Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-09-30
GEN. HUBBARD GOES OVER DATA
AS EXPLORERS PERSONAL
COUNCIL.
COOK WENT 107 MILES FARTHER
Commander Defends Stand in Refus.
ing to Carry Doctors instruments =
Says Whitney Did Not Say
Baggage Was Valuable.

mander Robert T.. Peary, accompanied
by his wife, came here from Port
land and within half an hour was
in conference with Gen. Thomas H.
Hubbard, president of the Peary Arc
tic club, concerning the statement
which soon will be made public by
Commander Peary to support his con-
tention that DR.. Frederick A. Cook
did not reach the pole.
Go Over Alleged Evidence.
From what can be learned of the
conference, Peary went over every
phase of his alleged evidence against
DR.. Cook, dating from the time the
| Brooklyn explorer began his prepa-
rations to go north more than two
years ago and until after Peary's in
terviews with DR.. Cooks Eskimos at
Etah. General Hubbard has been ar
ranging this material in order as per-
sonal counsel for Peary.
During the trip to Bar Harbor Peary
spoke frequently of Harry Whitney.
There might have been some strange
reasons why Whitney did not go back
to Etah in the Jeanne for DR.. Cooks
staff" he said. Il cannot understand
| how anyone could let such records get
out of his hands. would not give
my records to my dearest relative.
say again l don't see how Cook
could have turned his stuff over to
Whitney or anybody else. l secured
my instruments in bag and the
flag which l took to the pole sewed
in my clothes and 1 wore it until I
reached Battle Harbor.
| 81 kept my records under watch
day and night and was prepared in
case the Roosevelt was crushed in the
ice, to throw them overheard, that
they could float in their cases. Can
you imagine me giving up those rec
ords to perfect stranger?
Only Trophies, He Was Told.
| Harry Whitney did not tell me
what was in DR.. Cooks stuff except
six fox skins, a narwhal horn and
some other trophies. l could not see
why l should have carried the stuff
when Cook could have taken it. If
ance why didn't Whitney go back in
the jeanne and get it?
II saw Dr. Cooks sledge at Etah
and looked it over carefully, while
Professor Mcmillan held up Cook s
snowshoes and showed them to me-
But I did not examine the snowshoe5
carefully"
Referring to DR.. Cooks things he
continued:
Il think DR.. Cooks stuff was made
up of superfluous instruments. After
Whitney had put the stuff ashore
told the nskimos to leave it alone. On
my return from the pole I saw all
the Eskimos and talked with them
After what l heard l would not credit
DR.. Cooks claims. The letter that in
formed me that DR.. Cook had claimed
the pole was from a whaler named
Captain Adams and not Walker, as
had been stated. The letter was dated
June II, and l received it at Cape
York"
Defines Right Proof.
What proof would you require O.
an explorer that he had been fal
north?" Peary was asked.
THAT if man went to the highes
point that had been reached before
he should bring back the records hi
found there" said Commander Peary
"You will note that Cooks route t.
the pole was 107 miles longer eacl
way than mine. People can make
their own deductions whether DR.
Cook with his equipment could hav'
made such a journey.
OR. Cook claims he went from lati
tude 1914 to 80 degrees and back t
76 degrees, just 25A. Then thinl
that the best previous record made
by an explorer was a total of II de
grees.
81 cannot say whether the extr.
107 miles each way that Cook say
he travelled would have kept me ava!
from the pole or not. 1t might, an.
then it might not have; the difficult!
in Arctic travel as you proceed nortl
increases not in arithmetical but II
geometricalR progression"