Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-28
Brass Beds.

travelling. Mine were built after patterns
drawn by the makers after suggestions
given by me.
"A significant fact is that DR.. Cook says
he used a glass artificial horizon and car
ried 1t out through his trip to the pole.
the toughest kind of treatment 1t can go
through. l have used vial receptacle
to carry the mercury: this makes break
age impossible, and then the fluid can be
heated easily
Peary was then asked what was his re-
lation with Mr.. Whitney at the time the
Roosevelt arrived at Etah August Il.
when he went aboard and at the time it II
reported quarrel occurred.
No Quarrel With Whitney.
''Mr. Whitney had been my guest at
Etah for more than year." said Mr..
Peary. He made his headquarters at
my tent and subsisted off my provisions.
Our relations were those Of one gentle
man toward another"
did you ever have any quarrels with
Mr.. Whitney,"
Our relations were those of one gen.
tleman to another" repeated Mr.. Peary
with emphasis.
when Mr. Whitney came aboard he
continued, I'VE extended every courtesy
to him. He shared the captains cabin.
He had about despaired of the arrival
of his relief ship. He had expected it
now about seventeen days overdue, and
there seemed no prospect of his getting
back that summer. Therefore he asked
to come aboard of the Roosevelt. Of
course"
Did you have any idea Of the nature
of Cooks property in his trunk wnen
you requested Whitney to put it ashore
at Etah and cache it?"
had been north Of my best record at
SI.S. but that is all He never men-
toned flags or instruments. nor did I
see them when he unpacked them from
his trunk and put the articles In cache
at Etah, as l suggested.
IF Whitney knew the immense value
of those things to DR.. Cook. why did he
not go back on the jeanne for them. Why
did DR.. Cook leave them with a stranger
and why did he not take them when lie
went south, as their weight was almost
nothng?'
Did Not Know About Flag.
You have stated that you knew Cook
had attempted to get to the pole before
you arrived at Etah on the return trip
of the Roosevelt. Under those circum-
stances did you not question Whitney
and did you not surmise what the arti
cles i'm Whitney's charge really were?"
Il assure you that / did not know
that the American flag was among the
articles"
did you know that Whitney had any
Of DR.. Cooks in his pos
session."
Whitney told me that he had some
instruments of DR.. Cooks, but did not
state their character. l did not infer
from what he said that they were other
than ordinary Instruments, cOmpasSeS,
etc. that man ordinarily takes when
hunting in the north l could not con-
ceive of a man intrusting instruments
or proof Of having reached the pole to
any one. / could not conceive of
man leaving a flag that he had carried
to some haphaZard custody.
Deary Carried Flag in Person.
Why" exclaimed Peary. 1T is be-
yond my conception that a man could
trust such flag or. such proof to his
own father mother or brother / car
ried my flag wrapped around my shout
ders inclosed in my clothing all the
way from the pole to Battle Harbor.
MY papers also were sewed into my
inside pockets and also my records. My
and photographs were
carefully wrapped and placed in -
sleeping bag l slept over
them every night until We got south.
and in the daytime they were on the
quarter deck
Il kept them there in case We got
crushed in the ice. when 1t could have
been thrown overheard. If 1t struca'
on the ice it would not have been
broken If it went into the water 1t
would float and could be picked up
later.
Think Of it, man takes our flat'
to the pole. he says-and then when he
gees back to Etah he gives 1t over to a
nerfect stranger, with his instruments
and his records. Can you imagine such
a thing?
Questions Whitney's Acts.
why didn't Whitney go back to Etah
In the Jeanne after leaving the Roose-
Welt at North Start bay if he was 50
deeply perturbed over the records in
struments and the flag he says were left
there?
1T is less than 100 miles from that
point to Etal, and the Jeanie could have
made it in less than day, and theii
be right i'm the center of the bear coun-
try The Jeanne was Whitneys boat to
go when ne pleased and where he pleas
ed WHY didn't he go?
Does it look to you as if he had left
anything there of value:
THE Roosevelt met the Jeanne Au-
gust % at Sanders Island. That was
one days sail south of Etah. The
Jeanne had clear water all the way to
Etah from the easterly side of Smiths
CONTINUED on Nineteenth Pa&al