The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-09-04
SOME WHO TRIED
TO Do What Cook Has Done But
Failed to Do so.
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TOOK COOK YEARS

TOOK COOK YEARS
But He Has Accomplished Great
Work and the World is AnIiously
Awaiting Full Particulars Of Bis
Wonderful Discoveries In the
Snow Regions of the North.
The dream of finding the North
Pole for centuries lured explorers,
scientists, and daring advenutrers.
This ream apparently has now be-
come a reality by the achievement
of Dr.. Frederick A. Cook, of Brook
lyn. Dr.. Cooke cabled laconic mes.
sage from Lerwick, Shetland Islands,
whence he is proceeding to Copenha-
gen, saying:
Successful. Well. Address Cop
enhagen."
Several days must now elapse
before any further. information is
available. The Danish Government
steamer Hansgede has left Lerwick,
Shetland Islands, for Copenhagen,
where she is due today. Mean
time the ship skirts the Danish coast,
passing several small points which
are being closely watched for fur
ther particulars of DR.. Cook.
Some of tae most recent or note
worthy attempts 10 reach the North
Pole are enumerated below.
Walter Wellman, an American,
left the Island Of spitzbergenn,5 for
the pole in q balloon, August Is.
1909. HIS air ship bece me. disabled
after he had travelled thirty miles.
and he was forced to return.
In 1906 Commander Robert E..
Peary, United States navy. reach
ed 81 degrees. 6 minutes. equivalent
to about 2o3 miles from the Pole.
Commander Peary is now in the
Polar regions on another expedi-
tion. A. relief ship was sent out a.
month ago to endeavor to pick him
up. He started from Sydney, N. S.,
July IT, 1908,
On September 8, 1905, Capt.
Roald Amundsen, Norwegian.
completed the first voyage through
Ehe northwest passage. He left
Christiania on the Gjoa, June IT,,
1903, and arrived at Herschel ISL
and in the Arctic Ocean in Septem-
Der Of 1905.
In 1904, Baron Toll, a Russion,
led Polar expedition party by way
of Siberia, but all the members per-
ished from the cold.
In 1903, Erickson, a Dane, head
ed an expedition and got as far as
Saunders Island. where they were
rescued in a destitute condition.
| In the same year Anthony Fiala,
young Brooklyn explorer, sailed
on the ship America and proceed
ed further Nc. h than the Duke Of
the Abruzzi. His party endured
great hardships before they were res
cued.
The Duke of the Abruzzi made his
expedition in 1900. In 1895, DR..
Nansen reached sc degrees, IA min
utes, on the vessel Fran, which left
Ingor Strait August 4, 1898.
Prof. Andree made his fatal bal
loon trip in 1897. He left Tromsoe,
Norway, in his balloon, the Eagle,
bound for the pole. Since his de-
parture nothing authentic has been
heard of Andree.
In 1883, Capt. DelonS expedition
N the Jeanette was lo.;. scar Hen
.rietta Island.
In 1892 the Greedy expedition
reached SO degrees. "a minutes, and
in lS45 Sir John Franklin made his
disastrous attempt to penetrate from
Lancaster Sound to Behring Strait.
At q meeting of the Explorers
Club, of New York, in October, 1907,
a letter from DR.. Cook dated at
Etah, August 26, gave this informa
ton:
II find that I have good oppor-
tunity to try for the pole, and, there
fore, will stay here for year. I
hope to get to the Explorers Club
in September, 1908, with the record
of the pole. plan to cross Elles-
mere Land and reach the Polar Sea
by Nansen Strait. I hope you can
induce some Of the members of the
club to come and meet me at Cape
York. Here's for the pole with the
dopt