The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-09-11
COOK INTERVIEWED
CONFIRMS STORY OF HIS Dlscov.
cry OF THE NORTH POLE
ON APRIL 81, 1908.
Tells Of the Discovery and the Burial
of Brass Tube With Record Of
Journey Under Flag Which
He Had Planted.

London.-A special dispatch from
Skagen tells of an interview of a news
paper correspondent with DR.. Fred
erick A. Cook. discoverer of the North
Pole, on the steamer Egede, when the
great American explorer told of the
success of his venture.
The correspondent reports DR.. Cook
in good health, but expressing the dec.
laration that he is glad to get back to
civilization, and laughingly declaring
that he Is looking forward with an APP
petite to any festivities that may be
promised, as his dinners for the past
two years have been very slim ones.
After describing how, on the 2lst of
April 1908, he found that he was SIX
teen miles from the Pole, DR.. Cook
told of how, when he stood on the
Pole, he laughed and shouted like a
hoy, to the surprise of his two Eskimo
companions, who did not seem 10
share his joy Continuing he said:
Il felt that | ought to be there. /
made my last observation and found
that was standing on the pole.
MY feelings-well | was too tired
really to feel any sensation. ! planted
the Stars and Stripes in the ice field
and my heart grew warm when saw
It wave in the wind"
How does the north pole lookF
was asked.
Well" said DR.. Cook smiling, ut
amounts to the size of a twenty-five
cent piece. There is nothing to see
but ice, ice; no water, only ice. There
were more holes here than at the
eighty seventh degree, which shows
there is a movement and drift here;
but this and other observations | made
afterwards-when l got more settled.
stopped two days at the pole and
assure you It was not easy to say
goodbye to the spot.
"As | was sitting at the pole, | could
not help smiling at the people VINO on
my return would call the whole ex'
petition a humbug. | was sure the
people would say that | had bought
my two witnesses and that my note
book with my daily observations had
DttH oh Doalu thio o''p'
The only thing ! can put NJ
against this is what the York Eski'
mos have told Knud Rasmussen. Let
the skeptics who disbelieve my story
go to the north pole. There they will
find a small brass tube which | buried
under the flag. That tube contains a
short statement about my trip. could
not leave my visiting card, because ]
did not happen to have one with me.
Perhaps" the explorer added dry
ly, II should have stayed there longer
had IL not begun to freeze us in our
idleness. The Eskimos were uneasy
and the dogs howled fearfully. On
April 20, therefore, | again turned my
nose southwark, which was easy, as
you cannot turn your nose in any other
direction when you stand at the pole.
DR.. Cook then described his return,
encountered, which would have over.
whelmed an ordinary man and pre-
vented the world from knowing of his
great discovery.
The correspondents story quotes
DR.. Cook as saying in conclusion:
Say, that day we reached our
provision stores at Etah was a greater
day than April 81. long to get back
to civilization, to move among my fel
low men: | long to press my wife to
my heart. | am the happiest man liv
ing. Tell the whole world thank GOD
| am back"