The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-14
Contrast Shows the Point Of
Difference is Who Got
There First
PEARY TELLS ABOUT MS
FINAL Dash TO THE POLE
Only One Eskimo Was With Peary
When He Reached His Objective
Point So That He is in Worse Pc.
sition Than Cook for Corroboration.
Peary Claims.

SO = = = . . =
= Peary Claims. Z"
That-He discovered the North
. Pole on April 6, 1909.
That-He found strong ice
drift to SOUTH" and new ice form
. ing over cracks, buckling sledges '
as they passed over. .
= That-He made the longest =
= march on the way to the pole, =
and the "going" was the easiest =
of the trip .
That-He found the temperature =
at the North Pole 38 degrees be-
: low zero.
. That-He averaged more than
eighteen miles day in dash of =
345 miles to the pole.
That-He found nothing but
snow and ice around the region, I"
and that there were no signs of I"
life rland.
Cook Claims. =
, That he discovered the North .
Pole on April 81, 1908.
That-He found vast sea of pur-
pie snow and ice, no land and no
life in the region centered by the
> pole.
That-He found the ice packs .
more active" and that cracks .
: made were healed quickly by new
> Ice, and did not impede progress.
That--In the last 100 miles to
the pole the ice was smooth and
"going" easiest and fastest of the =
trip.
That-He found temperature at
the North Pole IS degrees below
= zero. s@b =
:. That-He averaged f6-smHesS a :
: day In the dash Of $50 miles TO :
= the pole. =
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Battle Harbor, Labrador, via wire
less telegraphy to Cape Bay, N. F.,
Sept. 1.-THE Associated Press tug
Douglas Thomas, after a stormy pas
sage up the west coast of New Found
land and through the trait of Belle
Isle from SydGey, wires as follows:
ARRIVED at this lonely wheeling and
mission settlement at noon yesterday
and went alongside the steamer
Roosevelt, while looked little the
worse for her second trip to the po-
lar regions. The commanders greet
Ing was cordial. The following state:
ment was made to the representative
of the Associated Press by Comman-
der r. f. Peary in reply to question
on the Peary-Cook controversy: i
am the only white man who has ever
reached the North Pole and am pre-
pared to prove it at the proper time.
I have already stated publicly that
Cook has not been to the pole. This
I reafiirm, ard will stand by 1t, but
I decline to discuss the details of the
matter. TheeS will como out later.
I have said that DIR. Cooks statement
that he had reached the North Pole
should not be taken seriously and
that 1.have him nailed i have cor
crete proofs to support my state
ment. In six months you will proba-
bly, will get the whole story. It
would not be policy for me to enter
upon full debate wit tthe subject
as 1t now stands To do SO would
be giving out much information CT
which other uses could be made. I
intend to wait until DIR. Cook has
issued his authorized statement. Up
to the present time there have been
only newspaper accounts of DIR. Cooks
alleged polad trip and these may or
may not be accurate. When DR.. Cook
has time to issue a complete, authoriz-
de version of his Journey it will be
the proper opportunity for me to make
public the information. After which
that Jury, in other words, the people,
the scientific bodies of the world, will
pass Judgment on the matter, and
there will be nothing left of DR.. Cook g
but his own assertions that he has
reached the North Pole. In the mean
while it is my determination not to
deal with the debate for the reasons
already stated"