The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-02

wrote FRANKIE a letter, which was car
ried TO him at Annortok by EskimOs.
This was written March Il, 1908, from a
point just north of Cape Thomas Hub
bard.
Many Miles Away.
Cape Thomas Hubbard is 800 miles
from the Pole yet thirty-live days later
on April p. 1905 DR.. Cook. according to
his cablegram, reached the Pole. A 500
mile Journey in the Arctic in thirty-five
days. encountered with dogs. sleds and
other paraphernaIia, is feat heretofore
! undreamed of be- Arctic explorers. The
Esllimos are not 0riously slow travellers.
They cannot be made to hurry, accord
ing TO men who have had experience
with Them.
To ha@s made the 800 miles in thirty
five days Dr. Cook must have Travelled
at the rate Of nearly fifteen miles q
day, which is a tremendous rate of
speed in the Arctic, according to men
who nave been there. How he could
have kept up such a pace continuously
| for thirty-fve days they cannot under
stand
Some members Of the Explorers Club
think there must be some mistake IN the
date given in the cablegram and be
J lieve that i; was much later when nc
reached the Pole II il took him out
/ thirty-five days 20 get from Cape
/ Thomas Hubbard to the Pole they can
not understand why it should have
| taken more than sixteen months tor nim
/ TO get back into touch with civilization
/ while Or Cooks trip 20 the Pole has
! been described as unprecedented and
/ the result Of a sudden impulse prompt
/ cd by the Arctic fever which always
! possessed him, il was, as a matter or
/ fact, carefully planned. II was not IN
/ premeditated, but IL was surreptitious.
/ as no advance information of his plr-
/ pose was given.
Cook Harshly Criticised.
In consequence, the friends Of Lieu
! tenant Peary, who is now in quest of
the Pole. have harshIy criticised DR..
: Cook for nearly two years. They have
charged that he stole a march on Peary
I when he sailed north in August, 1907.
ostensibly as a member of hunting
expedition.
! The way DIT. Cook O. ie to go into the
Arctic regions on = trip which has
| seemingly culminatt-l in the discovery
I Of the North Pole was this:
John r. Bradley, a millionaire resi-
dent Of this city, who has hunted game
in all corners of the. earth. decided early
the frozen North. He consulted DR.. COOK
and the latter agreed % so with him
I'm consequence of this agreement Mr.
Bradley really became the fuancia
hacker Of an enterprise which resulted
In the discovery Of the North Pole
though he little dreamed of such an i'm.
portant eventuality at the time of his
first talk with DIT. Cook.
Mr.. Bradley bought a 11O-tOu GlOuceS-
ter schooner. fitted her with an auxiliary
SdSuienc engine, renamed her the JJhT
r. Bradley, and late In the spring OF
1907 went North in her with DR.. Coos
IN command.
I When this expedition started out n
was announced 10 be nothing more thar
; Q hunting trip along the Greenlau,
coast All of the crew Of the vesse
80 regarded IL. and even for nearly
yea after the vessels return from IN,
Nor without DR.. Cook il was declared
that he had suddenly taken il into hi.
head 10 try "a One-man dash for the
Pole, and had left .he schooner at An
norfolk for that purpose