Anthony Fiala

In early life he was engaged in various employments—as lithographic designer, chemist, cartoonist, head of the art and engraving department of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1894–99), and correspondent for that paper while serving as a trooper in the Spanish–American War.

A relief party sent out under William S. Champ found Fiala and his men at Cape Dillon in July 1905, and brought them home.

George Comer successfully established a provisions base in the Arctic for Fiala's 1908 expedition.

The New York Times stated: The Captain has been successful in his work for the Fiala expedition, and says that he confidently expects that the men under Fiala, by merely entering one of the northward drifts and sailing with it, will reach the North Pole.

[1][2]In 1914 Fiala accompanied Theodore Roosevelt on the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition into hitherto unexplored parts of Brazil.