The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-09-10
PLAN GREAT WELCOME
FOR Or. FRED. A. COOK
Event Of National and Possibly Inter.
national importance.
Many Noted Explorers Expected To
Greet Cook In New York-His
Financial Backer Talks-DecIares
Careful Preparations For The
Dash Were Made-Steward Con.
firms Statement.

New York Especial Preparations
aleardy are afoot here to make the
home coming of DR. Frederick A.
Cook an event of national, and pos.
sibly International, Importance. II
the plans outlined by members of the
Arctic Club are carried out, the vel
come home which DR.. Cook will re-
ceive in New York will be an ovation
in which city, State and nation will
take part, while prominent explorers
Cooks former rivals-from all
parts of the globe will gather to pay
their personal tribute to his achieve
ment.
Among the most notable of those
who will in all probability be here
to greet DR.. Cook on his return will
be Lieutenant Shackleton, the in
tre2id EnglishInan, whose recent ex-
plorations in the Antarctic, during
which he succeeded in pushing near
er to the South Pole than had any
previous explorer, make him figure
of worldwide prominence.
Members of the Arctic Club hope
that President Taft may be present
as the nations representative to vel
come DR.. Cook
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than fitting" one of them declared,
in view of the fact that the explor-
er has placed the Stars and Stripes
on the apex of the world and added,
perhaps, 10000 square miles to the
nations territory.
Among the explorers who are ex-
pected to take a prominent part in
the welcome to DR.. Cook are the
Duke of the Abruzzi, DIR. Fridtjof
Nansen, Capt. ROAD Amundsen. Gen.
A. w. Greedy, Rear-Admiral George
Melville, Anthony Fiala, of this city,
and Capt. Joseph E. Bernier.
Capt. Bradley S. Osborn, secretary
of the Arctic Club, said that the
explorer is not expected for several
weeks. He is due in Copenhagen in
three days said Captain Osbon, land
II came straight home would arrive
IN New York about the middle OF
September, but his friends believe
That ne will make several stops. For
one thing, the geographers and
scientists of Copenhagen will tender
him welcome. He may go to Chris.
tiania to meet Captain Amundsen,
the discoverer Of the. Northwest pas.
sage. It is likely that he will visit
Belgium. where he has been decorat-
ed for his services to science and it
is scarcely conceivable that the Brit.
ish geographical societies would al
low him to pass them by on his way
home without an invitation to Lon
dom
John r. Bradley, the financial
hacker of DR.. Cook, takts pains to
explain that the Brooklyn explorers
success in reaching the North Pole
was not so much the result of chance
as the opinions of several polar ex.
Derts would indicate.
This was no haphazard expedi
tion," he said, mo intensified Arctic
JOY ride undertaken on nerve. We
went about our preparations for this
thing quietly and without brass band
accompaniment. but every imaginable
contingency had been provided for
eve studied out the mistakes and
misfortunes of other men who had
tried for the Pole, hoping to benefit
by their errors, and we certainly
benefited by. their examples.
II am not going to tell what the
cost was, but I'll tell you this much: 7
One single item of the equipment |
was 5000 gallons of gasoline and
another was two barrels of gumdrops. |
An Esquimaux will travel 80 miles
for a gumdrop. His sweet tooth il
the sweetest in the world.
Now Cook has as much nerve "a
any man in the world, 1 guess; bu!
he had something besides nerve td
carry him through. I'm not trying
to take any of the credit; but want
to say he had the right kind of out.
fit to take him through. Cook will
prove to the satisfaction of every
fair man that he has done exactly
what he claims he did