Evening journal., 1909-09-08

fight IS ON
Great Controversy as to Who
is DiSCOVeTer Of the Pole
Begins
ADHERENTS OF THE TWO
ARE WARMING UP
BY United Press Leased Special wira

BY United Press Leased Special Wire
NEW YORK, Sept. s-The United
Press is today in receipt OF the follow
ing signed cablegram from Commander
Robert E. Peary dated Indian Harbor,
via Capo Ray, September s
United Press. New York: Cooks
story should not be taken too seriously.
I The two Eskimos who accompanied him
say he went no distance north and not
out Of sight OF land. other men OF the
tribe corroborate their statement
(Signed) "Peary"
The greatest scientific controversy Of
modern ages was precipitated by the
message received by tho United Press
today from Commander Robert Edwin
Pcary T. S. n. who declares. over his
own signature that he is the real dis
coverer OF the North Pole and that
Dr. Cook, the other Brooklyn claimant
never went near the northern cxtrem-
ity OF the globe
The skepticism and doubt OF part
of the scientific world, manifested ever
since Cook first came forward with his
claim Is today burst into an open de-
mand that the Brooklyn physician
plorer come forward with proof OF his
clams or be branded as an impostor.
From the camp OF the Cook adher-
; ents there is coming Just as insistont
demand that Commander Peary provo
his own assertion that his party reach
ed the pole and at the same time that
he oner proof in support of his asser-
tion that DR. Cook is ID falSir.
As a result the scientific value OF
the twin discoveries OF tho pole, II. in
IlrpI hAfh nd -
! appears 10 have been lost in the kill
e kenney battle as 10 which explorer first
planted the Stars and Stripes on the
d very top Of the earth.
When, on September L. the news was
{ flashed TO an unprepared world that DR..
s Frederick Albert Cook. OF Brooklyn,
s had cabled from lcrwick shetland
Islands, the startling news that he had.
q on April 2i 1908. more than a year
~ previously. planted the American en-
At sign on the North Pole. the world hail.
81 ed him as the greatest explorer OF thl
ages.
In But within a day or two. skepticisr
ed became manifest and grew in intensit'
The scientific world was willing to nc
cept DIR. Cooks statcnent II declare
when. he advanced some 1fooe------,
~ American and European geographic,
re Royal Danish Geographical Society. re
nd served judgment which placed them II
I'd the SHOW me" state
m In Copenhagen, DR.. Cook remained
q mum on his data, rescrving il for the
b book he Is later to write.
l. Then came the bombshell.
70 On September 9Th last. Monday there
- came from Indian Harbor. via Cape
e Ray \. r., a wireless message from
p Commander Robert Edwin Pcary. who
o declared that he had found the polo
on April 9Th, 1909. a few days less than
year later than the time Cook claim
ed TO have reached the pole.
Few scientists doubted Peary's claim.
He is an explorer Of world wide tune
L. and his veracity has never been Ques-
' toned
In Copenhagen. DIR. Cook declared he
hailed with delight the statement that
Peary had reached theh pole. He can
& thoroughly substantiate my statement
that / was the first man to get there
said Cook
But Peary has not substantistet
Cooks story
The battle is on.
The Schley-Sampson controversy n
which all the soiled linen I'm .Ac Amer
Is ican navy was washed before the eye
o. Of the whole world. will be duplicated
as and the nations will witness tho spec
ne tacle OF two scientists and explorers bat
" ling for the right TO claim the laurel
ne OF victory.
: How the controversy will end IS prob
ne lematcal Scientists say it will finalA
oy develop into court trial. with the fore
81 most scientists Of America and Europe
up sitting as a tribunal Both Peary and
'h Cook will be called upon for proof The
OF whole disagreeable controversy will be
x threashed over by the scientists in The
ne weight OF the scientific claim each man
ls can bring forward. The palm Will 20 10
m tho real conqueror Of the nole.
A significant fact in the likening Of
Dix tho Cook -Poary imbrogllo with the
2 schiey-sampson controversy is the fact
that Rear Admiral Schley has come for
ward with the assertion that he accept,
ie Cooks claims without reservation.
Tho details OF Commander Peary's rea
A. sons for refusing 10 accept as true Dr
III Cooks statements cannot be secured a
this time. But the Peary adherents Il
- America and Europe who have taken u
the cudgels declare there are numberiez
y incidents 20 support Commander Peary'
~ assertions.
!, The strongest Of these, they say.
. the fact that DR.. Cook made his tri
y, without a white companion.
y, AT the time he claims TO have reache
eu the pole he was accompanied by tv
/. Continued on Second Page.
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~ WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 8.-Soa'