New-York tribune., 1909-10-15

direction Of DR.. Cock. also cHanFeo the dates
during this time under his direction The fig
ures 1900 on She date Of September II were
changed by me at the dictation OF Dr. Cook
on September IL Or. Cook directed me 10 stop
keeping my diary and leave the pages therein
blank 7 cannot now remember the exact dates
or figures which had in my diary before was
so directed to change them, but know the ele-
walton under what now appears as september IL
WAS not to exceed 1000, and think il Was S,OOO
We quit any further attempt toward ascend
ing the mountain upon September 10: and re,
turned TO the boat. gasOene launch named
Bolshoy. which lay in the water at the 1907 OF
the glacier We reached the launch on Septem-
her I9 having travelled twenty-siN miles or
more on the top or the glacier from the place we
quit climbing on September Is
on September IS. when at our first camp re-
turning from the glacier. dOctored and changed
Tlle entries therein from and including Septem-
her 3 down 10 and including September -.
These changes were made under the orders or
pr. Cook.
Barrin then tells Of again altering his diary
on the 18th st Dr. Cooks dictation. On the
18th. the guide says. Dr. Cook had ordered him
h stop making entries and had remarked that
the same conditions existed then did exist
at the top Of Mou.t MIIinley"
PHOToGRAPHING THE TOP"
The statement continues:
AT this time we had been To the top Of the
point claimed by the doctor The top of the
mountain. and the doctor had taken a photo
graph of the point with standing the top
thereof. with the American flag in my hand
/
posite page 227 " the doctors book, entitled
TO the Top OF the Continent" before men
noneo- MY pest recollectlons OF thls are as
follows; DR.. Cook and went 10 the top Of this
point together. and he said. We viii go back
down and get picture Of this" We did not
take our bags with TO the top Of the point.
having left them down in the saddle above the
glacier. We then both went down from the point
10 where our bags had been left. The doctor
took the American flag out OF one of the bags
and handed IL 10 me. and sent ne back 10 the
top OF the point ard told me 10 hold II there on
the end OF the ice axe, which did
The doctor then with his camera took the
picture shown The Summit Of Mount Nc
Kinley" in his work ITO the Top OF the Cont.
nent" the truth being that the summit OF
Mount Mckinley was over twenty miles distant
in an air line from the point where my picture
was so taken. according 10 the scale on DR.
Cooks map. I then came down with the flag
10 where DIR. Cook was standing with his cam
era and made the remark that the eight peaks
the other side Of this point where had been
photographed would probably show in the pict-
ure. and he said that he had taken the picture
st such an angle that those peaks would not
show.
These peaks Barril says he sketched in his
diary He goes on:
when we were i'm the saddle near the point
where I was photographed l made a drawing of
what ] named Glacier Point AT the same
time and point I made a drawing Of Mount Nc
--kinley. as ] could see the top OF Mount NC
Kinley off TO the northwest. and. I should say.
al least twenty miles away rms oIaMlns "i -.
Glacier Point and Mount Mckinley Is shown IN
my diary, on the fourth and fifth pages OF the
Sketches therein, and represents conditions AS
they appeared 10 me upon the ground. DT. Cook
stood by my side when / was making these
sketches using his instruments for the purpose
Sf taking teunDerarure elevations and the like.
I've remained in the saddle after / was photo
graphed on the point for about one-halt hour,
during which / sketched as above stated and the
doctor used his instruments.
They talked for some time Barrin says. and
either then or within four days Dr. Cook re-
marked TO him:
vo;,,t ,,o,,14 yoal,a yoo6 10Y, MOrDf
Mckinley. Il looks just about like the gunsight
peak would look on Mount Mckinley"
SEES PEAK FROM ALL SIDES.
This peak. Barrin says they had looked at
end noted while in the saddle" They left the
point where the photograph was taken. Barrin
says within half hour after the exposure. and
pushed further up the glacier, on which they
bad come. They continued on this course until
September IS, when they turned back. DR. Cook
told him, Barril says. that his object was ito
get good view OF the northeast ridge leading up
TO the summit Of Mount Mckinley. so as TO
ascertain if that ridge was connected solid with
the top of the mountain. so that it would have
an appearance similar 10 the description that he
would have TO give in his writings; as the
doctor had seen the mountain from all sides
tepting this side, and this the side where
he proposed TO claim that he had climbed H."
The affidavit says that they started on the
rreturn on September Is, the day DR. Cook sayz
that he reached the summit and the morn
7rsng Of September l9 they rejoined John Doken.
y a third member Of the party. who had been left
behind.
49, IN closing Barrill tells Of details of the return
,o journey and describes maps and other iIlustra-
tive data, including his diary. which he has sub
mitted 10 General Hubbard for subsequent pub
onaication. lie also charges that five pictures
published in '"To the Top Of the Continent" are
s-falsihed. one shows a snow house, while Barrlll
= says that no snow houses were built on the
= Journey. Others picture a den In the side Of
q steep snow slope The Eastern Cliffs of Mount
Mckinley" the point said be the summit OF
- the mountain, and several other peaks all of
20 which the guide alleges 10 be falsely labelled
" Bsrrin summarizes his charges as follows:
I with DR.. Cook continuously every dav
during the time he was attempting TO ascend
the mountain, IN the year 1906 and the nea rest
% point 10 the summit Of Mount Mckinley which
we reached at least fourteen miles distant
from the summit of that mountain. and al no
G.: time did reach elevation in excess of
1900 feet and the doctor told when we We're
81 the place where my picture was taken that
we We're not over 5000 feet high. I neglected 10
~ state that on the 10th Of September after Doken
left US, and on the evening OF September 9 DIR.
Cook asked me If / was willing TO stay with
him. said Yes" when he said: Il viii see
-- gou get 5000 extra for doing so"
DIR. COOK DES(RTRES TOP