The Nome nugget., 1927-04-23
NORTHERN LIGHT MUSEUM YACHT Is
 PRETTIEST CRAFT TO COME, ALASKA

SAN FRANCISCO. April 22, L4'-The North Light, which is leaving here today on cruise of the for the Chicago Field Museum is the prettiest craft sailing to Alaska the Arctic. She is pindred forty feet long, built on the graceful lines the Gloucester fishing boats and has two masts, each one hundred and thirty high. She carry eight thousand square cargo. and draws fifteen feet oi water. She is expected to travel nine knots per hour with her 24o-h D. Deisel engine, and knots under can vas alone The vessel is layshy fitted out for twenty-four persons. and expects reach rnga the latter part of May. touching Seattle, Vic toria and Juneau
 The expedition will hunt bear koday Is land and seals off Pribof Islands The party goes to Nome and thence the edge of the Arctic pack between Point Barrow and Wrange Island.
 The Northern Light is built to buck ice, with her hull twenty-two inches thick, and reinforced brow The party is armed with 3o.3o rifles, and they will hunt polar bear the ice, and record their experiences with motion pictures. and stills. Ashley TIine the Secretary of the Chicago Field Mu scum, joins the party Nome in July and will take care of the specimens collected.
 The expedition expects live specimens of polar bear walrus and seal for the Chicago Zoo and will mountable specimens of Kodiak and Polar Bear caribou. walrus and seal for the museum
 The party includes Mir. and Mrs. John Borden MT. and Mrs. R, B. Slaughter. Mir. and Mrs. c. B. Goodspeed of Chicago, and Miss Frances Ames, of San Francisco. The party expects to to San Francisco about the middle of October
 The expedition is financed by John Borden the millionaire sportsman. is heavily interest cd in the Chicago Herald He is also the father" of the Nome Borden Marathon Dog Derby the dog classic of Seward Peninsula for which he annually donates silver cup to the winner of the race. and a massive cup of silver is provided about every three four years to the racer who wins the race three times-not necessarily consecutiveIy One of the requirements of the rules of this race is that it be run under conditions conducive to the most speed and best showing and is there fore only run excellent trail and in good weather, that both and driver may make the best showing possible
 In 1916, MT Borden fitted out a similar expe- dition to the present one. His vessel that time was called the Great Bear. She was a vessel of "6' tons displacement and skppered by Capt ain Louis Lane. She sSOOOO and carried a cargo valued at s50OOO She was wrecked how ever on Pinnacle Rock miles southwest of Saint Matthews Island and 347 miles from Nome There were 21 in the aboard the Great Bear when she foundered on Pinnacle Rock but no lives were lost. all aboard escaping to the mainland After the ship was long overdue at Nome the Officer in Charge of the local Coast Guard Station got uneasy and wirelessed the commander of the district sta tioned at Unaaska. Upon Captain Ross in sfructions from Nome. the commanding officer of the district sent the Revenue Cutter Mccullough to the vicinity where it supposed the wreck if wreck there had been. had occurred. The Cutter found the survivors of the wreck and brought them to Nome The wreck occurred on August 10th, at 1s:s7 in. the morning. and the passengers and crew of the i'll fated ship arrived in Nome on the Cutter August s7th. The Great Bear was total wreck, cargo and al