THE SCOTT FUND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 54, 9 July 1913, Page 5

THE SCOTT FUND.

ITS ALLOCATION

I By Elkctiuo Telegraph-—Copyiuoht

I Unix si) Puksb Associajtoh j London, July 8

The Mansion House Committee has allocated the Scott Fund as follows: —Lady Scott receives £8,500. Peter Scott, her son, £3.500; Scott'; mother and his two sisters £0,000; Mrs Wilson, £8,500; Mrfs Bowers am. two daughters, £4,500; Mrs Evans and children, £1,250; Evan's mother. £250; and Mi\s Brissenden and child, £750; Mrs Abbott, £750. Various amounts have been invested in the Public Trustee. Lady Scott'; amount, in the event of her death, reverts to her son.

The Committee will pay £5,10( estimated deficit on the expedition, and also assigns £17,500 for the publication of the scientific results of th( expedition. The sum of £I,BOO wil be utilised in providing a memoria at St. Paul's and also sculptured bronze figures of the five dead heroes at Hyde Park. The balance of the fund, estimated at £IO,OOO, will be devoted to future polar research. « As the relatives of the late Captaii: Gates do not require any assistance the Committee will make a contribution towards a regimental memorial to him.

Towards the end of April, Mr Alexander Scott, a Canadian who reside? v in New York, volunteered to head ar expedition to the Southern Antarctic and recover the bodies of Captair Scott and his ill-starred comrades,, provided that the English Royal Geo graphical Society approved of his plan It was this: Scott subscribed £2O tr the American branch of the Daily Tele graph Scott Fund,'*and he then wroti offering the services of himself anc' a picked crew of Northern dog drivers. with dogs, sledges, and equipment and everything necessary to complete a sledge trip in search of the bodies free of expenses. "I made this offer,' said Mr Scott, "not from any selfish motive, or any other than those that always exist, to firing back the body of a man and his companions who died game. I was always an admirer of Captain Scott and his companions—they played' the game, and both los! and won. I firmly believe that someone should bring them back." Mr Scot has a wide experience of the Arctic and of sledging expeditions, and providing a ship is found to convey his party from San Francisco to the icebarrier, he offers to defray all the other expenses. He said: "My plar would be to take about 30 Hudson Bay or Alaskan dogs with sledges anc 1 equipment, and five or six picked mer who have already been on an expedition with me, and to sail from San Francisco to }\ow Zealand this summer, and to take a boat from there as early this autumn as it is possible to enter Ross Sea, for it is not a long trip from New Zealand to the Barrier. It is practicable to get the bodies and return in plenty of time to avoid hav ing to winter."