The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-09
MORE FROMDR COOK
piscovEREH OF NORTH POLE CABLES STATEMENT TO NEW
 YORK HERALD.
HAD LONG FIGHT WITH FAMINE
Found strip of Animated Nature Which Win Delight sportsmen-- Wife of Explorer and Brusselis ob- servatory Also Get Cables.


 signed statement from Dr. Frederick A. Cook, which Is dated Hans Egede Lerwick. Wednesday, on his expert ences in the Arctic regions.
 After a prolonged fight with famine and frost" says Dr. Cook, Eve have at last succeeded in reaching the North Pole A new highway, with an interesting strip of animated nature has been explored and big game haunts located. which will delight sportsmen and extend the Esquimo horizon.
 Land has been discovered on which rests the earth's northern most rocks. triangle of 3O,o00 square miles has been cut out of the terres. tial unknown.
 "On April 21 we reached S9 degrees. 59 minutes and 46 seconds. The pole was in sight. We covered the remain. ing fourteen seconds and made q few and Ahwelsh (the accompanying Eski mos) that we had reached the great nail' Everywhere we turned was south. With single step we could pass from one side of the earth to the other--from midday to midnight At last the flag foated to the breezes at the pole. It was April 21. 1908. The temperature was minus Ss centigrade, barometer 29S3. latitude 90: as for the longitude 1t was nothing. as 1t was but a word"
 Although crazy with joy our spirits began to undergo feeling of weari. ness. Next day. after taking all our observations. sentiment of intense sollcitude penetrated us, while we looked at the horizon. Was 1t possi- ble that this desoiate region, without a patch of earth. had aroused the am btion of so many men for so many centuries? There was no ground. only an immensity of dazzling white snow, no living being, no point to break the frightful monotony.
 "On April 23 we started on our re. turn"
 cred the North Pole.
 Notwithstanding the doubt cast up on the first reports from Copenhagen. especially in Berlin and Rome, the in inmates of Doctor Cook here declare that when the explorer reaches Copen- hagen, which probably will be Satur- day afternoon. he will be able to amply verify his claims. Scientists declare that they can easily tell from Doctor Cooks records and figures If he really reached the pole.
 New York, Sept. 3--Members of geo. graphical. Arctic exploring and other sclentifific societies in America do not in the least doubt Dr. Frederick A. Cook of Brooklyn has really discov-
 Brussels. Sept. 3.-The observatory here received the following telegram dated Lerwick, Shetland Islands:
 Reached North Pole April 2l, 1908. Discovered land far north. Return to Copenhagen by steamer Hans Egede.
 (SIgned) Frederick Cook"
 The American officials at the ob- servatory state the despatch Is surely authentic and that the North Pole has been reached for the first time and by an American.
 New York. Sept 3.--Mrs Cook. wife of Dr. Frederick A. Cook the American explorer who has long been absent in the far north has received the fol. lowing brief message:
 Successful, we'll Address Copen- hagen.
 (Slgned) Fred"
 It was the first news that she had had from her intrepid husband since March IT. 1908, when he wrote from Cape Hubbard on the edge of the Polar ice sea on the northwest side of Eliesmere Land At that time he ad vised his companion, Rudolph Franke, then stationed at Etah, Greenland, with supplies. to wait there until June for his return, but in the event of Dr Cooks failure to appear to proceed to America. Franke waited as in structed but as Dr. Cook failed to come back, he caught the peary aux Hilary ship and reached New York last fall. Since that time Dr Cooks whereabouts has heen mystery, al though members of the Arctic club in this city, viewing the situation opti mistieally, were inclined to think that he had reached the pole despite his long silence.
 The message from Dr. Cook to his wife was dated at Lerwick. Shetland Islands. the first available point of transmission in the regular steam ship course between Greenland ports and Copenhagen, whither he is bound Be cause of It's briefness, the assumption is that the message was sent primarily to assure his wife of his safety and not to appraise the world of his dis covery,
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