The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-09

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plorer infinitely and expressed Arm
belief in the truth of Cooks state.
ments. n M. Il
COOK WEARS WELL.
The longer, Dr.. Cook remains ii
Copenhagen the more completely is
his standing established The cor.
respondent of the Associated Press
heard him cross-examined by Conn
petent .q~uestioners half a dozen times
His replies were detaifeds and such
that if he is a. romancer, he is one
of the greatest in history.
The only time the explorer seemed
to display impotence was when
speaking of one of his critics. He
said: "He is an old man; he APP
%parently forgot my expeditions be-
gan where his. ended"
DR.. Cook and Mr.. Eagan will pass
tomorrow as the guests of the pre-
mier, Count Holstein Ledrebord at
the historical castle Roskilde, a few
lies from the city.
DR.. Cook is particularly joyous
that, with Commander Peary's sue
cess, which he did not in the least
doubt, all the honor for the achieve
ment was now fully American. In
a telegram to New York, DR.. Cook
declares that the science of explora-
tion will benefit UNNECESSARILY from
the fact that Peary reached the pole
by a route different from his, thus
covering another large unknown
space, and with Cook observations,
clearing a mystery which has per-
picked geographers many centuries.
NEW YORK, Sept. S.-The Peary
expedition sailed from New York on
July 6, 1908. Commander Peary's
last words were:
"Unless unforeseen circumstances
intervene within the next year l
hope to plant the Stars and Stripes
at the pole.
to Sydney, thence to Hawks Harbor,
where she took on supplies, then
crossed Davis strait to Holsanbarg
and followed the coast from there to
Cape York. Utah was reached some
time in August, and from that point
the route of the expedition can only
be conjectured from plans it's COM
mander had already announced.
Peary's idea was to reach the pole
by the American route" a way
which he had studied and developed
during his former expeditions. The
advantage of this route is that it al
lows a base of supplies approximately
100 miles neare the goal than the
S~pitzbergen base, which has been it's
chief rival. The advantages of the
route appeared during Peary's trip
in 1906, when he attained the north
ernmost point hitherto reached by
man-87 degrees 6 minutes, at about
the 49th meridian, west longitude.
This was on April 81.
Commander Peary has stood in
the foremost ranks of Arctic ex-
plorers for nearly two DECADES. He
was born at Cresson Springs, Pa,
in May, 1856. He entered the navy
in 1881.
Peary's first polar experience was
acquired in 1885. when he made a
reconnaissance of the Greenland in
land ice In June 1891, he sailed from
New York on the Kite and, making
his headquarters at Mccormick bay,
on the west coast of Greenland. pen
etrated as far north as latitude 80.
In 1S94-95 he reached the 18th
parallels on the east coast OF
of Grinnell Land. In 19O5-O6 he
point between the 18th and SOtt
parellels or the east coast oil
ell~esmereland. In 1900 he reached
the SIND parallel on the east coast
of Grinnll Land. In 1905-O6 he
skirted the north coast of Grinnel
Land and made an attack upon the
pole from Cape Moss. This was the
expedition which reached what wa:
at that time "farthest north"
The geographic society is plannins
a brilliant banquet for next winter
with two North pole discoveries
Cook and Peary-and the British ex
plorer who penetrated farthest soutf
in seeking the South pole-Lieu
tenant Shackleton-as the stal
figures.
DR.. o. H. Tittman, the head of thu
United States coast and geodeti,
survey, is now on his way to Eng
land bearing the informal Invitation
Of the society to Cook and Shackle
ton. Peary's exploit had not be
come known when Superintendent
Tittman sailed last Saturday. but b,
will be advised to include Peary OF
the banquet program.