The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-16
HIS FLAG WAS A TORN ONE
More Than One Flag Was
Planted.
Peary Lets Loose of a Few
Statements
Says He VIII Now Wait Until DIR
Cook Has Given All of His Data
10 the Investigators Before He Tells
What He Knows---Iscfuscs 10 Throw
Any Light on Whitncy's Acts and
Denies He Said Cook Was Dead.
BY United Press Wire.

~ 10y fTcSS NIc
ST. John. N. f.. Sept. IA mes
sage received here this afternoon
from Battle Harbofs declares COM
mander Peary today denied The re-
port current In Denmark that no
had posted notices along ahe coast OF
Greenland that Dr. Cook swasI dead,
using these notices as q pretext for
communicating DIR, Cooks, supplies.
He added that he would have nothing
more to say at this time regarding
Or. Cooks claims. p. '"'D
Peary said today the flag which he
unfurled at the pole was the one his
wife made for him fifteen years ago,
and which he had carried on all his
Arctic trips In the hope that some
day he might unfurl IL at the top of
the world.
The flag was a torn one. Every
time he went to the pole he tore u
piece from 1t and left IL at the point
furthest north that he reached on
that particular trip. The remnant of
the flag he left at the North Pole.
In addition to that, he raised his
navy pennant, the pennant of the
emblem of the Creek letter fraterni-
ty Delta Episolon, to which he be-
longed in college. and the flag of the
New York Yacht club, under whose
colors the Roosevelt sailed. He used
tent poles as fiagstaffs, and took a
photograph of the whole group at
the North Pole. These Photographic
films have not been developed. While
at the pole. Peary says he enclosed
record of his trip and other data
in an air and watertight tin box and
buried u in the ice. This box, he
declared. would float II IL ever reach
ed open water. He declined to say
whether he found drifting current
at the pole.
New York, Sept. Is. Polar sci
cntists are today commenting on the
interview given out by Commander
Pedfy at cattle Harbor, I'm which he
declined TO add any more details to
his previous story of his dash to the
pole. or to say anything more re-
Garding his controversy with DR..
Cook.
Peary declared that IL he said any
thing more, the information thus
given out might be used by others
intmatlng that rival claimants might
use this Information for their own
purposes.
Commander Peary declared mosi
emphatically that he had never op-
ened or read any of DR.. Cooks per-
sonal letters or data. He said Harry
Whitney. the young New Hayen HINT
er and sportsman, In whose care DR..
Cook had left much of his written
data and his astronomical instru-
ments. had not discussed pr, Cooks
claims with him. Whitney he said,
was on board the Jeanie, hunting pol
ar bear and, musk oxen, on the west
ern coast of Greenland Peary de-
clined to discuss fWhitneYs reasons
for leaving the Roosevelt though DR.
Hansen. the noted Danish physician,
who has been in the Far North study
ing eye diseases, declares Whitney
had been ousted from DIR. Cooks
houes at Annotok by Peary's giant
poatswain and treated like dog" all
winter, and that the hunter had no
love for Commander 'Peary or the
members OF his party.
Commander Peary declared he had
talked with DR.. Cooks Eskimo guides
and that they had confirmed his
statements that Cook did not reach
the pole. He added that no presents
could ever induce the Esklmos to
make the dash across the polar seas
until he went to Greenland, as the
Eskimos feared death there.
Peary was asked why he had taxi
en- no white companions with him to
the pole. He said that after all the
efforts he had made TO reach the pole.
he wanted the honor all to himself
when success finally crowned his
plans. .a4Giltt 8Eg .lff
Cook adherents here are bitter In
their denunciation of Peary for his
refusal to give out the information he
claims TO have to substantiate his
claim that DIR. Cook did not reach tho
pole. They say DR.. Cook has always
borne an excellent reputation as an
explorer, and that 1t is unjust OF
Commander Peary to make charges
Of falsehood against DR.. Cook at this
moment of his triumph, without Civ
ing out his proof.
Peary declares he intends to walt
until DR.. Cook has given out his en-
tire authorized account of reaching
the pole before proving Cook is an
imposter. This. Cooks friends de-
clare, is manifest injustice. In
the meantime. Cooks friends arc
preparing to give him royal re>
ception when he lands in New York
They have chartered a steamer that
will carry $500 p eople to meet the
Oaker III down the bay.
The question OF the participation
OF the Roosevelt and the John II.
Bradley. the Cook boat, In the watei
parade incident to the Hudson-Ful-
ton celebration. Is still being debared
The Peary Arctic club has shown a
disposition to Withdraw the Roosevelt
the procession. Peary at Battle Har-