New-York tribune., 1909-09-22
CHILDREN ADD TO WELCOME.

that all got away In safety.
CHILDREN ADD TO WELCOME.
The parade made its way through the city by
a crooked route past four public schools, all Oh
which turned out all their children to add to the
welcome It was not vet twelve when the pa
rade was started, and permission to let out the
children il was said. was not to be had
convenient practice fire drill just when the
horns were heard solved the problem for some
of the teachers.
All along the four miles Of the route it was
much the same; sidewalks packed to the curb.
cheers without end, dust and gasolene smoke
insuferable right and left dance of color and
frenzied movement and at every ones heart the
poignant exaltation of a great mob on fire with
a great idea
The automobiles behind the leading car raced
nell nell after II through the dust, blocking
each other at every turn in the route There
was one stop at Arion Hall to allow some more
girls in white 10 present flowers and greetings
Then the procession went under the arch IN
front of the old Cook home in Bushwick avenue
between two crowds that counted seventy thou
sand souls More than mile further along the
automobiles turned To return to the Bushwick
Club. a scant two blocks from the arch.
Here the Cook family was shouldered through
the crowd and safely into the club for a rest
of an hour and a half. The crowds hung close
all the while waiting for a chance to storm the
clubhouse. It came soon after o'clock, when
the doors were thrown open and all comers were
filed through in a line which had its begin
ming vaguely in Quarter-acre Of people in the
street DR.. Cook was spared the labor of hand
shaking. saluting each passer with a. boW-the
"stiff little bow for which the Danes liked him
so much.
A black-eyed girl in the line, egged on by
: the girl behind. kissed the doctor squarely on
the cheek turned, hesitated. and kissed re-
norter who had leaned forward from the crowd
| TO ask her name DR.. Cook bore up like man.
hut his supporters kept a better lookout there
after and stopped several later attempts
WILL WAIT FOR PEARY,
The line was cut short at 4 O'Clock. though
the crowd without had grown in the mean time
| For a man who has lived two years in the
! Arctic. with only a week in Denmark and p
bracing sea voyage 10 accustom him to New
| York weather in September. the explorer stood
! the DAVIS excitement and labor remarkably well.
/ but he svvayed and spoke vacantly and often
| pressed his hands TO his eyes before the crush
| of visitors was relieved. He turned wearily TO
/ face the reporters again. with Mr. Bradley at
! his side. He recovered his poise as the ques-
tions came. and spoke as evenly and positively
as ever
What reply have you 10 make ~ Commander
Pearv's assertion that YOU did not reach the
pole2" the first question
J None whatever. 7 will have nothing to say
| about Commander Peary in any form until he
| returns New York and is here 10 defend him
| self Cooks answer was delivered in de
| cisve tone.
us IL true that Peary or Peary's men took
yoIlr supplies or provisions at Etah?'
That ] must also decline to answer for the
same reasons.
"Afidavits from your man Francke make
charges 10 that effect"
Il don't know what Francke has said, he re-
piled. "but any statements he has made are un-
douhtedly true"
What did you tell Harry Whitney,"
dwelling on the word-''We told him