Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-20
0iscoverer OF North Pole viii
Reach New York About $50
Tomorrow Morning.
A DEMONSTRATION FOR HIM.
Nearly 1000 Tickets Sold for steamer
On Which Arctic club Members
VIII go to Meet Him.

New York Sept 2o-The first OF
Amcfica's two claimants OF premier
norih pole honors viii he at the gate
way Of his home port this evening. The
sc.mJlnlVian-A steamer, Oscar
H. with Or. Frederick A. COOK aboard.
is now approaching New York at half
specd and The friends of The Brooklyn
explorer are putting the finishing
touches 10 thc BIG denomination with
which they intend to show tomorrow
their faith in his assertion that he was
the first man ut the top Of the earth.
There was furry among the mem-
bcrs Of tho Arctic club and the Bush
wick club OF Brooklyn this morning.
when word came that the Oscar II was
only So mites east OF Fire Island. This
position would have enabled her TO
icach her dock hete late this afternoon
Although the reception committees
had received assurances last night thal
the steamer would be delayed 80 as nos
10 interfere with their plans and al
though a wireless message from Dr.
Cook himself AT 1880 "a. m. declared
that he would meet them az $3.50 to-
morrow morutng, telephones and Wire
less apparatus were at once put I'm OBJ
Grafton TO make certain that there
might be no change IN the original ar
rangemcnts. q.
The local ofiscc of the scandinavian
American line Notified the captain OF
the Oscar u, that he should not at
tempt TO dock today aud he replied by
wireless that he would anchor off
sandy HOOK and spend the night there.
starting up the harbor et daylight.
The United States revenue cutter viii
leave It's dock at 6,3o a. ODD. tomorrow
and meet the steamship at Quaran-
time in time to complete the examina-
I ton OF Dr COOK and leave him free
20 join his friends at that point, at
30
on account Of the large number NJ
1 persons who viii participate in the
/ first greeting 90 Or. Cook on this side
! OF the Atlantic. lt would have been
/ impossible 70 carry out any of the
/ original program bad ne landed today.
Nearly eco tickets have been sold
/ for the steamer Grand Republic. on
/ which the committee from the Arctic
club will go down the bay tomorrow
| Slightly ga advance Of the steamer
viii go tug bearing Mrs. Cook and
her children and the explorer TIVE
/ brothers. With twosur three members
l cf the committee.
The plan is TO take DR.. Cook froN
| the liner aboard this tug, thus enabling
| him to spend the FIRST few minutes
| following his arrival at Quarantine
/ with his family Then the tug will
| 80 alongside the Grand Republic and
! the explorer win be taken on board
] for the last stage of the trip to Amer
/ lean soil
Tho neighhors Of Or. Cook In Brook
/ Ign were equally concerned when they
| heard that there was danger Of his ar
| rival ahead Of schedule time AT the
| Bushwick club, a neighborhood where
| the physician used 20 go, they had
I planned a rouslng welcome.
After "A triumphal procession through
| the streets OF Brooklyn the explorer
! viii reach the club house. where there
/ viii he a reception and a luncheon.
No public events have been planned
4 for the interval between the first wei
| como and the dinner 60 be given at the
Waldorf Astoria Thursday night Mrs
Cook and her children have taken
rooms at that hotel
.. " Eskenscn chairman Of a CONF
| mittce representing az the Danish
American societies in this country. re-
ccived "a wireless message from Or
/ Cook today accepting the Invitation 10
a banquet which the joint associations
viii give here In DR.. Cooks honor. The
! date has not been fixed.