The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13
Dr. Hansen's Letter
 Gives Facts. COOK FORCED TO BEG FOR USE OF HIS OWN SUPPLIES Returns to Find Rival's Boatswais
 In Charge. Prominent Danish Physsciaa Gsves ver.ion Of Incident which rx- piorer's Deiicacy Prsmpt-
 sd Him To Cs.cesi.

copenhagen. Denmark. Sept. fay-A remarkabie letter. giving MT. Freder- rex A., COOKS version of the trouble ~i.n commander Peary over supplies appears Tn the newspaper PoIitiken. The letter was written by Dr. Norman hansen. prominent Danish physician who several times visited (;reentand 10 study eye diseases. of which he ha. made q speciality.
 pr. Cook told practically the same story to one of his closest Amerfcan friends just week ago. bsfore Com that he did not intend to make ii mil lic .
 pr. Hansen was with Cook for soma time In Greenland and returned y1rn nm on the Danish ship Hans Ereda. In his letter he says:
 NOW that Dr. Cook has gone, an no longer under any obligation to xeep silence and will exerclse my right to publish the story about the house in Annatok. . story which pr COOK himself had too much deiicacy 10 relate to the world. I write if ac- cordinB 10 my memory, in the sarne manner that Dr. Cook in Egedesminde told it to me and l am fully conyisac. ed that In no details are my rscoiisc- tions wrong.
 pr. Ceek BuiIt Dspst.
 "Dr. Cook had built his house fox stores in Annatok. north of Etah. and IT was this depot which ne Btarasd 10 reach in February. 1909, crossin9 smith sound It was Q pretty large house. the walls being built of heavily f,ilsd provision boxes so that Dr. Cook knew that when this important point was sescned' everything was safe. He had young friend named Whitnev that hs have the right to use the house whit hunting musk oxen for sport In Shs winter of lpoe-os.
 When Dr. Cook and hts two Esssx,. mos. exhausted and half starved oasns < within . short distance of the house ir Annatok, young whitney casna out tr bid him welcome but insids ths h.ss,x< was stranger. a giant New Nous.a. land bontswain on Awatch. Thix unn<, had hseu placed in Dr. Cooks houAs by Peary when the latter pasaAd Irtnt with his ship pound north. Peary had given the bontswain a written order which commenced with the foliewtne
 This house belong to Dr. FreSerses A. Cook, but pr. Cook ss long aw1 dead and there is no use 70 ssarch foi nlm. Therefore. I. Comma nder Rohari E. Peary. install my boatswain ln tiiia deserted house.
 This paper the boatswain. whe ited to pr. Cook and the Istter soah a's. < copy of this wonderful dceumenf This copy. however, he does not fntend to publish if Peary's couf sa daNe m force him to do so. pr. Cook gava s.s a lively account of how the young mi. lionaire Mir. Whitney, during the whoi4 winter. was treated like . dog by sie giant boatswain and how he had cairn- iy witnessed the sailor barterinx T,r Cooks provisions for fax and heaF skins for himself. pr. Cook also had 10 put good face on the unpfensant e,e- uation He had to beg tc get Into hia own house and had to maze d coupro- mise with the boatswain with strong fists.
 Gives House to EsksmAms.
 "Dr Cook made a crescent Of tha house with all its contents to hia two faithful Eskimos. with the proyiuo thaa Whitney was to have the usA of the house as long as his hunting trip laRl- ed. but he was compelled to let the New Foundiand boatswain coptinue hls watch. The boatswain, however. re- ceived strict ordersS<no tn exchange more of the provisions or gune.
 Now. I suppose the sailor win caIe~ brate his triumDhai entrahce into New York harbor aboard Peary's ship. while whitney is. wheref Aboard his own yacht Jeannie7 Or perhaps he has nos wanted to wait for his own boat and has gone aboard Pearv's ship.
 ITO Mfr. Whitney, Dr. Cook gave hts instruments and his observations as hA thought those precious things were safer there than on the long siedga krip in the spring across Melville Bay, buk all his note books and greasy and soil. ed record books which have been sa closely written upon. he kept and car ried with him. To me who under- stands a very little astronomy, the rec ords written down so closely and in men, Peary and Cook. their character, their conduct, that is what interests US. and every little item throwing q side light upon their nature ls valuable