Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-10
Cook Will Sail Saturday
for New York
CAPT. AMUNDSEN MAY RETURN
WITH POLE FINDER
SCIENTISTS EVERYWHERE HAVE
LIVELY WRANGLE
Peary's Rival Endeavors to Send Ves-
sell to Get Esklmos to Prove
Claims - Controversy
Grows Keen


~ from Christiania Saturday on
board the Observation-Disclosures
liner Oscar II for New York,
where she is due September 20
or 81.
Probably Capt. Roald Amund-
sen will accompany him.
DR.. Cook has abandoned his
proposed visit to Brussels on the
advice of friends.
DR.. Cook asked the officials of
the Danish Greenland admins
tration to arrange for the dispatch
of one of their boats to Green
land at his expense to get the two
Eskimos who accompanied him
to the pole.
The official said it is now too late
for such an attempt and advised him
that he must await for spring, which
he will do.
He proposed to Gould Brokaw, who
is here with his yacht Fedora. that
they make a start for Greenland imme-
d,ately but Brokaw would not agree.
Controversy Chaotic
The Copenhagen papers are full OF
the controversy. Almost all support
Dr. Cooks claims, but throw no new
light on the subject.
Captain Amundsen is one of the
strongest supporters of the explorer,
who is now backed up by Edward Bay,
the zoologst of the expedition under
Captain sverdrup in the Fran in
1S9S-19O2.
On that expedition Captain Sverdrup
made highly important scientific in
vestigatfons and it was over the route
mapped out by Sverdrup that Cook
made his journey northward.
DR.. Bay today had a long interview
with DR.. Cook, at the conclusion OF
which he said that while at first he
had doubted Cooks story, he was now
certain of it's truth as far as the route
claimed to be taken was concerned. Dr.
Cook, he said, gave him accurate de-
scriptions of places and things that no
other white man except Bay had ever
seen.
Danes Dislike Peary
DR.. Bay asserted that the Danes in
Greenland were unfriendly to Com
mander Peary because they believed
he teeated the Eskimos badly and
forced them to work for him.
The University of Copenhagen today
conferred upon DR.. Cook the honorary
degree of doctor of science (honoris
causa) in the presence of more than
a thousand persons who cheered the
explorer heartily.
In thanking the rector, DR.. Torp, for
the honor, DR.. Cook said that the uni
versity should be the first to see the
records.
Peary Travels Slow
Commander Peary is still at Battle
Harbor. He is making slow progre SIS
southwark toward North Sydney, N. S.,
whence he will proceed to American
ports
No further word has come from him
to any questions concerning the mo-
mentous controversy which has aroused
Europe and America by reason of his
challenge of DR.. Cooks claim.
DIR. Cook is still at Copenhagen. the
center of marked attention from dig
nlLdT1eS OF LIle OlIlCldl anu SClOIlLlllS
world, but with diminishing prestige,
owing to the cloud overcasting his
glory since Peary's announcement, and
his dramatic challenge of Cooks ex-
plot.
What the corroborative data is on
which the two explorers base their
positions, Is still withheld from Cook
because of his determination to bide
his own time in presenting his evil
dence and from Peary, because he is
still beyond the range of ready COM
munication.
Scorn Apparent
Foreign comment as expressed by the
London and other metropolitan jour
nails, while still highly wrought with
mingled enthusiasm and doubt, is be-
ginning to be tinged with fiippancy and
scorn.
The trend of this foreign comment
appears to be against Cook, the pre-
vailing view being that judgment goes
against him by default, in non-presen-
tation of his evidence.
On the other hand, his champions
insist that all this will be Forthcoming
at the proper time. Concerning Peary,
the foreign attitude appears to be one
of accepting without question his an
nouncement of reaching the pole, al
though there is still a reserve of Judg-
ment in his accusation as to Cook s
claim as to having reached the pole
also.
The two Eskimos who accompanied
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