Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-05
Government OF
DENMARK GIVES
APPROVAL A !. SEAL 81: ! /.
CROWN PRINCE PREslDEs AT BIG
RECEPTION TENDERED THE n
AMERICAN.
EXPLORERS SHORT SPEECH
COOK ANSWERED QUESTIONS IN
FRANK MANNER AND WITH
DETAIL.
Says He Expected Much Skepticism
Has Been DeIuged With Offers
For Magazine Articles and Chances
to Go On the Stage viii Leave
for New York in Near Future.
EXPLORERS SHORT SPEECH
Ry Associated Press,)


Copenhagen. - DR.. Frederick A.
Cook stepped from the steamer Hans
Egede in Copenhagen harbor on the
arm of the crown prince of Denmark
at 10o'clock this morning, unques-
tionably looking like sailor before
the mast. ~ 9 ~ j.
The hours between these events
were the busiest of his life, the polar
expedition never showing anything
| half so crowded with variety and
excitement. Their we're hours of
speech making, hand shaking, bow
ing to clamoring crowds and then
after addressing the people who al
most tore him to pieces in their
eagerness to see the discoverer of
the North Pole, Cook was the re-
cipient of formal we1ocems at the
hotel where he is the governments
guesT. There he passed through the
hanas of tailors, outtitters and bar,
berS. alter he lunched with DR.!
Maurice. F. Egan, the American min
lister, being piled incessantly for an
hour with questions
He went through hundreds of tele-
grams, including congratulations
from societies of several nations. ex-
plorers and friends, offers of ex-
ploitation ranging from books to mu-
sic hall engagements, and then hur-
ride to the palace and gave the king
and other members of the royal
family long account of his adven-
ture. 4
These questions Cook answered
with best temper. frankly and fully.
Whatever may be thought of Cook
elsewhere he has impressed all who
talked with him here as a modest.
frank and able man. Danish ex-
plorers-and Denmark is the home of
Arctic pioneers first to endorse
Cooks claims to the discovery of the
pole and his methods of getting to
the goal. Their opinions were based
primarily on personal knowledge of
Cooks character and former achieve
ments.
The banquet this evening was held
in the magnificent municipal build
ing. Four hundred persons, many of
them ladies, attended, while throngs
congregated in the streets in spite of
IAS an W SClNu d S1Sul VI LAS CA
plorer when he entered.
There was preliminary reception
in the lofty entrance to the hall. The
spectacle of so many men wearing Or
ders must have impressed the explor-
er by contrast with his recent ex-
periences. The company marched up
stairs to the air of the Star Spangled
Banner. After all had been seated,
Minister of Commerce, John Hansen
escorted Cook to the chair of honor
amid demonstration which caused
him to color deeply. Minister Egan
sat at Cooks right, with the Mayor
Of Copenhagen and Miss Egan be-
yond. Mrs. Camel, wealthy Copen-
hagen lady who has contributed ex-
,ensively to Arctic explorations and
has been closely identified with it,
was at the chairman's left. The
menu was an example of enterprise
with Autographs of the Crown Prince
greeting Cook and map of the Arc
,ic circle, giving Cooks route and a
fac-simile of his telegram with the
late, which was reproduction of the
original
The speeches teemed with compli-
nents to Cook. The mayor OF Cop
'nhagen said that his name was once
more enrolled among the great ex-
'lorers. Minister Egan briefly pro-
,osed toast to the King of Den
narck as cooperating president in
proposing toast to the president of
he United States, spoke of pride that
must be felt by the nation of which
could be said that it was her son
hat planted the flag where no human
eing ever before set foot. The min
ster of commerce in proposing the
ealth.of Cook paid little warm tri-
ute to Ellis Noble Deed He
banked him fer spending q little
ime in Denmarek and said that the
riVations Of che explorer were op-