Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-10
IS NOW FITTING UP SHIP FOR TRIP
TO GREENLAND TO BRING
NATIVES BACK.
WORLD WAITS FOR NOMADS.
Ignorant Barbarians VIII Stand Beside
Most Eminent Scientists When
Explorers Are Heard.
WILL STRIKE BACK AT PEARY

COPENHAGEN. Sept 9.-Dr. Fred
erick A. Cook is fitting out a ship and
will return to Greenland to bring back
the Eskimos who We're with him at the
pole.
Il have been to the north pole. As
l said when | heard of Commander
Peary's success, if he says he has been
10 the pole, l believe him." said DR..
Cook
L am willing to place facts. figures
and worked out observations before Il
joint tribunal of the scientific bodies of
the world.
Will Dispel All Doubt.
In due course l shall be prepared to
make public an announcement that eff
tectuaiiy will dispel any doubt, if such
there be, OF the fact that | have reached
the pole. But knowing that | am right
and that right must prevaiI / will sub
NIT at the proper time my full story to
| the court of last reSort-the people of
the world.
Il will not enter into any controversy
over the subject with Commander Pcary
further than TO say that if he says |
dave taken his ESkimoS my reply is that
EskImos are nomads. They are owned
9y nobody, and are not the private prop
erty OF either Commander Peary or my
sell. The ESkimos engaged by me were
paid ten times what they agreed to ac-
company me for.
Says Peary Took Stores.
AS to the story that Commander
ieary says | took provisions stored by
aim, my reply is that Peary took my pro.
visions; obtaining them from the custo-
dian on the plea that | had been SO long
absent that he was going to organize re-
lief stations for me i'll case | should be-
alive: For this l have documentary,
proof"
Coming so quickly upon other dramatic
Incidents of the week, Commander
Peary dispatch denying that DR.. Cook
had achieved the triumph for which he
has been feted and honored in Copen-
hagen beyond the lot of any other pri-
Vate person has been read here with.
amaZement and concern. But Dr. Cook
aihlseh seems III no wis" disturbed.
Cook Cool Under Fire.
He was perfectly cool and apparently
unmoved when confronted with tele-
grams from the United States saying
that Commander Pcary had denounced
him as an impostor His demeanor has
not changed i'll the slightest from the
day he landed ut Copenhagen.
DR.. Cook : friends had urged him to
their utmost TO make any statement pos
Slble to prove to the public that he had
found the pole, but he had said repeated
ly that all he had to say for the present
was that he Possessed proofs that he had
visited the north pole on April u. 1905
These proofs were convincing and in due
time would be given TO the world he
said.
When ii was suggested to him that
his chances of proving his case might
be ruined unless he made Il satisfactory
statement Immediately. he Smiled-his
usual quiet smilc-aud asked how could
a man be ruined by popular clamor call
ing him an impOStOr when he had proofs
of his case which could and would be
published. as he had oft times repeated.
when they We're i'll proper form to be
given out.
Eskimos Are Important
The two Eskimos who accompanied
DR.. Cook i'll his dash to the pole have
now assumed an all important place III
the CoOk-Peary controversy.
When Cook first announced the sue
cess of his journey and declared that the
two Eskimos were his only companions,
he was laughed at by Peary'S followers.
The latter claimed that the testimony of
natives was not reliable, and that Cook
could not possibly base the truth of his
claims OH their confederation.
Peary, however, practically established
the reliability of the Esk imos, when he
asserted that he would prove by their
testimony that Cook had never reached
the pole.
The world now awaits the arrival of
these two ignorant barbarians, who will
stand beside the most eminent scientists
of the civilized world to prove or dis
prove the claims of the rival eXDlOrers