The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-04-19
P0NERB0AT
TO SEEK EXPLORER.
Louis Z. Lane Will.
Go North to Meet
Stefansson.

SEATTLE, April 19.-Captain Louis
Il. Lane, an Attic navigator VI lorg
experience, announced here today tina:
he will leave Seattle for the Arctic
Ocean about June / In a 300.ton power
schooner now being built here, and
expects tc return to Nome OF Seattle
next autumn with vilhia!mur S.etaps.
son auG the other members OF the Ca
madam government exploring cxpedi
|tion that sailed from Victoria, B. c..
for the Attic Ocean June III 1913. Gap
tain Lane plans to be ut Banks Lan'i,
in the Polar Sea, about August .. ana
to meet Stefansson there. Lane III
the power schooner Polar Bear, t'G%
iStetansson and two ~rot1CanletiS from
Banks Land to Herschcl .lslnad last
August, and ~afterward sold the Pciat
Bear t. Stefansson. .'%lo returned 70
Banks Land with this boat n The
small power boat Gladiator, iitei;d'
ing to lass the winter in exploration
OF B.rks Land and then, on the break
ing Of the ice this spring, making fur
thcr exploration of the new land which
he discovered last year, ii@fsh OF Mel.
vile Island. Captain s.nto IS iE'w III
Seattit supervising construction OF ms
s%chOoLe:.
.CrtIain Lane is going n%2r::i, not IN:
der contract with the Canndi IN govi'rn.
ment, but under a "srrdl agreement
with Stefansson. Lanes new power
boat, which probably will Dc n"mal The
Great Bear. will be D wooden cen
struction, and the strongest iee'resi@t'
ing vessel ever built on Puget Sound:
Lane will take with him gasoline ana
other Supplies for the StcfalIssan iiect.
Stefansson has asked Canadian gov
ernmer1 to permit his parties t. con-
tInue their work a yaIr longer. Du: II
Is believed that on account OF war coll
dItions the explorers will be ordered
home. The expedition was planned
to continue three and a half years.
Unless ice movements are laVota'
HE, CautaIu Lane expects TO icuch
Banks Land at the tine fixed upnr. I
he has good fortune. he will call first
At Herschel Island, whate he may re
ceiye word from Stefansson. II lie
does NOT get instructions there, hs VIII
proceed north to BANKS Land, making
stops at points agreed upon last Eear,
where Stcfansson may have ietters or
mon waiting for Lane. I may he That
tho explorers will choose 20 Teilrh
10 Nome in their own 9odts, the qOwef
~scIlooners Polar Bear Alaska, Mary
Sachs and North Star. but the vessels
probably will be out Ut repair aud ur:
able TO make the quick voyage that WIN
he necessary to elude the t~reGchGrols
ice, which closes upon the coaS: Fapla
" In emily autumn. X all goes we'll
the explorers should arrive in Nome
soon a fer the middle IF September.
The Stefansson expedition from the
beginning was divided into two pa'-
lies. The northern, under Stetanssoh.
nIanned to seek new land II the l8eau-
fort sea. and succeeded, notwitllstaaH'
ing the loss of the principal boat me
whaler Earluk which vas crushed III
the ice the first winter out. The s'rnti'
ern party, under DR.. Rudolph AMER
son. has ben exploring and charl'h5
the delta of the Mackenzie river afLl
the country to the east, and also max
ing a geological survey OF the ts.ahd5
and mainland at the mouth OF the great
river. making especial search 10. COP
per and coal. Copper nuggets anouHa
the waterways, and the !|shr
mos make their weapons and utensils
of beaten copper. ~Stefansson, b MS
covered blue-eyed Eskirrns IN he Coro.
nation gulf country, EAST OF the Mack
emile. some years ago, these people De-
ing descendants OF the ancient Scail-
diHayian settlers in Greenland, Is not
revising these Eskimos during ms
present Journey. %Stefansson and An
derson have a large amount of informs
alton and material, and will 'hAke a
complete report to the Canadian gov
..-an Stafon asnn will publish q