of the Bear of, Oalcland. . He Was recently op the. staff of Harvard University. .. ; ■ ■■■ . • Captain B. Johansen fills-his old,position of ice pilot, and'Combines the work of sailing master of the Bear of Oakland with it.

F. M'Pherspn, chief, engineer of the Elinor Boling, has opened a bar in Bayonne, New Jersey. S. Strom, boatswain of the City; of New York, is club captain of the I)oxburg Yacht Club.' ’ ' F. T. Davis, physicist and glaciologist, has been appointed to take charge of the Magnetic Observatory at Chesterfield, England, Hudson Bay, during the Second International Polar Year. C. Lofgren, personnel officer, is a paymaster in the United States Navy at Washington. M. P. Hudson, ra,dio engineer, is now a navy radio tester. It. F. Shropshire, hydrographer, is on the staff of a museum. C. O. Peterson is a radio telegraphist aboard the Jacob lluppert. G. W. Tennant, who was cook at the base at Little America, was last heard of as a guide at the Chicago World Fair. E. M. O’Brien, assistant engineer, is the first assistant in. the Fire Department in New York. J. Byer, assistant engineer, is the inspector of plumbing and piping in one of the.large American cities. C. J M'Guinnis, “the wild Irishman ” of the first Byrd expedition, took up tHe “profession” of a rum runner, but had the misfortune to be caught. He left the States, and is now inspector of hardwood in Leningrad.