The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-23
Clears Up Many Obscure
Points in Wireless Story /.
Being Published
DESCRIBED INSTRUMENTS AND
SHOWED ONE Of MS DIARIES
Could Not Take Observation From the
North Star Because Il Was Continu.
. Gus Day When He Was at the Pole
and Stars Were Not Visible.

New York, Sept. 23-No official rep
resentative of the nation or the state
will attend the big banquet given for
DR.. Frederick A. Cook tonight at the
Waldorf Astoria. The mayor Of New
York also declined to sonction the
Brooklyn explorers claims to North
Pole honors by attending this frst
public function in honor of DIR. Cook
outside of his own borough Of Brook
lyn, but the New York city govern
ment Will be represented by p. F. Nc
Gowan, president of the board of al
iermen, and b. S. Coler, borough
president Of Brooklyn, and several
other we'll known men will SIT at the
speakers table.
New York, Sept. ga number of
newspaper men were received by DR..
Frederick A. Cook at his apartments
At the Waldorf Astoria and they
sought to clear up some of the points
in DIR. Cooks story published by the
New York Herald which were obscur-
I'd In the editing Of the wireless story.
Good Memory.
The material points of DIR. Cooks
answers today did not differ in q
great degree from his original recital.
Some slight details were cleared up.
however, which thrown light on the
way In which the polar dash was eff
iected. AS the questions asked were
put by laymen they did not go deeply
Into the. scientific aspect of the expe-
dition. But DR.. Cook was ready to
answer anything pertinent to the is
sue.
The most Interesting phase Of the
Interview was reached when DR.. Cook
was askedyif he would object to show
Ing his diary. He Immediately con-
sented and after retiring to his room,
returned with q small octave note
book, which he showed freely to all.
It was a thin book containing 176
pages, each of which was filled with
fifty or sixty lines Of penciled writing
In the most minute characters. The
book, he said, contained considerably
more than 100000 words, while he
has besides other books embracing
his observations and other data. He
AS question after question was ask
ed, whether it was Of q trivial nature
or of more serious trend, DR.. Cook
answered in low voice without hest
fancy, as though in full possession of
all his facts.
The interviewers were rather Sc
we're in regard to details. but nothing
indicated that the polar travellers
memory was at fault even in the most
minute particulars. Sometimes when
a petty question indicated ignorance,
he smiled with good humored sym-
pathy at the lack Of technical knowl-
edge displayed. Occasionally when
question was long and complicated,
he asked for its repetition.
Not once did he refuse to reply, ex-
cept when the name of Commander
Peary was broached. Even then he
said he always and did now consider
Peary as his friend, but controversial
subjects in connection with his rival
he avoided entirely saying that they
could wait. Throughout the inter-
view he exhibited the utmost patience.
When requested to say what had oc-
CURED at his meeting with Harry
Whitney, the New Haven sportsman,
he said he preferred to let Whitney
tell his own story as Whitney was
quite unbiased. His reasons In i'm
posing secrecy on Whitney, on Pritch-
and the Eskimos were prompted by
his desire to be the first to tell the
world his discovery. He had done
the work, he said, and was entitled
10 relate how 1t had been carried out.
Some Of the important questions
put to DR.. Cook during the interview
and his replies thereto follow:
@. Did anything ever. occur in the
life of yourself and Mr. Peary that
would create an enmity or bitterness
btween you!
A. No, nothing whatever that /
know Of.
@. Do you look upon Commander
Peary as q friend or as an enemy?
A. must say / do not know. !
have treated Mr.. Peary as friend,
and until know more about the SIT
uation shall continue to do the
same. ~
Q. Bid you ever say anything in
Etah that, indicated that you feared
for your life II he got there?
A. No.
@. Would you tIbe willing to meet
Peary In debste when he gets here?
A. As far as am concerned the
Peary incident is closed.
Mr.. Peary Is not the dictator Of my
affairs, and do mot care to say any
thing further about him.
@. Did you know Mr.. Whitney
when you had met him on your re-
turn to Etah: -, 81
= No, he introduced Il himself, but