Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-28
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MARRY WHITNEY, NOW ENRouTE
HOME, DENIES SOME OF
PEARYs STATEMENTS.
COOKS ESKIMO COMPANIONS
SHOW PEARY TO BE LIAR
Never Told Rival Claimant for Polar
Honors That Cook Had Only Been
1.-TWO Sleeps" From Land-Natives
Said Peary Tried to Make Them
Deny Trip to Pole.

Deny Trip to Pole.
st. Johns, N. F, Sept. 2S-The arctic
vessel JEANNE, with Harry Whitney, of
New Haven, has arrived here from the
Greenland coast. via. Indian Haroor
Labrador.
Regarding the statements made to
him by Cook in Greenland, Whitney
said that Cook arrived at Annotok in
April Of this year and declared that he
had reached the pole the year before.
He pledged Whitney not to tell Peary,
who was to be informed only that Cook
had passed Peary's previous record
Cook told Whitney he had accom-
plished more than he expected to.
Whitney cid not communicate to Peary
all that Cook told him. Cook COM
planned of Pearys having taken over
his house and stores, but declared that
he had suffered no unfairness.
Used Cooks Stores First.
Peary's steward, Pritchard, was
present when these statements were
maed. Murphy. Peary's boatswain,
had written instructions from Peary
which Whitney, at Peary's request,
read over to Murphy from time to
time. They directed that Murphy use
Cooks stores first and Peary's after
wards. Also that If Cook returned he
was to be given every help. When
Cook and his Eskimos arrived at An
notok they had no sledges, having left
them twenty miles out. Next day the
sledge was recovered. It contained
Cooks scientific instruments, food and
clothes. At Cooks request Whitney
took charge Of these instruments when
Cook left for home. Whitney says
Cook left no written records that he
knows Of.
Denies Peary's Claims.
Whitney says that when Peary
reached Annotok he told him that Cook
said he had gone beyond Peary's
farthest north, but Peary made no
comment, Next day Cooks Eskimos
came to him and asked what Peary's
men were trying to get them to say
Peary's men had shown them maps,
but the Eskimos declared they did not
understand these papers. AS far as
Whitney is aware, Cooks Eskimos
never admitted they and Cook had,
only progressed two sleeps" from
land.
Cooks Baggage Put Ashore.
Whitney said he told Peary that
Cook instrusted to him certain belong
ings to bring home. Peary declined,
Whitney says, to permit Cooks belong
ings to be brought aboard the Roose-
welt. Whitney thereupon went ashore,
and with the assistance of Captain
Bartlett, commander Of the Roosevelt,
separated Cooks property from his
own baggage, repacked them in boxes
and left them ashore.
Cooks Eskimos Will Guard Records.
New York, Sept 2S.-"My instru-
ments are not lost. ann sure of that"
said DIR. Cook. II shall have them
brought here. My Eskimos are at
Etah and they known the value of the
instruments, altho they do not under
stand how to use them. They have q
kind Of sacred regard for them and will
take good care of them
"If 1 had known what know now
I should not have left either records
or instruments at Etah. Mr.. Whitney
going to that place, and advised me to
leave my things in his care, to be
brought to New York OH board his ship,
where they would not be jolted 80
much as in a long sledge journey over
the rough ice to Upernavik. 1 did not
think at any moment of having them
forwarded on the Peary ship. If I
had not met Mr.. Whitney I should
k1,.1 ,1o
to Upernavik.
CAS- to the incident Of the American
dag which had hoisted temporarily
et the pole, and then brought back to
Etah with me, gave it to Mr.. Whit
ney on his special request.
"He had it in his private trunk when
he went on board the Roosevelt, but
he was not, according to his own
statement, permitted to bring it with
him. He was compelled to take it out
Of the trunk and bury it,"
Asked what he thought of Peary's
action, DR.. Cook said: IT prefer to
wait. II Peary had been in need Of any,
thing at Etah he could have had ev-
erything of mine. gave Mr. Whitney
instructions to turn over any of my
things to Peary or any white man who
required them, and when he came
away to give them to my Eskimos"
On the question Of his equipment DIR.
Cook was very emphatic that he pos
sessed all that was necessary The
statement that the condition Of his
boots would show whether he had been
to the pole brought the following re-
ply:
I'VE used Eskimo sealskin kamiks.
When the first pairs were worn out
we gave them to the dogs to eat when
we reached Jones Sound, and there
made new Ones These also were worn
out, and we made others, with which
we returned to Etah. When we arrived
there the boots were comparatively
new"
DR.. Cook, in a lecture last night, un-
der the auspices Of the Arctic Club Of
America, at Carnegie hall, added no es-
sentiai facts to his narrative OF the
discovery Of the north pole, but sup
piled added circumstances to those
passages which have been previously
criticized for their lack Of detail.
Harry Whitney," he said, asked
me to entrust to him as special fav-
or the nag that planted at the north