The Irish standard., 1909-09-04
BROOKLYN SCIENTIST NOW RE.
TURNING HoMEWARD ON DAN.
ISH GOVERNMENT STEAMER.
MADE HIS DASH IN WINTER TIME
Reached Long Sought Goal on April Fl
190s.-Natives Confirm Explorers
Story Of Long Trip With Two
Companions.

Copenhagen, Sept. 3.-Dr. Frederick
A. Cook. the American explorer,
reached the north pole April 81, 1908,
according to telegram received at
the colonial office here.
DR.. Cook. of Brooklyn, accompanied
by Norwegian, left Etah, Greenland,
March 8, 1908, taking with him eight
Eskimos, four sledges and twelve dog
teams. He was to make his way
through Ellesmere land.
DR.. Cook is on board the Danish
government steamer Hans Egede.
which passed Berwick en- route for
Denmark.
The telegram announcing Dr. Cooks
achievement was sent by Greenland
official on board the steamer and reads
as follows:
I'VE have on board the American
traveller, DR.. Cook, who reached the
north pole, April 81, 1908. DR.. Cook ar
rived at Upernavik (the northermost
Danish settlement in Greenland, on an
island off the west coast) in May Of
1909, from Cape York Tin the north
west part of Greenland. on Baffln
Bay The Eskimos of Cape York con-
Arm DR.. Cooks story Of his journey.
Made Dash In Winter.
DR.. Cook went into the polar regions
on this trip with startling new theory
as the basis for his Anal dash for
the pole-that is, he intended to so
time his advance that his journey
over the great ice would fall in the
winter. Radical as this may seem,
great faith is expressed in it by ice
men and pilots who have wintered in
the great circle. Heretofore every ex-
plorer has pushed as far north as he
then has established winter quarters.
A double purpose was always in
view, to recuperate during the colder
months for the hard dash that was to
come, and to wait until the moving Of
the ice had opened up leads to give the
explorers q chance to travel by the
boats. DR.. Cook has revolutionized all
this and staked his life on the result.
I He is no inexperienced adventurer.
but cool, practical ice navigator, who
has gone through many campaigns.
He was surgeon and ethnologist to the
first Peary expedition, in 1892;
commander Of the expedition on the
Zeta, a yacht. in 1898; organizer and
commander of the expedition on the
Miranda, steamship, in 1894; sur
geon, anthropologist and photographer
Of the Belgian Antarctic expedition Of
1s97-99, and surgeon to the Peary
! ho E~l1r
steamship, In 1901.
On these expeditions he made full
study of ice and ice conditions, and
his present-day theory would seem to
be a natural deduction. He found the
ice firmer In the winter, and learned
that comparatively smooth surfaces
were presented for sledge parties.
making progress easy for mile after
mile. He reckoned that winter dash
would not be baked SO frequently by
the open lanes and that the advance
would be regular.
4 1t was DR.. Cooks plan to make his
base of supplies or permanent camp Mt
Annatoak, in Greenland, about twenty
miles north Of Etah and about one
thousand miles from the north pole.
He left there in December, 1907 and
then made his way westward out Of
the Bache peninsula and across TO
Ellsmere land. 1t is believed he
reached this in February, 1908, al
the last news received from him was
dated March II, 1908, when he was
near Cape Thomas Hubbard.
Or. Cook Tells His Story.
Paris, Sept. IA telegram describ.
ing his trip has been received from
DR.. Cook:
after a prolonged fight with fam
Inc and frost" says DR.. Cook, I'VE
have at last succeeded in reaching the
north POLE. A new highway, with an
interesting strip Of animated nature
has been explored and big game
haunts located, which will delight
sportsnlen and extend the Eskimo
horizon.
Land has been discovered on
which rest the earth's northernmost
rocks A triangle Of 10000 square
miles has been cut out Of the terrest.
ial unknown. The expedition was the
outcome OF q summer cruise in the
arctic seas on the schooner Bradley,
which arrived at the limits Of naviga.
ton. In Smith Sound late in August.
1907.
1--WE forced through Nansen Sound
to Lands End. In this march we Sc.
cured 101 musk oxen, seven bears,
and 335' hares. We pushed out into
the polar sea from the southern
point Of Herbert Island on March is.
Six Eskimos returned from here
With four men and 46 dogs moving
supplies for 80 days. the crossing OF
the circumpolar pack was begun
Three days later two other Eskimos
forming the last supporting party, re
b turned and the trials had now been
reduced to a survival Of the fttest
The two best men and 20 dogs were
picked for the final effort.
| There before us, in an unknowI
line Of $50 miles. lay our goal
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