Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1920 — Explorer Fails to Force Polar Channel [ARTICLE]

Explorer Fails to Force Polar Channel

Los Angeles.—Joseph F. Bernard, explorer and former resident of Los Angeles, is returning from the North American channel, according to word just received here, after an unsuc- ■ cessful effort for three years to force his way from the Pacific to the Atlantic ocean north of the American continent. Bernard has twice defied the Ice fields In a ten-ton schooner; the Teddy Bear, accompanied by only one man. On his first trip in 1908 he went to the Siberian coast and was absent for nearly five years. His assistant died on this voyage, and the explorer sailed his boat to the Ice fields alone. In 1916 he again sailed north in the Teddy Bear, this time in the hope of drifting from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Recently David H. Hurley, a friend of Bernard here, received word that the Teddy Bear had been sighted by natives near Banksland, and that Bernard was unable to negotiate the passage between the two oceans.— ————-——r— —