The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-13
VOYAGE TO FAR NORTH PLANNED
 BY SPORTSMEN
Fishing Schooner "Great Bear" Will Travel 5000
 Miles From Seattle

Chicago, April 13.-When the schooner 'tGreat Bear" sails from Se- attIe about the middle of May on a fishing and hunting trip to the far north-a trip which has been planned partly as summer vacation and part Iy as a. commercial venture-she will start on journey that will take her 5000 miles from Seattle and will not end until about tn ernidd1e of Novern- ber. Incidentally John Borden. Chi cago capitalist, sportsman and travel Ter, and one of the vessels owners, fansson-if help is needed-re-locate the continent he discovered in the polar regions.
 MT. Borden on his journey will be accompanied by Capt. Louis Lane, long time a resident of Nome, Alaska, and for years a gold miner, fur trader and whaler. and by three Chicago guests, who are going just for sport Norris H. Bokun, C.. N. Knickerbock CT, and R. B. Slaughter-and the schooner will carry crew of twenty four sturdy seamen.
 With MT. Borden, Capt. Lane is joint owner of the vessel, which, in ~cluding her equipments, cost 75,o0O and is 137 feet long, 32 feet beam, with a, draft of A feet and a speed of seven knots per hour. She carries three sails and, as an auxiliary force, an oi1-burning engine of 16O horse power. Her oaken hull is sheathed in ironwood, a heavy timber from the Phillipines, almost as impervious as it's name indicates.
 The Great Bear'' will carry 25,00O gallons of fuel oil, and about $3,000 worth of rovisions-canned vege- tables and fruits, sugar, coffee, flour, meal and salt meats, enough to last the entire journey. complete kit ] will he nTOuided and will he in charge of a chef of long experience. A medical chest fitted up according to the list authorized by the govern ment for it's vessels will be part of the ships equipment. No physician will accompany the expedition as MT. Borden says his experience in north ern waters has given him sufficient experience to handle any ailments, pe- culiar to the northern country that
 might come to himself or his men.
 There will be private state rooms for each of the guests and comfort able berths for each man of the crew. l Cards books and a big phonograph provide entertainment for the long Arctic nights.
 Capt. Lane, though only >36 years of age, is as much at home in a boat l onGthe icy seas of the north as would ] be a. IandsmanN in an automobile tray |
 dweIIer in the Alaskan country since l he was a. child of twelve and has spent much of his time on the water. He will be in active charge of the boat as captain but will cb-operate
 with MT. Borden in all matters of
 management except the actual teoh-
 nica1 details of handling the vessel 1 It was Capt. Lane who last August | came to the rescue of the explorer Ste-
 fansson with timely supplies when | Stefansson and the remnant of the
 original party that went to the north
 ern regions with him had been given tup for lost.
 MT. Borden is we'll fitted by exper- fence for his proposed long Journey. l Though he did not go half as far north as his present plans will carry him, he
 made a notable voyage in the summer 1 of 1913 in his 100 foot sailing yacht. 1 stAdventurer,' from the coast of l Maine, around the American contin- ent, through the straits of Magellan. 1 thence to the Pacific coast and on to a point about three hundred miles north of the AIeutian Islands. It was the delightful experience that he had | on this trip that got the salt of the sea into his veins and caused the lure of the north to call him again, a, call I so insistent, he said, that his forth coming trip is the result.
 The route of the Great Bear'i vii take her through the Pacific oceaT