Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-09
Coast and Geodectic Sur
vey Will Probably Un-
dertake the Task.
WORLD IN FACTIONS
Cook Sends for Eskimos to
Support StOry-Peary's
Return Slow.

Washington, Sept. e.-The coast and
aeodetic survey will undertake to ar
btrate the Peary-Cook north pole con
troversy, providing Cook requests t
should do so.
In view of the fact that Peary has
been operating under directions of the
survey IT will become the duty of tnat
institution to compute his notes with
out request from any one, and Acting
Superintendent Perkins said today It
Cook should so desire the survey
would 90 over his papers also.
WOULD BE ENTIRELY IMPARTIAL.
at is a delicate matter said DR..
Perkins, "to decide the claims in such
an important case, but our men are
scientists and would be impartial not
to say cold -bIooded in such an inVesti-
cation as it would be necessary for
them TO make in arriving at the com
parative neral claims of the two mel.
Moreover, I believe any conclusion ar
rived at by tine survey would be ac-
cepted as controlling" Or. Perkins
said he had noticed Cook had express
ed an intention of referring his claims
to the University of Copenhagen.
ADAPTED TO INQUIRY.
"He could scarcely do better" SAID
Perkins. "The Danes are a sea-farinq
people and for centuries have been en-
aaqed in arctic exploration. Their SCI
entific men would be peculiarly adapt,
ed to an inquiry of this character, and
l believe the results arrived at by the
university would be accepted as con
elusive"
Perkins expressed confidence thai
the experts of the survey would be
able to detect any false notations il
made in either report.
FIND DOCTORED REPORTS
He said the survey had been calico
upon frequently to review reports o
expeditions and on more than one oc
casion had detected the fact that they
were 'idoctored."
"We should not enter upon the Worl
rexpecting to find an intentional erro
in either report, but we would mereI.
90 after truth, and have no doubt w
should find it," he concluded.
slowly Moving Homeward.
New York, Sept. 9.-Peary is still a
Battle Harbor He is making SLOW
progress southwark toward Nortl
Sydney, Nova Scotia, from whence h
will proceed to an American port
Cook is still at Copenhagen. He is tn
center of marked attention from disn
taries of the official and scientiS
world, but with diminishing prestig
owing to the Rloud overcasting hi
glory since Peary's announcement an
his dramatic challenge of Cooks e'
pIoits. What corroborative data thcr
is on which the two explorers mus
base their positions is still Withheld
from Cook because of his determin;
ton to bide his own time in presen
ing his evidence. and from Peary b'
cause he is still beyond the range
ready communication.
Family Goes to Join Peary.
Portland. Maine, Sept, 9.-The wifi
and two children of Peary left her
today for Sydney, C. B., to meet Pear
on his way to the United States.
Member of Party Dead.
EImira. n. Y. Sept. 81. C. b
mont of Ithica last night received
message from Peary dated Battle Ha
Dor announcing the drowning of Ros
1Maryin. q member of his party. Plan
already were under way for demon
stration ON Marvin's return. His age
mother may not survive The shock.
More Honors for Cook.
Copenhagen, Sept. 9.-The degree
doctor of Heonoris Causa was confe
red upon Cook by the University {
Copenhagen this afternoon in the pre-