Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-10-12
WILL GIVE
PROOFS WEDNESDAY
Attack On DR.. Cook Will Be Made
Public and Commander Will
Submit Evidence That He Alone
Discovered North Pole.

NEW YORK, Oct 9.-The carefully-pre-
pared evidence which Commander Peary
has been compiling ever since his return
from the north, and with which he hopes
TO annihilate DR.. Cooks claim TO having
reached the pole. will be made public next
Wednesday morning.
Gen. Thomas Hubbard, president of the
Peary Arctic club, in conference with
Herbert Bridgman, it's secretary, has CIV
en- the finishing touches to Commander
Peary's attack.
FILLS MANY PAGES.
The official statement is said to COM
prise many typewriter sheets. All those
who have seen IT were unanimous in their
expression Of belief that it will COM
pletely disprove not only DR.. Cooks
claim OF the pole but many of the state
ments he has made concerning his ad-
ventures within the Arctic zone.
Maps made by Cooks Eskimos of dss-
tances travelled by them. while they were
In his company. statements of other Es-
kimos as to what Cook had told thsin and
other data of the Peary party play an i'm
portant part in the brief.
Among other things the document IL
said to contain statement that the Cook
expedition left this city two years ago
with the determination to return with the
assertion of discovering the pole. With
this In mind, Commander Peary, as he Is
expected to assert, laid his plans to COM
bat the claims of the Brooklyn physi-
clan before the Roosevelt last set sail
for the polar seas.
It is asserted that the document will
! tell of constant surveillance OF DR.. Cook
by Peary's men during the two years
Cook spent in the ice-bound region and
state that this surveillance resulted In
the discovery that DR.. Cook never got
very far out of sight of land and his
assertion of polar success was a mere
fabrication.
QUOTES EsKIMOs.
Commander Peary's brief against DR..
Cook is said to contain not only the
statements of the two Eskimo companions
of Cook that the Brooklyn explorer did
not venture far from land but also the
assertions of still other Eskimos who are
said to have seen Cook camping on the
west coast of Grantland at a time when
he said he was at the pole. The bulk Of
the Peary document, however. is known
to be argumentative. 1t points out what
Peary characterizes as the impossible
ties in Cooks story. 1t bases most Of its
deductions on the results of former ex-
petitions.
Message to Roosevelt
Is Sent by Peary
NEW YORK, Oct. s-Commander Peary
through Robert L. Bridgman, secretary OF
the Peary Arctic club, sent the following
cable from New York tonight to former
President Roosevelt, at Nairobi, British
East Africa, thence to be forwarded into
the interiors:
Your farewell was a royal mascot; the
poe Is ours.
isigned) "PEARY."
Mr. Bridgman explains that the mes
sage would have been sent earlier, but
for Commander Peary's ignorance of Mr.,
Roosevelt's address.
DR.. Cook May Entirely
Ignore Peary's Charges
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct Sin an In
terview with representative of the Asso-
ciated Press today DR.. Cook, when asked
| If he would make an immediate reply
when the Peary broadside is fired against
him, charging that he had never reached
the pole, replied:
"If the charges are the same vague,
indefinite statements that have been made
heretofore, shall pass them by unnoticed
and await the conclusions of the scientists
of Copenhagen university, who will pass
upon the complete record and all data OF
my trip"
| DIR. Cook said it would be 90 days before
he would have his data in shape to send
| to Copenhagen.