The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-02
WHOLE WORLD MARVELS AT
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Montreal, Que, Sept 2.-"Frederick Cook has been trying for IS years to find the pole. He is no notoriety hunter and has done his work quietly. That he has succeeded now is no sur prise to his friends
 This was a. statement made this af- ternoon to a United Press representa- tive by Harry D. Bayne, a balloon ex- pert, engineer and collaboration with Dr. Cook in several books. Three years ago. according to Bayne, Dr. Cook took up the feasibility of reach ing the pole in a balloon but finally gave up the plan. Bayne says he lived with pr. Cook in New York IS family name was really Koch and that he was distant relative of Dr. Koch, the noted tuberculosis expert. The family changed the name when they came to the United States some years ago.
 sBayne declared that Cook once con- sidered the advisability of going to the North Pole in a locomotive built with sharp runners for ice and snow. Bayne was to make experiments in Alaska with the machine and had proceeded as far as Dalton Pass when the Span ish-American war broke out and he was recalled, being offered the head of the United States Signal Corps Afterwards Cook became enamored of the balloon idea.
 YALE PROFESSORS DELIGHTED.
 New Haven, Sept. 2-Professor Will liam H. Brewer, Russell H. Chitten- den, director of the Sheffield Scientific School, and other Yale professors ex- press great delight over the news that Dr. Cook has succeeded in finding the North Pole. Each is inclined to give the reports full credence. Professor Brewer, who is professor emeritus of physical geography and agriculture at Yale, said:
 T regard pr. Cooks feat as a great achievement, but at the same time it may add little to the scientific knowl- edge of conditions at the Pole. On the other hand the discovery of the Pole might be of vast importance from a scientific standpoint.
 We shall have to await further re- ports. It is my opinion that condi- tions about the Pole are similar to the general Arctic conditions within a few hundred miles of it. and the theory of the open sea which has been advanced, is not regarded seriously
 Professor Brewer said that Dr. Cook was perhaps better able to carry out a trip of the kind than any other man in the world. His experience in climbing Mount Mckinley, he said, greatly aided him in making the dis covery of the Pcle.
 Mason F. Smith, assistant at the Yale Observatory, said he believed the finding of the Pole would be of little real scientific value, and that the only value in the discovery that he could at this time see is the possibility of determining the mass of the world. To perform this operation a pendulum would have to be taken to the Pole and there have the time of it's vibra- ton noted. Then the pendulum must be, taken to the Equator and the vibra- tion there noted. Professor Smith was of the opinion that it was improbable that Dr. Cook had attempted this fine experiment.
 4The mass of the earth has already been roughly found, but if determined in the manner I state the achievement of Dr. Cook would b eof great scien- tific interest and value,'' concluded Professor Smith.
 Russell H. Chittenden was highly pleased that the honor of discovering the Pole fell to an American, but was doubtful that the discovery would be of any great scientific value. The fact that Dr. Cook is an astronomer makes it bJnost positive, said Director Chit teioren. that the reports are t..,a