The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11
Explorer Leaves Confident and Happy With Good Wishes
 For Voyage
COOK IS WILLING ID
 SUBMIT HIS RECORDS
Danish Steamer After Takinq Cook to One Other City Will Reach New York With Him
 September 21.

Copenhagen, September 10.-Dr Freder- ick A. Cook left Copenhagen this after noon on the first stage of his journey homeward, apparently happy and conf dent. and with the cheers of a great crowd ringing in his ears.
 Formal farewel1s were exchanged be- tween him and committees of the Geo. graphical society and the University of Copenhagen. As he departed the explorer stood alone on the high bridge of the yacht Melchior. which is taking him to Christiansand raising his hat in response
 to the shouts of the spectators. The yacht will arrive at Christiansand tomorrow at noon, where the steamship Oscar II will be ready to steam for the 1 United States as soon Dr. Cook boards l her. Managing Director Cold of the | Scandnavian-Am Steamship com
 pany accompanied Dr. Cook. He said the
 Oscar II could reach New York Monday, ] September 20. but that he thought it bet
 ter to keep the steamer o schedule time
 and arrive Tuesday, the Fist. Before the gangplank of the Melchior
 was drawn up there was pleasant cere- mony in the cabin attended by Minister Egan and Miss Egan, the rector of the ! University of Copenhagen and several
 geographers. Admiral Dekichelcu thanked 1 Dr. Cook for returning to the United States under the Danish flag "Green-eyed envy and jealousy,r the ad-
 miral said, ''are doing their envenomed
 work, but we in Denmark believe in you | absolutely" At
 T want to thank you said Dr. Cook in reply, for tn. ,srsat h,inor tn
 mine in going home on d Danish steamer. 1 Since cannot reach home on an Amer
 ican steamship or an expedition vessel,
 1t is fitting that l should go on a steamer l of the land which has given me such
 happy days. You have made my return 1 so happy that the tortures of the past
 are forgotten. You have been my friends. 1 you have fought my battles. With a 1 full heart l say farewell to the people of 1 Denmark"
 T am perfectly willing to put my rec
 ords before the American coast and | geodetfc survey to be compared with those | or Commander Peary, but I do not see l why l should ask for such comparison l first"
 | Asked if he had any message for the l public, Cook replied:
 l Don't you think that would be rather
 presumptuous? All I want Is to get home
 to my wife and children and finish my l work"
 The water front was crowded an hour l before the Melchior sailed. Shortly be-
 fore o'clock three motor cars appeared. l Dr. Cook and Commander Sverdrup be- | tween whom close friendship has arisen 1 were in the first, and pr. Egan, Miss
 Egan and various officials were in the others. The people broke through the l police barriers the cars were passing
 and the women threw flowers at Dr. Cook | Shipping in the harbor made brilliant ! display of flags. Managing Director Cold insisted that <, Dr. Cook go on the bridge while the yacht ] was putting out In order to give the peo- | pie an opportunity to see him. Roald | Amundsen. the explorer. and Clarence l McIlvaine of New York will accompany l Dr. Cook to Christansand. The applica- 1 tions for berths on the Oscar II were so | numerous that 1t was impossible to ac- l commodate one-fourth of the would-be 1 passengers. The steamer will leave Chris 1 tiansand tomorrow absolutely crowded Peary's Story of His Trip Paris, September 10.-The first install-
 ment of Commander Peary's recital of his
 expedition to the north pole, published l in a special edition of the Matin today.
 
 given that the article was copyrighted
 the other papers handled it with care, but in their comment there is noticeable a disposition to criticize This is per haps due to the fact that Commander Peary's reflections upon Dr. Cook are considered ungererous.
 The Temps Is especially caustic and says that the first part of the Peary's recital Is really favorable 10 Dr. Cook.
 It says that Peary's story is obscure and even inconsistent pointing out par ticularly that whereas his diary up to March 15 Is scrupluously precise, thereaf- ter 1t shows hiatus and the dates are obscured and confusing. For instance. when the story stops, Captain Bartlett had been sent back.
 The expedition was then in STA and still far from the pole,' the Temps says. "Peary now proceeds alone and what ever suspicion raised against Dr. Cook is equally applicab ble to him. Peary's recital up to the present time offers noth- ing more worthy of credence than Cooks. If 1t is true. as affirmed that the Polar obsession creates a sort of madness. any hypothesis, even the most unfavorable, is permissible against both explorers.
 The Figaro: Nothing is more painful than the spectacle of this controversy on the threshold of glory. It embarrasses the sympathy which naturally goes out to these two great men. Returning to civ flixation, they encounter jealously envy. calumny. ignoble pickering and hatred of success; they become the prey of parlor explorers and savants who raise ohiec- tions where they risked their lives Their caviling is not ended. Their ari,na- tiors win be discussed and weighed by societies and savants with a keen de- sire to find them wrong and convict them of falsehood.'
 The Illustration prints full page pie ture of Dr. Cook entitled: Hero or Tm- poster.'
 The Illustration says 1t offered to pub fish . reproduction of q page of DR