Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-08
Career of
Famous Explorer

trip and discovered Il way of preBars
ing dog food which gave DR.. Cook Il
great advantage in weight over ali
previous explorers. During .Iauuary
the thermometer registered l3 degrees
below zero. but DR.. Cook aud his man
went out To look for some people who
were supposed TO have been ship
wrecked in F'lagler bay. but found no
body.
The last two weeks were spent in
testing out the Sledses. the dogs and
the supplies. and on Feb IL DR.. Cook
started for the farthcSt north. Erancke
went with him as far as Fla2lcr bay.
ana then DIR. Cook sent him back to
Annootuk on March q; 1908. 10 guard
the winter quarters. 1t WAS nearly n
year later that Peary reached the
neishborhood of Annootok. where
Francke WAS keeping Ills lone vigil and
who claims that DR.. Cook had ordered
him TO go back by one of the whalers'
ships at the end of the preceding
June
1t is no new thing for Or. Cook to
asNNiiii't NlA41NNi1N Nhb CAtA'iAtiN
ardous feais of exploration. In every
case in which he has set out TO dis
cover new paths in the wilderness of
uncharted seas or mountains he has
displayed a dash and resourcefulneSs
which marked him as extraordinary
even among explorers 1t was this
valiant courage and resourcefuiness.
added to Il very vigorous physique.
which his many friends in Brooklyn
had in mind when they assured anX-
ious inquirers that DR.. Cook would
appear somewhere in Norway or
Greenland alive and well.
DR. Cook is Il married man and has
home in Brooklyn. where his wife
and two children live He is not often
home. having been engaged in expiora-
ton work on and off for the past
eighteen years. DR.. Cook was born at
Callicoon Depot, very quiet little
hamlet in Sullivan county. \. Y, on
June 10. 1865. He received his early
education in Brooklyn and graduated
with the degree of doctor of medicine
from New York university in 1890. He
was married in 1902 to Mary Fidell
Hunt in Brooklyn.
Exploration at both ends of the earth
and near the top of its highest noun
tains has attracted DR.. Cook for years.
In 1901 and 1892, just after his gradu-
alton from the medical college. he
served as surgeon of the peary expedi-
ton to Greenland In 1879 he was
surgeon of the Belgian expedition to
the antarctic. He tried to ascend
Mount Mckinley, in Alaska the high
est peak on the North American CONT
nent. in 1909 and failed In 1906 be
tachled Mount Mckinley again and
won.
He is the author of several books de-
scriptive. of his travels and discoveries.
and be has lectured extensively. In
an interview about six months before
he left on the fishing trip to Labrador
Dr. Cook sai0
Some day l am going TO find the
north pole"
Dr. Cook once had scheme for sail
ing to the south pole. and he worked
on this for some time. trying to figure
ont exactly how TO do it. His trip
with AmuGdsen gave him the inspira-
ton for this He finally. in his efforts
TO arrive at some method of reaching
the south pole hit upon the idea OF an
automobile with some arrangement for
travelling over ice fields. He worked
upon this machine for some time Mt
CaIlicoon. The automobile was kept
in a barn. and DR.. Cook would allow
none excepting the workmen and him
self to see it.
In speaking of the automobile at that
time DIR. Cook said:
The device have invented for my
automobile would not help at all in