| Show HISTORY OF O COOKS IDEA 4 OF POLAR EXPEDITION It ye York 2 Members t ot of II e l and I WItlA III tile In ta not in t I lOOk got doubt that Ur lr c A inA III u f 1 he 11 Ily dl dIcov ov lIlb Pole flolo III the Ut upon I from cc KUI t or III Berlin end and Bom iii 0 Di eUr that thu when w P i I III 1 en I ili I li b Ibi ibi be atu rV y l n hut hit L III U o 1 ph ii lii hi claims i toll 1411 4 I l that si to fr run n r DI Jj I thy they t tan Ian n easily I 1 kt hi h hI i and fleura n oil n ted d the pole M P Ok Wile o titS the uh ht r bi i ium II I wn the um 1 Me bce tt ail not t tK r 1 u r II t ta Ii vea that eli h K I J e Yok sk all COd star lur Ir ur eh e 1 r l m huband Unit m r ru JI II ae to hr her from t Ill ho I 1 hud bad been successful lIue and was ai al well was Wa forwarded by 1 mall ye so eO that probably her first nut news new of hH hIli hi great victor victorr xv ui il reach raeh her through the then n today todDY HOW EXPEDITION The discovery of tho north pole by Dr look Cook nok was the termination of or a U ayo yo voyage Airo which h started ns 01 a a 1 n trip On July 3 IM 1007 Dr Cook was the gue guest t of or John It K Bradley on board boud hU hie hI yacht acht the John H n Bradley which loft lott Gloucester Mass Macs to go o on a 1 fishing trip trill up II tho the coast couto Mr Is hi a 1 New w York man of wealth Interested In sports and who has lie fol tot lowed Dr Cooks Cooka polar Olar expeditions eX Mr hOI hail Invited 1 Dr Cook to go on the fishing fi trip 1111 never Ing lug that It would end In the Brooklyn mans making tanking a II dub daub for tor tho polo pole Aboard Aboud the tho schooner were half halt a dozen Newfoundlanders who iho were thor Ihor thoroughly familiar with tho tile coast of I Lab Labrador rador and who to act Rt as all guides The Tho sailing master was WIS Capt Moses who had been beon with Command Commander er Peary on the tho when ho left for tor or tho lito north Tho Halting flailing party perty ran Into Inlo trencher treacherous ous flu weather wool her and heavy heay ice packs as ItI It proceeded along the Labrador coa coast t Then the gasoline engines got out of order and amid the vessel venxel was wa Involved In difficulties Tho ship WM was at nt length headed for lor Cape Cipe York harbor but ow owing owIng ing Inc to tho the heavy he vy tee It was unable to land there and a landing Wits was mado made In North Star bay ba There ome som days were re spent Pent In hunting and Ind fishing While tho ho time was being spent In Inthis tills this way wa Dr Cool became fired with the ambition to roach the pole Ho lie spoke to Mr Ir Bradley about It and n d the tha latter declared that If it any such trip was wall to bo be made madl he h would not Join It II Dr Cook was Insistent He lie wanted the entire party parly to go with him on the tha expedition As Mr would not be one of ot the party Dr cook pook ook organ a II force of ot 1 und and with Ito Ilu dolph Francke FranckI made mado preparations for lor forthe the expedition Mr III left In August 1907 on his hili schooner to return to 10 New ow ew York leaving tho de do determined Brooklyn man and his pony party to seek the pole COOKS IDEA IDIA Dr rook Cook had lied nn entirely different Idea of lit how the trip to 10 tho the polo Itolo ought I L Ibe Llie to tobe be lie attempted from that followed by Peary and nd other explorers He tie cal calculated upon B going through straits and doing his traveling In the winter months His reason for choos chool choosing ing Ins the l of ot extreme cold col I WS we that tho the toe loa fields would bo ho smoother and that there would bo bit loss less danger of en on encountering countering the th jagged of or Ice through which travel Is III extremely dif difficult When Mr Bradley returned to New NewYork NewYork w York In October 1807 1907 he told of or Dr Drooks Cooks scheme and the tue preparation fur for the trip Dr Cook told me mo before he left Glou costor coaler that tt it would be bo a gront groat timing If we tried to reach teach the tole ole before wn we returned said Mr Ir I 1 did not give gho him bun any encouragement then but hut thinking that he might Insist on Oil making the till attempt when we reached the farthest north on our trip 1 J or 01 ordered dered dereul provisions put aboard that would furnish an Arctic expedition for tor three yearn When the vessel opel sailed therefore there torI w 1 had necessary for tor a polar expedition On our OUI trip we ISO c went ru W tRI far north as nil Etab Elah Blary former win winter ter quarters charters hero Haro we enjoyed a fine fineview view from the high hills hilt of or Smith sound Bound There rhene wu was U no great grent amount of Ice In the tho sound bound so 10 Dr Cook Ceo I the tho Ort t mate and myself took a motorboat and went Int through Smith sound Moun to 79 9 degree porth erth latitude There the furthermost settlements of the Eskimos are and we e eIlent eIlent Ilent several days among them Dr Drook Cook ook known the Eskimo language and had hail no difficulty In conversing with them He lie unit had been up there on first expedition and seIne nomo of ot the Eiki Ekl remembered him When we returned to 10 Blah l ah we brought the greater part pait of or the tho Eskimo settlement back with u us UN Once back at nt Etah Elah conditions looked so favorable for a n cinch to time the pole that Dr DI Cook could not resist the impulse Impulso We e found I vvo wo could get nil all nh the doss dOOR we t wanted I And nil all the thu natives that Dr Cook wished to have havo with him The native had hall already cached their winter inter sup supplies plies piles of ot food I 1 helped them kill wal walrus rus rUl feals east whales und anti narwhals to augment the tha The Eskimo E women were kept busy buy catching erotic arctic birds bird to make maka their winter Dr Cook concluded ltd to stay sla and make tho the daab for ter the be tb pole as at soon coon as nil feasible after aner the long dark night should b begin be to break Dr Couk Cotik about 10 M Eskimos men women and children with him hInt to a place Ilace further north of IUah and established l winter quarters With him also w was wall Rudolph Franeke who was all anxious to Null I Dr Cook ook In his hili attempt William I 1 L Cook n II brother brothel of tho Iho tim ex cx explorer x that Dr Cook will now devote his hil energies to discovering the tha south polo pole |
