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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-26
COOK NOT WORRIED
BY ABSENCE OF DATA

NEW YORK. Sept 26-when told
this morning by a Munsey news serv-
ice reporter that all Of his instruments
and records with which he was TO
verify his discovery Of the North Pole
had been left at Etah by Harry Whit
ney, to whom he had intrusted them
he said that he would send for them
at once.
Or Cook said that would not interfere
with his proving his claims. He was
In his room at the Waldorf-Astoria Ho-
tel when the reporter brought him the
news of the statement made by Whit
ney DR. Cook was sitting a. desk.
ne was busy writing out his lecture
for tomorrow night at Carnegie Hail
| He seemed tired and careworn from
the ordeal which he has suffered since
his arrival here. So busy was he with
| his prepa ation of notes that he ate
his dinner while we were writing. AM
| his wife and Secretary Lonsdale were
Obliged to dine alone without him in
the public diving room Of the hotel.
! -"Repeat that" he said when told the
statement
That's most extraordinary he said
and he leaned back from his desk. clasp
/ ing his hands together and corTugating
7 doubt If it is true" he said; we
Twin get the records anyway.
! Il supposed, " he continued. thai
| whitney was To return on the JEANNE
I suppose that he must have gOtter
! tired OF waiting at Etah and taken the
/ Roosevelt. 10 is most extra ordinary
| however. that he did not bring the in
! struments and data ] confided TO hi
care You know / wired Whitney tina
he was a liberty TO speak and tell al
he knew about my discovery OF TIT
Pole II il is true that ne has left tn
! records behind II is astonishing tina
he did not telegraph me about 1t.
have not heard a word about the i'm
str,ments being left behind until yol
told me about II.
But II II Is true that Whitney die
leave the records behind. how are Nol
| going 10 get thern2' Dr.. Cook va
asked.
I'VE will have to get some American
vessel 10 get them and 90 it withou
loss OF time he replied.
/ You cannot tell now how YOU cal
ARRANGE such = task he was asked
We'll. ] guess that ] will have 70 sc
into touch with Whitney, and assn.
myself that the news YOU bring me
correct"
two Eskimos to New York to substau
D tiate your claims OF the discovery @
the Pole
NO, they will b. brought down b
an American ship and will be in Ne'
York city long before spring. / want I
| say that Knud Rasmussen, who shoul
now be in Copenhagen, will come {
J New York city and tell he knows abou
my discovery of the Pole
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Died.

KNUPEER-On Sunday. September q 1aoa
GEO. kNCPFER. aged forty-four years
dence- Evsrt street and Mills avenue. Lang
don. D. c
Funeral Tuesday. 100 .. m. at house
Interment GIenwood. rfs
BCRKE-On Sunday. September u. 1aoa a,
l a. m, WILLIAM BURKE at the resi-
dence Of his niece Miss PeshaH t5Ds .
street northwest
Mr. Burke We a native Of Ireland but
had resided in tbs city for the past 6ffv
years BIS destI occurred at the resi-
dence OF his niece. Miss Peshau. 15es .
street northwest, after a LONG Illness He
was formerly an examiner in the Patent
Office, but resigned some years ago on ac-
count Of i'll health.
HUME-On Saturday. September 3. 1893. al
a. m. at the Ednor, 21lS P street north
west, LAURENCE BENET. infant son OF
Charles and sally Cox Hume
'tNNISON-On Friday. September "a 1909
MARY, widow Oi William n. JennIson OF
OsWego- n Y. aged ninety-nine years.
Mrs Jennison was born in Osvvego y
y. ninety years ago and was the widow o.
William h JennisOn, prominent business
man or that city Her death occurred A.
the residence or her grandson f :
Holmes. 1905 Park road She had been a
resident OF this city for the past six years.
and IS survive - a daughter, Mrs. J. l.
Lake
LEA De soto No. Thursday; septem-
Der IS. at 2:50 p. M RUTH ANN LEE.
in the seventy-f0Urth year Of her age.
ROBERTSON friday. September a. 1909 AT
the residence OF his father. T. o. W Rob
erts. Prince George county, Nd, ODEN
BOWIE ROBERJS-
THOAIPSON-Sud suddenly, on Friday, Septem-
her a. 1867 OLIVER PEARL son or oliver
W. and Laura j.. Thompson. in the four
teenth year Of his age.
| WOODBURN -On Wednesday. September %
1893 a the Marlborough Blenhcim. Atlantic
city. y. j., Miss ELLEN 9. DE 9. WOOD
BURY.
| STONEBRAHER-On Sunday. September IS.
1909. al a. m. at his residence. 6i5 MaSsa
chusetts- avenue northeast. DANIEL x.
STONEBFAkER
Funeral Tuesday at Frederick. Nd
Mr.. Stonebraker was a native Of Mar
land. but had resided On this city for the
past thirty years His death occurred after
a long illness. He was ffty-siX years Of
axe and is survived by mis- wife and three
/ children. Florence z StOnebra zer. Samuel
| f and Harold StOuebraker.
HERRING-Un Friday, September ., 1899.
( "a the Franklin Apartments, ANNIE L..
! widow OF the late George ID. Herring.
| Funeral at St PaUrs Church. Monday,
! September % 1909. at A. m
! iona Des Moines. Capitol. and Onshap
! Neb-. papers please COPY
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will be worth Il cents pouud-that the
record price OF the Sully year will he
beaten"
MY hrm, continued Pattcn, have
priv ate wires all over the country. INTO
the cotton a we'll as i'm the wheat and
corn Centers. Customers asked inlorma-
ticu on cotton. Therefore. / looked into
-" situation, / fonnt most of the
reports indicated a short crop and my
own Information was the same. There
fore. l am IN the cotton market.
This fact has been further demon
strated during the week by am advance
OF 81 to 100 points i'm values. Three days
after Mr. Patten made the statement
quoted above, December cotton was 100
points higher, equal TO cent pound.
PattCu has the prestige OF success.
Tho Street is interested in the outcome
in more ways than one Keene and
Gates made failures Ia grain after great
successes i'm stocks. while Sully. after
a great cotton record. made a "chump
play In coffee Therefore the spread 81
Patten is awaited with interest.
The talk is now Of an ll.500.0cl bale
cotton crop The worlds requirements
from the United states have been placed
ar f2.4SS.000 bales.
Back Of il all is the same old trend
OF values TO higher prices, and I'm the
case OF cotton. higher prices for the
one chief textile material
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BULKELEY VEREFIES
EARLYS STATEMENT
No Truth in Report That Prof
Hansen Pronounced Case
Leprosy, He Declares.

NEW YORK. Sept. 36.-Dr. L. Duncan
BuUsciey. of the skin and Cancer r. os-
pitaI this morning verified the state
meut made by John Early formerly
thought % De a lcper that the reports
from Washington 70 the effect that
Prof Hsusen. Of Norway. has pro-
nounccd him "A suffe or from leprosy,
arc false
Dr Buckley today said that ne has a
letter from Prof Hansen saying that
there is no leproUs bacillus i'm Early g
skin OF blood Or. Buckley says that
a terrible mistake rs being made and
that the diagnosis from which the CON
ciusion was az first reached that Early
is suffering with the dread disease is
-iIacic error
Early a. now living in small apart
ment in Brooklyn, where he aids his
wife en- the cutting and completing 81
vomen's garments. He SAYS that from
now on he viii make no effort 20 hide
his real name but that he viii seek
work as John Early 10 show that he
SIS not suffering. rs some of the pilysi-
clans want TO make the world believe.
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CASTRO WATCHES.

PARIS. Sept. &.-FOrmer President
Castro. who has returned 10 Ssntsnder
from SolareZ. follows the troubles in
Venezuela with keenest interest He
plans to go south this winter. and Will
probably spend the time at Malaga.
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Couldn't Resist Him"
DR.. BARTON HAS RETURNED.

20 Winfred NJ. Barton. Of 1888 II
street. has returned from Europe. where
he spent the past three years studying
I'm the hospitals OF Vienna and Paris.
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IS PREPARING
TO CRUSH DR.. COOK
Emphatic in Saying His
Statement Will Speedily
Convince World.
Continued from First Pagc)

Continued from First Pagc)
he delighted TO inform tho general that
the newspapers who have traveled with
me from Battle Harbor take that Po-
sition. Personally / should be pleased
TO do exactly what you wish.
Eliminates Whitney
Commander Peary then eliminated
whitney from any part i'm the contro-
versy. whitney has absolutely nothing
TO do In this case as FAR as ] am con-
cerned, he said. My statement does
not need any bolsterins from whitney
neither does il contain anything that
would make his testimony competent in
the controversy. Cook didn't get 10 the
Pole that's the question.
Then the man who wrung from the
Arctic it's secret Of cons looked out
across tho water.
81 know Cook. For many years ne
been a member Of my parties nat
statement will talk OF a man ] know
not Of one that Is suanSSt Ia
The statement will deal with COOK, ana
strongly enough / hope 10 prove TO the
satisfaction of the world that COOK new
er reached the Pole.
Straight Shot Fired.
Then came the chance 10 FIRE a
straight shot
Commander Peary,~ came the ques-
ton. do YOU realize that the senti-
ment here and through this section IS
largely in favor of DR.. Cook?
Peary did not turn hair
Yes" he answered. Il can easily
understand that but my statement
should he ready soon I shall he pleas
cd to see ali you gentlemen travel with
me till this affair is settled. And IL viii
he shortly If I deem II necessary e
10 TO New York, should the statement
be given out there, ] shall do so. In
! going to clear this matter up once and
| for all And remember gentlemen, Cool
/ did not get 10 the North Pole
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FRANKLIN A. HEARD
DIES OF PNEUMONIA

HAGERSTOWN. Md. Sept. 26.-Fu-
neral services for Franklin Anderson
Heard. aged eighty-rhree years. who
FOR fifty-four years was I'm the dry
goods business here probably will he
held tomorrow afternoon. MI. Hea nd
Heard and a son Of Major Gen. Nath-
aniel Heard both Of whom fought I'm
the Revolutionary War. Mr.. Heard
died OF pneumonia yesterday afternoon.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

A CFRTIFICATE OF INCORPORA-
ton has been placed on record In the
Office of the Recorder Of Deeds by the
Federal Charter Company, organizers,
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pany of this city The objects and pur-
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10 its members at a greatly reduced
cost based on the actual expense OF de-
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out Of which dividends and expenses viii
be paid
Material results are assured to stock
holders which is being evidenced BY the
numerous inquiries and subscriptions
that have been placed 10 date
This company Is the outcome Of the
endeavOrs Of vTell-knOwn Washington
business men, notices of which aave fp-
oeared from tme 10 time IN the daily
papers. II
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Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-03
LUSITANIA WINS
3 SEA RECORDS
CUNARD VESSEL STEALS THE
LAURELS FROM OTHERS
RUN OF STEAMER FROM QUEENS
TOWN UNEoUALED
Winner of Unprecedented Time Is
First to Land as Thursday Ship
and to Become Four-Day
Boat
[By Associated Press. ]

NEW YORK, Sept. 2.-Three new
ocean records fell to the Cunard liner
Lusitania on her latest trip from
Queenstown, which ended tonight.
The Lusitania made the passage in
four days, eleven hours and forty-two
minutes, thereby clipping three hours
and eighteen minutes from her fastest
previous time.
She maintained an average speed of
1855 knots for the entire voyage, beat
ing the Mauretania's record of 1854,
and finally, by landing her passengers
at the Cunard pier shortly before 8
o'clock tonight, she became the first
liner to dock on the fourth day out of
Queenstown.
The Lusitania left Daunt's Rock last
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. Her
days runs follow: Sunday 81, Monday
$50, Tuesday 652. Wednesday 651,
Thursday CAT, and from noon today 1913.
Total PISA.
The Lusitania and Mauretania here
tofore have left Queenstown Sunday
and reached the Ambrose channel light
ship too late Thursday evening to al
low them to dock before Friday. Today,
for the first time one of them proved
herself a Thursday ship" in the YER
nacular of the sailormen on board, and
thereby became a real four-day boat.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-03
NEWS CREATES SENSATION
IN PARIS; PROOF WANTED

PARIS, Sept. 2.-The news of the
success of DIR. Cook, when 1t became
known in Paris, created o sensation.
The evening papers published long
accounts of his expedition, and While
there is a tendency to await the arrival
of DIR. Cook at Copenhagen to gain
from him proof and details, the press
unites in praising the hardy explorer,
and offers congratulations to America.
The best known French scientists are
either away on vacations or leading ex-
petitions.
DIR. Charcot is trying to reach the
south pole, while the duke of Orleans
is at Spitzbergen, having returned to
that island after interesting researches
in Greenland, during which he reached
latitude 49,
The news was received with the
greatest interest by members Of the
French Geogra phical society.
Pierre Levasseur, the French geogra-
pher, was delighted when informed of
DR.. Cooks achievement.
"All honor to DIR. Cooks" he ex-
claimed Il now await other details
Do islands exist in the Arctic ocean
beyond the eighty-fifth degree, and is
the pole on one Of these islands? I
hope we will have answers to these
questions, but, in any event, there will
probably be little occasion to change
the map of the world.
DIR. Cooks achievement Is most ex-
traordinary. 1t seems that he made a
journey of more than 800 miles on the
ice, and the temperature he met, SO
degrees below Fahrenheit, is the lowest
ever recorded. We undoubtedly will be
astonished when we compare Cooks S
records with the reckoning of Others"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-03
EXPLORATION ADVISER SAYS
AlRSHIP WILL FLY TO POLE

BERLIN, Sept. 2.-Prof, Hergesell,
the scientific adviser of the proposed
expedition to the North Pole in the
Zeppelin airship, speaking today of
DR.. Cooks achievement, said that the
Zeppelin expedition would not be af-
fected In any way.
when we first proposed to go to
the Arctic in an airship," he said, ''the
reaching of the North Pole was mat
ter of Indifference to US. Our main
object was to show how a dirigible
balloon could be used for exploration.
"Our airship is intended for survey
ing and the taking of photographs,
and it will be so constructed as to
land on the drift ice If necessary.
"There is still much to be done III
Arctic exploration and there is the
probability of great geographical dis
covery. We regard DR.. Cook as seri-
GUS man, but as he had only Eski-
mos with him, any great enrichment
to science through his expedition Is
hardly likely, as it must have been
impossible for him to carry the neces-
sary instruments"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-03
SCHOOL FOR RANGERS TO
BE HELD AT HOT SPRINGS
Representatives from National Forests
Will Be Trained in Every
Phase of Work

A school for forest rangers will COM
mence it's sessions at Hot Springs,
Cal, Sept. 90 and continue for a period
of one month. This field school will
be maintained by the government for
the purpose of teaching representatives
from each national forest in the state
every phase of work which the rangers
might be called on to perform. The
men will live in tents erected in the
midst of a heavy forest, where all the
natural conditions of their work can
be found.
Their entire time will be devoted to
instruction in the form Of actual field
demonstrations and lectures. The in
structors will be men from the district
headquarters at San Francisco, who
are in charge of various lines Of forest
work, and their instructions will be
supplemented by lectures delivered by
the government officials sent from
Washington for that purpose.
1t is planned to hold these field
schools annually and thus eventually
fully instruct most of the permanent
rangers on the forests in all phases Of
their work.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-03
SAYS ESKIM0S WOULD
NOT ACCOMPANY COOK
AT FIRST INVITATION

GOTHENBERG, Sweden, Sept. q
DIR. Otto Nordenskjold, explorer who
has just returned from an Arctic yoy--
age, describes an interview he had
with Knud Rasmussen, Danish stu
dent, in Greenland, who passed win
ter with the Cape York Eskimos, to-
gether with DIR. Cook.
Rasmussen told DIR. Nordenskjold
that the Eskimos at first absolutely de-
clined to follow DR.. Cook, owing to the
risk.
At last several young men declared
themselves willing to aid him in his at
tempt to reach the pole. and at the
moment of starting several men Joined
the party, saying they would not leave
their sons and would not forsake this
man who had trusted them.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-03
BALLlNGFR DUE
IN WASHINGTON
Report Of Various Officials Involved
In the Plnohot Dispute VIII
Be Submitted to Executive
at Beverly
IRy Associated Press.l

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-Secretary
Ballinger is scheduled to arrive in
Washington tomorrow, and 1t is ex-
pected he will proceed to Beverly to
see the president as soon as he can
familiarSze himself with the merits
of the controversy between the interior
department and the forestry bureau
relative to the Cunningham coal claims
in Alaska.
The reports Of the various officials
involved will be placed in his hands
as soon as he reaches the department.
Assistant Secretary Pierce announced
today that he had completed his work
and Land Commissioner bennett and
his assistant, Mr.. Schwartz, have
placed the finishing touches on their
documents.
The reports are voluminous and the
interior department officials express
confidence in the outcome.
It is understood they expect to show
that the Cunningham claims were not
especially popular either in the land
Office or in the interior department
rr0DeT.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-03
SAYS UNITED STATES
WILL DEFEND EMBLEM
PUT ON WORLDS PIVOT

NEW YORK, Sept. 2.-That the flag
planted by DIR. Cook on the Arctic con-
tinent will be defended by the United
States was the opinion expressed to-
night by Attorney General Wickersham
at Lawrence Beach. L. l., his summer
home.
1.-THE constitution will follow the
flag if the new land discovered by
Cook proves to be of any value" said
Mr.. Wickersham.
1.-THE new territory may perhaps not
prove a very valuable acquisition, but
If human beings can live there or If
there are native races living there, a
serious question of citizenship will have
to be considered. However, before talk
ing any position In the matter, I pre-
fer to wait for information of little
more definite character"
Cyrus G. Adams. chief geographical
expert of the American Geographical
society and author of several well
known works on geographical subjects,
said tonight that his examination of
DR.. Cooks narrative had convinced him
that the explorers claims to thee dis
covery of the pole are genuine and will
stand.
'It is inevitable" said Mr.. Adams,
that the data which DR.. Cook will
presently submit to the scientific world
will be subjected to the closest scruti-
ny. But DR.. Cook is we'll aware that
he could not stand such an eXamina
tion If he were not telling the exact
truth. No sane man with experience
in such matters could hope for an in
stant to produce a false log with false
astronomical and magnetic observa-
tions for such a period as was covered
in this remarkable sledge trip to the
pole.
1.-THE story of DR.. Cooks expedition,
as it has reached us, contains no i'm
probabilities. He found in accordance
with the belief of experienced eXplor-
ers that once beyond the great ice
ridges which stretch for a hundred
miles out from the coasts Of the north
ern seas the ice is smooth and clear
and the road easy"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-03
PARIS PAPER PRINTS
INTERVIEW GIVEN BY
DENMARK'S EXPLORER

PARIS, Sept. 2.-The Matin prints an
interview with Explorer Jundsen from
Christiania, who was with DR.. Cook in
Lieut.. Gerlach's Belgium expedition.
I'VE greatly valued DR.. Cooks rare
qualities, his energy and perseverance, -
said Jundsen.
His latest expedition presented great
difficulties, as Peary's experience
proved. The results obtained by DR..
Cook are important, above all If it has
found a continent or islands in the
Polar region"
The morning papers are characterized
by benevolent doubling tone with re-
gard to DR.. Cooks reaching the pole?
The Figaro says:
"Dr. Cook Is q Polar explorer Of such
experience and worth that one may
safely believe in the complete success
Of his attempt, but on the other hand
so far as we can judge from the neces-
sarily hasty telegraphic news-we must,
to proclaim him successful, admit that
he was able to cover in thirty-siX days
the $50 kilometers which separated the
pole from Cape Hubbard.
May Have Been Lucky
such a performance corresponds in
no way to the experience of other ex-
plorers, but nevertheless it is quite
possible chat Dr. Cook was favored by
exceptional luck"
The Petite Republique says:
IF DR.. Cook really put his foot on
the pole the name of this American citi-
zen from today is famous. He will
have realized the dream by which man
has been haunted for the last CEN
turles."
NJ. Quenisset, a distinguished astron-
omical photographer, said that there
was no reason to doubt Cooks success.
Prof. Chetelu Of the Paris observa-
tory said:
II think all scholars will tell you, as
1 do, to wait for further details. Not
that 1 put in question the good faith
of DIR. Cook, if he really sent the dis
patch to the newspapers, but the con-
ditions of the expeditions as there re-
lated seem to me to be totally insult
ficient for such an exploit
1--WE are told that the doctor arrived
at the pole after thirty-three or thirty
five days of travel at the rate of
eighteen kilometers a day. That seems
extraordinarily fast amidst storms Of
snow on an infinity of ice unless the
explorer was favored by chance in find
ing free passage"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-03
EsKIMos AT WORLDS FAIR
SAY PEARY CHEATED THEM

SEATTLE, Sept. 2.--The party Of
Labrador Eskimos at the worlds fair
were delighted when told that Dr. Cook,
an American, had discovered the pole,
None of them had ever met Cook, but
they knew all the other recent explor-
ers who had gone north by way of
Greenland.
Chief Aputek, Peary's guide in sew
eral expeditions. and who was with him
in his farthest north trip, can speak
no English, and referred reporter to
Enutseak. who has been interpreter for
many explorers. Enutseak was inclined
to criticise all Arctic explorers because
they never gave the Eskimos credit for
any of the achievements, but claimed
all the credit for themselves. OF all
such offenders Peary was the worst,
said Enutseak, and he was glad Cook,
and not Peary, had won the glory.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-03
BRITISH SCIENTISTS AGREE
NOTES WILL SUSTAIN COOK

WINNIPEG, Sept. 2.-What proofs
would DR.. Cook be able to bring back
with him to substantiae his claim to
the discovery of the north pale?
This question was submitted TO
number of distinguished British scien-
lists, who had attended the convention
of the British Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science.
They all agree that the only evidence
DR.. Cook could have would be his
astronomical notes.
A good deal of confidence was ex-
pressed by the visitors in the geuine-
ness of the reports from the American
explorer.
Col. Sir Duncan Johnstone, president
of the geographical section, said 1t
would be easy to prove II the pole had
been reached by studying the observa-
tions made. It would be impossible for
observations to be faxed SO as to de-
ceiye scientists, he said.