The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-19
Career of
Famous Explorer

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trip and discovered way of prepar-
ing dog food which gave DR.. Cook
great advantage in weight over all
previous explorers. During January
the thermometer registered 70 degrees
below zero, but DR.. Cook and his man
went out to look for some people who
were supposed to have been ship
wrecked in Flagler bay, but found no
body.
The last two weeks were spent in
testing out the sledges, the dogs and
the supplies, and on Feb. 26 DR.. Cook
started for the farthest north. Francke
went with him as far as Flagler bay,
and then DR.. Cook sent him back to
Annootok on March 3. 1908, to guard
the winter quarters. 1t was nearly a
year later that Peary reached the
neighborhood of Annootok, where
Francke was keeping his lone vigil and
who claims that DIR. Cook had ordered
him to go back by one of the whalers
ships at the end of the preceding
June.
attempt difficult and extremely haz-
ardous feats 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 resourcefulness,
added to a 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 a married man and has
home in Brooklyn, where his wife
and two children live He is not often
home, having been engaged in explora
ton work on and off for the past
eighteen years. Or Cook was born at
CallicooD Depot, very quiet little
hamlet in Sullivan county, n. Y, on
June 10. 1863 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 1891 and 1892. inst after his gradu
alton from the medical college. be
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 1903 and failed. In 1906 he
tackled Mount Mckinley again and
won.
He is the author of several books de
scriptive of his travels and discoveries,
and he has lectured extensively. In
an interview about six months before
he left on the fishing trip to Labrador
DR.. Cook said:
"Some day am going to find the
north pole"
Dr. Cook once had a scheme for sail
ing to the south pole, and he worked
on this for some time, trying to figure
out exactly how to do it. His trip
with Amundsen 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 al
Callicoon. The automobile was kept
in barn. and Dr. Cook would allow
none excepting the workmen and him.
self to see it,
In speaking of the automobile at that
time DR. Cook said:
THE device have invented for my
automobile would not help at all in