The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-13
HURLS NEW FEUL
ON POLE RIVALS
CONTROVERSY


tins iet.er ne says .iiat COOK gave M
INSTRUMENTS n ous,f ~ ations 10 Whit
ney, but tiaC all his notebooks and
itcurd-Dooks, their pages closely Writ
tel, ne kept In AIS own possession and
now has nitrf MIN. Or. Hansen says
ile has seen tile r corus a.d tnal tlley
s,ie naru ior him 10 Iead, eXpiaiLiiiS
that ne knows very ldtiv aLout IN
scielcc OF astronomy, AID tien ne
auus But what rs tie record ~ us!
Ahe two men, Pealy and Cook, their
character, their %coriuuct, that Is wa.
illteiests us afid every little lea
throwing a sideiight ON their na.uIes
is valuable"
t'roln battiei : Harbor, Labrador,
comes woru from cary tha he mas
no knowledge OF Cook having givei.
Whitney any records and that there
are no records made by Cook ON board
the Roosevelt. Whitney was IN the
Roosevelt and vas transferred to the
schooner Jeanne, which MAS sent TO the
t;oostvelt's relief, and met her in Wes-
tenholme sound on August %. Peary,
on his way from the pole, had picked
Whitney up at Etah. One report is
that DR.. Cook met Whitney in Etah Oh
April II and told him of his trip north.
But he did not tell him he had reached
the pole, according to this report,
merely that he had gone beyond the
mark reached by Peary in 1896" DIR.
Cook, it is said, would not tell Whit
ney just how far north he had reached.
DR.. Hansens letter makes charges
that Cooks stores were stolen. The
letter runs:
Now that DR.. Cook has gone l am
no longer under any obligation to keep
silence, and will exercise my right to
publish the story about the house in
Annatok, a story which DIR. Cook him
self had too much lelicacy to relate to
the world. l write 1t according to my
memory, in the same manner that
DR.. Cook, in Egedesniinde, told it to me,
and l am fully convinced that In no
details are my records wrong.
DIR. Cook had built his house for
store in Annotok, north of Etah, and 1t
was this depot which he started to
reach in February, 1909, crossing Smith
Sound. 1t la a pretty large house,
the walls being built of heavily filled
provisions boxes, so that DR.. Cook
knew that when this important point
was reached everything was safe. He
had. before the start, arranged with a
| young friend named Whitney that he
had the right to use the house while
hunting musk oxffen for sport in the
winter of 190S-09.
when DR.. Cook and his two E k
mos4exhausted and half-starved, came
within a shots distance of the house In
Annotok, young Whitney came ouc q
bid him welcome, but inside the nous
was a stranger, a giant "Newfoundland
boatswain, on watch. This mar had
been placed in DR.. Cooks house by
Peary when the latter passed Etah
with his ship, bound north.
"Peary had given the boatswain q
written order, which began with the
following words: This house belong
to DR.. Frederick A. Cook, but DR.. Coos
is long ago dead, and there is no Is
to search after him. Therefore, l, Com
mander Robert e. Peary, install my
boatswain in this deserted house.
'pT!lis paper the boatswain, who coulo
neither read nor write, exhibited to DR.
Cook, n the latter took a copy o
this wonderful document. This copy
however, he does not intend to publisf
IL Peary's course does not force him tt
DO SO. DR.. Cook gave me a lively ac'
count of o the young millionaire, Mr.
Whitney, during the whole winter wal
treated like a dog by the giant boat
swain, and how he had calmly wit
messed the sailor bartering DIR. Cooks
provisions for fox and bear skins TO
| imself. DR.. Cook also had to put
good face on the unpleasant situation
He had to beg to get into his own
house, and make a compromise with tn
boatswain with strong fists.
DIR. Cook made a present of tn
house, with all it's contents, to his tw'
faithful ~Esquiniaux, with the provis'
that Whitney was to have the use o
the house as long as his hunting tril
lasted, but he was compelled to let tn
Newfoundland boatswain o-ltinue hi
watch. The boatswain, however, re
ceived commands not to exchange an.
more of the provisions or guns"
SYDNEY, n. s., Sept. 13.-Commands
Robert E. Fcary is still at Battle Har
bo.', Labrador, and his family here ar
eagerly awaiting word of his dpear
turo on tho Roosevelt for sydney.
Mrs. Peary yesterday received a wire
less message from her husband sayinI
that he would keep her posted, an
from this brief word 1t is assumed tina
commander Peary has not deinitel
fixed the time of his sailing from Bat
tie Horhcr. Further Information froi
Battle Harbor is looked for today, blu
the Roosevelt is not expected here. be
fore the latter part of this week.
Plans are being made to have Secre
tary Bridgman. of the Peary Arcti
Club. and the correspondents to NEE
the Roosevelt in the vicinity of ST
Paurs Island and take Peary aboar'
, the steamer Tyrian. which the govern
.ment has turned over to the newspape
men. The Tyrian Is muct faster thai
the Roosevelt and would expedlt
: Peary's arrival here and at the sar,
time give the correspondents ansoppor
tunity to question him about his po'a
dash and also his controversy with Dl
Cook.