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Show PEARY ARRIVES AT ' TOP OFTHE EARTH" PLANTS FLAG AT NO RTH ERMOST POINT JUST ONE YEAR AFTER COOK'S ARRIVAL. World Startled by News of Second Successful Effort to Locate North Pole Dr. Cook Pleased at Rival's Success. New York. A message has been received re-ceived from Commander Robert E. Peary, the Arctic explorer, announcing announc-ing that he had discovered the North Pole on April 6 of the present year. A message to the Associated Press says: "Stars and Stripes nailed to North Pole." Commander Peary's wife has received re-ceived a message from Indian Harbor, via Cape Bay. reading: "Have made good at last. I have the old pole. Am well. Love. Will wire again from Chateau." From St. Johns, N. F.. comes the following: "Commander Robert E. Peary, who announced on Monday that he had discovered the North Pole on April 6 of the present year, found no traces of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who reported that he had made the same discovery in April of the preceding preced-ing year. This news reached here ROBERT E. PEARY. Famous Arctic Explorer. through Captain Robert Bartlett, ol the Roosevelt, Peary's ship." Dr. Frederick A. Cook was seated at Jinner, surrounded by a Pnmant company, com-pany, when the news of Peary's discovery dis-covery was received in Copenhagen. Dr. Cook was immensely interested, and said: "That is good news. 1 lope Peary did get to the pole. His observations and report on that region will confirm mine." And thus it seems that the North Pole has been doubly discovered. Two Americans have planted the flag of their country in the land of Ice, which man has sought to penetrate pene-trate for four centuries; and each ignorant ig-norant of the other's conquest has sent within a period of five days a laconic message of success. On September 1. Dr. Cook sent out from the Shetland islands the first message of his success, a message which has aroused a storm of controversy contro-versy around the world. And now Robert E. Peary, lost from view in the land of ice, and unheard from since August, 1908, has startled the world by a similar message sent from Indian In-dian Harbor, Labrador. There was no qualification; it left no doubt. With but a word from Peary, the world waits for details, but none will be available until he arrives at. Chateau Cha-teau Bay, Labrador. It was comparatively a simple matter mat-ter to ascertain that the April 6 referred re-ferred to by Peary was April of this year, as his expedition dd not start from New York until July 7. 1908. From the time Peary wrote his last letters home from his depot of supplies sup-plies at Etah in August. 1908. until he flashed the magic words from Indian Harbor, nothing was known of the Tight he had been making across the frozen crust of the north. |