Evening journal., 1918-09-28
sTEFANssoN Is COMING.

NILHJALMUR sTEFANssON one of the worlds most
intrepid and celebrated Arctic explorers is coming
TO Wilmington He will lecture in the New Century Club
the evening Of October under the auspices Of the
Consumers League Of Delaware His appearance will be
red-leter event in the that just has opened
clevery. It without saying that there will be rush
30 and TO hear this who has dared much and
done much since he entered the field Of exploration
The money derived by the League from the appear
Of sefansson will be devoted TO furherance Of the
organizations welfare work among women and children
In city and State.
With the return Of stefansson. the last chapter in the
worlds history of discoveries win be written, and the
task Of exploring the Western Hemisphere will be
pleed, after four centuries Of courageous labor
To Stefansson goes the honor Of completing the work
started by Christopher Columbus in 1892 for after six
years OF ncessant labor amidst the formidable elements
of the polar regions he has found the ongought Arctic
Continent and has filled in the last blank space the
map Of the World
The Arctic Continent discovered by stefansson lays
north Of the Mackenzie river Canada and west Of Prince
Patrick Island in the Arctic 1t is approximately
million square miles in area and is thought to contain
valuable mineral deposits The exact nature of the land
however will not be definitely known until the hardy
explorer tells in person the Of this new land so
long concealed behind its formidable wall Of ice and
As though jealousy guarding this last piece of un-
known land from the encroachment of civilization, the
elements opposed Sefanssons expedition from the out
set June H. 1913 when the last voyage Of discovery
started from Victoria, British Columbia The feet Of
four ships headed by the Karuk in command Of Bob
Bartlett the famous commander Of the Roosevelt Ad-
mira Pearys North Pole steamer encountered the most
Ice packs recorded and the Karluk finally
crushed in ice jam and lost after disaster over
took the Mary Sachs leaving Stefansson with but two
vessels and half his original supply OF provisions and
gear
He pushed on, however unmindful OF the opposing
hand OF fate. and after undergoing the most extreme
hardships, in exploring and mapping the islands in the
Arctic Sea- he started norhward along the iih Meridian
in, search Of the continent he believed TO exist in that
unknown section Of the world
The search for the new continent was started in
March 1914 and then. for year a-h, nothing was
heard from the heroic explorer and his brave little party
and the world finally to the conclusion that fate
had and Stefansson had paid with his life
Many expeditions were dispatched to offer
succor the missing explorer and at one time thousands
Of vessels on search for of the Seansson
Expedition but nothing found until in September
1915 Sefansson and his party returned beyond the
great ice barrier crowned with the glory Of having dis
covered the only remaining piece Of unknown land
Not content with this great honor and determined TO
make the work thorough In every detail, stefansson
again set his steps northward and now after second
absence Of three years he has completed the map of the
world and will tell all mankind of his great adj
ventures.
Wmingtonians should feel grateful to the Consumers
League that It has BEEN sufficiently philosophical and
enterprsng TO with the explorer to come here
and let the people him and hear his thrilling nara-
tive.