The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-13
COOK REPLIES TO
 PEARY'S ATTACK Esquimo Boys Instructed Not to Tell Peary of Trip
 Over Polar Sea Complete Records In Hands of University of Copenha- gen Will Be Given to the World.
Especial from United Press.)

Cleveland, Oct. 13.-Dr. Frederick A. Cook replied to-day to Commander Peary's detailed charge that Dr. Cook did not reach the Pole. Peary's charge, made in the form of a statement to the public and signed by himself and four other members of his party, was that Cooks Eskimo boys-'I-Took-a- Shoo and Ah-He-lah" had admit ted at Nerke in August that Cook did not go to the Pole; that his farthest north was Cape Thomas Hubbard, or point about 81 1-2 degrees north lat itude.
 Dr. Cook came back to-day with the instructed not to tell Peary of Cook S trip over the Polar sea; that they kept their word and those things that they had said to Peary and his men had been twisted. Cook infers that l-Iook- a-Shoo and Ah-He-lah threw Peary and his men off the trail by telling of Cooks movements south of Cape Thomas Hubbard and true to their promise said nothing of their trip across the ice to the Big Nail"
 from Detroit. He was shown the Peary charges. Saying that he had not seen them before and betraying only passive interest in them, he went into the seclusion of his hotel room to read them and look over the map statement. It is Peary's claim that the map was prepared by himself, Bartlett, McMillan, Boruh and Hen son, from information given them by Cooks two Eskimos. The latter, ac- cording to Peary, pointed out on the map, cooks route, and the members of the Peary party had marked it down on the map.
 After Dr. Cook had read the charges he sent for the United Press represen- statement which was in his own hand writing:
 ''The Eskimos were instructed not to tell MT. Peary or his men of our trip over the Polar sea. They have kept their word. MT. Whitney has said understand the questions or the map. Their replies have been twisted to suit a perverted interest.
 q will not enter into an argument about the matter but I will bring the Eskimos to New York at my own eX- pense and they will prove as did MT. Whitney, all that I have claimed.
 My, complete records are in the hands of the University of Copenha- gen. There they will receive the full lest examination and I am sure their final approval When the University of Copenhagen has given their final decision, the records will be forwarded simultaneously to all the geographical societies of the world. The worlds scientists may then decide whether the statements that I have made are true or not or whether on the other hand they are false.
 My instruments were cached near Etah by MT. Whitney of New Haven. The seas about Etah are not now nav igab1e. An expedition will be sent north in June to bring the instru- ments home. They will throw fur ther light upon the truth or falsity of my statements.'
 Though Dr. Cook was shown the Peary statement before stepping on the platform at the Gray's Armory last night he found occasion in the course of his address to pay tribute to Commander Peary.
 "There was nothing very wonderful in my campaign" he said. we used no aeroplanes, no balloons, not a mo- tor sled. We succeeded because of a single circumstance-we had reduced the problem of subsistence and that