The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-09-10

! Cook, the American explorer, reached
the north pole in his expedition, which
has just ended is given full credence,
although details are lacking Of the ill.,
/ treptd dash across the ice.
The message was received at the 60.
lOnial office Wednesday Via Lerwick,
Shetland islands. announcing that Dr..
Cook had reached the pole April q,
1908, This dispatch was sent by
Greenland official on board the Dan
/ ish government steamer Nansegede,
/ which passed Lerwick at noon We'd
nesday en- route to Denmark, and read
as follows:
we have on board the American
| traveller, Dr. Cook. who reached the
north pole April q. 1903. Dr. Cook
arrived at Upemavik in May, 1903.
from Cape York. The Esquim2uX OF
| Cape York confirm Dr. Cooks story Of
his Journey
Paris, September 1.-The Paris edi-
/ ton of the New York Herald publishes
signed statement from Dr. Freder-
! lex A. Cook, which is dated Hans
Egede Lerwick, Wednesday" on his
experiences in the Arctic regions.
After a prolonged fight with fam
inc and frost" says Dr.. Cook, we have
at last succeeded in reaching the north
pole, A new highway. with an inter-
] esting strip of animated nature, has
been explored and big game haunts
! located, which will delight sportsmen
and extend Eskimo horizon.
Land has been discovered on
which rest the earths nOrthermost
rocks. A triangle of 10000 square
miles has been cut out of the terres
trial unknown"
Feared He Had Perished.
There was, of course. the ever-pres-
ent probability that he had persisted
and it will be recalled that a relief
ship is now en- route to Etah, where she
is due the middle of this month. The
vessel the schooner Jeanne. left St.
|
with the double purpose of searching
for DR.. Cook and taking supplies to
Commander Peary. The expedition
was financed by special committee
headed by DR.. Roosevelt Stebbins Of
New York and composed of friends
of DR.. Cook and men of science were
most keenly interested in his venture
To those men the news that he was
safe and the report that he had reached
the pole was received with rejoicing
although none of them had any fur
Their advices.
Cook Only an Amateur.
"Single-handed and alone DR.. Cook
apparently has achieved what hun
dreds of more experienced and better
equipped explorers have been trying
for in vain for years was the COM
ment of H. T. Brtdgeman Of Brook.
lyn, secretary of the Peary Arctic
club and an intimate friend OF DR..
Cook
Beside men like Peary," continued
Mr. Brdgeman, who has himself TAX.
en- a large part In several Arctic ex-
petitions during the past fifteen years,
Cook is a comparative amateur. He
went north merely as the surgeon of
an expedition and was 'oft behind
with small store Of supplies at his
own request.
Followed Trail of Game.
"He appears to have awaited a
favorable time and then when things
looked right he hurried northward, ac-
companied by two ESquimouX
According to his last letters he
must have left Etah. Greenland. his
base, about February 81. 1908. Cross
ing the Ellesmere land, he reached
Cape Thomas Hubbard. on the edge
OF the polar Ice sea There he may
have waited few days and laid in a
stock Of fresh meat Finally, when
all was ready, he took his two trusty
Eskimo servants and started on his
risky dash over the ice 500 miles
to the ultimate North,
HE reached the pole. the dispatch
tells us, April q, an average In the
neighborhood Of Is miles a day.
Somewhere In the hitherto TN
known north. Cook says he has dis
covered land. II correct. this is ons
Of the most important results Of his
journey, for heretofore scientists have
believed that all the region vas sea
From the time OF his arrival at the
pole until now We have little but guess
work on which 10 form any theory
as to the movements OF COOK
DR.. Cook is The first man 10 Fedch
the boreal center and the Stars anu
Stripes We're planted there by d"