The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-23
COOK IN NEW YORK
THE ARCTIC EXPLORER GREETED WITH A SPLENDID REcEP-
 TON IN HOME CITY.
WELCOMED WITH ENTHUSIASM
Every Craft In Port shrieked Greet Ing as the Claimant to North Pole Honors Passed Up the Harbor--His Family Present.

 | tuous demonstration which took on the magnitude of public ovation. pr. Frederick A. Cook. the American ex- plorer, who first announced the con | quest of the North Pole, was welcomed back to his native country. By strange coincidence and almost at the same hour, Commander Robert | E. PeaIy, whose announcement Of reaching the pole was coupled with the claim of being the only white man to reach there, sailed Into the harbor at Sydney. N. S., amid another enthusiastic welcome, in which the | public dignitaries of Nova Scotia | joined in giving official as we'll as | public recognition to the returning ex- plorer.
 Welcomed With Enthusiasm. Doctor Cooks arrival at New York went through progressive stages of enthusiasm as he moved from the low CT bay to quarantine, thence to the | tug on which his wife and children were waiting to give the first exchange l of family endearments, then to the | steamer Grand Republic, freighted with upward of thousand enthusas tic friends and champions of the ex- | plorer, and finally as he set foot on his native soil of Brooklyn and passed through cheering throngs and flower | arched streets to his home at Bush. | wick avenue.
 | Everywhere he was met with the same camorous shouts and demonstra. tive approval, which swept aside any dissenting note, If such existed.
 Doctor Cook bore his honors calm | ly and with dignity, smiling upon the crowds, lowing acknowledgements to the oftrepeated cheers. and grasping 1 the out-stretched hands of friends and strangers.
 Welcomed by His Family.
 The scene as Doctor Cook was vel. comed by his family and friends was one long to be remembered. From o'clock this morning the explorer inter mittently paced the saloon deck of his steamer, placing his marine glasses to his eyes and watching every tug CT other vessel which approached the Oscar II, to see whether he could ob- serve his wife on the deck of the craft.
 At last the right tug was outlined through the mist and Doctor Cook. springing to the companionway. was down the ladder before the tug was alongside. The sea was running at a good rate, and as the tug threw It's line aboard the Oscar H. it's beam crashed into the companionway and forced the explorer to beat hasty retreat
 Wife Waved the Flag.
 Matters were soon arranged, and the doctor ran down once more, leaped across the intervening stretch of water to the tug. dashed up to the hurricane deck where his wife was waiting for him waving the Stars and Stripes. The returned explorer took her in his arms without single word passing between them. Doctor Cook broke the silence.
 "Where are the children?" he asked.
 His wife did not reply, but led him to the children a few steps away. He kissed the eldest daughter, then seized the younger one in his arms and raised her to his shoulders. At this the spec tator broke out into cheering. Bravo, Cook" Welcome home.' We're proud of you rang out across the water. Then words, For He's Jolly Good Fellow" were sung in chorus by Doctor Cooks fellow pas sengers on the Oscar II, as the tug left the ships side.
 A Wreath for His Neck.
 On board the Grand Republic Doc , tor Cook was greeted by the official re- ception committee, and wreath of roses was placed about his neck. Standing on the upper deck of the steamer, Doctor Cook addressed the committee and his friends as follows;
 ITO returning explorer there can be no greater pleasure than the ap- preciation of his own people. Your numbers and cheers make demon stration that makes me very happy and should fire the pride of all the world I would have preferred to Te turn first to American shores, but thi- pleasure was denied me. Instead went to Denmark and the result has come to you by wire.
 T was a stranger in strange land but the Danes with one voice rose ur with enthusiasm, and they have guar anteed to all other nations our con quest of the pole.
 You have come forward in numbers and a manner still more forcibly. can only say that I accept the honor with due appreciation Of it's import ance heartily thank you ], A Trip of Triumph. , The steamer Grand Republic. with Doctor Cook. his wife and children and members of the Arctic club on board steamed up the North river from the Battery to the foot of West One Hun dred and Thirtieth street. where brief stop was made.
 The trip was triunphal one. The Grand Republic was greeted with the ssFeu shsieks of hundreds of craft emall aud large. and Doctor Cool ! lfend eA the upper deck.