Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-24
CASE IN HAND
Data to Controvert Cook
Given to Gen. Hubbard.
MAY BE OUT WEDNESDAY
Tribute of Names Towns Reaches
Climax at Portland.
BANQUET GIVEN EXPLORER
Governor, Mayor and Others Praise
His Perseverance in Polar
Quests.
BANQUET GIVEN EXPLORER

way to this city and HUBBARD gong pdch
to Bar Harbor from Bangor.
i After the conference was over Mr.
/ Peary announced that he had turned over
! to Gen. Hubbard papers of extreme I'M
portance, and that the general was tax.
ing them with him to Bar Harbor.
| The explorer added that the president
| of the Peary Arctic Club would make a
| careful study of the documents, and that
in all probability there would be an early
meeting between himself and Hubbard
either in Portland or in Bar Harbor
When asked to approximate the time
when this would be, Commander Peary
said that it would probably be Tuesday
or Wednesday of next week.
| While Commander Pcary would not dis
! close the nature of the documents or talk
| about their contents, it is known that
| these contain the evidence by which the
! explorer expects to convince not only the
scientific bodies of the world, bat the en-
| tire lay public, of the validity of his claim
to being the first to reach the POLE and,
| as a corollary the only one to nave
reached it. Meanwhile he maintains an
austere silence regarding DR.. Cook and
steadily refuses to be drawn into any
discussion in which the latters claim to
polar honors figures in any way.
Trip Triumphal PROGRESSION.
| From VancebYrg, on the north edge of
the state of Maine. through to Portland.
where he arrived last night. his journey
was distinctly a triumphal procession.
| All of Portland and apparently almost
all of the residents of it's suburban dis
tricts were there. There was military
escort consisting of four companies of
the Maine National Guard and one COM
pany of the naval militia; there were
plenty of rockets and red lights, flags on
all sides, and cheering without end. And
to cap all was the big banquet last night
Bangor was reached at 1:15 O'Clock
yesterday. Here a reception and lunch
con for Peary and his party had been
planned. He had been notified by tele-
graph of the intentions of the city and
had accepted the invitation to attend
the lunch.
Peary was met at the Maine Central
| railroad station by special city coun-
Gil committee. consisting of Mayor Wood
man. Aldermen Webster and Savage,
| President Hall of the common council
and Councilmen Fahey, Hinckley and
| Morrison. He was escorted to the Ban
| gor House. where the informal luncheon
| was served. Mrs. Peary, with her daugh-
ter Marie and her son, Robert E, jr.,
| were driven, to Mayor Woodmans resi-
dence. on Pine street. where Mrs. Wood
man acted as hostess.
| After the luncheon the party gathered
| OH Tic pOTllCO III lTOuI Oh the bangor
| House. and Mayor Woodman, on behalf
| of the city, presented Commander Peary
| with a handsome silver loving cup. Fol-
lowing the presentation, Peary held a re-
| ception in the parlOrs of the Bangor
| House.
The loving cup is a splendid piece of
| workmanship. 1t is engraved as follows:
| ITO Commander Robert Edwin Peary,
| L. s. N. In recognition Of his remark
able achievement in placing the flag of
| no fa6 Sfaf of thn n-fl ~ ,,;l
6, 1909. Presented September %, 1909,
by the City of Bangor, Me-"
Gov. Fernald Praises Peary.
At the banquet in Portland last night
the principal speech was made by Gov
Fernald. executive of the state, who said
| in part:
Il am happy to add my few words to
those already said in behalf of this proud
and happy people, eager to do honor to
| this gallant man. There is not a town
or city in Maine that does not envy
Portland this privilege. Had but the
permission been given, this welcome
| would have been state wide, and have
been Of such significance that all the
| world would have been compelled to sit
| up and take notice.
There is saying that the prophet is
never without honor save in his own
| country. We would have reversed that
uiCluiH diu WOuIu nave SDelieQ Honor TO
! Peary' in letters so big that they could
| have been seen above the top of old
Mount katahdin and have been imprinted
on the next aurora borealis arching the
skies above the north pole that Peary has
certainly brought home.
THE whole of Maine cannot get into
| this dining hall this evening. and you
| made this, in large measure, a home
| greeting-the welcome of the neighbors,
! the townsmen, the school and college men
| and the most intimately acquainted.
| 1T is for me to say that outside your
doors clamor 100000 of the best people on
earth, eager to get in here. and join with
| you in a fitting tribute to one of the
greatest Of human achievements, and to
testify to the nobility of the man who
has given his life over and over again in
| a cause that ranks with those of Living
ston and Humboldt and who stands in
| the forefront of that glorious band of in
trepid explorers who have opened I'D con-
tinents or have advanced the frontiers of
civilization or knowledge. Great deeds
are imperishable. A great life or good
example never dies.
Peary's Long Preparation.
'Peary's triumph was not casual adj
venture. His was not merely a dash for
the pole. but a campaign of long -contin-
ued preparation and hardship. For TWEEN
ty years. and l do not know but for more
than twenty years. he has been the type
and the example of the American explorer
In the farthest nOrth-the greatest of all
that list of heroes of whom so many,
alas! have been claimed to the last drop
of blood by the merciless frozen north.
Faithful and fearless he has seen the
END from the beginning, confident of ulti-
mate success with each expedition in
which he approached the goal Science
has benefited by him. He has been an
example and an inspiration to the world
| he has stood for American initiative and
| incentive. He has stood for honor and
| probity so that no man should doubt his
| slightest word
| Here tonight, my friends, in these
words. l forget and ignore all contro-
versial issues. We discuss. or rather T
discuss. no moot points. We are here to-
night to say, Welcome home to saw
| that we are proud of the citizenship of
| this man in Maine, to say that by his life
and effort he has endowed this state with
a new jewel to set in the crown that en-
| circles her brow, to insist that his
| achievement belongs, in a measure, to us
as it belongs to the ages, as product
| of our home life and Of our educational
| forces in school and college. and to de-
clare that his success in conquering the
last barrier of the north polar land and
belief, had never been done before, en-
mobiles us as it ennobles him.
Judge Reyonlds' Tribute
The POSTMASTER at the banquet was
Judge Edward c. Reynolds of South Port
Land, lifelong friend of the commander
President of Bowdoin Speaks.
William he Witt HYDE. president Of