Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1909 — NORTH POLE FOUND! AN AMERICAN DID IT. [ARTICLE]

NORTH POLE FOUND! AN AMERICAN DID IT.

Dr. Frederick A. Cook, American Explorer, Said to Huve Reached Coveted Goal. Puzzle: Find the north pole. That is a stickler that has baffled the explorers of the world for the past 400 years. It is mystery no longer, according to dispatches from Copenhagen, which give full credience to a story that Frederick A. Cook, a member of the New York Explorer’s Club, has reached the coveted pivot and planted the American flag there. Dr. Cook is on his way home and the Sunday papers will probably contain long accounts of his trip. The big dailies are today filled with sketches of his trip, based on what limited information is at hand. That he suffered untold hardships is certain. Walter Wellman, the noisy steamheated office discoverer, who has talked much about what he would do, and whose last effort blew up the first day out, can now proceed with his shin toasting pastime. It is the quiet, determined men of the Nansen and Cook sort that do things, while the Wellman type that seek.the north pole with a hogshead of provisions and a barrel of lead pencils usually end up in the “yellow bus.” Hurrah for Cook! And may this marvelous feat by this great American be all that the hopes of ages have held in prospect.