Show I DREAM OF CENTURY REALIZED Copenhagen Sept dreams dream of finding tho North Pole has for con tunes lured explorers scientists and daring a Whether this dream lies hM now become a reality hy by bythe the Iho nt of Dr Frederick A Cook of Brooklyn rests thus far upon tho reports cabled from COP Copenhagen apparently th through rough an official source At the same time Dr Cook cables a l laconic message from Lerwick Shot land Islands saying flaying Successful Vell rell COpenhagen The hopes aroused are arc to some ox ex tent qualified by Dr Cooks Conks While ho he fI Ys he has been success successful ful there Is no specific mention of ofha ha having Ing reached the pole On the other hand the tho Copenhagen are apparently definite that Dr Cook reached the pol pole days das must elapse before any further confirmation Is available The Danish government steamer steam or Egede has left Lervick Shetland islands bound for Copenhagen where she Is duo next Some of the most recent or at attempts tempts to reach the North Pole are aro enumerated below helow Some Who Have Tried Walter Waller Wellman rellman an American left the island of Spitzbergen for COr the tho polo In a balloon August 15 UJO 1909 His air airship airship ship became disabled after aCter ho had traveled thirty miles and lie he was forced to return In lOG 1906 Commander Robert Roberl S Penry Peary U S N reached 87 57 degrees six minutes equivalent alent to about 03 miles mUes from the Pear Is now In the tho Polar on ox ex A relief ship was as sent OUla otuta a month ago to endeavor to pick him up p Ho started from Sydney N S I Jul July Ii 17 1908 On n Sept Sopt 3 1905 Captain Ronald Amundsen a completed the thc first voyage oage through the north northwest northwest west passage He left In Inthe inthe the Gjoa June JUM 17 1903 1003 and arrived at Herschel Island In the tho Arctic ocean In September or of In HIO 1901 Baron Toll a Russian led a polar expedition party hartY by way of SI berm berla but buL all the members perished In 1903 Erickson a Dane got as far faras faras as Saunders Islands where he was rescued In a destitute condition In Inthe Inthe the same ear car Anthony Anthon Fiala a young sailed on the ship Amed a and aud proceeded further north than the tho Dul Duke e of Abruzzi His party endured great hardships fore they were rescued The Duke of Abruzzi made his cox cx I In 1900 N Nansen and Andree In 1895 Dr DI Nansen reached reache SO SG de degrees grees 14 11 minutes on the vessel essel Fram which left luger Strait August 4 1893 I Prof Andree made his balloon trip I In 1897 He left NOTa In his balloon the Eagle hound bound fOl foi the ilie pole iOle his departure nothing I has hns been heard of him himIn himIn In 1883 Captain do de Longs In the Jeanette was lost near Hen Henrletta Henrietta rietta Islands In 1882 the thie reached 83 degrees 24 4 minutes and In 1845 Sir Franklin made mado his lul lie dla I attempt to penetrate from Lan Lancaster II caster caRlel cound to straights At a meeting of the Explorers club of If New York In October 1907 a letter I from Dr Cook dated daLed at Stab Etah Aug 26 ac this information I rind I have hae a good opportunity I Ilo to lo tr try for the tho pole and therefore will uhl I stay here for a year ear I hope to get getto I Ito to the Explorers club In Sept with the record of the pole I plan to La Laross ross cross and reach the tho thel Polar l lar sea hy 1 strait I A New Route About the same time rt L BrIdgman of Brooklyn received cd Lh this s letter from Cook ook similarly dated I I 1 have hit upon a neW nev route to tho Pol and r I will 11 stay ta It D a of Buchanan bay al and d Elles moreland nd and northward through Nansen straits over oer the Polar sea sen seems to me inc to be a vory goot route o bel bd no game to the tho end of the iho and anel here are aro na natives tives and dogs for the talk So here herC la Is for the pole Mr MI Bradley will toll you the rest reut |