The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-09-18
SPRINGS SENSATIONAL STORY
Friend Of Explorer Cook Accuses
Peary Of Taking Possession Of His
Rivals Arctic Retreat.

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tromble with Commander Peary over
supplies. The letter was written by
DIR. Norman Hansen, prominent
Danish physician, who several times
visited Greenland to study eye dis
eases.
DR.. Cook told practically the same
story to one of his closest American
friends just week ago, before Com
mander Pearry reappeared on the
scene, but said he did not intend to
make 1t public because 1t might lead
to unpleasantness.
DR.. Hansen was with DR.. Cook for
some time in Greenland and returned
with him on the Danish steamer Hans
Egede.
Now that DR.. Cook has gone" he
writes, 81 am no longer under an obi
cations to keep silent, and will eXer-
else my right to publish the story
about the house in Annatook, story
which DR.. Cook himself had too much
delicacy to relate to the world, |
write it from memory, as DR.. Cook
told 1t to me, and | am fully con-
WINGED that in no detail are my recol
lections wrong.
Or Cook had built his house for
stores In Annatook, north of Etah,
and 1t was this depot which he started
to reach in February, 1909. crossing
Smith sound. 1t was pretty large
house, the walls being built of heavily
filed provision boxes so that DR.. Cook
knew that when this important point
was reached everything was safe. He
had, before the start, given permits
sion to a young friend named Whit
ney to use the house while hunting
musk oxen for sport in the winter Of
190S-1909.
when Dr. Cook and his two Eski-
mos, exhausted and half starved, came
within short distance of the house
in Annatook, young Whitney came out
to bid him welcome, but inside the
house was a stranger, a giant New
foundland boatswain, on watch. This
man had been placed in DR.. Cooks
house by Peary, when the latter passed
Etah with his ship bound north.
Peary had given the boatswain a writ
ten order which commenced with the
following words:
""This house belongs to DR.. Fred
erick A. Cook, but DR.. Cook is long
ago dead and there is no use to search
after him. Therefore, l, Commander
Robert e. Peary, install my boatswain
in this deserted house.
This paper, the boatswain, who
could neither read nor write, exhibited
to DR.. Cook and the latter took a
copy.
This copy, however, he does not in
tend to publish IL Peary's course does
not force him to do so. DR.. Cook gave
me a lively account of how the young
millionaire Whitney during the whole
winter was treated like a dog by the
boatswain and how he had witnessed
the sailor bartering DR.. Cooks pro-
visions for fox and bear skins for him
self. DR.. Cook also had to put a good
face on the unpleasant situation. He
had to beg to get into his own house
and had to make compromise with
the boatswain.
DIR. Cook made present OF the
house with all It's contents to his two
faithful Eskimos, with the provision
that Whitney was to have the use of
the house as long as his hunting trip
lasted, but he was compelled to let the
boatswain continue his watch. The
boatswain, however, received strict
orders not to exchange any more OF
the provisions or guns.
ITO Mr.. Whitney Dr. Cook gave his
instructions and his observations, as
he thought these precious things were
safer there than on the long sledge
trip in the spring, across Melville bay
but all his notebooks and soiled record
books, which have been so closely
written upon, he kept and carried
with him
ITO me, who understand only very
little astronomy, the record written
down so closely and In all directions
were very hard to read, but what is
the record to us? The two men,
Peary and Cook. there character, theiI
conduct, that Is what interests us
and every little item throwing a side
light upon their natures is valuable