The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-07
Congraulates Peary in Cable
grams to New York.
Believes His Own Story Will
Now Be Verified.
CONDOLENCES
Are Noted in Connection With
the Two Exploits.
Homecoming of Both Men May
Be Celebrated at Once.

New York. Sept. 7-Commander
Robert E. Peary's own story of his
| successful conquest of the North
Pole will, in all probability, be given
to the world within "a hours The
explorer and his party are due at
Chateau Bay, Labrador, today and
from there all arrangements have
been made for the quick dispatch of
Peary's narrative. no matter what its
length may be. to all parts of the
world
Messages received in this city from
Peary and his companions indicated
that they had found the North Pole
on April s, of this year. and that on
the return to civilization Commander
Peary has prepared a readable story
of his journey to the mysterious goal
of centuries and the retreat from
there to civilization This story Will
first come direct into New York
newspaper office which contributed
literally to the Peary expedition and
which had a contract with the ex-
plorer for his first story.
The coming details will be an
elaboration of Commander Peary's
first word to the civilized world af-
ter he had reached the pole, which
was sent by him from Indian Har-
Dor to the Associated Press. This
first bulletin from the famous ex-
plorer. was in every large city of the
world a half hour after its recent in
New York. and from all nations come
reports of the excitement it caused,
following SO closely on the announce
ment of DR.. Frederick a. Cook of
Brooklyn, who is now receiving the
homage of the world in Copenhagen,
that he was the first discoverer of
the North Pole.
When Cook Heard the News.
DR.. Cook was at a banquet in his
honor in Copenhagen when Com
mander Peary's dispatch to the AS
Sociated Press was read to him. DR..
Cook lost little time in sending to
New York a number of cablegrams
in all OF which he expressed his
qualification that Peary had also
belief that Peary's observations would
amply verify his own claim that he
had been 70 the furthermost point of
the compass DR.. Cook was par
mander Peary's success. which he
did not in the least doubt, all the
honor for the achievement was now
surely American. In one cablegram
the science of exploration will
benefit immeasurably through the
fact that Peary reached the pole by
a route different from his. thus COW
ering another large unknown space
and, with the Cook observations,
clearing a mystery which has per
picked geographers for many cen
turies.
That the North Pole should be
found and its announcement
chronicled at approximately the
same time is but one coincidence in a
strange series of facts which has
kept the reading public of the world
excited, perhaps as never before, for
a week
Numerous Condolences.
coi1cfdoneoS
toned that the pole was found by two
Americans, that for the first time two
polar explorers attempted to reach
the apex of the earth at the close of
the winter season over the frozen po-
lar seas, that their first announce
mentS of their success were quite sim
liar, that both men had devoted their
lives to exploration of polar areas,