GOOD EATING ASSURED
EXPLORERS ABOARD
MACMILLAN VESSELS
BOSTON, June 24. (/P)—'Tea will be
'the preferred beverage on the steam
ers Peary and Bowdoin of Comman
der Donald B. MacMillan's Arctic
expedition, which sailed recently
for exploration of Baffin Land, but
there will be no definite restriction
laid down. Coffee and cocoa will be
available also in liberal quantities
•to the 40 men of the expedition, and
even ginger ale and grape juice to
a limited extent.
Commander MacMillan favors tea
rather than coffee for steady con
sumption in the northern cold. Ex
perience has convinced him, he said,
that habitual tea drinkers keep in
better condition and are better able
to withstand the rigors of the Arctic
than coffee drinkers. In previous
voyages, when he has remained in
»the north thru the long winters, he
has strongly advised the use of tea
but, as the present expedition is to
be a summer cruise only, he is not
so insistent.
For the three months’ trip the ex
pedition will be provided with 100
pounds of tea and 300 pounds of
coffee while 72 cans of condensed
coffee will be carried also for emer
gency use, according to figures giv
en by Ralph Robinson, Commander
lacMillan’s chief assistant who is
in charge of all supplies.
The commissary list includes 650
pounds of sugar and 12 cases of con
densed and evaporated milk with 37
strips of bacon and a considerable
supply of eggs in waterglass as a
pant of the breakfast menu. The
two steamers will carry 1,400 pounds
of flour with 300 yeast cakes, 150
pounds of lard and spices of all
sorts. In addition to 350 pounds of
butter, the expedition will have 50
pounds of peanut butter for a change
of diet.
Other items on the supply list in
clude 27 hams, two barrels of corn
ed beef, eight cases each of corned
beef hash, sausage, frankfurters, and
Irish stew, two barrels of salt pork,
15 cases of baked beans, 14 cases
of tomato and vegetable soups. 35
bushels of potatoes, eight crates of
onions, 25 pounds of split peas, and
35 pounds each of rice, tapioca, corn
starch and molasses. Roast mutton,
roast beef and plum pudding all in
cans will also be available.
Approximately 100 cases of can
ned goods will enable the cooks to
furnish stringed beans, tomatoes
corn, peas, shelled beans, spinach
celery, pickles, peaches, pears, cher
ries, apricots, pineapple, blackber
ries, apple sauce, cranberries, cur
rant jelly, prunes strawberry jam
and mince meat as desired. Dates
nuts and cheese may also be on the
menus. In addition the expedition
will have a generous supply of dehy
drated vegetables and fruits, includ
ing carrots, turnips, onions, potatoes,
apricots, pears, peaches and apples.
One hundred boxes of chewing
gum have been considered sufficient
to meet the ruminant demands, while
tobacco (smoking and chewing), cig
arettes and candy will be ready as
required.
For the naval aviators who will
maintain a base at Cape Thomas
Hubbard for their exploring flights
over Baffin Land and Crocker Land,
pemmican rations will be provided
for emergencies. This particular
pemmican rations will be made of
beef suet and buffalo meat from
Canadian government herds.
The expedition left June 20, and
will return late in September. Be
yond this three months period, no
provision has been made for sup
plies. “If we have to spend the
winter in the north, we will live as
England Restores to Tokio j
Books Lost In Earthquake
LONDON, June 24.(/P)—Under the
chairmanship of Lord Balfour, learn
ed men in every department of lit
erature and science are meeting In
London to choose Jens of thousands
of British books to replace those de
stroyed in the University of Tokio
during the great earthquake.
The committee was formc-d by the
British Academy at the request of
'the government, and Lord Balfour
was chosen as chairman because of
his great knowledge of books. Al
ready 12,000 volumes have been pre
sented to the committee by learned
institutions, publishers and private
donors, and the government has nowr
voted $125,000 for the purchase of
additional books.
the Esquimaux live,” says the lead
er.
In Constantinople the average i
business man speaks six languages, j
Prohibition and evolution are in
the limelight just now. Some are
interested in the evolution of prohi
bition and others are concerned with
the prohibition of evolution.
A politician’s bunk annoys us; we
wish he’d go to sleep on it.
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