Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-15
PEARY At POLE too
Dispatches Flash Over the
Wires Monday.
REACHES GOAL APRIL 6, 1909
several Messages Sent Including One
to Mrs. Peary Leave No DOUBT of
Their Meaning-Did Eot Know of
DR.. Cooks Discovery.

New York, Special. out the
Arctic darkness there were flashed
Monday the messages which stun
8 ned the scientific world and thrilled
the heart of every layman. From
the bleak coast of Labrador Peary
Il gave to the world the news that he
had attained his goal in the far
north, while at the same momen; in
far off Denmark DR.. Frederick A.
Cook, of Brooklyn, was being d&ned
j. and lionized by royalty for the slme
II achievement.
Undeniably Yankee grit has con-
uuered the frozen north and there has
been created coincidence such as
"a the world will never see again.
"a The Americans have planted the
4 flag of, their country in the land of
q ice which man has sought to pene-
i trate for four centuries and each,
Il ignorant of the others conquest, has
flashed within period Of five days a
i laconic message of success to tne
4 waiting world.
The following kilograms tell the
\ fact, that there is story coming.
New York, special.-Peary has
a succeeded.
"Indian Harbor, via Cape Ray, N. F.,
September 6.
ssTo Associated Press, New York.
"Stars and Stripes nailed to North
Pole. (sisned) ),.n,,n7
"Indian Harbor, via Cape Ray, N. F..
September 6.
"Hertert L. Bridgeman, Brooklyn,
q n. Y.
ssPole reached. Rooeevelt safe.
"(Signedl
4 "PEARY."
tsIndian Harbor, via Cape Ray, N. F..
"I have the pole April 6./Expect
1 arrive Cheateau bay September Z.
A Secure control wire for me there and
II arrange to expedite transmission Of
u big story. (SisnedD
"PEARY."
Il April 6, l9O9-the date that Pes.ry
4 planted the flag at the Pole-and
April 21, 1908, the day that DR.. Cook
unfurled the stars and stripes year
before, consequently become the car-
dinal dates upon which exploration
] of the far North will rest hereafter.
AThoughl separated by nearly year,
the same feat was accomplished 5y
two Americans, neither Of whom was
aware of The movements of the other.
Cook says that he found no traces
of Peary in the moving ice and sc
cording to word which was received
here through Capt. Robert Bartlett,
Of Peary's ship, the Roosevelt, late
Monday night, Peary likewise found
no signs of his reputed predecessor.
However, this phase of Peary's ex-
perience will not be thoroughly clear
ed up until a statement is obtained
from his own lips.
|, A Washington dispatch says:
Commander Robert E. Peary, al
most three years ago prophetically
outlined his view of the value and in
terest attached to the achievement
he announced in the dispatches Mon
day. The penetration of the frozen
heart of the Arctic circle, the news
of Pea1y's feat following close upon
the heels of Dn: Cooks planting Of
the American flag at the same spot,
evoked enthusiastic plaudits in Wash
ington. Everywhere among army
and navy officers and scientists and
official Washington, generally, only
words of praise were spoken.
DR.. Cook was intensely interested
at the cablegrams and said: "That
is good news. I hope Peary did get
to the Pole. His observations and
reports on that region will confirm
mine"
Asked if there was any probability
of Peary's having found the tube con-
tanning his records, DR.. Cook replied:
NsI hope so, but that is doubtful on
account of the drift. Z"
He added:
"Commander Peary would have
reached the Pole this year. Probably
while was in the Arctic region last
year his route was several hundred
miles east of mine. We are rivals,
of course, but the pole IS good enough
for two.
"That two men got to the Pole
along different paths" continued the
explorer, "should furnish large adj
ditions to scientific knowledge. Prob
ably other parties will reach it in the
next ten years, since every explorer
is helped by the experience of his
predecessors, just as Sverdrup's OBJ
servations and reports were of i'm
measurable help to me. I can say
nothing more, without knowing fur
ther details, than that am glad Of
it."
Steamer Lauretania Lost.
St. Johns, N. F., Special.-ThriI,