The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-28
WHITNEY SUPPORTS
DR. COOKS STORY
OF POLAR DASH
Kept Word with Physician by
Withholding News of Arctic
Conquest from Peary.

VII I'LL ccStlltldl pOllilS Ciiil iotioi vi
DIR. Frederick A. Cooks story of his
polar dash and the detailed circum-
stances leading TO the Peary-Cook con-
troVersy, Harry Whitney, the young
American sportsman, in whose possess
sion DR.. Cook left his scientific instru-1
ments. arrived here on the Arctic
cruiser Jeanne from Greenland.
Mr.. Whitney was questioned regard
ing theg statements made to him by
Dr.. Cook in Greenland. He said Cook
arrived at Annotok in April of this year
and declared that he had reached the
North Pole a year before. He pledged
eWhitney. however. not to tell Com
mander Peary, who was to be informed
only that Cook had gone farther north
than Peary's previous record, 81 de-
grees 6 minutes. Continuing, DR.. Cook
told Whitney that he had accomplished
all he expected to and more besides.
and that he was through with the
Northern country. Whitney did not
communicate the latter part of this
statement to Commander Peary. Con-
tinuing, Mr.. Whitney said that DR..
Cook had complained to him of Peary's
taking over his house and stores, but
declared that he had suffered no UNI
lalrhess. reafs a'e""iu' -
frltcharu' was plese"t W. W..
statements we,e niaue' y na
hev, ne was pieuseu " seetees =
COOK Murphy rea,S . ~
was IN charge Oh the s'oies' was az,
sent at rtah on TINS uas ~ u'
not near Dr. ooohs -"
There were TWO houses Oh ne e.ar
ana shore' one az Ahno'oN' ho
/ 4, - .4..Ac a,l afnthn+ of Etah
COOKS stores, ana aho.nei az 80,
foloihg reary 5 stores' -
men, "hithey' MuiPns aNu sa.as
sonhe.ihies cup Jay any 80
the o'her Oh .hese iouaes' ~ -
III eharse OIL ooth no"sTsi
aple 10 leao ol D., u,hiah wit.
i"9'i aaaa ,var ~
NY az 80 ? go rhasa i,strne.
nnn III ..av nnont T,hev di,ect-
~ ~, o. re- SooL,s stores first
~ ~ oftarwara Murphy was
ta,a n thon, tbat no was to give DIR
raol avorv heln If he came along in
needy condition and furthermore the
instr,ctions in,nIied that Murphy was
tn organize an expedition to search for
DIR. Cook. but according to Mr.. Whit
ney this mart of the Instructions was
worded very ambiguously. Mr.. Whitney
said that Cook had a copy of-these in
structions and would doubtless make
them public. Murphy treated Cook
very civilly and look suffered mo- dis
courtesy.
When DR.. Cook and his Eskimos ar
rived at the house they had no sledge;
being too tired to drag 1t over the
rough ice they had left it twenty miles
from Etah. The following day some
other Eskimos went out, recovered the
sledge and brought 1t in. On 1t We're
DR.. Cooks instruments, clothes ana
food.
After spending two lays at Anhotok'
where Cook first met whitney, Cook
started for Etah. whitney accom-
panied him Cook remained Tor three
days at Etah, organizing 1or ms TRIP
south to U~pernavik. The doctor mad
inquired out roughly the date that ne
would likely get TO upernaVlk ana
When the. dundee Whaiers OF lhe
Danish store SHIPS Wouid reach there,
and ne argued tnat he hau no time 10
lose. lie planned originally 10 TAKE
two Eskimos and TWO siedges, put one
Eskimo Tell SICK, n TINS maze II
necessary for him to cut down the lug
gage he could take with him south.
He consequently asked whitney 10
take charge OF the instruments with
which he had made MS
at the pole.
There We're three cases, one contain
ing a sextant, another an artificial
horizon, and the third an strume
which Mr.. Whitney said he could not
recall. 1t possibly might have been
a chronometer, Cook left no written
records with Whitney that Whitney is
aware of. There may have been some
records, however, in the other boxes
in which Cook packed his clothes and
his personal effects, but Cook did not
tell Whitney especially that he was
leaving any written records with him.
Mr.. Whitney was very positive about
this.
After Cook departed for the south
Whitney resumed his hunting. He took
over Cooks two Eskimos. Etukishuls
and Arwalaly, to show him the coun-