The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-02

IL ~ the lIlfllHnB STORY OF q great con-
ry that comes out of the mystery and
night
1t was in 1907 that the intrepid though
little known. Brooklyn explorer set out
to reach a goal that had been sought
unsuecessfuly for three hundred years.
He was backed by John r. Bradley, of
New York, and it was after the latter
that the expedition was named. He
made his base of operations on the
Greenland coast at Annootok and win-
tered there. making daily trips of ex-
ploration and foray.
The six months Arctic night began on
February 49, 1868, and 1t was on that
day that DR.. Cook began his dash for
the pole. Seven hundred miles of drift
ing foe and shifting snow lay between
him and the goal he sought-seven hun
dred miles with the thermometer at So
degrees below zero!
Establish u Cache.
! on this seemingly impossible journey
he was accompanied by eleven Esqui-
mauX and 103 dogs. They left the
Greenland shore and pushed westward
over the tumbling ice of Smith sound.
They crossed the heights of Ellesmere
sound went down the Pacific slope,
crossing many game trails. and pushed
through Nansen sound to the end OF
tha land Each day men were allotted
to find food and when they were at
the southern point of Heiberg island
| they had shot 10l musk oxen, seven
polar bears and 3S5 Arctic hares.
Here some of the party were left
pehlna TO estaptish cacie' anu on
'na, en 10 - No'a ~ - ,,,ss'"~,
pusheu ou' ~ 'ie p", -,
uays io', a. .,,s
poi"i p"e"' NV i'
pole'
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the rouliu 'i.ey niauc ii'',e 10y
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oo eiieir opse, Va.io'as ,oNeu 'i,a' 30 IVY
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us ipne 80 V 80 se 5atn,,r
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eat. Lay r., afton aa,,
pluish "ni'e noi inoii, 80 .Lss,
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.aHie q I'M " .at,,aa a
When not ihorsel Vi ioou -
dog was Niileu anu oeNouie GU CIV 80
was lett was THROWN 10 tue o'nei US,
rms was dohe again the IieN' 10Y CO.
the one following tnat anu .oi VIC
before they reacheo the poie 'rsS eu'-
sisted solely on TINS klhd Oh loou'
BIue Darkness.
All the time a dull darkness hung
lover the world. Occasionally the aurora
horeaIis would flash out but even that
seaned to have a blush tint. The snow
rejected the night and seemed to be
nurnle in color. They counted time
only by their watches and never saw
the sun or moon only the slcky nshl
of the stars showed them the sooo
places over the snow drifts.
Observations on April . showed Dr'
Cook that ne and his party Were at
latitude So degrees 30 seconds ioheltuoe
"a degrees seconds Ihey were no"
200 miles from the pole.
AS they passed beyond the elsnty-
sixth parallel ana ehcountered uriltihs
ice, there were indications OF ldh'l' pul
, no land could they see heyohu 'ie
eiehty-eightn parailel they eHcoulitereu
! deceptive deluslons' imaginary sliiilses
oil lahd and hNerleu hioui'a ans ""o
otner mn ages, ,, ., -
Early on the DAY Oh ApIll = tneir
observations 9IioMeu tneln 70 po oinS