| Show ORe COm SAYS THERE WAS NO lifE r ON LAND LAN BEYOND 85 DEGREES I New Y York lIk Sept b by n a men and women as he en cu ereL the banquet hail on the arm of oC Admiral S Schley Dr Frederich A Cook told his stor story to tonight tonight night the most brilliant that he hat has addressed since he heIft jell Ift the court of Denmark The Thc ban was given gien by the Arctic club or of of which Dr Cool Cook Jo Is a memo mem her The assemblage va iran han and tic Crowded In the great rat ballroom of the Waldorf Waldor Astoria Cooks admirers a II 10 his In the form of an after dinner address Dr Cool Cook detailed many mony of his aud In I that his experience furnished I I honor enough for aliI Ho lb declared I I he wanted to divide the tho praIse with explorers of the past upon whoso whose I experiences ho had won with the tho Es EsI I Imos whoso whose customs he had adopted with victorious effect and with Dr I Bradley who had financed his exIle Ie dillon D Dr Cook said I Key to This Is 15 ono of the honors I 1 vcr ever hope to receive You most of the frigid ld of and nearly all of tho ilio Arctic S exi In America Your welcome i Is the tho explorers guarantee to tho thoi i as It does docs from fellow i workers from men mell who know and andi i have gono through the tho same i I is nn an appreciation and n a vic victory Ie i tory the highest which could fall to lo loi i the lot of returning traveller i The ke key to frigid endeavor il iu sub i i There Thero Is nothing In the en eni i tire realm or of the Arctic which Is Im i to man If the animal Ires i i are arc with adequate fuel there i i Is 18 no cold too loo severe antI no obstacle I toO great to No important expedition u has ns ever because I I oC barriers or Impossible t The Tho exhausted food supply resultIng from a limited means of transportation have e turned evory enry as front his goal In the ages o 0 othe the polar Quest much has beon tried I nud aud much has been learned rile fhe most Important lesson losson Is that thal civilized r man If lie wilt will must bend I II to tile tho savage simplicity arr I IThe I The problem belongs to modern l man for Its expectation wo we must be begin begin I gin with the food and the means of I If f transportation of wild man Even this I ho be reduced and simplified An Affair of the Stomach I I Candor compels me to sa say that the effort of getting to the pole Is not onu of PhYsical endurance nor Is It fall fair j i jI I to call It bra bravery i but a proper no n o 0 i of the needs of the stool c ach and a contributing of the limits of brute force of the tho motive motie power I I lw lie that man or beast I Ir V r Our conquest was possible I II I the accumulated lessons of earl early ages of experience The Tho failures of 0 I L our loss less successful predecessors were i stopping stones to our success The Thereal I o real of the tho pole Ole were the tho early larl Danish the Dutch the thoEn English o f and nud the Norse Italian Hallan and American explorers With these worthy fore arc 0 runners we roust must therefore share the tho good r I I put hll 0 m my basket A similar obligation Is due to the I I wild m n The Tho twin families of folk fol tile the Eskimo rind nd the IndIan were I Important factors to us The use of P and the snow shoo shoe which makei e the penetration of the Arctic I II I barely barch possible bas baa been bor borrowed borrowed rowed from the tho American Indian Indan I The Tho method of travel tho motor force and lie tho natho without which lie tho Iolar quest would bo be a hope ess task have been from froni tim tho Eskimo To savage man therefore who has haq no flag fla we arc bound to give I fi n a part of oC this fruit I l Debt to Bradley I II f I who ho To John U R man paid the bills belongs at least one on I half of oC this Ellis fruit I Iho Canadian government sent Its under Captain one 0 thousand miles out of Its course courso to toh h lp us to IL it I gladly pass the tho has bas hasIn basl l In returning shriveled skin and muscles were filled out at tho expense of Danish 1111 last but not nol tion with arms by fellow you rou and to all ail belongs this basket or of good things whIch the chair I II man has upon my shoulders I g i better than r Nothing would stilt Hult me mc to toll hll you yon the tho complete story or of our quest the very first telegram gives o more moreo specific him I 1 co hope bope In an after ad to 10 t you Jon Iress Therefore J I liall devote tho al bled lIlU to an elucidation or of zI tam phases s of our adventure I To Celebrate Victory 1 One Oneo of tile the mosi most remarkable I charges brought out is that 1 dId not notI 1 Hk I geographic to start I j i for the pole Now gentlemen to the large arge public that ma may ho be a mysterY 1 but you OU who know will appreciate hilt r no explorer can start antI and sa say that 11 be will reach the tho POlO pole Inn Good Goodmen men Ilave hac before an and all ha have yo All who vho the lem know that Is but hardy ell cir I pO 11 every Conceivable Is favorable It Is only esary to announce that an all ton lIn embarks for the poll pole to 10 an anun un and flourish of I trumpets This T I chose to escape Mr furnished the I shaped the tho of the expedition Ifor the time being thin the business concerned us only I believed then as aa I b believe now that I if we succeeded there thero bo lime 1010 h to fly fIr e banner of vic victory Ie tory You are acre nere tonight Mr Ir Bradlo Is hero and I am here W We have come together to celebrate that hat victory I About the Pole r Now gentlemen about the pole polee We e arrived there April 21 HIOS We Vo discovered new land along the meridIan bot the SIth antI parallel Beyond this there was ab no life fe and no land Jand The Ice as In large hea fields with few fow pressure Hues The Tho drift drUt was south of east the wind was south of west Clear weather gave good regular ob nearly every day Those These combined with hoso fit at atthe the polo pole on the and of oC April are arc sufficient to guarantee our claim Whon rhon talton In connection with the general record you oU do not require this I 1 cnn can see that but tills this and all other oilier records record will come to In the tho due hlo course or of events |
