The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-07
PEARY WILL
TELL STORY
Details Of His Conquest
Expected in Twenty
four Hours.

New York, Sept 7.-Commander
Robert E Peary's own story Of his
successful conquest of the North Pole
will. In all probability. be given TO the
world within twenty.four hours. The
explorer and his party are due at
Chateau Bay today. and from there
all arrangements have been made for
The quick dispatch of Peary's narra-
tive. no matter what its length may
be. TO all papers of the world
Messages received from Peary and
! his companion indicated that they had
found the North Pole April 6. OF this
year and that on the return to civili-
zation, Commander Peary has prepar
3 ed a readable story of his journey 10
! the mysterious goal of centuries and
the retreat from there to civilization.
This story will first come direct into
| a New York newspaper Office which
contributed literally 10 the Peary eX-
pedition and which had contract
with the explorer for his first story.
| The coming details Will he an elab-
! Grafton Of Commander Peary's first
word TO the civilized world after he
had reached the pole. which was sent
: yesterday by him from Indian Harbor
! TO the Associated Press. This first
! bulletin from the famous explorer was
. IN every large city half hour after its
receipt in New York and from all ma
tions come reports of the excitement
! it caused following so closely on the
announcement of DR.. Frederick A.
Cook OF Brooklyn. who is now receiy-
| ing the homage of the world in Con
enhagen, that he was the first dis
coyerer Of the North Pole
DR. Cook was at a banquet In his
honor In Copenhagen when Command
er Peary's dispatch to tho Associated
/ Press was read TO him. DR.. Cook lost
| little time in sending to New York
( number of cablegrams IN all of which
he expressed his gratification that
Peary had also reached the pole and
announced his belief that Pearys OBJ
servations would amply verify his
own claim that he had been TO the
furthermost point Of the compass,
DR.. Cook was particularly joyous
that. with Commander Peary's sue
! cess. which he did not In the leas:
doubt, all the honor for the achieve
ment was now fully American. In 4
telegram TO New York. Dr. Cook de-
clares that the science of exploration
Will benefit immeasurably through the
fact that Peary reached the pole by a
route different from his, thus covering
{ another large unknown space and, with
the Cook observations. clearing a mys-
terry which has perpleXed geographers
many centuries.
That the North Pole should be found
and its announcement chronicled at
about the same time is but one coinci-
dence In q strange series OF facts which
has kept the public Of the world ex-
cited. perhaps. as never before. for
a week.
Among these condolences are men
toned that the pole was found by two
Americans that for the first time two
polar explorers attempted TO reach
the apex Of the earth at the close of
the winter season over the frozen
polar seas that their first announce
ments of their success were quite SIM
liar; that both men mad devoted their
lives TO exploration of polar areas;
that they bad been connected with
scientific organizations, and lastly and
probable immateT!ally. the wives and
families of the two great rivals have
been spending the summer at the same
little out-otthc-way town on the
Maine coast
Amcns Jne members Of the Ameri-
can Geographical society now in this
city there Is an inclination TO believe
that the exciting news Of the last week
has been the oulminatlon OF a record
breaking race between the two ex-
plorers from the dome OF the world TO
the first telegraph wires which might
bring them fame and fortune. Cook
found the North Pole April 81, 1905
and. after a journey Of terrible hard
ships. he made his winter quarters
last about a year ago near Etah. from
which place nc had started for the
pole. From preliminary reports, 1t Is