Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-10-23
FAMOUS EXPLORER
MORE CONSERVATIVE
HOW HE EXPLAINS HIS
IMPOSSIBLE DASH.
Will Wait Year, However, Before
He Submits Proofs-Is to Bring
Eskimos and Have Them Elk.
plain.

to him by reporter for The New
York World. DR.. Frederick A. Cook,
who claims to have been the first man
10 reach the North Pole said that he
thought it would be at least u year
before he would be able to submit the
records, observations and instruments
of his expedition to the University of
selected as the one first to make
scientific inquiry into his CLANS
DR. Cook got back from Boston. chip
per and pleased over the reception the
bluc.stockings had accorded him as
the Pathfinder of the North" He did
not meet Harry Whitney. the New
Haven sportsman. who was the first
man to he told by DR.. Cook that the
conquest OF the North Pole had been
achieved
whitney, according to Dillon Wal.
lace. fellow.explorer and confidential
friend to both men, sent word that he
would be unable to meet DR.. Cook for
few days, as he needed rest and
proposed to take II at friends place
near Salem. Mass. Wallace accom-
panied Whitney down from Sydney. N.
s.. and came on to meet Dr. Cook in
Boston. with Whitney's message to
the Bushwick Arctician No further
news was sent by Whitney, DR.. Cook
said, and ne could give no definite
idea of when they would meet, though
Cook expects to see Whitney before
very long.
Conservative Replies.
When the doctor saw reporters In
the WaldorfAstoria In the afternoon
vOiley of questions was fired at him
TO most of which he replied. The
most important questions asked him
related to Whitney's movements, OF
which the doctor professed ignorance
except as reported to him by Dillon
Wallace.
Dr. Cook was also asked to explain
the charge made by George KEENAN,,
who has had considerable Arctic ex.
berience, that II was manifest I'M
possibility for Cook to have carried
on his two sledges enough provisions
TO last himself, two Esquimaux and
twenty-six dogs for eighty.two days,
the time that elapsed between the
start OF DR. Cooks dash for the Pole
and his arrival back at IA point where
game food was again obtainable.
in answer to that" the physician
said, ut is proper to state that Mr..
KEENAN, whom know and respect, is
proceeding ON an entirely wrong as.
sumption. He thinks we carried fresh
musk.ox meat for our provisions. and
II that were so he would be quite cor
rect in saying that We would have
decided 5,000 pounds of such food
Which We could n; have trlnspori'l,
Carried Only Psmn,lean.
"But we carried no mnskoN We
carried pemmicln the brc"hr"d
combination Of dried beef aud tlllow
tba. will not freeze n any weather.
On this pemm.can we su5Gisted en-
tirely and Just 1000 pounds of IL con
stituted our supply Nuw II Is well
known that pound Of pemmlcan ~
equal TO Ave pounds OF musk o. or
other fregh meat, so you see that Mr..
Kennan's calculation Hf 20 Ike weigh.
of food niece sniy Jnl pur a"iull sup,
ply happen to tai ~ vcry closely
"In view Of the publication of the
-eluest of Profs. Huntington and o.
born and Of the National Geographical
Society that you and Peary Should
10Th submit your proofs and data 10
competent tribunal In this country
IL soon as possible, will you change
your determination not to make these
t,roofs public till after the University
4 Copenhagen has had the first OPP
ortunity to examine them?" was
sked.
"My determination to submit my
roofs first to the Danish authorities,
ne replied, SIS unalterable."
els Il not fact, doctor" inquired
The World representative, that you
will not submit your proofs until yor
save brought back your instruments
ON the cache in Etah where Whit
~ left them?"
II cannot answer that question posi-
yely until I have seen Mr.. Whitney,
as the reply. but ! will say that a
" present information stands |
ould be most desirable to have thu
struments and forward them aloni
Ith the observations, 80 that tn
,cessary corrections could be made.
"How long will 1t take before you
an get the instruments here or hav'
hem sent to Denmark"
"Well II would be June probably be
IRE a ship could reach Etah, and thel
wo or three months must elapse be