Evening journal., 1909-09-01

county town Is a group Of some 100
islands in the North Atlantic ocean
about 80 miles northeast Of the orkney
Islands ard constituting a county Of
Scotland.
NEW YORK, Sept 1.-Dr. Frederick /
Albert Cook is noted surgeon and ply /
sician OF Brooklyn whose work as an |
exployer in the Artic region has won for
him international fame.
His last trip in search OF the pole and
the one that is said to have been sue
cessful was begun in Tuly. 1907. and was
a private expedition. financed by Dr.
Cook himsetf and his friends, ]. H.
Bradley, a multi-millionaire New York
sportsman who chartered the ship that
took Dr. Cooke TO the Arctic regions.
Bradley soon returned. intending only
to hunt some big game there when he
left. nf. Cook however, Immediately
started his dash for the pole, expecting
to be gone for three years.
There was a great deal Of dlssension
caused among Arctic explorers by Or.
Cooks trip the followers Of Lieutenant
r. Z. Peary declaring openly that Dr.
Cook had stolen a march on the naval
officer who had planned 10 follow out
practically the same course on his dash
for the pole.
DIR. Cook, however, was in the region Of
everlasting snow and could not be COM
municated with. With only one white COM
panion and a number Of Eskimos. with
dogs and sleighs, he had made his last
dash for the unknown north hoping TO
reach past the resting place OF Nanson
and Peary and strike the pole Itself.
Only twice has Dr. Cook been heard
from before. A short time after he left
his white companion became ili and DR..
Cook was compelled to send him back 10
the coast in care of some Of his Esldmos
II was thought this would prove fatal. as
Dr. Cooks force was cut down 10 dam
gerous minimum. The intrepid explorer,
however. continued his dash, sending word
back that he was confident OF success.
/ Later. by one of those mysterious letter
routes OF the frozen north letter got
back to Brooklyn, TO the waiting wife OF
the explorer in which he said he was in
good health and expected 10 go onward
Then no more was heard of the daring
explorer until to-day's flash 10 the out
side world the rumor that DR.. Cook had
reached the goal for which hundreds have
striven and none have gained before-the
North Pole of the globe.
Before sailing, Captain Bartlett, of the
Jeanie. gave out this prophetic state
ment:
If Or. Cook is found alive he will have
an interesting story 10 tell. lie went alone
unhGmpcrcd by any party and his trip was
novelty in Arctic explorations
If it was the Jeanie that picked Or.
Cook UP. then the little vessel has got-
ten into communication with some
other vessel from the frozen North,
which has put into some European port
and sent back the news.
DIR. Frederick Albert Cook. the first
living man ever TO reach the Pole, il
he has succeeded. was born at CALI
coon, Depot, Sullivan county, n Y, on
juno 10, 1855. His father WAS a
physician, whose family name had ori.
ginally been Coch. DR.. Cook was edu
Gated in Brooklyn, and took his medi
cal degree at the University OF New
York in 1890. He was married II
Brooklyn. June 10, 1902, to Miss Mar!
Fiden Hunt.
DR.. Cook was the surgeon or tn
p Peary Arctic expedition, 1912, and tn
dreams of one man discovering tn
Pole made him confirmed Pole hun
ter
I 1903 and 1906 he led an expeditio
which sought to explore and clim
Mount Mckinley, in the America
northwest. He is president of III
famius Explorers Club, of New Yorl
and a fellow in the Royal Biographies
Society of Belgium and a member
the American, the National and Ill
Philadelphia geographical societies, be
sides being a member Of the Kine
County Medical Society.
Among the books he has write
may be mentioned
Through the First Antarctic Night
together with extensive contribution
to magazines and technical journals Q
polar expeditions especially on An
arctic expeditions
LONDON, Sept l.
DIT Cook lives with his family at 6
Bushwick avenue. Brooklyn, but h
: family is away for the summer.
n- The report from Copenhagen CONF
through the Danish foreign office. II
tense excitement has been caused hel
by the report of Dr. Cooks success
owing to the fact that Lieutenant Err
o. est Shackleton Of the English Arm
II recently sprang to the forefront Of e.
- plorers by coming within III miles
reaching the South Pole. Sin'
az Shackleton's return England has bee
ne deeply interested in Arctic and An
arctic explorations and details Of ID
Cooks reported discovery are eager
awaited.