The San Francisco call., 1909-09-17
|P[ARY INSISTS
COOK IS ''fAk[R'
Commander Says Data Which
Fell Into His Hands Will
Prove Charges
Declares Documents Will Show
Medical Man Far From Pole
Day of Alleged Discovery

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being taken five miles from the pole
proper
! Was there more than one obserya-
ton taken at the pole and by whom?7
the explorer was asked.
MANY OBSERVATIONS TAKEN
There were several observations" he
kreplied, .and ] took them all myself
They all agreed. You must understand
that the pole is theoretical point,
without length, breadth or thickness
Its actual location depends on the accu-
racy of the instruments employed and
the conditions under which the obser-
Vations are taken
| You have stated, Commander Peary,
that a copy of your records and polar
observations was wrapped I'm a piece of
silk American flag and deposited in an
ice cavity at the pole. Did any person
witness this act?"
! To this question Commander Peary
| declined to make any answer at
present.
CALLS COOK A "GOLD BRICK"
Continuing, the explorer said that he
had stated in a private message to a
friend that Doctor Cook had given the
world gold brick" This message
had been allowed to leak out, and while
he would have preferred a more ele-
| CANT expression, he was willing now
4 to let the words stand because they
We're at least emphatic.
| 1t is rumored here that Commander
Peary's briefs win make sensational
statements, and that a portion of his
document was prepared as long ago as
the early months of 1908. when letters
were received from Doctor Cook in
Greenland giving notice that he in
tended to make dash for the pole.
Asked how Harry Whitney happened
| to remain in the north, Peary said
1 Whitney was one of party of sports
men who went as passengers on board
the steamer Erik. The party included
| Whitney, W. Norton of New York, a
man named Harmed and G. j. Crafts OF
Washington, who came for the purpose
! of taking magnetic observations for
DIR. Bauer, head of the department of
| terrestrial magnetism of the Carnegie
| institution at Washington.
! At EtAh. where it was determined to
land a party and supplies for the re-
lief of Doctor Cook, particularly in view
of the fact that Rudolph Francke was
being invalided home, Whitney asked
If he might remain on the station to
hunt walrus and polar bear in the
spring. This was decided on. In or
der to provide against the contingency
of the Roosevelt not coming down from
the north in the summer of 1909, in
which event he would be obliged to
remain in the arctic for two years,
Whitney made arrangements for a ship
to come up for him this summer.
AS a matter of fact, the party of
sportsmen did not materialize, but the
relief ship Jeanie was sent north to
bring Whitney back, On it's arrival
Whitney was transferred from the
Roosevelt to the Jeanie, and he is now
probably engaged in. hunting bears
somewhere on the west side of Baffins
bay or Davis strait.
Professor Mcmillan declared today
that the Eskimo language probably
contained a thousand words at most.
He believes there is a great field here
for the ethnologists to determine where
the Eskimos came from.
DIR. Goodsell, another member of the
expedition, is of the opinion that the
Japanese and Eskimos are of the same
racial stock.
The Eskimos of northern Greenland
are the most northerly people of the
world. They are called "Peary's
tribe
An early dispa tch from Battle Harbor.
sent by a local correspondent, said that
Commander Peary was accompanied to
kimo. A later dispatch from the same
place says that Matthew Henson, the me-.
gro assistant of Commander Peary, to-
gether with four Eskimos. accompanied
| the explorer actually to the pole. This
apparent disagreement is thus far un-
explained and inquiries have been made
for its elucidation.
Peary's Attitude Criticised
HAMBURG. Sept. 16.-Commenting
unon the last interview with Com
mander Peary sent out from Battle
Harbor. Labrador, the Hamburger
Machrichten says:
.'These high sounding words have
made an extremely unpleasant impress
sion and they will scarcely draw new
friends to Commander Peary"
This confirms the general tone of the
north German press, which leans
strongly toward Doctor Cook, who is
supported by the Hamburg geographi-
cal society.