New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-08
List of Lives Lost.

II The story is not an Associated
Press fake the North pole is discover
ed. It was DR.. Cook who performed
the feat. His preliminary announce
ment of the discovery settles many
questions in the minds of laymen and
his complete story will solve hitherto
unsolvable problems for the scientists.
For years scientists have debated
about the regions Of the pole. Some
have prophesized an open sea would
be found there. Others held land
would be found. Still others declared
the attraction of gravitation would
cease and weight would become nil.
All these noted scientific questions
have been settled by DR.. Frederick A.
Cook, the Brooklyn explorer. There
is no open sea at the pole. There is
no solid earth within 800 miles of the
North Pole. There IS nothing there
but perpetual SHOWS and the acme of
human suffering. The journey has
been of inestimable benefit from a
scientific point, though from a com
me,cial standpoint the benefits are
nothing. In DR.. Cooks accounts of
his trip there are laid bare the details
Of part of the globe on which human
man never before set foot. The coolest
weather was not experienced at the
pole itself, but several hundred miles
south.
On March 30. DR.. Cook and his two
Eskimo companions, Etukishook and
Ahwelabe, settled the first of the great
questions their voyage was to solve.
On that day in latitude "a degrees II
minutes, longitude SO degrees SO min
utes, they discovered new land and
the last land between civilization and
the pole. This is 300 miles south of
the ''top O. the world.'' This land
was not explored, for Cook and his
companions wanted to plunge on into
the ice fields.
Beyond land there is no animal
life. This fact, too, was proven by
the explorers. For from the spot
where he last saw land he found no
signs Of human life, no bear prints,
no walrus "blow-holes," not even the
slightest microscopical animal.
The farther North he went DR.. Cook
found the wind blew less fiercely,
though the temperature remained
about the same.
| On April IA, 1908, he had reached
latitude IS degrees q minutes and
longitude 95 degrees 80 minutes, less
than 100 miles from the pole. At that
distance the temperature was 40 de-
grees below zero and the cold so in
tense that when the ice foes were
broken by the eastward currents the
creyices Immediately froze over
smoothly SO that his passage was not
delayed.
At this point according to DR.. Cook,
men lose nearly all sensibllities, save
the desire to go onward, spurred by
the hope that at last they will achieve
| their great ambition, the discovery O.
the North Pole. They grow too tired
even to dig the snow shelter house
beneath which they can keep warm.
i DR.. Cooks discovery is declared b,
explorers as "a single handed achieve
ment.' The fact that he made almos
the entire distance accompanied b,
only two Eskimos, adds to the daring
and spectacular features OF the epocha
q journey.
q From the information at hand it i:
believed DIR. Cook was favored Will
rare good fortune in the intense col.
. he encountered. This made the ic,
travel safer and surer and brought
minimum OF danger from open waite
of which but comparatively little wal
encountered.
At the pole there is no North, nj
9 East, no West. In every direction
lies the South, for DR.. Cook was OF
the top of the earth.
Following is list of lives lost il
North Pole expeditions:
Year Explorer Los
1553rSir Hugh Willoughby s:
1854 Richard Cancellor.
1878 Sir Martin Frobisher. A
1885 Captain Davis. /.
8 1894 Rarents. 3!
1905 John Knight
16O7-Henry Hudson. II
1872 Sir Thomas Button /.
1919 lens Munk 6:
1913 Thomas James. l.
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