The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-02
MILK WAGON DRIVER
TO FINDER OF POLE
DR.. Cook Man With an Am
bition and a Courage
To Win 1t.

NEW YORK, Sept 2-Of what man
ner Of man is DR.. Frederick Albert
Cook. of Brooklyn, that he should
plunge into the trackless north. unsc-
companied by white companion, and
come back with the laurels OF the
worlds greatest discoverer2
"A strong minded man. with a per
sonal ambition, and the courage to VIII
it, his friends characterize him.
From driving a milk wagon over .
Brooklyn route at s. a week to discover
ing the North Pole has not been such
2 far CRY for DR.. Cook, FOR ne is but
forty-four years of age now.
DR.. Cook was born Of German parent
age at Csllicoon Depot in June lSf5,
and came to Brooklyn when ne was six
Teen years old. determined Ito do some
Thing worth WHILE as he pat it.
He worked hard in the early morning
hours on his milk route, and saved
enough money 20 so through the Uni
Versity Of the City of New York, where
ne took his medical degree. Even then
he 2lodded on in the offices of the dairy,
which is still run by his brother. in
Brooklyn, under the name OF Coos
Brothers. He made his work finance
him again 20 a higher education. this
time being graduated from the Colleso
Of Physicians and Surgeons with high
honors.
Fine AS Physical Man.
Or. Cook is a splendid specimen or
physical manhood. He is feet ei1
inches tail. weighed 170 pounds on the
day he left New York, and had the
same ruddy complexiOn he had when he
len his fathers farm at CallicoOn Depot
His nose is Roman, his chin resolute,
and the entire face denotes strength Of
purpose He speaks German, French,
italian and English fluently-
DR.. Cooks first experience in search
ing for the North Pole was as surgeon
and ethnologist on the first Peary eN-
petition in 1S9l-1s92. A year later he
commanded the yacht Zeta and failed TO
win out. Then he organized and COM
mandcd the expedition on the steamer
Miranda in 1894. but this vessel was
crushed in the ice and Che party had TO
return on another ship.
When the Belgian Antarctic expedition
started out in 1897 DR.. Cook went along
as surgeon, photographer. and anthro-
pologist, remaining there until 1929
though falling 10 reach the Pole
While in the frozen South. his fiance.
Miss Anna J.. Forbes. Of Brooklyn. died,
and he did not know Of her death for
more than year afterward.
In 1902 he married Mrs. Mary r. Hunt,
OF Brooklyn, and has two children.
DIT. Cooks SUCCESS, In the opinion OF
many scientihc men and explorers, has
proved the correctness OF his theory
that the time 10 make a dash for the
Pole" is in the dead Of the winter,
when the ice fields are hrmer and more
extensive than in the spring, when more
open water is encountered.
Cook Stakes His All.
He stalxed his reputatiOn-and his life
ON this theory and his success will
undoubtedly revoluuonize all future
polar expeditions.
In one Of his books on arctic ex-
ploration. Dr Cook WSites Of his am
billions, long before ne discovered the
Pole:
Few OF US ever have a long run over
a Hill OF happiness without stumbling
upon several ups and downs but We
soon forget this, ard altogether life
seems easy enough TO most Of as who
live in temperate climates. II is not the
same. however, with the men who seek
the realms OF the great frozen lands in
the arctic and antarctic. Their path
is over n series of ups and downs. but
mostly ups. Their comfort. 81 they have
any, is evolved in the effort 10 overcome
the eVer-prescnt discomfort
The men who aim TO reach the Pole
are kicked about by giant seas. are
pounded by heavy storms. are brushed
ny freezing drifts OF snow. and Vet they
calmly resign themselves to become the
footballs OF hard fate because Of a
few pleasures. An effort only partly
crowned with success gives such ella
ton and joy that all tho sunerings and
discomforts are forgotten.
'Hercin lies the reason for the I'M
falterins law that he who has once
beheld tho other world conditions aud
has felt the charm OF the. white snowy
silence Of the frigld zone. viii ever long
20 retui~
IF. from any cause, "a polar explorer
cannot return 10 the dream of his life.
ne either commits suicide gets married.
OF dies an unnatural death in some
way"