The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-28
REPUTEDDISCOVERER
Of POLE DISAPPE AIRS
Frederick A. Cook. Ii Is Said,
Has Sailed for Some Tn
known Port.
HIS BACkER. j. K. BRADLEY,
IS LEFT IN THE DARK
He May Have Sailed for Ha-
yana: He May Have Gone
Elsewhere.
,oeial to Tho Tribune.

Special To Tho Tribune.
NEW YORK. Nov 27.-Dr. Fred
crick 4. Cook, who is reported 20 be
the discovcrer of the north pole, has
disappeared. lie may have gone TO
Havana. lie may have sailed else.
whore, but, nevertheless, he has diSap-
pcarcd, and at his hotel in ErunXviile,
the Gramatan, where the Cooks have
been living, Mrs, Cook, who Is still!
there. declares that she does not know
ANYTHING about the report that her hus.
band has sailed for an unknown port.
This was the story current ia New York
this evening.
What New York Says.
Frederick a Cook dropped complete
~ from public Wow today. Not cvcn
John R. Bradley, whose money was
behind his polar expeditions, knows
where he is tonight. Coniding his
10 his wife. the explorer slipped quiet
" and mysteriously away, leaving be.
hind him a string of puzzled and eNas.
pcratcd friends, and n debate more
acrimonious than that which followed
his announcement Of September last
that he had discovered the north pole
on April 81, 1905. Charles Wake, an
one who knows the mystery of DR..
Cook Is whereabouts. And Wake is firm
in his resolve TO keep his lips sealed
until Cook himself sees fit to take the
public into his confidence.
In tho meantime, concern is cX
pressed over the condition of DR.. Cook 5
health. Although some Of his friends
maintain he has borne up well under
the continued strain of lccturing and
preparing his data, as opposed TO this
an intimate associate Of the doctor said
tonight that Cook appeared to be on
the verge of n nervous breakdown when
he conferred with him Monday night
This friend, who is "A newspaper man,
issued n statement tonight quoting Dr.
Cook as saying: off this thing keeps
up Il few months longer / viii bc in
the insane asylum ~ This is the state.
mcnt, IN part.
What Friend Says.
On Monday night | called at the
Gramatan inn and conferred with DR..
'ook. lie was In IN extremely nervous
condition and | was convinced unless
he took a long needed rest he might
suffer a nervous breakdown. He told
me he had been advised TO 60 abroad
IN order TO be in easy reach Of the
University of Copenhagen. if his pres
cnce were required, and at the same
time TO get a much needed rest
Or. Cook has taken me into his
confidence and ] have been permitted
to examine his original data and De
spite all the charges. ! have absolute
confidence in his integrity I feel con
lidcnt, AS DOGS Dr. ,fook himself. that
hageG>wili be favorable. All thle talk |
OF a conspiracy TO rob DR.. Cook Of his
records is silly. although ] regret to
say chat some of those who have been
ms advisers have fully succeeded in
convincing him that such plot existed. |
Personally / don t know the present
whereabouts Of DR.. Cook. -
The puzzle Of DR.. Cook S disappear
ancc began about 3 O'Clock this after
noon. At noon Henry Wellington
Wake, his personal counsel, issued
formal statement explaining that DR.. |
Cook had sailed this morning on the
Cunard liner Caronia. Three hours later
he withdrew the first statement and
exnlaincd he had been Informed bv
John Il. Bradley that the doctor had
not sailed on the tarOnia. Coincidcnt
with this, reports were circulated that
DR.. Cook had sailed on the steamship
Havana for Havana Neither. so far
as can be learned tonight, was correct
Captain John knight of the Havana
responded TO n wireless message after !.
his vessel had left port as follows;
NJ uut on ooaru resembling Dr. |
Cook. Name not on passenger list.D
j, \. McCubin, purser of the Caronia.
also replied TO wireless message as
follows:
Unable TO find DR.. Cook on board
the Caronia. -
May BE in Atlantic City.
From other sources il was iniimated
Dr. Cook might be at the Hotel Chal.
ionte, Atlantic City, ms guest of his
fnend, G. +. Wyckoff. The hotel man.
agcment said neither Mr.. Wyckoff nor
pr Cook was registered there. bnt Mr.
Wyckoif WAS found at the hotel sub.
scqnenily He said he knew nothing
Of Or. Cook s whereabouts.
Stil another suggestion was that DR..
Cook might be with Captain George
Iomer; a friend, at Mount Parnassns.
East Hadden, Conn. but word came
back from East Haddcn that CAPTAIN
Eomer SAID he had not seen or heard
from pr. Cook
Mr. Wake in admitting he knows
where DIR. Cook is. declined TO rive his
address, or to account in any way for