The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-09-10
A HAS SUCCEEDED.
FIVE Days After Cook He Sends His
Thrilling Message.

Thrilling Message.
New York.-Peary has succeeded.
STARS and Stripes nailed to the nortl
pole"
From out the arctic darkness there
was flashed Monday this message, which
stunned the scientific world and thrilled
the heart of every layman. From the
coast of Labrador Robert Z. Peary gave
to the world the news that he had at
tanned his goal in the far North, while
at the same moment in far-off Den
mark DR.. Frederic A. Cook of Brooklyn
was being lionized by royalty for the
same achievement.
Undeniably Yankee grit has has con
quered the frozen North, and there has
been created a coincidence such as the
world will never see again.
1.-TWO Americans have planted the fla
of their country in the land of ice, which
man has sought to penetrate for four
centuries, and each, ignorant of the
others conquest, has flashed within a
period Of five days a %laconic message OF
success to the waiting world.
Cook, in his first message to his coun.
trymen, was brief, but non-committal.
Peary was even briefer, but specific.
"Stars and Stripes nailed to the north
POLE" he said.
Five days ago, on September 1, DR..
Cook sent out from the Shetland Islands
the first message of his success-a mess
| age which has aroused a storm of con.
troversy around the world. Monday
Peary, lost from view in the land of ice,
and unheard from since August, 1908,
startled the world by a similar message
sent from Indian Harbor, Labrador.
There was no qualification; it left no
doubt. 1t announced unequivocally that
he had reached the top of the world.
Two American Flags There.
Thus two flags with the Stars and
Stripes of the United States are floating
in the packs, proving the courage of the
intrepid Americans.
With but a word from Peary, the
world waits breathlessly for details.
First word of Peary's success reached
New York at 1879 o'clock Monday after,
noon in a dispatch to the Associated
Press. 1t contained the bare %nou
ment of his finding the pole. Almost
simultaneously he had transmitted the
news to London, repeating dramatically
and simply:
STARS and Stripes nailed to the north
POLE"
At the same time he similarly advised
the governor of Newfoundland.
Both the old and the new world were
thus apprised of his great achievement
practically at the same moment, and the
excitement which follows attests to the
high pitch of interest aroused over this
climax of mans perseverance. Newspa-
per extras were rushed from the press,
and those who read marveled at the
twist of the universe, which had snatched
the ice mask from the north in a manner
SO strange.
Like DR.. Cooks first message, Peary's
was tantalizing in its briefness, and the
waiting public, stimulated by DIR. Cooks
success, was yet left unsatiated. For,
as did DR.. Cook, Peary resumed his
homeward journey Immediately after
fling the curt news of discovery.
A few words were added to this meager
information at $3.50 pm, when there
was made public this additional infor-
nation sent to Herbert L.. Bridgman of
Brooklyn, secretary of the Peary Arctic
Club:
"Pole reached. Roosevelt safe. Peary."
Meager Details Came.
This gave assurance that the vessel
in which Peary departed had PASSED
through the ice unscatched, but details
of his homecoming and the date of the
discovery of the pole were still lack
ing. 1t was not until the New York
Times had received a dispatch later in
the afternoon that these vital points
were cleared up. The message said:
81 have the pole April 6. Expect ar
rive Chateau Bay September z"
With this information at hand, it was
a comparatively simple matter to ascer-
tain that the April 6 referred to was
April of the present year, as his expe-
dition did not start from New York I'M
til July Z, 1908.
April 6, 1909, the date that Peary
planted the flag at the pole, and April
21, 1908, the date that DIR. Cook unfurled
the Stars and Stripes a year before, con-
sequently became the cardinal dates upon
which exploration of the far North will
rest hereafter. Though separated by
nearly a year, the same feat was accom-
plished by two Americans, neither OF
whom was aware of the movements OF
the other.
PEARY'S LIFE DREAM.