The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-11
MAY SAIL TODAY.
Peary Expected to Resume Trip to
 United States.

Peary Expected to Resume Trip to
 United states.
 St. Johns, N. F.. Sept. 10-Com- mander Robert E. Peary Is expected to sail from Battle Harbor. Labrador. where he put in last Wednesday. for North Sydney, c. B.. tomorrow. The Roosevelt was at Battle Harbor late today.
 It Is not known here what time Commander PearyJ expects to reach North Sydney. but mariners acquaint- ed with the Roosevelt do not look for her appearance at the Cape Breton port before next Monday or Tuesday. Unless it Is necessary to put into Blanc Sablon for coal. Peary will probably not stop until he reaches North Sydney.
 The Peary-Cook controversy is of in- tense interest throughout New Found land. Today Captain Moses Bartlett, schooner John R. Bradley. which was fitted outfat Gloucester. Mass. In 1907. issued a public statement. as follows:
 "Dr. Cook Is correct in stating that Peary took his provisions after the steamer Erik returned to Brigus last fall. Three of her crew who be- ionged to Brigus told me that when Peary arrived at Etah that summer he took possession of all the stores had left there the previous fall for Cook, against his return from the north. These men say they helped to move the stuff from where I left 1t. The men are now on the Labrador coast This supply consisted of two dory loads of stores, food and kero- sene. which our crew piled on the beach and then placed the dories over. bottom up. piiing stones around and above them to make cache. At Annatook. thirty miles north. where Cook landed, I had previously put ashore two years supplies for COOK and five tons of hard coal. Our ves- sel. the John R. Bradley. was laden with stores and ten tons of hard coal. When Cook landed we gave him half the coal and the stores. except what we required to bring us home. Cook could not steal Peary's provisions, be- cause Peary had none on any part of the coast. having used up all the pro- visions left there by previous expedi- tions in his 1905-o6 trip"
 When seen tonight. Richard Pike, chief engineer of the steamer Erik. which served as an auxiliary vessel for Commander Peary last year. by conveying stores and coal to Etah to supplement those on the Roosevelt. said that Peary himself did not take Cooks provisions. nor were they put on board of Peary's ship. Pike said:
 
 welt. the boatswain and one of the firemen, with--the immense accumula- ton of supplies which he left at Etah when the Roosevelt went north and the Erik came south These men ap- parently in mistake. took some of Cooks stores that were also cached there"
 Another member of the Erik's crew who refused to have his name pub ushed. said tonight that the stores were taken by an understanding with Francke. Cooks assistant. in part pay ment for his passage from Etah to the United States. The stock of ivory, furs, skins and curios which Francke | and Cook had accumulated were &C., cepted as the equivalent of passage money, he said. The seaman stated that at that time Cook was regarded as dead as he had been missing and his stores and belongings were regard | ed as legitimately available for this purpose. Francke. he added was given to understand that in return for these gifts, a relief expedition would be organized as a sort Of side line by the Roosevelts crew to search for Cook and bring him back should he have been found alive. Peary May Arrive First.
 New York, Sept 1O.-It is now be-
 Iieved that Commander Robert E.
 peary will reach New York about one
 week in advance of Dr. Frederick A. Cook. who Is to sail tomorrow from CopenhaRen on the steamship Oscar | q.
 | Therefore the Peary Arctic Ciub's
 axplorer Is expected to submit the de-
 tails of his finding of the North Pole hefore pr. Cook can have an oppor-
 sunity to provide the proofs in Am erica which he has promised, that he discovered the North Pole almost
 wear before Peary was there. | A ship containing officials and news rsy today in search of the Roosevelt ana 1t Is possible that Commander peary and the members of his party
 wiIl nave been thoroughly interviewed by the time they reach land. | srha oroof that Dr. Cook wished to