Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1916 — GIRLS WHO WANT TO SPEAR WHALES [ARTICLE]

GIRLS WHO WANT TO SPEAR WHALES

CAPT. LANE OF THE GREAT BEAR DELUGED WITH PHOTOS OF THOSE WHO WANT TO GO THREE MILLIONAIRES IN IRE CREW It Is to Be a Pleasure Voyage, and Sortie are Going for Sport. Seattle, Wash.—Whaling-seems fee the king of outdoor sports. Several young women in Kansas and Colorado have been found who want to go whal Ing. They have read about it in books and seen pictures and acknowledge their interest in letters written w Capt. Louis L. Lane, who is going north with John Borden, the Chicago millionaire, .after whale and Vilhjal mur Stefansson, the explorer. Capt. Lane never knew how many persons in the country were interest eu in a cruise to the polar sea until the present expedition was organized. Then letters began to flood both him and Borden. Women sent their photo graphs and asked to be taken along as secretaries. Clerks whose only ac qua’intance with the sea was gathered from motion pictures, amateur adven turers and hundreds of others, want to go along. • . At last Borden had a regular rejection slip printed, such as magazines use to ease the wounded heart of the would be author when they return his manuscript, and these were mailed to all that invited themselves on the cruise.

“Why I could make up the entire crew of the Great Bear (that is the name of the whaling schooner now building at Port Blakely for the voyage) right here in Seattle without having to pay a single salarysaid Capt. Lane. And to judge from the stack of mail which greets him every morning this is trua. An aristocratic crew will don oil skins and hip boots aboard the Great Bear when she sails. Several whales, if any are discovered, will have the pleasure of being killed by a millionaire, for at least three of the crew rank as such. C. K. Knickerbocker of Chicago went over to Port Blakely together with John Borden, Capt. Louis Lane and W. E. Boeing to see the Great Bear which is still in the building. “Well, I’m ready to go right now,’’ exclaimed Knlckei bocker as he gazed on the hull. It was his first view of the vessel which > s t° take the party through the Arctic ocean eastward be yond Point Barrow to Herschel Is 1. nd and Banks Laud. In two minutes he had chosen his cabin and in three he was impatiently waiting for the start. -u. “Sorry 1 got here too late to be an officer,” was his next remark. For he it known Capt. Lane, an Arctic navi gator of much experience and half owner of the Great Bear, will be the chief. Johln Borden, millionaire sports man and also half owner of the ship, >lll sign the articles as first mate. Knickerbocker, however will be a sort cf boss, for he preside over the blubber pot with two Eskimo assist ants. The blender of the bloated blubber on any whaling ship is a man of distinction, a man apart from the re»t as it were.