The San Francisco call., 1909-09-27
Whitney Wires That Peary Re
fused to Take Cooks Be-
Iongings on His Ship
DOCTOR HAS DUPLICATES
OF ALL, OBSERVATIONS
Absence of Instruments Will
Not Affect Ultimate Result,
Says Explorer
COMMANDER SAID TO BE
PREPARING STATEMENT

SONLNhhItOI<h SAlO IU DL
PREPARING STATEMENT
NEW YORK Sept 26-Com-
IN n1ander Robert E Peary refused
= absolutely to allow any Of the
records or Instruments of Dr. Fred
erick A. Cook to be brought aboard
the steamer Roosevelt and was thus
instrumental in czusing these records
to remain m a cache ar Etahy Green-
land, according TO Harry Whitney, the
New Haven SPORTSMAN IN dispatch
received IN this city by Doctor Cook
today
The message which came as a re-
sponse 20 one sent by Doctor Cook,
follows
stKxfhcsna- VIA fndizn Harhor and
Cape Ray " =, sepf- e6-
mr. f. 4 Cook waIdbsf> View York
Started for home Roosevelt.
Hofhnx arrfved for me- Peary
we1Ia allow nothing heEanxnx ts
ysu On hoard s.Sk to leave exery-
thknx IN cache ~ Efah-
Net CHp<ata sam Of the Nc<Sh
stzE- Did net - baeE after Enfng
81 schssner hoznH g. St Johns to
tnke the steamer kome-- Hope You
re we'll See ssz .aen- Explain
AL Goad shsufinx-
HARRY WHITNEY
Doctor Cook was qre<thnned to-day
as 90 his view OF the situation created
By the action a.scr1bed tn Caramander.
Peary. but he declined IN say anything
derogatory of his rival
Duplicate OF Records
1T may be that the Instruments VIII
arrive this year after au.- he said and
as for the records and ohservatiorz.
their nonarrfvaI here makes no dfrsr-
ence whatever as I have compIetsd
duplicates so that there VIII be no de-
lay In compiling my stnrT with an fts
details"
Doctor Cook did not appear TO be
greatly perturbed by the news he had
received from Whitney He hopes to
see him In very zhorr time and hear
a complete explanation Of the occur
rences at Etah-
Doctor Cook denied the report that
he was to bring suft for slender against
Pezry-
said 7 have no frtertion Gf bringing
suit Naturally 1 am taking measures
to have everything In order in case of
necessity. but I have never even
thought Of fItng a suft- and wish TO
contradict such reports at once"
IL they are still at Etzh, Doctor
Cooks instruments may not arrive In
New York until the spring months OF
1910 There In a possibility. however
of their reaching here this year as
another vessel may have touched at
Etah after the Roosevelt left there
VIII Not Effect Result
Il shall watt continued Doctor
Cook Il think that Whitney knew
what he had IN his possession II would
be very difrcuIt 70 say what effect the
occurrence win have The absence Of
the records and Instruments VIII. how
ever not AFFECT the ultimate result a
particle But tt would he-very desirable
to have the Instruments here-that is
certain
whitney certainly knew that the ef-
fects left with him were important He
was compelled to tell Mr.. Peary that he
had my things with him He is too hon
est to suppress such information
Il had not spoken-to Whitney of any
myself He had believed that ship
would come for him from the American
side and the things would go along
with IT,.
The leaving OF the instruments may
cause delay in sending any records TO
Copenhagen. but will not affect the peo-
pie who are to make the final investi-
cations. There were a few originals
among the documents left with Whit
ney, but it will not make any difference
If they are never found again.
Instruments Not Lost
.sThe instruments are not lost. The
Eskimos know where they are. They
will be looked after. Whitney has sent
no word except that they are at Etah.
..As to the question OF proof. that is
the same whether the observations are
made by one person or by five Or more.
Il am sure Peary had no means of
cure ~ mo since the mid
die of April but he knew that had
gone south
MY instruments were packed sep
arately in several boxes and these were
nut into a hacking case. They could