Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-22
COOKS REPORT READY
Will Be Sent to Copenhagen
on Thursday.
SPECIAL GUARD FOR IT
Will Be Carefully Locked in Ships
Strong Box.
MAKES ABOUT $4,000 WORDS
Explorer Will Deliver No More Lee
lures Until the Verdict of Uni
versity Is Announced.
MAKES ABOUT $4,000 WORDS

NEW YORK November 22-Under a
strong guard. the voluminous report pre-
pared by DR.. Frederick A Cook for the
University of Copenhagen. setting forth
in detail the explorers claim To having
reached the north pole, will be taken on
board of the Observation-Disclosures liner
| United States on Thanksgiving day ana
started on its way to Copenhagen
DIR. Cook is taking no chances of his
report miscarrying in any way He has
arranged for it to be placed under lock
and Key in the strong box of the steamer,
where. in the captains room, it will re-
pose until a committee from the Univer-
slty of Copenhagen boards the tessel
it can be trusted with the document.
theey can be trusted with the document.
No one on board the United States will
| have a key to the ships strong box ex-
| cept the captain, and he will be held re-
| sponsible for the safe delivery of the
report But even this precaution has
been supplemented by DR.: Cook The
| explorers secretary. Walter Lonsdale.
! vino accompanied DIR. Cook here from
Copenhagen. has taken passage on the
| United States, to make sure that the re-
| port shall be well safeguarded
Lonsdale to Remain Abroad
| Mr.. Lonsdale will not come back to
America. it is said, but will take up his
| duties as social secretary at the Ameri-
can legation in Copenhagen, which po-
sition he relnquislsed temporarily to come
| here with DIR. Cook.
1t was reported yesterday that four
strong men have been selected by Dr.
| Cook to accompany his report to the
| steamer. They will remain until they see
| the document safely under lock and key
| DR.. Cook will probably go with them on
| board the vessel and give the captain his
| final instructions.
| The voluminous report has just beer
| completed. and 1t was learned yesterday
| that it consists of $1,000 words. 1t is &
| general analysis of The explorers data
| entered in his notebooks while in the arc
| tic regions. Each point which DIR. Cool
| has emphasized during his lectures il
| this country has been taken up separately
and elaborated on at great length it /!
understood. There are also comments OF
some of the more important of the en-
tries in his original notebooks
DIR. Cook has worked on his report evel
! since he got back from Hamilton, Mont
several weeks ago. Every day and some
times far into the night he dictated to Z
part of the city.
The strain, it is said has told percepti
bly, on the explorer. The experience will
Richard Barril at Hamilton, when tn,
latter got up in meeting and faced DR.
Cook with his denial that he had accom-
panied the explorer to the top of Noun
| Mckinley, added materially to the strair
on the explorers nerves, his friends say
Expects Verdict About Christmas.
After the report is safely on its way tt
Copenhagen, DR.. Cook and his wife will
go to some quiet place in the country
there to remain until the University OF
Copenhagen makes known it's verdict or
the proofs DR.. Cook expects his repor,
to reach Copenhagen on December and
a verdict by the university some time be.
, tween December p and January l.
The explorer has told his friends that hi
will lecture no more until he learns of thu
decision by the univeI sity professors. In
stead. he will remain in retirement in tn,
country, resting and preparing for tht
campaign of lecturing in case his claim t.
having reached the pole is Endorsed.
DIR. Cook has not said what he will dc
| in the event of adverse verdict. hi:
friends say. His original data. compiled
| in fragmentary form i'm the far north
| will also be locked in the captains strong
box on the United States, for it, too, will
be turned over to the committee from tht
| University of Copenhagen Few outsid.
of DR.. Cooks most intimate friends hav,
seen these original notes and records o
observations which he says he took OF
his way to the pole and at the pole TIL,
package containing the report and the &C
complaining da ia will be under SEAL
| According to the arrangements made b,
DR.. Cook, his report will be passed on b,
| the University of Copenhagen to othe
universities and scientific societies of Eu
rope when the University of Copenhagen
completes it's investigation and renders it
| report. DR.. Cook has not announced tn,
place of retirement he has chosen. Hi
friends say it will likely be in the noun
tains, within few hours from New York