Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-11
PEARY, WHO WILL coN ss
RAIL, is EXPECTED WEEK EH
FORE COOK, WHO SAILS from
Il COPENHAGEN TOMORROW,
COOK SAYS PEARY'S
STORY SUSTAINS fI
POINTS OUT THAT WHERE 81
WAS Ri1IcULED FOR cLAl ssiNs
IS MILES a DAY, RIVAL GilAlM
ED HE MADE 2s MILES.

New York. Sept. 10.--It is now: bs
lieyed Peary will reach New Yprl
about one week In advance of Cesox
who is to sail tomorrow from gopssis
hagen. Therefore Peary is expected
to submit the details Of his f1ndinss ss,i
the pole before Cook can have an esSp
portun1ty to provide proofs in Amer
lea, which he has promised to beai
out his claim that he discovered ths
pole almost year before Peary was
there. The proof that Cook wished I'd
submit that he had been to the pole
accompanied by two Eskimos, will MI
be Forthcoming until next year.
Cooks Proofs Delayed.
According to adyices from Copen
hagen, Cook requested the Danish
government to assign one OF It's poIar
vessels to his use that he might send
an expedition at his own expense ia
bring the two Eskimos to substantiate
his claim. The government refused the
request, however, saying 1t was too
late in the year to reach that part al
Greenland. Cook then announced his
intention of dispatching ship for his
witnesses as early next spring as pos.
sibie.
Peary to Return by Rail.
Truro, N. S., Sept. l0.--The steam,
er Roosevelt, bearing the Peary
expedition, is expected to reach sgd.
ney tomorrow morning. Peary and the
members of his family, who meet him
at sydney, Will go to the United
states by rail, making only a briei
stay at Sydney The Roosevelt with
ner crew on board will proceed for
New York later.
Cook Answers Peary.
Copenhagen, Sept. 10.-The aston.
ishing speed OF twenty-six and a half
miles daily for nine days, made by
4 Commander Robert Peary on his dash
over the ice plains to the pole. ac
4 cording to the figures which he has
cabled to America and Europe. was
4 pointed out by DIR. Frederick A. Cook
4 and his supporters as the first linl, In
the chain of corroborative evidence by
I which Cook expects to substantiate
his claims.
Commander Peary's summary Of his
trip shows that he made the Anal 23g
miles to the pole in thirteen days.
Cooks claim that he made 224 niles
over the ice In fifteen days was met
with ridicule.
"Peary's figures are not Incredible &
4 declared DR.. Cook They could easily
have been made, providing Peary
I found the route smooth, which he IN.
doubtedly did. On his return to Cane
Columbia he must have averaged
more than twenty-six miles a. day. as
the trip was made in sixteen days and
1t is probable that several days will
have to be deducted on account OF
I the open water There is no contro
!, versy. The point wish to bring out ID
that Peary made greater speed than /
did.
Nothing but Chronology"
Then. too IL my first account VIZ,
: disappointing, as some Of my critics
have said, what must Peary's first de
tailed contribution to the work be
q ! described my journey in more or less
detail; Peary gives nothing but chron
ology.
"Peary will probably follow this
with the necessary elaboration, Jus
as intend to do
] This is the first personal criticism
OF Importance in which Cook has in
dulged. The comparison of time is th.
] AiiooS liu poi LdiiG uSfSlUpuISQC SO lar.
Conflict Raees in Copenhagen.
No mans word is more respecte,
in Copenhagen than that Of Capt
Road Amundsen, the well known arc
tic explorer. His enthusiastic supper
of Dr. Cook has increased IL possible
I lDenmark's faith in DR.. Cooks bon,
t fides.
For two years. says Capt. Amund
9 sen, I was very close to Dr. Cook
, during our antarctic expedition.
8 have met Peary a few times, but d
!, not really know him. Cook is the mos
9 reliable man / have ever met
q would trust no other man as / trus
8 him. He was medical officer of tn
g Belgian antartic expedition, hut W
y soon found other cleverness than tha
, Of a doctor in him. He was quiet an
reserved. but the success of the Who'll
Belgian expedition was due to him.
When in slow ice and humping u
d he got the expedition out. No one els
o. could He then wrote day by day an
"A np,,ld hauo r,fuap HE mo y,,,o a.i.,4 1