Arctic Adventure to Lure Chicagoan

1915

Millionaire Sportsman Announces He Will Sail From Seattle, Wash., for Far North in April

John Borden, a Chicago sportsman and millionaire, will embark next spring on his third adventure. He went whaling to Bering Sea two years ago. He had his taste of war last summer on the French fighting front in Flanders. Next spring he will cease to be an amateur adventurer and become a professional whaler and fur trader.

Capt. L. L. Lane, a veteran of the Arctic, whaler, trader, and miner, will be his partner in the undertaking.

"We shall buy or build a schooner," said Mr. Borden, "and sail from Seattle, Wash., in April loaded with merchandise for trade among the Eskimos. Capt. Lane will be in charge of the expedition.

"I shall drop off somewhere up north — perhaps at Point Barrow — and return by steamer. Capt. Lane will continue the expedition until the ice drives him out in the fall. He expects, with good luck, to bring back a cargo worth a quarter of a million in United States markets."

Capt. Lane is fresh from the Arctic. He left Herschel island on Sept. 30 and traveled 1,100 miles by dog sled to Cordova. There he took a steamer for Seattle, where he arrived November 21. He brought the latest tidings from Stefansson, who has been in the Arctic two years at the head of the Canadian Government's exploring expedition.

—Saturday Blade, Chicago, Dec. 18, 1915.