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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1909
Page
4
In Dr. Cook's expedition narrative, amber goggles made from recovered glass protect eyes from glare and provide improved vision on crevassed ice. The team endures a gale, builds a reinforced igloo, and rescues dogs after the storm as ice cracks and temperatures plunge to 48 below. The tale continues in Wednesday's Post.
Over 1000 Boston & Maine workers gathered at Faneuil Hall to hear P. H. Morrissey and Charles Lee plead for unity among railroad employees against what they called unjust regulation and hostile influences. They supported merger plans to boost freight and passenger facilities and praised fair treatment by the Boston & Maine.
The party notes a broad troublesome ice lead along the polar coastline hindering sled travel and anticipates a belt of new ice around the mid region. After 11 hours they log 23 miles with a zigzag route, observe land-like mists near Crocker Land, and record March 24 coordinates at latitude 83 31 and longitude 96 27 while spotting a seal blow hole and bear track as the sea yields algae near the big lead.
In Bloomington Illinois on September 26 water melons grown by bottle feeding have yielded exceptionally large and sweet fruit. Growers cutting back a runner then inserting the vine end into a sugar sweetened water bottle report 80 pound melons and other sizable specimens from Carroll county trials.
A condensed recap of Dr. Frederick A. Cook’s serialized account in the Post detailing his Gloucester to polar voyage on the Bradley. It follows the first six instalments from Greenland visits to Etah and Annatook, the narwhal hunt, Arctic night approach, and the initial progress toward the pole with two Eskimo companions.
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