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SOME WHO TRIED
To Do What Cook Has Done But
failed to Do so.
TOOK COOK YEARS

WORK ana the WOrlQ lS huAlouSi.
Awaiting Full Particulars of Hi'
Wonderful Discoveries in the
Snow Regions of the North.
The dream Of finding the Nortt
Pole for centuries lured explorers
scientists, and daring advenutrers
This ream apparently has now be
come a reality by the achievement
of DR.. Frederick A. Cook, of Brook
Ign. DR.. Cooke cabled a laconic mes
sage from .Lerwick, Shetland Islands
whence he is proceeding to oopenha
gen, saying:
Successful. Well. Address Cop
enhagen."
Several days must now elapst
before any further information II
available. The Danish Government
steamer Hansgede has left Lerwick
Shetland Islands, for Copenhagen
where she Ia due today. Mean
time the ship skirts the Danish coast
passing several small points which
are being closely watched for fur
Their particulars Of DR.. Cook.
Some Of the most recent or note
worthy attempts to reach the NORTH
Pole are enumerated below.
Walter Wellman. an American
left the Island Of Spitzbergen, fol
the pole in a balloon, August 10,
1909. Hts air ship became disabled
after he had travelled thirty miles
and he was forced to return.
In 1906 Commander Robert E.
Peary, United States navy, reach.
ed 81 degrees, 6 minutes, equivalent
to about 203 miles from the Pole,
Commander Peary is now In the
Polar regions on another expedi-
ton. A relief ship was sent out a
month ago to endeavor to pick him
up. He started from Sydney. N. s.,
July II, 1908.
On September 8, 1905. Capt
Road Amundsen, a Norwegian,
completed the first voyage through
the northwest passage. He left
Christiania on the Gjoa, June II,
1903, and arrived at Herschel ISL
and in the Arctic Ocean in Septem.
Der Of 1905.
In 1904, Baron Toll, a iRussion.
led a Polar expedition party by way
Of Siberia, but all the members per
ished from the cold.
In 1908, Erickson, a Dane, head
ed an expedition and got as far as
Saunders Island, where they were
rescued in q destitute condition.
In the same year Anthony Fiala
a young Brooklyn explorer, sailed
on the ship America and proceed
ed further North than the Duke Of
the Abruzzi. His party endured
great hardships before they were res
cued.
The Duke Of the Abruzzi made his
exnedition In 1900. In 1895, DR.
hansen reached SO degrees, IA min
utes, on the vessel Fran, which LEFT
Ingor Strait August 4, 1893.
Prof. Andree made his fatal bal
loon trip in 1897. He left Tromsoe
Norway, in his balloon, the Eagle
bound for the pole. Since his dc
parture nothing authentic has beer
heard of Andree.
In 1888, Capt. belongs expedition
IN the Jeanette was To-: scar Hen
rietta Island.
In 1892 the Greedy expedition
reached SO degrees, "a minutes, ant
in 1S45 Sir John Franklin made b..
disastrous attempt to penetrate fron
Lancaster Sound to Behring Strait.
At a meeting of the Explorers
Club, of New York, in October, 1907
a letter from DR.. Cook dated a
Etah, August 26, gave this informa
ton:
II find that I have a good oppor
tunity to try for the pole, and, there
fore, 1 will stay here for a year.
hope to get to the Explorers Gu
in September, 1908. with the recor'
of the pole. I plan to o Files
mere Land and reach the Polar Sc
by hansen Strait. I hope you ca
| induce some of the members of tn
club to come and meet me at Cap
York. Here's for the pole with tn
flag"
About the same time Herbert L
Bridgeman, Of Brooklyn, receive
this letter from Cook similarly dat
ed:
II have hit upon a new route
the North Pole, and I will stay
try it. BY way Of Buchanan Ba!
Ellesmere Land, over the Pola
Sea, seems to me to be a very goo
route. There will be game to tn
eighty second degree. and there ar
natives and dogs for the task. S
here is for the pole. Mr.. Bradle
will tell you the rest. Kind n
CARDS to ALL"
DR.. Cooks dispatch tells OF b
success. He seems to have aeon
plished what others who tried faile
to accomplish. and what many bray
men sacrificed their lives in vain