The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-27
STEPHENSON IS TO LECTURE AT
 HIGH SCHOOL!
First In Series of Five Pre- senting Notable Men of
 the Day.

How ViIhjarrnur Stefansson and
 his small band of men picked from
 different parts of the world, equally as determined and as pIucky as him.
 self, helped to put new land on the
 map of the world, is told by the ex-
 Plorer himself in his description of his five years in the Polar regions.
 Stefansson was sent out In 1912 by
 the Canadian government to explore
 as much as possible of a million
 square miles. Not only did he add
 2oU,O0O more miles to the best chart
 or that part of the Polar area in ex- iStence when he went out but he and
 ms DaEld made many important cor
 rectionS and returned scientific ob- servauons Of the highest value and sent home over TOO geological speci- mems. The party was given up for lost and an expedition sent to find traces of them. but so certain was Stefansson Of his plans that this year
 he came out just as he expected In a delightful lecture the explorer de- scribes the more interesting incidents of his five years trip.
 Stefansson, who was born in Mani tobag where his mother still resides, tells Of his early decision to depart entirely from the Dr. Peary form Of preparations for such an arduous trEn and to travel light, trusting to the game, which was plentiful in summer. and to seals and bears during the winter, for food and fuel Dr, Pear. who believed in carrying big supplies, traveIed with 400 dogs and 20 sIeds Stefansson started out on his real journey with three sleds and 20 dogs, which he reduced to one sled and six dogs.
 After two months Stetansson lost his ship Karluk with instruments and it's load of common supplies for Polar work The loss made more inpera- tive his party living on the resources of the country if they were to sue ceed. AS seals lived on shrimps. he chose to follow wherever possible open lanes to which the seals resorted and arranged with two NorWegians of the party to keep the Iarder provided for $25 a day.
 The only way to shoot seals, which when out on the ice sleep 30 seconds to a minute at a time and remain awake only 10 seconds at a time, was to initiate exactly the movements of a seal and thus come to within five or ten feet of the animal, when it could be harpOoned. This method saved ammunition, which was very valuable on such an expedition. Polar bears were easier game, and had frequently to be chased out of camp by pitching tin cans at them, Stefansson states In the summer caribou was their fa- vorite supply.
 The explorer goes one move further towards reviYing the general fear Of Arctic chiIls when he describes how every man of his party threw off his clothes in the open porch at the door of the snow-house, which was so com fortably warm inside that they could sit about in their underclothes, which they discarded before getting into their sleeping bags.
 For fuel supply, when the small supply of kerosine gave out they had to depend on bIubber oil and bones of a seal for wick. Over such a. blaze it was possible to cook meals in 10 minutes. In a snow house it was easily possible to have tenn perature of 75 fahrenheit.
 The lecture is illustrated by g. of screen pictures taken from photos snapped by members of the party, and Stefansson, in paying tribute to the grit exhibited by his men, whom though confronted by the lAhLO"I, LeIpGu 44IIII lO 6C11ISS0 ul- timate success, says it was plain hv- ing and high thinking that accom- pIshed everything.
 There are to be three additional lectures and one musical Dates are IS follows: January 22, John Drink water, subject, Abraham Lincoln; February 5, Admiral Bacon, The Dover Patror'; February 19, J. Barnes Wells, tenor and Anna Louise David, harpist; March 1, pr. Ray nond L. Ditmar, Mental Trails in he Animal World"
 Most of these lectures are illus rated Course tickets are now on ale at Chamberlin & Shropshire, Cannon street, or can be obtained at he Bridgeport High school office, Iyon Terrace.