The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-07
Another American Explorer Who has Planted the
Stars and Stripes Upon the Farthest
g@Av Northern Point i'm the World
HE FOUND IT ON HIS LAST EFFORT
The Second Announcement TO the World Within
a Week Of the Goal so Long Attempted
by Explorers

Denmark DR.. Frederick A. Cook is
being dined and lionized for the same
achievement.
/ Undeniably Yankee grit has con-
quered the frozen north and there has
been created coincidence such as
/ the world will never see again.
Two Americans have planted the
I flag of their country in the land of ice,
/ which man has sought to penetrate
for four centuries, and each ignorant
of the others conquest has flashed
within period of five days laconic
message of success to the waiting
world
Cook, in his first message to his |
countrymen, was brief, but noncom
initial; Peary was even briefer, but
specific, stars and stripes nailed to
the north pole,' he said. That was
all; but never before have SO few
words conveyed to people greater
meaning or greater patriotic salts
faction.
Five days before, on September l,
i DIR. Cook sent out from the Shetland
Islands the first message of his sue
! cess-a message which has aroused a
|. storm of controversy around the
world. Then Robert e. Peary. lost
) from view in the land of ice and un-
. heard from since August. 1908. start
: led the world hy asimilar message
y sent from Indian Harbor, Labrador
> There was no qualification; it left
r no doubt. 1t announced unequivocal-
8 ly that he had reached the top of the
a world.
Thus two flags with the stars and
stripes of the United States are float
II in the ice packs, proving the
y courage of the intrepid Americans.
With but word from Peary the
r world waits breathlessly for details;
r. but until today when he should arrive
8 at Chateau Bay, Labrador. waiting
e must suffice.
. Persons here who know the arctic
e and Commander Robert Edwin Peary
- said that without doubt during the
10 past month or six weeks the dome
y of the world up in the narrowing cir
70 cles had been race course, of which
IL the low-hanging polar sun had mark
ed the start and the first slender til
Of telegraph wire in the northernmos
frontier Of civilization the goal.
d. Down this swelling curve of th,
le earth's shoulder hasteaed the tw,
o. racers for the prize Of the world
ok adulation. DIR. Frederick A. Cook, pei
haps unconscious that his rival be
n hind him was pressing him SO close
p- and Commander Peary, fully awar
i'd that there was a man someWher
ahead of him who was going to put !
hit the claim of the poles discovery an
he receive the fruits of praise. DR.. Coo
to won the dash for civilization by jus
five days. At Lerwick, in the She
Ia land Islands, he found the covete
tn cable, and on wednesday last throug
ad 1t he caught the words ear.
'es Two men dashed for the pole. Tw
ks dashed for the lands If men beloy
his The dash for the pole was made wit
INT the energy of inspiration; that for tn
ent kinder climes was urged by sterne
rivalry and the great worth OF fam
Perhaps, said the intimates of Pear
he struggled harder to get back I
ay, civilization ahead of DIR. Cook tha
to he did to reach the goal of his TIVE
ty years effort.
ay, First word of Peary's success reac
ge- ed New York at 12:39 o'clock. 1t co
ed, tained the bare announcement OF n
finding the pole. Almost simultan
N. ously he had transmitted the news
les, London, repeating dramatically al
| 6. simply "Stars and stripes nailed
'ep- the north pole
LOT At the same time he similarly
y, a,e yised the governor of New Foundlar
few words were added to tt
ept. ,neager information at 2:50 p.
70 when there was made public this
'sie ditional information sent to Herbe
+, Bridgman of Brooklyn, secreta
9as, Of the Peary Arctic club:
,,,,, .sPole reached. Roosevelt SAFE
VIII ,s,anaa, "Peary
This gave assurance that the yes!
In which Peary departed had pass
through the ice unscathed, but deta
ana Of the discovery of the pole were s.
hat " .ne
,orv lacking.
~ III. II was not until the New Yc
'.sA ,s r;mes had received a dispatch la
~, n the afternoon that these vital poll
- wore cleared up. The message sal
''lo ~ q have the pole; April le. Exp'