Arizona republican., 1909-09-08
RIVALRY OF EXPLORERS
It Will Doubtless Result in Financial Gain to Dr. Cook Further Honored in the Danish Capital His Debt to Sverdrup

Copenhagen, Sept. "A remarkable result of Peary's rivalry with Cook for the discovery of the pole is that Cooks profits from the enterprise are likely to be largely increased. He re- ceived today offers for his books and lectures at twice the figures previ- ously rendered. One American cabled terms almost startling and, it is be- Iieved, far beyond the sum hitherto paid for such work. pr. Cook will likely accept his offer.
 The controversy is beginning to wax warmer here. Peary's statement is unanimously accepted as true, but there is a large following faithful to Cook. His lecture before the geo. graphical society tonight, however. added little information given out with reference to the expedition. He repeated his intention to withhold de- tails until the publication of his book.
 The King and Queen, Prince and Princess George of Greece and mem bers of the royal family tonight wit messed the presentation to Cook of a gold medal by the crown prince and listened to the explorers lecture aft erward. In introducing the explorer, the crown prince said that his re- ception in Greenland and Copenhagen showed the way the Danes appreci- ated the wonderful exploit. The prince begged the honor of presenting the medal of the society.
 Dr. Cook told his story without hesitation, but most of his state ments had been given out before Tt is too early" he said, ''to give the general rules of the expedition. Time is required to digest the work of polar effort. This northward dash has occupied the minds of men for more than 900 years. Slowly but surely the ladder of latitude has been climbed with various degrees of sue cess. The experience has been gained on each expedition and each explorer has profited by the misfortunes of his predecessors.
 "The art of polar travel has been created and this art was the nucleus of our equipment. We changed the tactics to suit our purpose but I am bound to acknowledge at the outset that success would not have been possible without the less fortunate forerunners. All honor to the pio- neers, the pathfinders to the pole. the earlier explorers. We are par ticuladly indebted to Nansen and Peary and many Danish explorers for the last stages of polar progress. In my case I am especially indebted to Captain Sverdrup, who is here to- night. His work gave us a road which afforded us a chance to try ice little farther west. Although profit ing by other ventures, our expeditions differed in some respects. The rOut we selected I had planned out years ago, and as the result doing the splendid narrative of Sverdrup. About the pole was no part of the program. We aimed altogether at study and recreation. with the pole possibly as a future problem"
 Dr. Cook cleared up doubts about the lowest temperature recorded, which, he reiterated. was S3 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. He said he had no doubt that the observations made would prove to have been in and around the 9Oth degree.
 T have been within a circle a kilo- meter in diameter from where the pole is situated" exclaimed the ex- .plorer. T am satisfied that is quite ! sufficient for practical purposes. Twill say no more until my book is 1 published" When shown the dis patch which said Peary claimed to be first to reach the north pole, Cook said: 'Peary, of course, can say whatever he wishes. l am not ac- fcustomed to indulging in controver- sies. All I have to say about Peary
 is that if he says he has reached the pole, l believe he reached the pole