The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-09-24
COOK LANDS AT NEW YORK.
Says He Has Not Come Home to Ar
que But to Prove His Claim of
9BA Success.


ON the pole. I have brought my
Dry and my data with me. l have
HIS come home to enter into argu-
eents with one man or with fifty
ZEN, but I am here to present a clear
Becord Of a piece Of work over which
N have light to display a certain
Rhmount Of pride.
@ ~ am willing to abide by the final
kerdict Of competent judges. That
lone can satisfy me and the public.
y Furthermore, not only will my
report be before YOU in black and
HEhite, but I will also bring to America
@ uman witnesses to prove that | have
5 cen to the pole.
B Such is the substance Of the first
htssage Of DR.. Frederick A. Cook
E Fought home in person ho America
day. answering his critics the world
er.
At ) o'clock this morning the ex-
5rer. was on the deck Of the Oscar
I, which had purposely been held
lack yesterday. not to disarrange the
Pception plans Of the Arctic Club Of
merica. but leaving Fire Island
@ ortly after midnight she nosed her
)ay into quarantine at an hour too
Nearly for everybody but DR.. Cook.
II There was an anxious wait at quar-
Rantine while the tugs bobbed nervous
KY about, the newspaper men on board
Shouting through megaphones at the
Eblack sides Of the Oscar H., high
fabove them.
4 A speck in the distance began to
III assume dimensions. Presently it was
@ recognizable as the tug bearing Mrs.
COX and her two daughters. Quickly
9#he tug came alongside, and while the
heavy swell running ground her
&enders against the plates Of her big
Mister. Dr.. Cook clambered nimbly
&own Jacobs ladder, and with no
naoncern for the cameras trained on
BR8bim, made a rush for his wife. For
Bthe moment he even missed the chill
Gdren, who stood few feet away, un-
til his wife silently led him to them.
Then, as he lifted his youngest daugh-
Rter there to his shoulder, the silent
Matching crowd that lined The rails
pof the Oscar II broke into a storm Of
Gheers.
As DR.. Cook finally stepped ashore,
kt was noticeable at no representa-
Hive Of the Nation the State, nor he
Iksity was there to greet him. Bird s.
@Goler, president Of the Borough Of
#Brooklyn, had welcomed him On the
kkGrand Republic for that Borough, but
kthe city Of New York sent no official
representative. But sincere and en-
ehusiastic to the point Of tumultuous-
ness, his welcome may be described
Bas a neighborly affair, devoid Of off,
eial significance.
Crowds Tax Police.
lBroosiyn's reception to DR.. Cook
Mad all the elements Of riot except
violence. From the moment the Grand
kRepublic warped up to her landing
& nd the explorer, fanked by militia
hen and police, fought his way into
Rhn automobile, until he left the Bush
wick Club tonight for the Waldorf
Astoria, in New York, the surglng
kcrowds taxed the capacity Of the po-
&ice, and more than once got out OF
Beontrol. Along the five miles Of ave-
Enues, through which the explorer pass
ed, the mounted police were contiun-
ously fighting a way for DIR. Cooks
automobile, when they were not
hsteaming the massed thousands who
leemed to have only one object-to
loose and embrace DR.. Cook.
@ As the Grand Republic steamed up
b her dock, the whistle Of every craft
Eithin sight was tied down and din
What crowd out the brass Dands mao
" run Of fully five minutes. The crowd
was hustled off the ship and DR.. Cook
surrounded by eight militiamen of the
Rhf47th regiment came up the gangway'
SThe police threw a Gordon around the
party and pushed them through to
The automobile in which Mrs. Cook
and the children were waiting. A huge
motor truck. loaded with a brass band,
npulled GU ahead and Cooks automo-
R5ile followed. More that five hundred
Mother motor cars, every one afutter
with bunting, more taan two miles
long, moved to the Bushwick Club.
Il was as if Everybody in Brooklyn
Nhad turned out to greet Cook. 1t was
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