Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-10-07
|PFARY' REASONS
COMMANDER PEARY SPECIFIC
ALLY STATES WHY HE Dis
CREDITS COOK
DISTANCE FAR TOO GREAT

TEEN HUNDRED MILES IN
sLEDGiNG SEASON
Bar Harbor, Me-, Sept 3o.-From
Robert E. Pea9y a reporter for the
New York Herald obtained this after
noon a forecast of the indictment he
| and General Thomas Hubbard will
draw against DR.. Frederick A. Cook in
the North Pole case.
1 Mr.. Peary's statement will embrace
the technical points on which he hopes
to disprove all Dr. Cooks claims.
4 1t will be submitted as proof not
only that DR.. Cook was not at the pole
but that Mr.. Peary himself is the only
one entitled to be called the discover
er of the goal that has been sought for
three centuries.
MR.. PEARY's CHARGES.
There are fourteen points raised by
Mr.. Peary, and as outlined by nlm are
as follows:
First, That Mr.. Peary and Matt
| Henson, either individually or together
talked with every member of the
Smith Sound tribe of Eskimos and OBJ
tanned testimony that corrobora es
that OF E-Tuck-A-Shoe and A-PeI-Lah,
the Eskimos, who accompanied DR..
Cook, that Dr. Cook had not been out
of sight of land.
Second, That in violation of a Gus
tom Of Arctic exploration, DR.. Cook
has not brought back records left in
cairns at points he asserts he had
reached, notably those left at Cape
Thomas Hubbard in 1906 by Mr.. Peary
Third, That DR.. Cooks story that
he Travelled from Annotok to the pole
and then back to Jones Sound, dis
lance of more than twenty-five and
one-half degrees, or about seventeen
hundred miles in one sledging season
is impossible He points out that this
is more than twice the best previous
record of eleven degrees, and Mr..
Peary's best record of this year of
fourteen degrees.
i Fourth, That his general equip
ment was such that it would be physi-
cal impossibility to have accomplish
ed the feat.
i EQUIPMENT CARRIED.
Fifth, That DR.. Cook maintains
he carried glass mercurial horizon
on his trip of seventeen hundred miles,
whereas Mr.. Peary used a cast iron
horizon sa that it would not only be
saved from being broken, but eolifd
be heated when the mercury froze.
1 This is necessary sometimes, Nh. Peary
contends, as mercury freezes at minus
IS. Cook reports finding it as cold
as minus 73 degrees.
Sixth, That Professor Marvin
brought back from 1888 duplicate rec
ords of Mr.. Peary's march and of his
I! own to prove absolutely that Mr.. Peary
Preached that latitude.
/ Seventh, That Captain Bartlett
brought back from BIAS duplicate rec
ords Of Mr.. Peary's march and o. his
own to prove absolutely that Mr..
Peary reached that latitude.
Eighth, That the sledge OF DR..
Cooks was of such type, not built
lon the lines Of any arctic explorers
sledge, that 1t could not possibly have
lasted for march of day with a
standard load OF five or six hundred
pounds.
Ninth, That DR.. Cooks snow shoes
were of an impracticable type for use
in the Arctic and were not the kind
y that would conduce to speed.
THE WHITNEY CASE.
Tenth, That DR.. Cooks. leaving OF
his records at Etah was a scheme on
h tal, \
We're lost or destroyed and so could
escape being forced to produce them to
4 Isubstantiate his claims:
Eleventh, That no man who had
carried the American flag to the Pole
would leave such slight and easily
II transported article in the charge of q
perfect stranger
Twelfth, That DIR. Cook did have
fresh dog teams from Etah and coul1
have carried his burdens to UpernayiGs
Thirteenth, That when Harry Whit
ney went on board the Jeanne he did
4 not take Ike time to go bacA to Etah ana
get the articles he must have known
were valuable to DR.. Cook.
Fourteenth, That il DR.. Cook did
leave such priceless articles at the Es-
kimo village .Ar. Whitney would have
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3 the United States
a Whitney Interviewed
st. Johns. Newfoundland. Sept. %. -
Il The Arctic vessel Jeannie, with Harry
Whitney Of New Haven, has arrived
here from the Greenland coast, viagln
Edian Harbor, Labrador. KS
Regarding the statements made to
i him by Cook in Greenland, Whitney
| said Cook arrived at Annotok in
i April this year and declared he had
reached the pole the year before. He
pledged Whitney not to tell reary. who
was to be Informed only that Cook had
passed Pearys previous record. Cook