Show L NORTH NORT POLE REACE BY ORo DL COOK AMERICAN j IN N DAS i NORT Word Vord Received From Froni Norway Where tile the Doctor ilas Arrived Trip VI Was as During Last Winter Vinter I Sept Cook the American explorer reached the North orth pole April 21 1908 accordIng to a telegram just received at tho colonial hero here from Norway Dt Dr Cook is IB on board tho DanIsh government steamer Hans Egede which passed Lervik at noon todi toda route for Denmark The telegram announcIng Dr Cooks was sent sont b by n a Greenland official on board the tho steamer and reads as follows We Te helve have on board the tho American traveler Dr Cook Coole Who reached the North Polo April 21 1908 Dr Cook Coo arrived at the tho Danish settlement In Greenland on onan onan an Island off oCi the west coast In May lIar of 1909 from Capo York In the north northwest west vest part of Greenland on DaMn Bay Bar The or of Cape York confirm Dr Cooks story of his jour journey nor ney I IFor For years Dr Cook has glen given hie hI I attention to Arctic explorations and andIn In was surgeon or of the tho Peary j Arctic expedition and In sur surgeon geon of the Belgian Antarctic e edl tion He has received numerous dec decorations decorations orations from the geographical so cleties or of Europe for or his research and writings In tho polar field Dr Cook started on the tho present ex cx In the tho summer or of 1907 sal sail lug from North Sydney C D B on the schooner John R It Bradley with Cap tam Moses Bradley as sailing salling master The part was reinforced with sledges dogs and ArCtiC Ar tlc equipment at 1 Etah Greenland when whence co the thos sailed Balled I 3 1908 Dr Cooks plan pian was to set aside all tradition b by making the dash to the pole during the winter months when the tho elements are arc con cent least advantageous for an ad Nothing n heard from Dr Coo the tho last eighteen months It was Dr Cooks plan to matte make his base or of or permanent camp campat at In Greenland about 20 mlles miles north of Etah This would place him about 1000 mlles miles from the tho pole He first made his way west westward ward out of the cache and across to j The Arctic club calci I lates that ho reached this position In Inthe Inthe the spring of 1908 The last news re I calved from him was dated March 17 loos when he was nei near Capt Thorn Thom Thomas Thornas as Hubbard He then reported that his health was tas excellent that he had pIcked up upa I Ia a large party of or of su superior perlor intelligence and that his pros prospects I peets for success were bright He In intended I tended to push on to the northern of Greenland and from there I his dash to the pole In the wIn wInter winter ter of 1908 He expected to return to hIs quarters at not nol later than next month I Dr Cook was born at Dc pot Sullivan county New York In i He was married In Brooklyn In to Miss Mary ary Hunt His wife has hns shared belief of the Arctic club that I her husband has bas achieved the goal ot of j the North Pole I |