Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-22
COOK WILL
PROVE Ills
ASSERTION
Explorer Says Statements
Made Are True
ASSERTS He COMES FROM THE
NORTH WITH WITNESSES
DOCTOR WILL ALLOW PUBLIC TO
GIVE VERDICT
Arctic Navigator Given Ovation When
He Arrives In New York, Where
He Meets Wife and
Children
DOCTOR WILL ALLOW PUBLIC TO
GIVE VERDICT
IBy Associated Press.l

NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-"I have
come from the pole. I have brought
my story and my data with me.
have not come home to enter into ar
guments with one man or many men,
but 1 am here to present clear record
of piece Of work over which l have
right to display certain amount OF
pride.
1T am perfectly willing to abide by
the final verdict on this record of
competent judges. That must be the
last word, and that alone can satisfy
me and the public
Furthermore, not only will my re-
port be before you in black and white,
but I will also bring to America hui
man witnesses to prove that nave
been to the pole"
Such is the substance of the first
message DR.. Cook brought home In
person today, answering the critics the
world over
Throughout an uneasy night fleet
| of tugboats, outposts Of a continental
curiosity, had tossed in the darkness
| for a glimpse of the Oscar IL. AT D
o'clock this morning the explorer was
on deck. The Oscar IL had purposely
been held back so as not to disar-
range the reception plans of the Arctic
Club of American, but she nosed her
way into quarantine at an hour TOO
early for everybody but DR.. Cook
Anxious Wait at Quarantine
There was an anxious wait at quar-
antine while the tugs bobbed nervous
lv about. the newspaper men on board
them shouting broken queries through
megaphones at the black sides OF the
oscar II high above them.
DIR. Cook lowered signed statement
in a nail to the Associated Press. Soon
afterWard came the tug bearing MIS-
I -, 4x4yn 1nJ oh
DR.. Cook clambored nimbly down the
ladder and made a rush for his wire.
For the moment he even missed the
| children. who stood few feet away,
until his wife silently led him to them.
Then. as he lifted his youngest daugh-
ter to his shoulder the crowd that ililed
the rails of the Oscar II cheered loud
| ly. z..,..,,,,
steamer Grand Republic, carrying Dr.
| Cooks friends and John H. Braqley'
his hacker, should keep far enough IN
the background to give him a rev mo
ments of privacy with his family. But
soon there followed a second transfer
from the tug to the Grand Republic.
As DR.. Cook set foot aboard, MISS
Ida Iohman, daughter of an old Brook-
| lvn friend. threw a wreath or roses
| about his neck, greeted him as nero,
| and proclaimed him gentleman OF
| Bushwick" Bushwick Is the name OF
| DIR. Cooks home section of Brooklyn
Displays No Enthusiasm
DR.. Cook looked at it. Brown, pa
tient, taciturn, he endures the ousl-
ness of being a hero with courtesy, put
no enthusiasm. IL. -, Dr
Cook ?" Mr.. Bradley was asked.
"Why, of course; what do you
| think ?" he answered.
Mrs. Cook, at her husbands elbow,
had her first taste Of publicity she
hitherto has stunned, and took II pIa-
| cidly.
On shore, the really formidable part
| of the day for DIR. Cook awaited nm.
| After the first rush of welcome aboard
the Grand Republic, he had been able
| TO find comparative seclusion in the
1 nilot house From that vantage point
| he could see the streets of BROOKLYN
black with thousands, long files of au-
tomobiles ready, and he knew that
reception had been planned Tor nun
this afternoon at the BushWick cluo
| and that an ordeal awaited him.
AS he stepped ashore it was notice.
| able no representative of the nation,
the state. or the city was there TO
greet him Bird S. Coler, president OF
the borough of Brooklyn, had well
coined him on the Grand Republic for
ficial representative. But sincere ana
enthusiastic to the point of tumultu-
BUSINESS, his welcome may be best de-
scribed as a neighborly affair, devoid
of official significance.
Ovation Is Riotous
Brooklyn's reception to DR.. Cook had
all the elements of a riot except Vio-
lence. From the moment the Grand
Republic warped up to her landing
and the explorer, f1anked by the
Imilitiamen and police, fought his way
into an automobile until he left the
Bushwick club tonight for the Wal
dorf Astoria in New York, the surging
crowds taxed the capacity of the
police and nearly got out of control.
Through nearly five miles of avenues
through which the explorer passed
mounted police were continually fight
ing a way for DR.. Cooks car when
they were not stemming the massed
thousands who seemed to have only one
i obiect--to break loose and embrace DR..
Cook. Around the Bushwick club the
police had kept the main roadway
clear. but the adjoining street was
choked long before the head of the
reception arrived. A group of Cook S
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