Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-09-03
GRE ATEST EVENT
Of THE DAY
Doctor CookWillBe
Received Like
Conqueror
EXPEDITION WELL Planned
Fame That Will Endurefor
Centuries and Princely
Income Assured.

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that the arrival of DR.. Frederick A.
| Cook at Copenhagen from the epoch
making trip to the North Pole, which
| probably will be chronicled tomorrow
is the most important news item on
the horizon. 1t is confidently expect
ed by friends and supporters that he
| will then produce uncontroyertible
proofs that he reached the pole, thus
| allaying the wave of skepticism mani
Tested in the opinions of many of his
| fellow scientists both here and
| abroad. That DR.. Cook will be fully
able to substantiate the claims indi-
Gated by the brief official statement
of United States Minister Egan at
Copenhagen, to the state department,
| that the reported discovery of the
North Pole has been corroborated by
| Dergwaard Jensen. the Danish in
| spector of North Greenland. It is
| assumed that the Danish official in
vestigated Cooks claims after the
latter left Greenland en- route to
| Denmark and that he is able to con-
! firm them. The Danish government
| has dispatched a torpedo boat to meet
the steamer on which Cook is a pass
| enger on the high seas and act as
| a convoy of honor into Copenhagen.
The Danish minister of commerce has
| chartered vessel on which he has
| taken the newspaper correspondents
of the world out to meet the Brook
| lyn explorer and the Danish Geogrh-
| phical Society will meet DR.. Cook on
| another vessel From these unusual
| arrangements it is evident that Cook
will have quick opportunity to sub
nit his proofs
| John H, Bradley. the wealthy New
Yorker, who financed Cooks expedi-
/ ton, says it is untrue that the dash
to the Pole is an outcome of a fishing
| expedition. It is now stated that
the expedition was perhaps the most
carefully planned of any previous Po-
lar attempt Secrecy was maintained
to avoid unpleasant controversy in
| case he failed
That the journey was we'll MANNED
| is showed by the quantity and nature
OF supplies of Bradley's schooner
yacht deposited in Greenland for
! Cook. These included ten thousand
cans of provisions, ten thousand boxes
| OF matches. five thousand gallons of
| gasoline, one thousand gallons of al
cohol. two barrels of gum drops.
which is currency with the Esqui-
mauX instead of money, guns and
knives for trading, hickory lumber
for building sleds and sheds. and
| great quantities of staple groceries. In
| all there were sufficient provisions to
| last the party three years. AS an in
dlcat1on of the care with which the
| expedition was planned, aluminium
stoves instead of heavy iron ones.
usually used by explorers were TAX
en- along. ~,aa. rgsS 4 80
Besides the fame that will endure
Tor centuries, which comes to Dr
| Cook for his achievement. he is des-
! tlned also to reap a fortune through
MS writings and lectures. A we'll
N4oa vaudeville manager already
| cabied Copenhagen Offering Cook
| $4,000 week for ten weeks lecture
In MS houses. European agents of
three other vaudeville managers ca
bled princely offers. Another result
OF Cooks success may be that the
land which he reports he discovered
be called Cooksland
Lived Like an Eskimo.
Shaken, Denmark, Sept. "a news
paper correspondent who went aboard
j the Hans Egede which passed here at
two O'Clock this afternoon was able
to obtain a few words from DR.. Fred
erick A. Cook. The explorer ascrib-
ed his success to the fact that he
made use of old methods namely Es-
: kimos and dogs and that he lived like
an Eskimo himself
The doctor then gave vivid sketch
of his expedition in which he said;
!, "Going nortbward | struck a wester-
ly course from Greenland and then
mover northward.
'I arrived at the north pole on April
81, 1905 as alread announced, accom-
panied by Eskimos.
sWe~ reached the pole at seven
o'clock in the morning.
Il took daily observations for a
whole fortnight before arriving at the
pole.
! Returning we were forced to take
northwesterly route and the first ten
i day | took observations daily and re-
: corded them I was unable to meas
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