Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
COOKS VESSEL
NEAR GOTHAM
EXPLORER DUE TO ARRIVE
THIS MORNING
NEW YORK PLANS OVATION FOR
HoME-coM
Pole Finder viii Reach Destination at
o'clock A. M, and Be Accorded
Tremendous Welcome by
Big Crowd
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had received assurances last night that
the steamer would be delayed so as not
to interfere with their plans, and a
wireless message from DR.. Cook HIM
self at 1880 a. m. declared that he
would meet them at $3.50 tomorrow
morning, telephones and wireless ap-
paratus We're at once put into opera
tion to make certain that there might
be no change in the original arrange
ments.
The local officers of the Scandir1-
vian-American line notified he cap
tain of the Oscar II that he should NOT
attempt to dock today, and he replied
by wireless that he would anchor off
Sandy Hook and spend the night there,
starting up the harbor at daylight
Nearly 1000 tickets have been sold
for the steamer Grand Republic, on
which the committee from the Arctic
club will go down the bay tomorrow
Slightly in advance of the steamer will
go a tug bearing Mrs. Cook and her
children and the explorer two brothers
and two or three members of the com
mittee.
To Go Aboard Tug
The plan is to take DIR. Cook from
the liner aboard this tug, thus en-
abling him to spend the first few min
utes following his arrival at quarantine
with his FAMILY.
Then the tug will go alongside the
Grand Republic and the explorer will
be taken on board for the last stage
of the trip to American soil.
The neighbors of Dr.. Cook in Brook
/ lyn were equally concerned when they
/ heard that there was danger of his
arrival ahead of schedule time. At the
Bushwick club they had planned a.
rousing reception.
| After triumphal procession through
the streets of Brooklyn the explorer
will reach the club house, where there
will be a reception and a luncheon.
Interest In Find
Intense interest is manifested here
] in the finding of Gen. Greely's old
7 headquarters at Fort Conger by Prof.
Donald B. Mcmillan, a member of
| Pearys expedition. Many of the
stories of that tragic Greedy expedition
which Mortified the world were recalled
bv the relics found by Prof. Mcmillan.
| Gen. Greedy and his party had estab-
| lished their headquarters at Fort Con-
ger, and in the fall of 1881 and in the
| spring following they made their I'M
usual dash for the pole. Returning TO
Fort Conger they expected their ship,
the Proteus, to come for them the next
| spring.
| There they waited until 1888, not
knowing that the Proteus had been
shut in in the ice trying to reach them.
| Realizing that starvation awaited them
there the party started on its trek
southwark in which seventeen of them
! starved to death.
! The personal papers of Gen. Greely
and nembers of his party and the
relics found by Prof. Mcmillan in the
abandoned hut at Fort Conger are
destined to become some of the most
| interesting cargo brought back to
civilization by the Roosevelt.
/ Matters in the north pole controversy
are expected to reach a. crisis this
week. At about the same time that
DR.. Frederick A. Cook arrives in New
York tomorrow, Commander Peary is
expected at Sydney n. S.
After a formal reception there, Com
mander Peary will proceed to Port
land where he will be honored again,
and then he will come to New York,
reaching this city possibly Friday.
In a wireless from Battle Harbor,
Labrador, Peary is quoted as saying
that he would wait until DR. Cook had
submitted data and proofs Of his claim
to having reached the north pole on
April q, 1908, to a competent geograph-
ical body before he himself submits
the proofs which he not only contends
shows that he reached the pole on
April 6, 1909, but that DR.. Cook did not
go to the north pole.
DR. Cook declares that he. had all of
his data with him and 1t is in shape
to properly present as soon as he
reaches this city.
The testimony OF Harry Whitney,
which is being anxiously awaited, is
considered of prime importance in the
controversy. Even Peary's supporters
now believe that he largely based his
announcement of Cook on the fact that
Whitney had failed to tell him at Etah
that DR.. Cook had reached the pole.
Dr. Cook declares that he exacted a
pledge from Whitney not to reveal that
fact to Peary or any member of his
party.
Partial substantiation of Dr. Cook 9
statement comes in an Associated
Press wireless message from Battle
Harbor that Peary's cabin boy, who
heard DR.. Cooks narrative of finding
the north pole, was also placed under
pledge not TO reveal the fact TO Peary
Whitney is now believed to be hunt
ing In the vicinity of Bafin's bay, but
may be expected at a cable or tele-
graph point any day.
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