The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-09
PLAN GREAT WELCOME
FOR DR.. FRED. A. COOK
Event Of National and Possibly inter.
national Importance.
PRESIDENT TAFT MAY Be PRESENT,
Many Noted Explorers Expected To
Greet Cook In New York-His
Financial Backer Tallxs--Declares
Careful Preparations For The
Dash Were Made---Steward Com
firms Statement.

New York Especially Preparations
aleardy are afoot here to make the
home coming of DR.. Frederick A,
Cook an event of national, and pos
sibly international, Importance. II
the plans outlined by members of the
Arctic Club are carried out, the well
come home which Dr. Cook will re-
ceive in New York will be an ovation
in which city, State and nation will
take part, while prominent explorers
Cook s former rivals-from al
parts of the globe will gather to pay
their personal tribute to his achieVe.
ment.
Among the most notable of those
who will in all prohabilitv be here
to greet DR.. Cook on his return will
be Lieutenant Shackleton, the in
tre2id Englishman, whose recent ex-
| plorations in the Antarctic, during
which he succeeded ia. pushing near
er to the South Pole than had any
previous explorer, make him figure
Of worldwide prominence.
Members of the Arctic Club hope
that President Taft may be present
as the nations representative to well
come Dr.. Cook.
"Such an hour would be no more
than fitting" one of them declared
'in view of the fact that the eXplor-
| er has placed the Stars and Stripes
on the apex of the world and added
| perhaps, 10000 square miles to the
nations territory.
Among the explorers who are eX-
| pected to take a prominent part in
1.-The welcome to DR.. Cook are the
Duke of the Abruzzi, DR.. Fridtioi
Nansen, Capt. Roald Amundsen, Gen
A. w. Greely, Rear-Admiral George
Melville, Anthony Fiala. of this city
and Capt. Joseph Z. Bernier.
Capt. Bradley s. Osborn, secretary
| OF the Arctic Club, said that the
explorer is not expected for several
weeks. "He is due in Copenhagen in
three days" said Captain Osbon, land
| If came straight home would arrive
| in New York about the middle oi
| September, but his friends believe
that he will make several stops. For
| one thing, the geographers and
scientists of Copenhagen will tender
! him welcome. He may go to Chris.
! tiania to meet Captain Amundsen
the discoverer of the Northwest pas
sage. It is likely that he will visit
| Belgium. where he has been decorat-
ed for his services to science and il
| is scarcely conceivable that the Brit.
! ish geographical societies would al.
low him to pass them by on his way
home without an invitation to Lon.
DON"
John r. Bradley, the financial
backer of DR.. Cook, takts pains tc
explain that the Brooklyn explorers
success in reaching the North Pole
was not so much the result of chance
as the opinions of several polar ex.
perts would indicate.
This was no haphazard exped!
ton" he said, mo intensified Arctic
| JOY ride undertaken on nerve. We
went about our preparations for this
thing quietly and without brass band
accompaniment, but every imaginable
contingency had been provided for
I'VE studied out the mistakes and
misfortunes of other men who had
tried for the Pole, hoping to benefit
by their errors, and We certainly
benefited by their examples
II am not going to tell what the
cost was, but I'll tell you this much
One single item Of the equipment
was 5000 gallons OF gasoline and
another was two barrels of gumdrops
An Esquimaux will travel 80 miles
for a gumdrop. His sweet tooth Is
the sweetest in the world.
Now Cook has as much nerve as
any. man in the world. l guess; bu,
he had something besides nerve to
carry him through. I'm not trying
to take any of the credit; but I want
to say he had the right kind of out
fit to take him through. Cook will
prove to the satisfaction of every
fair man that he has done exactly
what he claims he did"