The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-07
BRIDGMAN, PEARY'S FRIEND IN LIBRARY LECTURE CASTS
 DOUBT ON COOKS POLE TITLE
tor's Eskimo Boys Are Shown Fat and We'll Fed While Man Who Accompanied Peafy is Almost Cad- ayer==Interesting Facts of Arctic Life Narrated to Large Anjience.

Carefully avoiding any mention of Bridgman, Secretary of the Peary Arctic club, himself an Arctic explor- CT and a member of the expedition which set out for the relief of Lieut.. Peary, delivered an illustrated lecture last evening", at the Public Library on Peary's dash to the Pole, which was highly interesting, and was lis tened to intently by a highly apprecia- tive audience. Though, as stated, he did not mention the name, Cook, MT. Bridgman took few jabs at the al legged pole fin. These. were not con- cerning the records Cook did not pro- duce, but of the condition Cook repre- sented were encountered in the frozen North.
 Mr. Rridgman started his study with the setting out of the relief expedition from the town of Sidney, Cape Bre- ton, Nova Scotia, taking it's course through the narrow channels off the coast of Labrador, across to Green land Here the audience was intro duced to the governors of the many small towns, which cluster on the coast The traits of the Eskimo were gone into considerably.
 In all the towns in which the relief party stopped, news was asked of the Whereabout of the Peary ship, but the information was meagre. One man said that the winter previous he saw a ship to the North, but that the yes sel was headed South. This set the re- lief party thinking. Could it be that the crew of the ship had passed away, and that the ship had been driven down from the North by ice floes.
 To this day, none of the party has ever found out the nature, or owner ship, of that ship. Many slides show ing the gigantic ice bergs encountered were thrown onto the screen.
 The size of these mountains of the sea, were never fully realized till, they were shown in contrast to the size of the ship. MT. Bridgman stated that by actual count 262 of these bergs were visible at one time on the Voy- age, showing the difficulties of navi- gation. A slide, giving a view of the midnight sun was also shown. MT. Bridgman said that no one who sees the midnight sun under any c1rcum- stances will forget it.
 Upoman the furthest town north, inhabited by white men, was quaint village. Groups of the inhabitants were shown The condition in life of the gentler sex here was quite evident being told by the color of the head gear. The unmarried took to blue, the married to red, and the widowed as they generally do in this country to black Male and female were all dressed in trousers, made from seal skin.
 Norotah, the furthest town North in- habitated by human beings, was a sea of ice and snow. Here the relief party received the first real news. The inhabitants stated that a large ship had visited the port the preceding winter and had sailed to the western shore The expedition lost no time in setting out in search of the ship. Two days later they were rewarded by catching a glimpse of it to the west ward. The vessel proved to be the f'Roosevelt,'' with Lieut.. Peary and five men aboard. The members of both parties stayed together for six weeks, during which time, MT. Bridg-