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Original Expedition Was For Both Hunting and Exploring Purposes. Good Weather Enabled Discovery of PoIe--Wis-donv In Westerly Course The Doctor's Novel Plan of Scattering Eskimo Families Along His Route The Camp at Etah Weak Dogs as Food For Strong Ones M By JOHN R-. BRADLEY. Who Paid Cost of Cook Expedition to the North Pole. Courtesy of Recreation Magazine. Y voyage to the north to start Dr. F. A. Cook on his trip to the pole was my first experi ence in the arctic regions, though all my life I had longed to go there and get a shot at polar bear, walrus or musk ox. Dr. Cook, who had become a noted arctic explorer, and I had talked over such a trip, and the relation of his experiences in the far north had stimulated my desire to seek similar adventure. Dr. Cook orged me to accompany him, . but it was not until after my trip to Mon golia in 190G that I saw my way clear to do so. We made our plans and de cided to start early in the summer of 1907. The first step was to secure a suit able vessel. I bought a G16ucester fishing schooner of 111 tons and had fier rehtted, putting in a gasoline en cine and havincr her shpnthoH nlinno and below the water line with three Inches of the best white oak, with jt dill vVlaACt I1-Wy 11 ti .1 4. .. . 1 . her to withstand the pressure of the pack Ice. TTe rechristened her the John R. Bradley, and I engaged Cap tain Moses Bartlett, who had been first officer of the Roosevelt, "eary's arctic D"1ft ii. t v ia Li: llt-1 wim a crew oi -Newfoundland fishermen. A Boat on Buhners. "For hunting purposes I had a boat specially built which could also be dragged over the ice on runners should this become necessary. She was twenty-seven feet long and fitted with a ten horsepower gasoline engine, the Whole 'weighing less than 1,000 pounds. TTe stocked the vessel with provisions sufficient to last thirteen men for two " venTS. Before we started Dr: Cook asked me if I would not like to make a dash xor me poie. sucn a project naa .not occurred to me, and I told him I knew very little about polar exploration, but I consented to provide everything that could be needed on such a trip and to allow Dr. Cook to remain In the north " through the winter and make a dash for the pole next summer if the condi tions seemed favorable. V "Everything being ready, we sailed from Gloucester. H We touched at Bat tle Harbor, Labrador, and then crossed Davis strait to the coast of Greenland, . -which we skirted as far north as Sisco. .Just before reaching this little port our propeller had been disabled by the i ice, so we put in and beached the stiip' for repairs. These completed, we sailed : find some bears. there we had great difficulty in land ing, but 'we finally managed it, and there we left Dr. Cook, with Rudolph Francke, a strong young German; about fiftr Eskimos and 150 dogs, with pro visions and supplies enough to last for three years. Double Use For Boxes. . . Dr. Cook and I had our supplies put up in big- boxes, about three feet square, with tin inside, and the outside was wood. That is the way I had them filled, so that we could use' the wood for building the winter house and then have the stuff inside the tin in good shape. I left him plenty of coal and plenty of gasoline, etc. You see, we did not want to carry a lot of wood up there. The use of wood around the tin boxes was to save space and to build' the house. ' Dr. Cook spent the winter occupied with preparations and planned to start northwest in February over the ice of Smith sound and over Ellesmere Land in order to reach the sea at about 83 degrees north latitude. He arranged to take with him several families of Eskimos and a canvas boat. If all went well I was sure he would reach the ; pole and get back to Kennedy channel within three months. He fed the dogs on musk ox, of which there is plenty. He had Eskimos at five points in Ellesmere Land to cover his retreat, as it were, and when he made NEW ERA IN OCEAN TRAVEL! The Lusitania's Transatlantic. Record Forecasts a "Three Day Boat." The1 sensational transatlantic record of the steamship Lusitania . marks a wonderful' advance in oceanic travel. In crossing from lightship to lightship in 4 days, 11 hours and 42 minutes she opens the era of the "four day boat." Now the nautical sharps 'aire figuring just how soon a "three day boat" can be built. ' Never before has man crossed the Atlantic so quickly as did the passen gers who stepped ashore from the giant Cunarder. - They had clipped a day from the ocean barrier. They had set a new standard for speed. They had smashed all previous records for transatlantic " travel. They were the first voyagers to leave London on Sat urday and Queenstown on Sunday and arrive in New York on a Thursday. Science, skill and unlimited expend iture have been striving for a quar ter of a century for ' the prize cap tured by the Lusitania. The six day boat set the early records more than twenty-five years ago. The five day boat came along ten years later. Fri day landings in New York have been common ever since the christening days of Lucania and Campania, fifteen years ago.. '. Then began the tremendous struggle to eliminate another day. St. Paul and St. Louis of the American line clipped off a few hours. The Cunard ers got speed up to reach New York r rmay morning, xne wermans en tered the race. . Deutschland made wonderful speed and established re ords that lasted for years." Kaiser Wilhelm II. cut off more minutes. - Lusitania and Mauretanfe came out two years ago and saved more hours, but only to be forced to anehor late at night down New. York bay outside the four day goal. ' Now that it has been gained there will start afresh the race of shipbuilders and engine builders for a three day record. How About That Fall Suit Come and get a PRINCETON College Cut Suit. The latest de signs in fabrics and styles. A. K. RUSS Dealer in all Men's Furnishings We sell cheapest because we sell for cash. " CORVALLIS, OREGON Dr. VIRGINIA V. LEWEAUX, Osteopathic Physician At Corvailis Hotel Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays At Albany ' Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 15-17 Brenner Building BE SURE OF THE CLOTHING YOU BUY Don't Take Chances Choose any Suit from our stock and you are safe. You can be sure of the Style, and that every detail of workmanship is perfect GEO. W. DENMAN Attorney at Law " CORVALLIS, OREGON Office in Fischer buildhu,, over Graham "" & Wortham drug store " . his final dash tie traveled light, with only two sleds and two Eskimos. . fjx The success of his now historic trip was due largely to favorable weather. To Cape York For Dogs. We pushed into the field as far as possible and saw bears a-plenty, but could not get near enough for a shot They were on huge floes of ice, and before I could get within range they always dived into the water and got Left Eskisio Families Along Route. Dr. Cook's plan to leave groups of ' families of Eskimos at different points along his route was ' undoubtedly an- j other big aid tos his success on his ! dash to the pole ' His route lay more to the westward than : that of many; others. His object In going to the far west was to get away from the sea drift of the ice, so that the drift of Ice to the east' would not' interfere with him' on the return. .The natives" traveled to the east again to' cover his retreat when' he came back from the pole and struck land again. He figured it,would take 100 to 120 days on the ice. In his winter house he had a drying room, with 1 150 feet of stovepipe, which he wound around his room ,so that he could dry all the walrus I kill ed when I was up there, which he was to carry for his dogs. Of course they had plenty of meat and everything else for all bands for three years, -so that even If he did not get musk oxen he had plenty of other food. If he- could get musk oxen, so much the bet ter, and he could keep the other, as It keeps indefinitely. As he lightened up on his dash to the pole"' Dr. Cook abandoned one sled and killed his weak dogs to feed them to the strong ones, so that he could make fast time. Planted Two Flags at Pole'. Dr. Cook told me he would plant two flags at the pole if he reached it, one ' the American stats and stripes and the FACTS AND FIGURES OF LUSITANIA'S GREAT RACE. APPLES ! Good Clean Apples For Cooking - - , 75c per box Good Eating - $1.00 per box Packed in Tiers, L2& to $1.50 per box Fancy for Shipping, - $2.00 per box ; GRAVENSTIENSace- Now Ready GEORGE ARMSTRONG ' R. F. D. 1, - Gorv-allis, Oregon Phone 9053. ' The Daily Gazette-Times By carrier or mail,. 50c per mo. Let us send it to you Prepares young people for bookkeepers, stenographers, correspon dents and general office work. The development of the Northwest will afford openings for thousands in the next few years. Prepare now. Send for catalogue. . W. I. STALEY, Principal " . SALEM OREGON 852, - Time of voyage, 4 days 11' hours ' 2 minutes. V- Average miles per hour, 25.85.. , Full day's runs In knots, 650, :5I, 64": -'.'.. , - Distance from Daiint's Rock light shin to Ambrose Channel lightship, 2,784 miles. -. ; - Number of passengers and crew. -2,800. , . . -, . . Coat consumed, "1,050 tons per day. Cost of coal at $3.25 per ton, $3,412 per 'day. ' - , ; Total coal' consumed on voyage-, 5,000 tons; cost, $16,250. . Passengers landed and malls-delivered four days from Queenstown .for first time. . -. the Ky $tabk$ Everything new and : up to date. Rigs furnished on -short notice- Call and give us ' trial.'? Gotu. Madison and: - 3d L. F.GRAY, Manager WOMAN SAILS AIRSHIP. )Pl4 OTOG RAfH E R S We had no Eskimo dogs, so we I ther the 1Ittle green and white emblem .away. could not hunt them In the way the natives do.. This decided us to get some dogs, for which purpose we sailed for Cape York, where we knew there -was an Eskimo settlement. It took us seven days to reach Cape Tork, for we were nipped by the ice twice -.'and were obliged - to cut our -wayoht. And when we did reach there it was impossible to get ashore, as the coast was icebound and the -weather was stormy. So we kept on north until we reached ' North Star "bay, where we fired guns to attract the natives. These immediately put out to the ship, paddling the little canoes they call kayaks, and in less than an hour we had on board the, entire population of the town, con sisting of thirty-five Eskimos, men. women and children. They were a known as the Bradley arctic expedi tion flag. ' i ; - I may say that 1 had' to foregb In-' surance on my yacht during this trip, as the insurance companies told us arctic exploration was too perilous to permit of the vessel being accented as a good risk. No one, need fear illness up there in those regions, for, as every arctic traveler has testified, sanitary conditions are ideal. ' : " On the return . trip on the John B. Bradley after leaving Dr. Cook we en cojunte.red.. fierce gales and came near going down in the awful gale of Sept. 18 off Labrador, in which seventy ships were lost The John R. Bradley -had to be refitted - at North Sydney - and had to. wait for a wind to take her to Gloucester, as her engine was disabled. ' Dr; Cook couldn't wait long at the Ihealthy and evidently a weU fed lotV pole, as he had to get back off the ice. Here I enjoyed, some excellent walrus sj He -had to be gone two years from the shnottncr for three davs. From there (time he left America". He could not Mrs. S. F. Cody of London Also. Con quers the Air. Soon we shall have a, war of the sexes In the air." The inevitable wom an has invaded the field made famous by the Wright brothers, Bleriot and Cur'tiss. Mrs..: S. F. Cody of London won her husband's eo-operation when she told him she had the only prac ticable Idea aboutairships.' The Eng lish newspapers relate how the British woman sailed t without accident for seven miles at Aldershot, returned to her starting point,' took her husband along and covered three miles more. The machine cost less than $2,300 and can be made by the dozen, for $1,500 apiece. Mrs. Cody says the sensation of flying is just the thing women need for their nerves and,, while her mono plane cannot make long flights, it is just the thing for house parties in the big estates of merry England. Twen ty thousand persons saw her fly. They had faith in what she could do, as she is the successful owner of a patent for electric photography.'-' " PICKET'S STUDIO 430 : Street. Phone 4209,. . SECOND ru-LnjiruirLruinnnnnjimij- uinj-u-uxnj-Lnriirunj-i-Lrunjip mm mm u j ' - sm mm - 5 rnpuoiiin unmnonn rnimnra UUl f QUID UUDIUUDD UUUUgG A SCHOOL OF NEWEST METHODS IN BUSINESS CORVALLIS, OREGON l, i, mQnm&m3 principal Individual and class instruction. Bookkeeping, . 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Etah we obtained a fine view. over Smith sound, in which there appeared to be -very little ice. : The Most Northerly People. "Dr. Cook, the first mate and. I left "get back' any sooner. You can't go up one year and go on to the pole. You must use one year , to go up' as, far north as possible with your vessel. For instance, Peary got up with the Roosevelt a little farther north than we did and put lis vessel up for the winter. He built his sleds then and did everything "necessary for; the' time to come to make his dash. " tt is total the ship at Etah and went across r darkness all tMs time, but they do Smith sound in the motorboat. We traveled as far as the most northerly Eskimo settlements, which arevin 79 degrees north latitude,; and among these 'most -northerly 'people we'spent ; several days, Dr. "Cook- being able to : talk to the natives In their own lan guage and meeting several old friends. The greater number of. these people returned to Etah with us. They "had' .dogs enough for any purpose, so every thing was favorable for a dash t6 the jKle, ; They had, however, - already -cached their winter supply of 'food,.; so -we helped them to lay In another sup ply, killing seal, walrus, narwhals and -white, whales for them, while' their -women busied themselves in catching and curing birds and hares, with which 1 to make clothes."" We 'took' most of the natives and their dogs from Etah to 79 degrees woTtll latitude, rMch -w"e Aad decided should be" Dr!" Cook's wln - ter headquarters. JWhen we reached have beautiful Xnloonlit nights. Dr. Cook arranged to start in January, when it is. aark. The sun begins to come out every day a little tighter, and in July and August you have the mid night sun' and no darkness whatever. wasp' Taming s "'lSuinet. . 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