"An Eskimo just in from a journey of nearly 400 miles appeared at Etah, a bleak native settlement far up on the west coast of Greenland, on May 7 of last year, bearing a letter. The message was written by Dr. Frederick A. Cook of Brooklyn. It was dated March 17, 1908. It came from the Arctic Ocean and contained the news that Dr. Cook was on his way to the North Pole."
"A blizzard - heavy snows accompanied by gale-force winds - will lash the city this afternoon and continue until Sunday morning, the Weather Bureau warned today. The forecast came as the entire nation east of the Rocky Mountains was in the grip of the most severe cold wave of the Winter, with the death toll attributed to the cold placed at 104."
An Eskimo arrived at Etah bearing a letter dated March 17, 1908, from Dr. Frederick A. Cook declaring he was on his way to the North Pole. The letter located Cook forty miles from land on the polar ice pack, nearly due north of Cape Thomas Hubbard near the large island west of Greenland divided into Ellesmere, Grinnell, Great and King Oscar Lands. Dillon Wallace planned a summer expedition to find Cook. Mayor James J. Walker accepted the honorary chairmanship of the New York Sesquicentennial Committee with Owen D. Young and George Gordon Battle named to lead official participation. A blizzard with gale-force winds and a nationwide severe cold wave produced 104 deaths and record low temperatures.
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