The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-02
DREAM OF CENTURY REALIZED

Copenhagen, Sept. 1.-The dreams
Of finding the North Pole has for cen
! turtles ured explorers. scientists and
! daring adventureres. Whether this
| dream has now become a reality by
! the achievement of DR. Frederick a.
| Cook of Brooklyn, rests thus far upon
! the reports cabled from Copenhagen.
! apparently through an official source.
! AT the same time DR.. Cook cables q
! laconic message from Lerwlck, Shet-
land Islands. saying: Successful
Well Address Copenhagen"
The hopes aroused arc 10 some eX-
! tent qualified by DR.. Cooks message.
While he says he has been success
| ful, there is no specific mention of
having reached tho pole. On the other
hand, the Copenhagen dispatches are
| apparently definite that Or. Cook
reached the pole.
Several days must elapse before any
further confirmation is available The
| Danish government steamer Hans
Egede has left Lerwick. Shetland
Islands. bound for Copenhagen where
! she is due next Saturday Some Of
/ the most recent or noteworthy at
| tempts 10 reach the North Pole are
! enumerated below:
| Some Who Have Tried.
I Walter Wellman, an American. left
the island of Spltzbergen for the pole
in balloon. August Is, 1909 His air
ship became disabled after he had
travelled thirty miles and he was
forced to return.
! In 1906 Commander Robert E.
Peary. u. S, n. reached 81 degrees.
{ six minutes equivalent to about 203
miles from the pole Peary is now
in the Polar regions on another ex-
petition relief ship was sent out
a month ago to endeavor 10 pick him
up. He started from Sydney, y. s.,
! July II. 1905
on Sept 3. 1905. Captain Ronald
! Amundsen. Norweigen. completed
/ the first voyage through the north
west passage He left Christiania In
the Gjoa June II, 1903. and arrived
at Herschel island In the Arctic ocean
! In September of 1905
In 1904. Baron Toll Russian, led a
polar expedition party by way of ST.
/ IBERIA but all the members perished.
! In 1903, Erickson, a Dane, got as far
as Saunders Islands. where he was
| rescued In a destitute condition In
! the same year Anthony Fiala. a young
] Brooklyn explorer. sailed on the ship
America and proceeded further north
/ than the Duke OF Abruzzi His party
endured great hardships before they
were rescued
The Duke of AbruzZi made his eX
pedition in 1900
Nansen and Andree.
! In 1895 DR.. Nnnsen reached Sc de-
: grees. il minutes on the vessel Fran,
which left Ingor Strait. August j.
! 1898.
Prof. Andree made his balloon trip
In 1891. He left Tromsoe. Norway. In
his balloon. the Eagle. bound for the
pole SInse his departure nothing
! has been heard of him
In 1888. Captain de Longs expedl
! ton in the Jeanette was lost near Hen
rletta islands.
In 1882, the Greedy expedition
reached SO degrees % minutes, and In
! l845 Sir John Franklin made his dis-
astrous attempt TO penetrate from Ian
caster cound to Behrlng straights.
Al a meeting OF the Explorers club
! Of New York in October. 1907. letter
| from DR. Cook dated at Etah, Aug 26.
! gave this information
Il find / have a good opportunity
to try for the pole and therefore will
stay here for a year. | hope TO get
to the Explorers club in Sept 1908.
with the record of the pole, plan 10
GROSS Ellesmereland and reach the
Polar sea by Nansen's strait"
New Route.
About the same time Herbert l..
/ Bridgman OF Brooklyn received this
letter from Cook, similarly dated
Il have hit upon new route to
the North Pole and I will stay to try
It. BY way OF Buchanan bay and Files
mereland and northward through
Nansen straits over the Polar sea.
seems TO me TO be a very good route
! There VIII be no game to the end
Of the 500 degrees and here are ma.
tives and dogs for the task. So here
Is for the pole Mr. Bradley will
tell you the rest"