The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-23

to relate how II had been carried out
Some Of the more important Ques
tions put TO Dr. Cook and his replies
follow:
Q. Did anything ever occur in the
life OF yourself and Mr.. Peary that
would create an enmity or bitterness
between you?
A No, nothing whatever that
know of,
Q. Do you look upon Commander
Peary as friend or an enemy?
A. | must say, do not know.
have treated Mr., Peary as friend
and until know more about the situ.
alton | shall continue to do the same
@ Did you ever say anything In
Etah that indicated that you feared
for your life IL he got there?
A No.
@ Would you be willing 10 meet
Peary In a debate when he gets hore?
A. AS far as | am concerned tho
Peary incident Is closed Mr.. Peary
is not the dictator of my affairs and
l do not care TO say anything further
about him.
Q. Did you know Mr.. Whitney
when YOU met him on your return
to Etah2
Trusted Harry Whitney.
a. No he introduced himself, but
/ did not catch his name and did not
know until the following day.
@ Did YOU know that Peary was
going to start up at that time!
A. No. / did not know.
Q. What caused you TO have such
confidence In Whitney that you en-
trusted your instruments to, him?
A, / knew him by name. and cir
cumstances that arose while l was
with him. justified my confidence
gave him the instruments TO bring
back because | thought they would bo
less liable TO injury on board his YES
sci than If | took them across glaciers
and rough ice country.
Q. What is your opinion OF the
story told by the negro, Henson Of
the information he obtained from your
two EsSimos?
A Well, the Eskimos we're bound
down by me not TO tell any one
where they had been | should like
you 10 have Henson here and cross
question him yourself Henson's teS.
timony is entirely founded on hear.
say.
Q. Knowing that a ship was com
ing north this summer for Whitney,
why did you not wait for that ship
and come direct to New York instead
of going TO South Greenland and sail
ing from there 10 Copenhagen?
A. | knew the Danish government
ship would get me home before Whit
ney's ship,
Q. What instruments did You have
with you from Cape Thomas Hubbard
and back?
A. SeXtant. artificial horizon, three
compasses, three chronometer watch
es, thermometers, barometers and a
pedometer
@ What kind of a seXtant did you
have and how many?
A One SeXtant. a French appar
atuS.
@. What kind of artificial horizon
did You have?
A. Glass
@ What kind of a transit or theo-
dolite did you have. and how many?
A. We did not use any,
Q. What kind of a compass did
you have?
a. We had one liquid compass. one
surveying compass.
@. What kind of compass did you
use to determine your compass varia,
ton?
A. Surveying compass; ii had an
azimuth attachment,
Was No Darkness.
Q. What compass course did you
take from Cape Thomas Hubbard
north7
A. Well. that changes every day.
If you follow the course of map you
have got the compass course.
Q. Was your determination of the
Pole solely by an observation of the
suns altitude or did you take OBJ
Seryations OF the polar star twelve
hours apart and By the determination
OF the celestial pole midway between
the two positions prove the accuracy
OF your position on the terrestrial
pole
A. How are you going to take an
observation by the polar star when
you have continuous sun? There Is
no night; YOU cannot have any stars;
there is no darkness,
@. What kind of observations did
You make at the pole and how many?
And what was the altitude of the
sun?
a. We have told that the altitude
of the sun gave us our positions: that
Is all there is to say about that We
made regular astronomical obserya-
tions such as would be made BY the
compass and other instruments. We
merely made the nautical obserya-
tlons that captain would have made
aboard a ship
@ VIII you describe In detail any
single observation taken by you at
the North Pole with the exact figures
of results and corrections applied?
A. Not at this present moment,
We will describe every one of them in
detail when they go to the university
of Copenhagen. They will go there
within two months. The entiro rec
ords will be delivered to the univer-
sity and after that they Will go 10
everybody that wants TO examine them.