The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-25
Expulsion Based on Dis
proyaI of Claims of
Climbing Mount
Mckinley
TWO OLD FRIENDS
SIGN ARRAICNMENT
Fiaa and Whitney Were on the Com
mittee That Investigated the
Claims of DR.. Cook--BarrilFs
and Prints Affdavits
We're Ignored.

New York, Dec. 24-The board of
governors of he Explorers Club met
today in executive session and, stand
ing in silence, voted with bowed
heads hat DR.. Cook be dropped from
membership for frauds praeticed ON
the members and the public Coming
upon the heels of the crushing Copen
hagen verdict of the Explorers Clubs
action is the result of an independent
investigation, not touching the polar
controversy The board met to pass
upon the report Of its committee
which investigated the validity of
Cooks assertion that he reached the
summit of Mount Mckinley. The
committee concluded it's exhaustive
report with the recommendation that
Cooks claim that he reached the
summit Of Mt. Mckinley in 1906 be
rejected by the club as unworthy OF
credence."
The recommendation was based on
the finding that Cook repeatedly
made statements not in accord with
facts: that he entered into agree.
ments which he failed to keep. and
that the misstatements and broken
agreements deal not only with mat
tiers appertaining to the discovery.
but to ordinary financial transactions,
so that no credence can be given the
taf mazda hy him -
Friends On Committee.
Among the seven signatures ap-
pended to this arraignment are those
of Caspar Whitney, and Anthony
Fiala, both personal friends of DR..
Cook.
The committee states that it un-
dertook the investigation only after
first apprising Cook Of its purpose,
which he approved and that it dis
regarded entirely the testimony of
Edward Barrill. Cooks guide, and CT
Frederick Printz, his packer-al
though such testimony was before
them--because it wished no cloud of
partisan contention, Of question Of
financial interest, to dim the integrity
of its verdict
Besides the findings of the commit
tee which were signed by Fiala, the
polar explorer Frederick s. Dellen-
baugh, OF the American Geographic
Society, Prof. Marshal Fl. Saville,
professor Of archaeology of Columbia
University Walter G. Clark, Charles
r. Townsend director of the New
York Aquarium, Henry c. Walsh sec
rotary of the Explorers Club, and
Caspar Whitney-indiydual reports
are submitted by Herschel c. Parker.
professor of physics at Columbia, and
Belmont Brown, both Of whom were
members of the Mckinley eX-
petition; and by Charles Sheldon,
who recently returned from a years
residence on the slope Of Mount Nc
Kinley. where he went for the pur-
pose of studying the confgiration Of
the mountain with a view to the pos
sibility of its ascent,
Was in the Expedition.
Parker reports that he was part
ner with Cook in the Mckinley e..
petition, bth physically and finan,
cially. Cook assumed the lead with
a plan which proved unfeasible and
the party escaped with their lives
thanks to the local knowledge of Bel
more Brown 1t was perfectly un
derstood7 says Parker, that after
the misadventure, all attmepts should
be abandoned for that season.
Instead of this, Cook II is charged
side tracked all members of the ex
petition until there remained only
Cook, the guide, Barrill, and the
~;acker, who was subsequently gotter
rid of alse. These OBJECTIONS LEFT
Cook, says Parker. no instruments
capable of measuring the attitudes ht
saws he attained. Moreover, he adds
the summers experience had showr
that, of all the party, Cook and Bar
rill were the least fitted PHYSICAL,
for the arduous mountain climbing.
Parker Confirmed.
Brown in the main confirms Par
ker. and adds taat cooks book con
tanned not one date from the TIM
he left Chultina river This make