THE NORTH POLE

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2614, 23 September 1909, Page 5

THE NORTH POLE

COOK ENTHUSIASTICALLY RECEIVED AT NEW YORK. United Press Association —Copyright (Received September 23, 1 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 22. Two thousand members of the Arctic Club and other public bodies, aboard excursion steamers, met Dr. Cooks steamer. Five thousand people on the pier tumultuously mobbed the explorer, whom the police rescued. Hundreds of cars and carriages followed Dr. Cook, who motored through five miles of cheering people to Brooklyn.

COMMANDER PEARY HEARTILY RECEIVED IN NOVA SCOTIA. Commander Peary had an enthusiastic reception at Sydney, Nova Scotia, where lie met bis wife. LIFE AT LOW TEMPERATURES. “It’s not at all impossible that human life could exist at such a temperature,” said Professor Anderson Stuart, of Sydney, referring to the lowest temperature recorded by Dr. Cook on his journey to the Pole. “TE’s quite simple. Provided a man could _ keep down iieat losses by means of suitable clothing, and keep up heat production by means of suitable food, there would be no difficulty whatever. Has human life ever existed at so low a tempeiature ? That would have to be looked up. I can’t tell you now.” “Yes said Professor David, “there would be no difficulty about that. A man could live through it certainly. No, there would I>e no likelihood of his lungs being frozen by the cold_ air rushing in. under the hood you wear has time to lose a little of its cold before you breathe it hi. But it lowers the temperature of your mouth several degrees. The low body temperatures measured by Lieutenant Shackleton on his dash for the Pole were really low mouth temperatures, for the thermometer was placed in his mouth, not under the armpits. The eyes? No, there would bo no trouble with the eyes whatever. Except that you have to be very careful to pluck away small icicles which form at the ends of the upner eyelashes, or else they would unite with those on the lower lashes, and your eyes would be frozen in. Aly eyes ‘used to ache in the mornings when I got out of the sleeping bag, and they ■watered a good deal, but after a time they were all right. The moisture from the eyes forms a warm vapor, which being in front of the eyes protects them to some extent from the cold air. Of course, you have to be careful • if a spot on your neck becomes exposed, it will be frostbitten into something like a boil. But the eyes give no trouble.”