The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-09

help of two Eskimos. He reached .
the Pole on April 21st, 1908. At
least he reached a spot where his
shadow was the same length at mid
night that il was at noon. and where
the sun, instead Of dipping, simply
moved straight around in a circle I
an equal distance above the horizon. /
The distance that had been travelled /
also showed that they were at the
Pole. DR.. Cook made various notes. /
took many photos, kept complete
records, and started back home.
His provisions. however. had run
50 low that the dogs were fed only
every other day, and he and his two
companions were well nigh on the
verge of starvation. They had lived
Ike the wild things in nature: they
| buried themselves in their sleeping
blankets at night; and when the
storms came they made igloos, or
SLOW huts. Then they stumbled on
over the ice hummocks, avoid
ing the crevices, through wind and
storm and hurricane and binding
snow, with the thermometer rang
ing from thirty to eighty below zero
and again they reached the land.
Their ammunition was nearly
| gone, but they fought starvation des-
perately They killed seals and wal
rus, now and then bear. Then
their ammunition gave out; still
they stumbled on until they reached
open water. They left their sleds be-
hind. turned the dogs loose, and
took to the water with canvass
Loaf. By. October, 1908. they were
was there, but they did not expect
one.
Another winter of night followed.
DR.. Cook then started overland to
| iUpernavik, seven hundred miles
away He had left the Pole on APP
ril 23rd, 1908. and he got back to
/ Upernavik in June, 1909. A mail
ship here picked him up and car
ried him to the Shetland Islands;
where he sent a cabIegram to a New
York paper, saying: Il have been
10 the North Pole. Have written
two thousand words which are here
at your disposal, price three thous-
ald dollars"
He went on board ship, there not
being time to wait for a reply, and
when he reached Copenhagen
week later he was greeted on the
cock by an immense crowd, includ-
ing royalty ana the learned men Of
the city
The newspaper had accepted the
two thousand words write-up, and
had told the world that Dr. Freder-
ick A. Cook. had reached the North
Pole. Copenhagen received DR.. Cook
with every honor that men can be-
stow on other men. All of this was
as much OF a surprise to DR.. Cook
as 1t was to the world. He had sup
: posed that the world had been some
: what interested, but he had not ex-
pected to be a popular hero.
America went wild over the hero
of the North. All this, until Peary
arrived in Indian Harbor and an
+. nounced that he had been to the top
of the world, Apri' s, 1909. Then
began the torrent Of abuse, vilifca-
tion, condemnation, the equal of
4 which one does not often see in these
uodern piping times of peace.
. Someone has said that we are
: moving SO fast that when plans are
5 being made to perform some great
: feat, these plans are broken into by
youth who enters and says: 81
: have done it," This is exactly what
o Cook did for the Arctic explorer; he
T went quietly about his business, but
be had been getting ready for twenty
: fire years for this thing.
So. to-day, after the tumult and
! the shouting have ceased, We find
| Dr.. Cook placidly telling his story tc
a audiences all over the United States
: He is listened to with respect AMI
; given a generous degree of applause
: The temper Of the man recommends
Il Eim to his race, and the suspicion i!
> filtering into the Zeitgeist that wher
.S Pcary wrote of his surgeon in higF
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