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THE MONARCH OF ALL HE SURVEYS, IN ETAH, NORTH GREENLAND
In Touch with the World from the
Arctic
How Dr. Mac Millan Came to Take Radio with Him to the Far North. The Question of Communication Through the "Auroral Band." How Broadcasts from Civilization will Relieve the Greatest Hardship of the Expedition, and How the Explorers will Flash Back Weekly Code Messages to Civilization
By BURNHAM McLEARY
WHILE you lounge in your easy chair this winter, listening to violins in some distant city, give a thought to the brave ship Bowdoin, captained by Donald B. MacMillan, the Arctic explorer; for he and his seven ship-mates will likely enough be listening to that same orchestra and perhaps be dancing to its music on the sparkling ice-fields of the Frozen North. For radio is on its way to meet the Eskimo. About a month ago it set out from Wiscasset, Maine, ensconced in the forward end of Captain MacMillan's Sg-foot schooner and bound for the northernmost limits of Eskimo Land, hardly three hundred miles from the Pole itself. And while you are picturing the pleasures which radio will bring to these Arctic explorers,
stand by and listen for the signals of their faroff station. For under the ice-battened hatches of the Bowdoin, there is a wireless operator, Donald H. Mix by name, who hails from Bristol, Connecticut; and his hand on the key will be flashing each week a five-hundred word story of adventure (in a special code prepared for the purpose by the Government) to seventy of the leading newspapers and magazines of America. He will transmit, also, coded diagrams of all new lands and harbors found and charted by the expedition. Each message will be signed with the letters WNP. The full name of the sending station, happily christened by the Government, is Wireless North Pole.
It's a great thing for radio, this adventuring into the land of perpetual stillness, undoubtedly the greatest from the standpoint of