The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-14
Party of Newspaper Core
spondents Leave North Sgd
ney, N. S., to Get the Story
of the Commander Quickly.
EXPLORER MAY ARRIVE
BEFORE THE ROOSEVELT
Rear Admiral SChIey Praises
Dr. Cook and Captain 0SbOn
Is Heard From Once More in
Behalf of His Friend,
ACTION OF ARCTIC CLUB

Sydney, N. S., Sept. 13.-The gov
eminent steamer Tyrian, with news
paper correspondents, left North Sgd
ney tonight to meet Commander
Peary and the Arctic ship Roosevelt
somewhere off the west coast Of New
fOundland.
Efforts will be made to get Com
mander PeaTy to board the TyTian,
which is a much faster ship than the
Roosevelt, and come to Sydney,
Should Commander Peary decide to re
main on the Roosevelt the newspaper men
will interview the explorer and members
of his party, after which they will hurry
back TO this port where they viii land
several hours in advance of Commander
PeAry.
New York Sept. 13.-With DR.. Cook
homeward bound. Commander PeaTy now
in touch with the correspondents, two
swelling streams of conflicting atflrma-
ton are now Centered on a city already
boiling over. Comment and criticism lack
nothing of their previous acidity.
Previous assumption that Commander
Peary would have the United States navy
sOlidly behind him was not borne out in a
letter from Rear Admiral Schlay made
public today by Captain B. 5. Osbon. sec
rotary of the Arctic club of America, Of
which DR.. Cook is member.
The letter under date of Sept. II. from
PoCono Manor Pa, says,
Il hike Cooks attitude immensely IN
this unfortunate. unnecessary and unWlSe
controversy. He certainly has been digui-
fled and manly in the stand he has
taken"
Captain Osbon followed up his letter
from the admiral tonight with discus
~ On no discovered the north MOLE
DIR. Frederick A Cook he said, was
Tor two years my wife physician, l saw
him two or three times a week, and we
ChaJted many hours. II nave ever
known a man OF integrity, probity, sin
certify and mOdesty, it is Dr. Cook.
Peary Accused of Untruth.
at have known also the other fellow
known him to depart from truth by large
DR.. Cooks attitude in Withholding de
tails of his discovery was attributed to
his desire not to anticipate the publica-
ton of his book.
But as soon as the other claimant got
within reach of the wireless said the
captain, ''he sent dispatches to everybody
he could think OF, but delayed inform
ing the mother of the unfortunate Mar
win, who persisted during the expedi-
ton"
After a meeting Of the executive com
mittee OF the Arctic Club of America to-
night, r. o. Stehbins, its chairman, gave
the clubs attitude on the affair,
THE Arctic Club of America he said
'has nothing TO do with the controversy
All that the Arctic club recognizes is that
DR.. Cook IS the disCOveTer Of the pole
and that PeaTy reached there. Our only
desire is to honor the discovered. Neither
side has proved its case to America, but
since the Danish government has reCOg-
nized DIT. Cook, we feel that the burden
of proof now falls on his opponents.
"The Arctic club will present to DIT
Cook a gold medal two and One-half
inches in diameter showing in bas re-
lief Dr.. Cook standing on top of the
globe waving the Stars and Stripes"
Preparations to honor DR.. Cook are
more advanced than those for Peary, be
cause the laJter's arrival is more distant
and his plans as yet more nebulOUs. Sing
ing societies of Brooklyn have arranged
20 go down the harbor in a chartered
steamer TO welcome their hero with lyric
praise. Bells will ring and whistles blow
from factories ferries and all the water
craft Of the bay.
On the other hand, ia response to the
equally great interest in Peary. Drepara-
lions are being made at the American
Museum of Natural History here to set
apart a special section Of the building
for display of Peary's Arctic collections,
which have been housed in mOth-prOof
stalls for the summer.