The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-02-22
TO MAKE DASH
ACROSS ARCTIC.
Capt. Joe Bernard of the Teddy
Bear Projects Nome-to-NeW-
f0undIand Trip.
ADDS TO FRANKLIN RELICS
Captain Bernard Has Covered More
Mileage in Arctic Than Any Man
Living-Finds Wooden Leg
Made by Eskimos.

New York.-A Nome-to- Newfound-
land trip through the Arctic will be
made this year if his plans go through,
according to Captain Joe Bernard Of
the Teddy Bear, who is In this city
on trip East to arrange for the exhi
bitiOn of relics of Sir John Franklin's
uifated Arctic expedition and archie
illogical material from prehistoric Es-
kimO graves in Victoria Land and in
North Siberia. John b. Burnham,
president of. the American Game Pro-
tective association, is assisting in the
effort to organize west-tO-east eXpe-
ditiOn through the Arctic.
One of the relics of Sir John Frank
Inns expedition consists of parts of
copper boom from one of his ships
which was found in possession of an
Eskimo on Adelaide peninsula, which
is at point about threequarters Of
the journey from Boring strait, on
the Pacific side, to Baffin bay, on the
Atlantic. Another relic is a wooden
arrow box made by ESkimOS from
wood from ship in relief expedition
sent after Franklin, who persisted in
1913. Another strange relic of early
British expeditions reported by Cap
tain Bernard was bit of applied
& cience 1t was a wooden leg manu-
actured roughly for himself by an
Eskimo on Adelaide peninsula, his
ancestors having learned the trick
from members of the expedition of Sir
James c.. Ross, who explored in the
Arctic in 1923.
A Veteran Arctic Trader.
Captain Bernard has been trading
and making archaeological and anthro-
biological collections among the Eski-
mos for 20 seasons. He is said to have
covered more mileage in thes Arctic
than any man living. His greatest col
lection, numbering 5000 pieces, is in
the museum of the University of Penn
sylvania. Other collections made by
him are in this city at the Museum of
the American Indian, Heye Founda
ton; at the Loyola college at Ottawa
and elsewhere. Edward Arnold of
Montreal has large private collec-
ton containing many Arctic treasures
bartered from natives or eXcavated
by Captain Bernard, who is by a wide
margin the greatest Individual hunter
of material of this kind in the North
His most interesting recent collec-
ton contains weapons and utensils
from ancient graves on Victoria Land
In the Arctic. These are believed to
+l tl In
dams belonged to the Chuckchee tribe
of Siberia, who also bury their dead in
stone-lined graves with heads pointing
east.
Captain Bernard hopes to make up a
party of three or four sportsmen and
posed Nome tO-Newfoundland trip. The
west-tO-east passage of the Arctic has
never been accomplished. In the other
dill action the passage has been made
by one man-Amundsen. The water
route through the Arctic north of Can
ada was discovered by Sir John Frank
lin, but he persisted on the trip.
TWO Alternating Trips.
The Arctic pilot said that he was
ready to attempt the trip in either one
of two ways-a quick dash with the
purpose of completing the trip in one
summer, or more leisurely journey,
wintering on Victoria Land or some
other part of the Arctic, hunting polar
bear while the light lasts, taking mo-
ton pictures and listening to music,
news and bedtime stories from WIZ,
the radio broadcasting station at New
ark, n. j.
"If conditions are favorable, it
would be possible to leave Nome on
July 10 to reach Newfoundland in the
latter part of September or early in
October" he said. eff we started in
tending to make the trip in one sum-
mer | think we would have about an
even chance of getting through. If ice
conditions were bad, us they were last
summer, ii would be necessary to go
into winter quarters. The expense of
the short trip would be about $4,000
If we stayed over all winter and made
our way out the following summer,
the cost would be all of $4,000.
L WOuiu ldhC Vic butlNC ou tHC
trip, and the passengers could not
number more than three or four. They.
would have to act as the crew and do
their share of work"
The party would have to live largely
on the country. Their diet would vary.
according to the position where they
located. Fat reindeer is the best meat
I'm the North and thin reindeer about
the poorest, according to Captain Ber-
nard. Next to fat reindeer the high
est living in the Arctic. he said,- was
wolf, whose meat was Jean streaked
with fat, having the flavor of fine
lamb. Varied fare OF this kind would
be possible If the party camped on the
coast of the continent, whereas polar
bear would be the mainstay If they
wintered on Melville island.
Relics Sent to Ottawa.
The brass gooseneck boom with the
III. NJ" remaining as the fraction of
the lettering and the wooden box have
been sent to Loyola college. Ottawa,
where Captain Bernard is preparing
for the expedition. The most extraordi-