The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-01
Will CHARCOT
Find The POLE
Rich French Scientist With Fine
Equipment Has Been in Antare-
tic Regions For
Year.
HE MAY RETURN SOON
Wouldn't it be Great Just a. This Time
II He WOULD Send Word
That He Was Sue
cessfuI

Wouldn't it be great, about this time
II the French government should get
cabiegTam reading like this:
Have discovered the south pole
Charcot-.
Never heard OF Charcot, Ell? Little
wonder, with the air SO full of Cook.
Peary and Lieut.. Shackleton.
Or. Jean B. Charcot is a French
scientist who has been In anarctic
wiids for over year. He went into
the ice locked country with everything
that money could buy to help him
find the pole.
Ills ship was named the Pouroui
pas which is French for why not p"
The three-masted vessel was the most
perfectly appointed yet for the hunt
Tor the pole. He had motor sheds of
ms own invention to carry his sup
plies.
SO the experts here naturally are
thinking of Charcot's nowadays, and
there is more than a hope that he
will be successful.
The "farthest south, mark set nv
Lieut.. Shackleton and the discovery
md re-discovery OF the north pole by
COOK and Peary. all have drawn pub
Tic interest to the antarctic. Is the
south polar region like the north pole
What will science find there?
DR.. Charcot, no matter how well he
may be equipped, will find that the
south pole will test the mettle OF the
best man.
There are no intelligent Eskimos in
the antarctic: no hardy dogs like the
Eskimos have. There is little land
that is not bleak and desolate Wal
rus, narwhal, polar bear and smaller
game like elder duck, ptarmigan and
hare, are scarce at the south pole.
In fact, DR.. Charcot or any other ex-
plorer VIII find that Cooks and
Peary's work in the north was like
cEild's play beside some of the diff.
culties farthest south.
As opposed to the leads of water
which BATTLE north polar travellers.
there is the huge majestic ice barrier
" lAe SOuLHeTHLlOSt ocean.
There is nothing like this ice wall in
all the world. Sheer and sharp it rises
out of the ocean 900 feet high. its
walls as smooth and level as glass.
The midnight sun reflected against
It's sides. throws its sheen for hun
dreds of miles in the polar deep.
This ice wall is to The sea what the
great wall of China used to be on
land.
Lieut.. shackleton found that after
evading this ice all by a wide de-
tour, his troubles had just begun.
Around him, under the ice, slumbered
volcanoes that added perils to the cold
and fierce storms of the antarctic.
There We're Zig mountains. gnawed
down by glaciers of the past. showing
their vitals through crevasses, from
which Shackleton and his party had
many narrow and thrilling escapes
and which were the cause of the fail
ure of the expedition.
Here, Then nature is doing TODAY
exactly what she did in the United
states millions of years ago. II the
north pole is the top of the world the
south pole is the bottom.
Here. for all we know. we can see
the young earth changing into the
old.
The explorer argues that at the
Eouta pole he can carry himself back
tens of thousands of years, to the DAYS
before there even was primitive man.
In general, then, barring climate,
the south pole differs from the north
pole as much as would be possible; in
the character Of the ice-the one lev
FL. as Cook and Peary tell; the other
mountainous, as Shackleton proves.
The land in the far NORTH is not
pthout clone pf ,a1a+o i,Ja ne 700.