Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-02
COOK IN BOSTON.
Continued from Page One.)

quainted while both were crossing the
Atlantic after DR.. Cook had announced
his discovery of the North pole. Dr.
! Trueblood will preside at DIR. Cooks
| lecture tonight ana introduce the ex-
plorer to the audience.
At the Hotel Touraine. to which DIR.
Cook and his party were driven, a great
crowd had gathered both within and with
out the building.
DR.. Cook was questioned regarding an
interview with Harry Whitney, the New
Haven sportsman, which was telegraph
ed from Nova Scotia last night and in
which Whitney stated that Dr.. Cook did
not leave any records with him at Etah,
but instruments only. In reply DR.. Cook
said this afternoon that he left several
cases with Whitney containing instru-
ments and also some rough drafts and
notes, which might not be Ineligible to
anyone else but which would be of great
value to DR.. Cook himself IN establishing
his claims. There is no question but
such notes We're there" said DR.. look
|emphatically.
DR.. Cook stated that he expected to
meet Mr.. Whitney in Boston tonight. He
believed that Mr.. Whitney would be at
his lecture tonight and he intended to
have Mr.. Whitney appear upon the plat
form and be presented to the audience
by DR.. Trueblood, although, he explained,
there had been no arrangement made with
Mr.. Whitney to that effect.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook, introduced by
Benjamin F. Trueblood. secretary OF
the American Peace Society of Boston,
,,,l,r,
Gently as one who Ibid not come as a
contrcversionist, nor to criticize or de-
fame another, or to say other men had
not done what he mad DONE tonight
in Symphony hall delivered his lecture
before a representative Boston audi
enct.
DR.. Cook took occasion to reply to
one recent and pertinent query Of
George KEENAN, in a magazine article
in which the writer claimed DR.. Cook
could OF take sufficient food supply on
two Sledges to last 81 days. Dr. Cook
said in reply:
Mr.. KEENAN, started out with the
idea that we used pressed musk OK
meat as food for dog and man. If We
had, his criticism would have been
Just. for we could not have lived on
less than 5000 pounds of such meat,
which it would have been impossible
to carry on two sledges. But we did not
have musk OK food. We had pemmican,
and we used one pound per man, per
dog. per day. One pound Of pemmican
is equal to five pounds of fresh meat.
so you will see that Mr.. Remnants fig
ures were alright when properly APP
Piled
Tonight DIR. Cook included Peary's
name in the list of intrepid explorers
who had preceded him to the Far
North; received hearty cheers when
he declared that his ship. the John r.
Bradley, was stocked almost entirely
with stores from Boston and was
again cheered when he stated his ex-
petition was mot backed by any polar
trust"
DR.. Cook declared the western route
was taken in order that if the expedi-
ton failed to reach the pole he would
at least have had the satisfaction of
exploring new country
The name Of Harry Whitney was re-
ceived with cheers when DR.. Cook men,
toned the fact he was expected to ar
rive in Boston tonight and that he
hoped to have him upon the platform.
The pictures of the two Esquimaux to
whom DIR. Cook gives the credit of ac-
companylne him to the pole brought
out much applause and in closing his
lecture DR.. Cook said
Il promise to bring them to Ameri-
can shores next year at my own ex-
pense. when they will tell you honest
IV and frankly Of fhnir a N
the Far North
DR.. Cook left on the regular mid
night express for New York over the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad. He did not meet Harry
Whitney in this city The latter is ex-
pecteG to arrive home at New Haven
tomorrow.