The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-13
PEARY ABLE TO
SUBSTANT|ATE
HIS STATEMENT
Will Prove That Cook Never
Reached the Pole-Will
=. Follow Cook
PEARY sW|PEO COOKS HOUSE
ANO SOLD HIS SUPPLIES
Danish Physician Who Has Been in
Greenland Gives Out Remarkable
Letter Showing Perfidy of Peary-
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Sydney, N. S., Sept. 13.-Commodor
Robert Peary was still at Battle Har-
Dor, Labrador. early today. and his
family here were eagerly awaiting
word of his departure ON the Roose-
velt for Sydney. Mrs. Peary yester-
day received a wireless message from
her husband saying that he would
keep her posted, and from this brief
word 1t was assumed that Peary had
! not definitely fixed the time of his
sailing from Battle Harbor Further
information from Battle Harbor was
looked for today, but the Roosevelt
was not expected here before the lat
ter part of this week.
Plans are being made to have Her.
bert l.. Bridgman. secretary of the
Peary Arctic club, and the correspond
ents meet the Roosevelt in the vicin-
ity of st. Paul's island and take him
aboard the steamer Tyrian, which the
government has turned over to the
newspaper men. The Tyrian is a much
faster ship than the Roosevelt and
this would expedite Commander
Peary"s arrival here and at the same
time give the correspondents an op-
portunity to question the Arctic ex-
plorer about his dash to the pole and
the Cook controversy.
That Commander Peary is prepared
to substantiate by evidence his state
ment that DR.. Frederick Cook did not
reah the pole, is stated by nearly
every one of the large colony of Arc
tic explorers, scientists and others,
who have gathered here to greet the
explorer from the north.
Commander Peary will have with
him incontestable proof to support
every statement he has made in con-
nection with DIR. Cooks trip in the
Artic," said Mr.. Bridgman last night.
'EEvery one who knows Peary real
ICES that he never makes statements
unless he can prove them absolutely.
When the proper time arrives, and
that will be when DR.. Cook has made
his statement over his own signature,
the proof will be Forthcoming. quite
agree with President Hubbard of the
Peary Arctic club that DR.. Cook might
have learned weeks ago in Greenland
of Commander Pearys discovery and
that in the interim he wove the story
of his discovery of the North Pole.
News, you know, travels fast among
the EsEkiEmos and it is quite likely
Mr.. Bridgman said he felt much
flattered that Commander Peary had
stated that he was "the only logical
candidate for the polar commission"
"The Belgium government in 1906,
Mr.. Bridgman continued, sent an in
vitation to the several nations to at
tend an international polar congress,
which met and adopted provisional
constitution for an international polar
commission. The United States gov
ernment designated me to act as its
representative at the congress and l
took my credentials from the various
geographical societies, Arctic and ex-
plorer's clubs. Two years later
definite call for meeting of the COM
mission was issued and the confer
ence was held in Brussels in May of
that year.
"The commission was designed to
develop sort of coordinate working
system of Arctic exploration which
would have prevented just the sort of
controversy that now has arisen. The
commission also planned to define the
work of the geographical and other
scientific branches of such Arctic ex-
ploration in order that the results of
each expedition might be fully deter
mined and labor economical"
Commander Peary is moving south
ward in the same precise manner that
characterized his methodical and well
calculated dash for the pole. The
Roosevelt is being overhauled and
painted at Assize's Harbor, near Bat
tie Harbor, and her commander has
ordered that every injury sustained in
her long stay in the ice cradle of Cape
Sheridan shall be removed before she
sails for this port.
This is Marie Peary's birthday. She
was born sixteen years ago in the.
Arctic region. Her middle name is
Ahnighito, which was the name of the
old Eskimo woman who made the lit
tie girl her first suit of fur clothes.
Mrs. Peary said the name Ahnighito
meant SHARP pointed mountain" Miss
Peary received many presents today
from relatives and friends.
George Borup of New Haven, father
of George Burop, the botanist on the
Peary expedition. reached here today
The Roosevelt probably will en-
counter heavy SECS in the gulf of ST.
Lawrence. as incoming shippers re-
port s:out northwest winds. They
say also that icebergs have been seen
in the straits of Belle Isle. In view
of these conditions. Commander Peary
doubtless will be delayed in his 460
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