Will Put Wireless Station In Arctic.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 17, 1913:
Crocker Land Expedition to Go to the Far North with Remarkable Equipment.
FULL PLAN MADE KNOWN
Party Commanded by Donald B. MacMillan Will Start in July and Be Away Until the Fall of 1915.
    The plans of the arctic expedition, which Donald B. MacMillan. Peary's former aid, is to lead for the purpose of discovering and exploring the hypothetical arctic continent known as Crocker Land, were made public yesterday.
    The Crocker Land Expedition is under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History and the American Geographical Society, with the co-operation of the University of Illinois and the assistance of the United States Navy Department and other Federal departments as well as educational institutions all over the country.
    The personnel, in addition to Commander MacMillan, will include Elmer W. Ekblow of the University of Illinois, geologist and botanist; Ensign Fitzhugh Green of the United States Navy, engineer and physicist; M. C. Tanquary, zoologist; Theodore Allen of the navy, assistant electrician and chief of the wireless; J. C. Small, mechanic and cook, and a surgeon not yet decided upon.
    The expedition will leave New York on July 2 or 3 on the Newfoundland sealer Diana, sailing from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Navy Department having placed a dock and storeroom at the disposal of the expedition free of expense. The scientists of the expedition will do work in geography, geology, oceanography, zoology, including ornithology, mammalogy, ichthyology, and all kinds of invertebrate ologies, but the most interesting work to the public, as well as in some respects the most important will be experiments in wireless telegraphy, from which far-reaching results are expected.
    So important is this latter subject considered that the General Electric Company has furnished the expedition with all the needed electrical equipment, including powerful generators to be run by kerosene, while the Atlantic Communication Company has supplied a complete outfit of their Telefunken wireless with a range of 2,000 miles.
    The expedition will make its main headquarters on the north side of Flagler Bay, where the powerful wireless station will be erected, and here, under the ideal climatic conditions of the arctic, experiments will be conducted in order to solve the important problem of directing the Hertzian waves.
    From Flagler Bay, the party will sledge northward in the Fall to Cape Thomas Hubbard and then to Axel Heiberg Land, while the Diana returns to New York, and the Winter will be spent in hunting and laying up a supply of meat.
    Early in the Spring of 1914 the expedition will make a dash from Axel Heiberg Land across the sea ice to Crocker Land, where the party will divide into three squads, one going northward, the second south westward, and the third northeastward into the interior of Crocker Land. Studies will be carried on in glaciers, sea ice, tidal observations, soundings, and the fauna of the region.
    In the Spring of 1915 the expedition will return to Crocker Land, and afterward will explore the regions north of Parry Island and will climb to the summit of the ice cap of Greenland. A ship will be sent out from New York to bring the party back in the Fall of 1915.
    Another interesting feature, in addition to the erection of a powerful wireless station at Flagler Bay, will be the establishing there of a seismographic station, and it is expected that earthquake observations of scientific value will be made.