New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-10-21
NORTH POLE HIS GOAL
Anthony Fiala Believes Dr.. Fred
erick Cook May Reach 1t.
WAS sPLENDlDLY EQUIPPED.

WAS sPLENDlDLY EQUIPPED.
intrepid Arctic Explorer, With Few
Eskimos, Started on Last $50 Mile
Dash In March-PIan Was Hastily
Formed at the End of 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 a dash for
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
a 10 ton Gloucester fishing schooner,
renamed the John R. Bradley, with
Dr. Cook In command.
When the hunting trip ended In Au-
gust, 1907, it was expected that DR..
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, member Of the
crew, volunteered to stay at Annortok
and watch the supplies. He recently
returned to New York with letter
from DR.. Cook, dated March II, the
polar sea, north Of Cape Hubbard. In
it DR.. Cook said: 81 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:
ION 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. q at noon, bound for New York.
"Early in September our winter quar-
tiers were in first class condition, ano
we began to lay in stock of meat fol
the winter
''We used the whole month for hunt
ing. Before the long night set in DR.
Cook made a sledge trip to the Bis
Humboldt glacier and returned to win
ter quarters at the beginning of ths
long arctic night. It was at this time
very cold, 80 or 40 degrees below zero
The ice was not always firm, being
broken up and then closed together
J and travelling was dangerous, especial
! ~ in the morning and at evening.
''Dr. Cook was nearly drowned ant
escaped with his life in an encounte
guns was SO hard that he could no
use them, and they put knives on Ion,
. sticks to defend their lives against tn
bears.
f zone time when Dr. Cook was ava,
! from camp on a trip I prepared do
food for the spring campaign. w
found way to prepare dog food tina
: will give DR.. Cook an immense advan
tage over all other explorers
''In the middle Of November gu
furs were nearly gone. Then came th
holidays of Christmas and New Year
but we did not have much time to de
vote to them.
n ''Jan. 10 DR.. Cook sent me over t
Flagler bay with three Eskimos to hun
for musk OK and to look after the pee
pie who we supposed had been lei
there from a shipwreclz, but we foun
nobody. The thermometer registere
= 70 below zero.
2 '"The last weeks we were togethe
? there was a lot to do, and, eyerythin
being completed, we started on Feb.
for the far north. remember it wa
: early noon when we left our quarter
: and camped the first night in .thre
I snow houses on the ice foe in Kan
basin The next day, after 40 days {
darkness, we again saw the sun an
reached Cape Sabine late in the evel
: ing. Here we were storm bound tt
next day. The last day S march brougl
US to Rice strait, ten miles northwe
- of Greelys memorable winter qua
: ters of 1884. The next march brougl
: us in Flagler bay, and DR.. Cook sci
= = me back to Annortok March with tt
first division after placing provision
at the head of Flagler bay to guar
our winter quarters.
/ 81 believe that everything is O.
s with DR.. Cook, but Of course som
2, thing must be done next year for b
q relief"
= Members of the Peary club and Il
. Explorers club have for some weel
g been discussing the advisability Of f