Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-09-02
He VIII Lard at
Copenhagen Sat-
urday Afternoon
ADVANCED STORIES VERIFIED
Discovery of the North Pole
Was Climax of a Fishing
Trip.

New York. Sept. 2.-Members of
the Geographical Arctic Exporting and
other scientific societies in America
do not in the least doubt that DR.. Fred
erick Cook. of Brooklyn, has really
discovered the north pole His inti-
mates declare that when the explorer
reaches Copenhagen, probably on Sat
urday afternoon, he will be able
to amply verify his claims. Scientists
declare they can easily tell from Dr.
Cooks records and figures if he reach
ed the pole.
The discovery of the pole by Cook
was the termination of a voyage which
started as fishing trip. On July 3,
1907 Cook, as the guest of John R.
Bradley, wealthy New Yorker, in
terested in sports and who has fol-
lowed Cooks polar expedition closely,
left Gloucester, Mass, aborad Brad
ley's schooner yacht for a fishing trip
up the Labrador coast.
The sailing master was Captain
Moses Bartlett who was with Peary
on the Roosevelt when she left for the
north with half a dozen New Found
landers, the latter to act as guides.
Heavy weather and accident to the
engines compelled landing in North
Star bay where some days were spent
hunting and fishing. Then it was that
Cook became fired with the ambition
to reach the pole. He spoke to Brad
ley about it, but the latter declined to
join in the trip Cook then organized
a party of Eskimo and with Rudolph
FRANKIE, made preparations for the ex-
pedition. Bradley, in August, 1907, re-
turned to New York
Cook had an entirely different idea
how the trip to the pole should be at
tempted from that of Peary and other
explorers. He calculated going
through Nansen straits and doing
travelling in the winter months, reason
ing that the ice fields would be
smoother during extreme cold and
there would be less danger of en-
countering jagged passages of ice
through which travel is extremely diff
ficult.
When Bradley found Cook insistent
in regard to the trip, he supplied pro-
visions sufficient to last three years
for the expedition. Cook took about
fifteen Eskimos, men, women and
children with him, to place north of
Etha and established winter quarters.
His familiarity with the Eskimo Ian
guage and kindly treatment of the ma
tives made him loved by them and
they were ready to give him any as
sistance. William L. Cook, brother cf
the explorer states that DR.. Cook will
now devote his energies to discovering
the south pole.
Every Detail Confirmed.
London, Sept. "A dispatch to the
Daily Mail from Copenhagen says that
Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer,
now making ethnographic studies in
north Greenland, met DR.. Cook at
Cape York. Rasmusens mother being
an Eskimo woman, he speaks the Ian
guage fuently. He had a long con-
versation with two Bskimos who ac-
companied Cook to the pole They
confirmed every detail given by Cook.
The foregoing presumably was tele-
gram to Copenhagen from Berwick.
Interesting Problems.
Christiana, Sept. 2.-Captain Roald
Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer
was interview here today on Cooks
triumph. "Dr. Cook was my partner
on the Belgica expedition as a physi-
cian,' he said, "and all on board ap-
preciated highly his experience and
ability. He has an uncommonly
staunch, preserving energetic person
ality and l admire him. The route
chosen by DR.. Cook presented unusu-
ally difficult problems. 1t would be
highly interesting and important to
know if he found a continent around
the pole. But he of necessity was linn
tied to mere visual impressions. i
Some Doubt Expressed.
London, Eng, Sept 2.-Dr. Cooks
personal announcement that he reach
ed the north pole has done much to
dispel the uncertainty created here by
the first dispatches. but the informa-
ton is still too vague to convince
hardened skeptics. The personality of
the American explorer is held in such
esteem by British scientific circles
that those best qualified to judge are
the readiest to explain way the
seemingly obscure points of the