Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-23
Last Nights Ordeal Proved that He was Not
 Afraid to Meet the Public.
FACED FORTY NEWSPAPER MEN
pr. Cook Always Ready to Answer Any Question Pert nent to the Issue-Produced His Diary of 176 Pages which He Showed Freely to Al-Board of Aldermen Provide for Public Welcome at the City Hall-Al- ways Treated Peary a Friend.

thermometers, barometers and a ped-
 ometer.
 Q-What kind of sextant did you | have and how many?
 Alone sextant-a wrench appara- | tus.
 Y-What kind of artificial horizon | did you have? A-A glass.
 l Q-What kind of transit, or theo- dolite. did you have and how many? Ave did not use any Q-What kind of compass did you have? .s' IF
 Ave had one liquid compass. one surveying compass
 Q-What kind of compass did you use to determine your compass varia- ton? s---
 A-surveying compass; it had an azimuth attachment
 Q-What compass course did you take from Cape Thomas Hubbard north?
 A-Well, that changes every day. If you follow the course on a map you have got the compass course.
 Q--Was your determination of the pole solely by an observation of the suns altitude, or did you take obser- vatlons of the pole star twelve hours apart, and by the determination of the celestial pole midway between the two positions prove the accuracy of your position on the terrestiRI pole?
 Allow are you going to take an observation by the polar star when you have continuous sun? There is no night; you cannot have any stars: there is no darkness
 Q.-What other kind of observations did you make at the pole, and how many? And what was the altitude of the sun?
 Ave have told that the altitude of the sun gave us our position; that Is all there is to say about that. We made regular astronomical lobserva- tions, such as would be made by the compass and other instruments. We merely made the nautical observations that cantain would have made aboard a ship. t+r.
 Q-Will you describe in detail any single observation taken by, you at the North pole, with the exact figures of the results and the corrections ap- piled?
 A.-Not at this present moment. We will describe every one of them in de- tail when they go to the university of Copenhagen. They will go there with in two months The entire records will be delivered to the university and after that they will go to everybody that war$s to examine them
 Q.-In Four original narrative, as published in the New York Herald. you said: 1The night of April 2 was made notable by the swinging of the sun at midnight over tue northern ice Our observations on April placed the camp in latitude S6.3s, longitude s4.2." The astronomers say that in the lati- tude you mention. the midnight sun would have been visible on April 1 and that if you really saw it for the first time on April you must have been $50 miles from the pole instead Of 2S4 as you supposed. Therefore to have reached the pole on April 21 you would have had to travel 3s miles daily. What is your explanation of the apparent discrepancy?
 A.-In the first place, that indicates the point I have taken that nobody can pronounce judgment on a matter of this kind until they get a com plete record. The northern horizon at midnight has been so obscure that we could not tell whether the sun was below the horizon or above it. We were not making observations at mid night. Therefore this statement is based on the fact that we have said that 1t was possible to see the sun 1 on midnight of that day have not l looked through The Herald's story as | 1t has been written out in full. My | impression IS that we were absolutely l unable to see the sun the midnight | before that. The horizon was obscur- ed.
 Q.-Why was. it necessary to entrust your records to MT. Whitney under a | pledge of secrecy?
 Al don't think that there is any thing further to say about that; ask MT. Whitney. I do not think I am | bound to diyulgey to MT. Peary the news of our work. I am perfectly will | ing to give it to the world, and have given it to the world There is no reason why should give any news to Peary.- was perfectly willing to give it to the world, and I have done so.
 Again a Family Man.
 Dr. Cook laid aside the role of ex- plorer when he arose this morning. and became g family man again. When he breakfasted he announced his in. tention of spending the day with his family until the afternoon, when he J met the newspaper men.