Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-11-27
NORTH POLE HIS GOAL
Anthony Fiala Believes DR.. Fred
erick Cook May Reach 1t.
WAS sPLENDIDLY EQUIPPED.

Intrepid Arctic Explorer, With Few
Eslimos, Started on Last $50 Mile
| Dash In March-PIan Was Hastily
Formed at the End of a Hunting
Trip.
Ere this the long sought north pole
may have been discovered. DR.. Fred
erick "A. Cook, the arctic explorer, may
be the finder. Anthony Fiala believes
DR.. Cook is close to the pole If not ac-
tually there.
/ DR.. Cooks wife and two children
live In Brooklyn. The last heard Of
| him was March II last, when he was
on the polar ice north Of Cape Thomas
Hubbard, $50 miles from the pole. He
was on the eve Of making dash for
1t, accompanied by few Eslzimos, with
dogs, sleds and supplies. Mrs. Cook is
confident her husband will overcome
all obstacles and return safe. It will
be impossible to hear from him again
before next summer.
| When Dr.. Cook started a year ago
| last spring for polar hunting trip
with John R. Bradley, a wealthy New
Yorker, he had no intention of trying
to grab the north pole. They went in
1lO ton Gloucester fishing schooner,
renamed the John R. Bradley, with
! DR.. Cook In command. a. F.
When the hunting trip ended in Au-
gust, 1907, it was expected that DR..
Cook would come back on the schoon-
er, but at Annortok, on the northwest
ern coast Of Greenland, he decided to
remain and make dash for the pole,
says the New York Evening World.
Rudolph FRANKIE, a member of the
crew, volunteered to stay at Annortok
and watch the supplies. He recently
returned to New York with a letter
from DR.. Cook, dated March II, the
polar sea, north Of Cape Hubbard. In
it DR.. Cook said: "I am taking a
straight course for the pole. hope to
succeed. At any rate, will make a
desperate attempt" =.
| FRANKIE, speaking of their expert
ences in the far north, said in part:
"On the night of Aug. 26, 1907, the
John R. Bradley discharged the stores
/ and provisions, also the outfit, at An
norfolk, and the schooner left us on
Aug. 27 at noon, bound for New York.
"Early in September our winter quar-
ters were in first class condition, and
we began to lay in stock of meat for
| the winter
N h0I f~ysI I,,y.
Ing. Before the long night set in DR..
Cook made sledge trip to the Big
Humboldt glacier and returned to win
ter quarters at the beginning of the
long arctic night. 1t was at this time
very cold 30 or 40 degrees below Zero
The ice was not always firm, being
broken up and then closed together,
and travelling was dangerous, especial
ly in the morning and at evening.
"Dr. Cook was nearly drowned and
escaped with his life in an encounter
with polar bears. The grease in the
guns was SO hard that he could not
use them, and they put knives on long
sticks to defend their lives against the
bears.
"One time when DR.. Cook was away
from camp on trip I prepared dog
food for the spring campaign. We
found way to prepare dog food that
will give DR.. Cook an immense advan-
tage over all other explorers.
I'm the middle Of November our
furs were nearly gone. Then came the
holidays Of Christmas and New Year,
but we did not have much time to de-
vote to them.
"Jan. 10 DR.. Cook sent me over to
Flagler bay with three Eskimos to hunt
for musk OK and to look after the peo-
pie who we supposed had been left
there from IL shipwreck, but we found
nobody. The thermometer registered
73 below zero. "
'"The last weeks we were together
there was a lot to do, and, everything
being completed, we started on Feb. 20
for the far north. I remember it was
early noon when we left our quarters
and camped the first night in three
snow houses on the ice foe in Kane
basin. The next day, after 140 days of
darkness, we again saw the sun and
Preached Cape Sabine late in the even
ing. Here we were storm bound the
next day. The last days march brought
US to Rice strait, ten miles northwest
Of Greely's memorable winter quar-
ters Of 1884. The next march brought
us in Flagler bay, and DR.. Cook sent
me back to Annortok March 8 with the
first division after placing provisions
at the head of Flagler bay to guard
our winter quarters.
81 believe that everything is O. Il.
with DR. Cook, but Of course some
thing must be done next year for his
relief.n 5.
Members of the Peary club and the
Explorers club have for some weeks
been discussing the adyisability of fit-
ting out an expedition to hunt for DR..
Cook. No relief measures can be taken,
however, before next spring. E
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