The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-01
American Said to Have
Reached Destination
on April 2l, 1908.
CABLES "EXPEDITION
WAS A SUCCESS"
Greenland Official Sends Dis
patch Telling of Explorers
Achievement and Safety.

NEW YORK. Sept. 1.--Dr. r.. IT.
Davidson, of Brooklyn, personal
friend of DIR Cook. received a cabIegram
from DIR. Cook today saying that he
wns well and TINT his expedition hnsI
been : success. The information 1t con-
tained was forwarded to Mrs. Coolx.
the explorers wife, In south HnrpsweII.
Maine.
CoPENHAGEN, Sept. 1.-Dr. Fred
erick A. Cook the American explorer.
reached the North Pole on April 21.
1905, according to telegram Just re-
ceived at the Colonial office here.
The message was received from Ler-
wick, Shetland Island.
DR.. Frederick a. Cook ACCOMPANIED
by Norwegian, left Etah, Greenland,
on March g. 1903. taking with him eight
Esquimaux. four sledges and twelve
dog teams. He was. to make his way
through E:llesmere lard.
DR. Cook is on board the Danish gov
ernment steamer Hans Egede, which
passed Lerwick at noon today en- route
for Denmark
Inc telegram announcing DIR. Cooks
achievement was sent by a Greenland
official on board the steamer. and reads
as follows:
1--WE have on board the Amer
lean traveller. DIR. Cook, who reached
the North Pole April Fl, 1905. DIR,
Cook arrived mt Upernivik (the
northernmOst Danish settlement In
Greenland. on an island on the
West const) In May of 1909, from
Cape York Tin the northwest part
of Greenland. on BafIin bay). The
Esquimaux of Cape York confirm
DIR. Cooks story of his journey,
FOR years DR.. Cook has given his at
tention to Arctic explorations, and in
1872 was surgeon of the Peary Arctic
expedition, and in 1S97-99 surgeon of the
Belgian Antarctic expedition. He has
received numerous decorations from the
geographical societies of Europe for his
research and writings in the polar field.
DR.. Cook started on his present expe-
dltlon III the summer of 1907. sailing
from North Sydney, C. b., on board the
schooner John r. Bradley, with Captain
Moses Bradley as sailing master The
party was REINFORCED with sledges, dogs
and Arctic equipment at Etah, Green
land, whence they sailed March 3, 1908.
DR. Cooks plan was to set aside all
tradition by making the dash to the
pole during the winter months, when
oil re
vantageous for an advance northward.
Feel Certain He Reached Pole.
Nothing has been heard from DR..
Cook for the last eighteen months. A
special committee of the Arctic Club
has, however, made careful calculations
upon his probable whereabouts, and
had reached the conclusion that DR..
Cook had discovered the pole.
1t was DR.. Cooks plan to make his
base of supplies or permanent camp
at Annatoak, in Greenland, about
twenty miles north of Etah. This
would place him about 1000 miles
from the North Pole. He first made
his way westward out of the cache
and across to Ellsmereland The Arc
tic Club calculates that he reached
this position in the spring of 1908. The
last news received from him was
dated March II. 1908. when he was near
Cape Thomas Hubbard.
Wife In Confident.
He then reported that his health was
excellent, that he had picked up a
large party of Eskimo of superior in
telligence and that his prospects for
success were bright. He intended to
push on to the northern point of Grant
Land and from there start his dash to
the pole in the winter of 1908. He ex-
pected to return to his headquarters
at Annatoak not later than next
MONTH
DIR. Cook was born at Calicoon De-
pot, Sullivan county, N. Y, in 1866.
He was married in Brooklyn in 1902
to Miss Mary Hunt His wife has
kept close calculations on his progress
and has shared the belief of the Arctic
Club that her husband has achieved
the qoal of the North Pole