The San Francisco call., 1909-09-30
WHITNEY IGNORANT
OF VALUE OF DATA
Unaware That Polar Records
We're Contained in Goods
Left by DR.. Cook
Hunter Says Trouble With the
Ships Engines Tended to
Prevent Trip to Etah


NEW YORK. Sept 29.-The follow
ing dispatch was received by the Asso-
ciated Press tonight from Harry Whit
ney, the New Haven hunter, who an
rived at St Johns, n f., yesterday by
the schooner eJannie, on his way home:
STEPHENvILLE CROSSING, n. f.,
Sept. 2s.-So many questions are being
asked me by different papers that
decided to make the following state
ent through the Associated Press:
My reasons for not going back 10
F,tah after Doctor Cooks things was
the engines of the Jeannie, one OF the
smallest boats that went to the Arctic,
were not working satisfactorily and We
were depending partly on sails, wh1ch
later we had to do entirety
PROMISED ESKIIOS REWARD
There was no reason why the. JEANNE
could not have gone back, but not
knowing that Doctor Cooks things ieis
they have since turned out to be. did
not return. In addition had promised
the Eskimos, who were with me after
musk oxen inA Ellsmereland, cerIain
things which / expected on the ship
coming for me, but they We're not
aboard the Jeannie and did not want
to return and disappoint the men. An
other reason was that / wanted to pro-
long my hunting trip. which was aple
to do by not going back but by cut5ang l,1
across Smith sound from North Star
bay and following the edge OF the Ice
south.
| do not believe that either Doctor
my position. would have done any diff
ferently than j did, nor would they,
having started south for, civilization,
have turned back. had never seen
Doctor Cook until 1 met. him, in the
arctic. He told me he had been to
the north pole and was pledged not
but / could say that he had gone
farther north than Peary in 1906.
COOKS GOODS CACHED
Commander Peary. to my knowledge.
knew absolutely nothing about what
except that I mentioned instruments,
clothes and furs and also narWnaie
horn. Doctor Cooks belongings. left
Eskimos cover them with rocks
No one could have been kinder to
me or shown me more consideratlon ;iae
on the Roosevelt and he said he would
be very glad to have me remain aboard
and return with him instead Of Joining
Will Get Cooks Goods
ST. JOHNS, N. F., Sept. 29.-Members
of the schooner JEANNE said tonight
that when Harry Whitney learned in
Labrador of the polar controversy and
of the Importance of DR.. Cooks instru-
ments he engaged Captain Sam Bart
lett and his vessel to go up next year
and recover DR.. Cooks belongings at
Etah.
According to the Jeannie's crew,
while Commander Peary scoffed at the
idea that the sledge which DR.. Cook
gave as a souvenir to Whitney ever
covered a long distance, Whitney con-
tended that the sledge showed actual
proofs of what it had endured and that
the rear sections had been cut off to
make arrows for killing game, as DR.,
Cook described,
Refutes Peary's Charge
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 29.-Comment-
ing upon the question of artificial
horizon raised by Commander Robert
E. Peary in his statements to show
that Doctor Cook did not reach the
north pole, Professor Stronger of the
Copenhagen university said today:
Commander Peary must be under a
misapprehension. According to~Doctor
Cooks statement to me, he did not
use an artificia. horizon or mercury,
aid Of spirit levels, was set horizon
tally"
Fund for Polar Trip
LONDON, Sept. 2s.-The lord mayor
of London has announced his intention
of opening a mansion house fund to
assist Captain Robert F. Scott to raise
money for his expedition to plant the
union jack at the south pole.
VICTnpIA CEAI EDc HAVE