The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-09-08
SOME WHO TRIED
To Do What Cook Has Done But
Failed to DO so.
TOOK COOK YEARS


But He Has Accomplished Gres
Work end tho World Is Anxtorsl.
Awaiting Full Particulars Of Hi
Wonderful Discoveries n ID.
Snow Regions OF the North
The dream Of finding the NORTH
Pole for centuries lured explorers
scientists. and daring a6veoutreTs
This -ean apparently has now be.
come a reality BY the achievement
OF Dr.. Frederick A. Cook. OF Brook.
lyn. Dr.. Cooke cabled lacon!c mes.
sage from Lerwick. Shetland Islands
whence BE y proceeding to Copenha.
gen. saying:
Successful. Well. Address Cop
enhasen."
Several days must now elapse
before any further information is
available. The Danish Go7ernmen.
steaue. Haasgede has loft Lerwiek.
Shetland Islands, for Copenhagen,
whore shs Is due today. GssH-
tine the ship skirts the Danish eosst.
passing several small points which
are being closely watched for fur
ther particulars OF Dr.. Cook
Some Of the most recent OF note
worthy attempts TO reach the North
Pole are enumerated below.
Walte7 Wellnan. an American.
left the Island Of spi.sbersen. for
tse pole IN q balloon. August Is.
1909. HIS al. ship became disabled
after he had travelled thirty miles.
snd lie was forced to return
II 1905 Commander Robert 2.
Peary. United States aaTy. reach
ed 81 degrees. minutes, equivalent
TO about EOS miles from the Polo.
Commander PeaEy Is now IN the
Polar regions OF another e1pedi-
ton. A relief ship was sent out q
month ago to e2deavo- to pick him
up. He started from Sydney. n. s..
July II. 1908.
On septenbe, 3. 1905. Capt
Roald Amundsen. Norwegian,
completed the Hrst voyage through
the northwest passage. He left
christiania on the Gtoa. June Il.
1908, and arrived a: Herschel ISL
and IN the Arctic Ocean In SeDtem-
Der Of 1908.
In 1904. Baron Toll. ! Russ:on.
LED a Polar expedition party By way
OF Siberia. but all the members per
!shed from the cold.
In 1903. Erickson. o Dane. head
ed an expedition aad got as far as
Saunders Island. where they were
rescued in . destitute condition.
In the same year Anthony Fiala.
young Brooklyn explorer. sailed
OF the ship America and proceed
ed further North than tie Duke Of
the Ab.uzsi. His party endured
great hardsh!ps before they were res
cued
The Duke OF the Abruszt made his
expedition in 1900. In 1895. Dr..
Sansen reached ss degrees. "a min
utes. on the vessel Fran. which left
lngor Strai. Angus, 4. 1893.
Prof. Andcee made his fatal BAL
loon trip in 1897. He LEFT TEcmsoe.
Norway. IN els balloon. the Eagle.
bound for the pole. Since his Dc
partu,e nothing authentic has been
heard OF Andree.
In 1888. Capt Delonss expedition
n the Jeaauette was los: seer Hen
riet,a Island.
IL 1892 tho Greedy expedition
reached SO degrees. "a minutes. AID
In 1s45 Sir John Franklin made his
disastrous attempt to penetrate from
Lancaster Sound to Behr!ns Strait.
At a meeting OF the Explorers
Club. OF New York. n October. 1907.
3 letter from DR.. Cook dated at
Etah. Angus; Is. gave this !ntorna'
ton:
II fnd tha. I have good oppor-
,unity 70 Try for the pole. and. there
fore. will stay here for year. /
hope 70 get 20 the Explorers Club
in September. 1908. with the record
Of the pole. / plan to cross Elles-
mere Land and reach the Polar Sea
By Saasen Strait. I hope you can
induce some Of the members OF the
cluo 70 come and meet me at Cape
York. Here's for the pole with the
dag"
About the same time Herbert L.
D7!dgeman, OF Brooklyn. received
this letter from Cook similarly dat
ed:
II have bit upon new route to
the North Pole. and l will stay to
Try It. BY way OF Buchanan Bay.
Ellesmere Land. owe. the Polar
Sea. seems to me 10 be very good
route. There will be game 70 the
eighty second degree. and there are
natives and dogs for the task. So
here is for the pole. Mr.. Bradley
will tell you the rest. Kind re
CARDS TO all
Dr.. Cooks dispatch tells o! h!.
success. He seems to have aeon.
plished what others who tried failed
to accomplish. and what naay brave
men sacrificed thei. lives IN vain tc
attain II be has really found az
open sea near the North Pole that
can be used for commercial purpos-
es he has certainly placed the civl'iz'