The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-23

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 compasses, three chronometer watches thermometers, barometers and a pedo- meter.
 Q. What kind of sextant did you have and how many? A. One sextant-a French apparatus.
 l Q What kind of transit or theodolte did you have, and how many? A. We did not use any.
 @ What kind of artificial horizon did you have? A. Glass
 Q. What kind of compass did you have? A. We had one liquid compass, one sur veying compass.
 Q. What kind of compass did vol use to determine your compass variation7 A. i Surveying compass; it had an azimuth at tached.
 I Q, What compass course did you take i from Cape Thomas Hubabrd north? A. Well, that changes every day. If you i follow the course of a map you have got i the compass course.
 Q. Was your determination of the pole solely by an observa ton of the suns al titude or did you take observations of the l polar star F hours apart. and by the de- i termination of the celestial pole midway between the two positions to determine ] l A. How you going to take an obser- i vation by the polar star when you have I continuous sun? There is no night you cannot have any stars, there is dark ] ness
 i Q. What kind of observations did you 1 make at the pole, and how many? And 1 what was the altitude of the sun? A. We 1 have told you that the altitude of the sun ! gave us positions; that is all there l is to say about that. We made regular i astronomical observations. such as could 1 be made by the compass and other in- l struments. We merely made the nautical l observations that a captain would have l made aboard a ship
 Q. Will you describe in detail any sin l gle observation taken by you at the north pole with the exact figures of the results i and the corrections applied? A. Not at i this present moment. We will describe 1 every one of them in detail when they go to the University of Copenhagen. They i will go there within two months. The entire records will be delivered to the university, and after that they will go to l everybody that wants to examine them.
 PuzzIing Situation.
 Q. In your original narrative as pub lshed in the New York Herald you said The night of April was made not able by the swinging of the sun at mid
 
 servations on April placed the camp in latitude S6 36. longitude 942 The astron- omers say that in the latitude you mem tion the midnight sun would have been visible on April l, and that if you fully saw 1t for the first time on April you must have been $50 miles from the pole instead of 234 as you supposed. There fore to have reached the pole on April l 2l you would have had to travel 39 miles l nf i apparent discrepancy? A. In the first place that indicates the point I have taken. that nobody can pronounce judg- ment on a matter of this kind until they get the complete records The northern horizon at midnight has been so obscure that we could not tell whether the sun was below the horizon or above it. We were not making observations at mid night. Therefore. this statement Is based on the fact that we have said that it was possible to see the sun at midnight on that day. I have not looked through the Herald's story as 1t has been written out in full. My impression is that we were absolutely unable to see the sun the mid night before that. The horizon was ob- scured.
 Q. Why was it necessary to intrust your records to MT. Whitney under a pledge of secrecy? A I don't know that there is anything further to say about that: ask Mir. Whitney. I do not think am bound to divulge to MT Peary the news of our work. I am perfectly willing to give it to the world and have given 1t to the world. There is no reason why I should give any news to Peary.
 Man of Family Again.
 Dr. Cook laid aside the role of the explorer when he arose this morning and became a family man again. When ha Ix "a sfa ad la h ic i,, tention of spending the day with his family until the afternoon, when he met the newspaper men.
 A deluge of telegrams and cable mes sages continued to pour in upon him and all these were turned over to his secretary. The explorer did not read the newspapers or give any attention to messages sent to him. He lunch ed at noon with his family. then played l with his children until time to go to | the quiz. When his secretary told him the hour for his interview had come he was playing with his little girl on l the floor of the apartments. The explorers first full day on his home sh ores brought to him the first | unpleasant taste of fame. Visitors be- gan to arrive at daybreak. They came l on all sorts of errands, with all sorts | of urgent messag ges. calculated to get an interview. Many of tn em it was | obvious were actuated only by curiosl- l ty to see the explorer. Others came | with ideas to exploit There were a regiment of publishers agents. they got only as far $ Dr. Cooks secretary. l Some of the more insistent visitors who had no apparent reason for coming were escorted from the hotel by house detectives.
 Among the various proposals that the horde of callers had were offers of free accommodations in the royal suites of other hotels; men with cigars they wanted pr. Cook to approve; pro- moters with schemes to make Dr. Cook rich and themselves comfortable 1 at the same time. This procession kept up all day long and well through the i night.
 | It was announced tonight that | Thursday, September 30, has been | selected as the day of the banquet of the Danish societies of Greater New York in pr. Cooks honor. The ban quet of the Arctic Club of America will be held at the Waldorf Astoria tomor- : row night.