Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01
Scraps and facts.

precipitous cliffs, fourteen miles long,
constitutes one Of the most pictur-
esque bits Of scenery in the state, and
under the plan by which the work OF
redemption has been completed 1t VIII
become the Palisades park.
Atlanta, Ca, September 29: Judge
Richard B. Russell Of the Georgia court
of appeals, became father again today,
for the thirteenth time. The baby
Is a boy with proud record behind
him. for ne is the thirteenth child OF
a thirteenth child Of q thirteenth child
on his mothers side and the seventh
son of a seventh son on the side OF
his father. What name this youngest
of the Russells will bear Is decision
which the court has not yet handed
down, for it is no easy matter to name
a thirteenth child, let alone a thir-
teenth child of a. thirteenth child and
a seventh SON of seventh son. Judge
Russell was a candidate for governor
against Hoke Smith when the latter
was nominated some years ago, and ne
urged people to support him as ne
needed office because of his numerous
progeny.
Wilbur Wright and Glenn H. Cur
tiss, gave successful flying machine
exhibitions over New York harbor .ast
wednesday, as a part Of the Hudson
Fulton celebration. Wright made
&IA Rrst 10
without difficulty from the flying ma
chine house on Governors Island and
circled around the statue Of Liberty.
He remained in the air for seven min
utes. In the second ascent, he re-
mained up six and half minutes ana
travelled at the rate Of fifty miles an
hour. The third time he merely exc
cuted several circles in the air, Glenn
II. Curtiss took a short fight at about
o'clock In the morning. Two dirigi-
BILE balloons started on a race TO Al
bany. but accidents happened to both
of them before they had proceeded any
considerable distance and both mad to
come down.
The Hudson Fulton. celebration,
now in progress along the Hudson riV-
er from New York to Albany, Is prob
ably the biggest thing Of the kind that
has ever taken place in New YORK. IL
not In the history Of the world The
occasion is in commemoration or Hen
nv Hudson's discovery Of the island OF
Manhattan, his sailing up the HUDSON
river, and Robert Fulton's invention OF
the steamboat The central features
of the celebration are exact duplicates,
or replicas Of Hudson's ship, the Hair
Moon, and Fulton's steamer, the Clare
mont. The celebration opened Few
days ago with q monster parade that
included a large number OF historical
floats, the costliest ever seen In this
country, and hundreds of thousands OF
marchers. 1t Is estimated that there
are more than a million visitors In
New York, and that at least two mil
lion people saw the great parade
through the city. The festivities that
commenced in the city, are now being
continued up the river to Albany. The
river Is alive with the warships OF all
the leading maritime powers, and thou
sands of smaller craft. Great bon
fires are burning all along the route.
st. Johns, Newfoundland, Septem-
ber 2s: Harry Whitney OF New Haven.
believes that DR.. Frederick A. Cook
found the pole, and that Commander
Peary did the same. In expressing
this belief today, Mr.. Whitney said
that he knows no reason for doubling
Cook more than Peary. "Dr. Cooks
story" he added, seems to me truth
full and probable. Nothing else would
explain his twelve months absence
The schooner Jeanie arrived here to-
day with Mr.. Whitney aboard, coming
from the Greenland coast by way OF
Indian Harbor, Labrador. Mr.. Whit
ney feels keenly the position in which
he is placed. He went north, he said,
merely on a hunting trip, and now
finds himself in the storm centre OF
polar controversy. DR.. Cook left with
him at Annatok several cases contain
ing instruments and some other be-
longings, but so far as Mr.. Whitney
knew, no written records. There may
have been records, however, packed
with DR.. Cooks personal effects, but
the explorer did not tell him espe-
cially that he was leaving written
records in his possession. Speaking
Of Dr. Cooks detailed account Of his
trip to the pole, Mr.. Whitney said
that the explorer showed him how the
western drift Of the ice had landed
him in a region far remote from
where he expected to go, and he was
unable to get back. He could not
DR.. Cook and his two Esquimaux
could carry on their three sledges
enough food for their journey to the
pole, as he himself is a novice in Arc
tic travelling. He declared he knew
nothing of the controversy beyond the
vaguest details. The first he learned
of 1t was at Indian Harbor, when he
received messages from several Amer
lean papers asking for statement.
Mr.. Whitney denied that Commander
Peary had removed DR.. Cooks stores
from Annatok to Etah. What Peary
really did was to transfer few things
and rebuild the house at Annatok.
Boatswain Murphy's only reason for
refusing to help Capt. Berniers Cana
dian expedition to get dogs and
sledges at Etah was that they were
short Of dogs themselves. Mr.. Whit
ney had trouble in getting enough
dogs for his teams all through the
winter, and Murphy was looking out
for Peary, so that he would have suf-
ficient dogs for the commanders ex-
ploring trips around the country when
he returned from the north. The day
the Roosevelt was leaving Etah for
home, Whitney informed Peary that
Cook had entrusted to him certain
belongings to bring home on the vessel
that was coming up for Whitney, but
as his ship had not arrived, Whitney