The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-22
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 INTO HIS SHELL Explorer Will Accept No Honors Until Controversy Is Settled HAS MADE ELEVEN TRIPS Commander Peary Speaks of His Ac- compIshments and Tells What
 He Did on His Last Trip
 From Sydney.
HAS MADE ELEVEN TRIPS

Sidney, N. S., September 21.-Comdr. Robert E. Peary will accept no invita- tions to receptions and no public hondr until the question of the discovery of the north pole has been decided by sci- entifc authorities. This he made known tonight in the following state ment which he gave out for publica- ton:
 Acting upon the advice of Gen. Thomas Hubbard and Herbert L.. Bridgeman, president and secretary re- spectively of the Peary Arctic club. I wish to express my thanks to friends for their kind offers and invitations and also beg to say that I have de- cided not to accept any invitations to receptions or any ovations until the present controversy Is settled by com potent uthority."
 Commander Peary supplemented this briefly. He was asked when the public was likely to get a decision on this sub ject, and he replied:
 T do not know, but what I have to say will not be very long delayed. Whether my statements will be issued in one or two weeks depends on cir cumstances."
 AhO taplOiSl W III 1cdNe oNdHty dl o'clock tomorrow morning and will reach his home on Eagle island on Friday morning. Apparently, Comman der Peary has made up his mind to re- main at that place for some time, for in speaking of his plans he said:
 If the newspaper correspondents de- sire it, I will arrange an hour each day to meet them at South Harpswell, three miles from Eagle island, and 15 miles from Portland or they can come to Eagle island at the time appointed"
 Prior to reaching the determination not to appear at a reception Comman- der Peary had promised to attend a reception between trains at Bangor and this he will do. He will stay in Portland Thursday night. As yet he has made no arrangements for lectures He said he knew nothing personally about the Hudson-Fu parade an6 could not outline any programme of his immediate plans.
 The reception of Commander Peary to- day began when the Roosevelt edged her way past Low Point, Il miles down the bay, and continued all the way to the harbor and until the commander reached the Sydney hotel where he made short speech and found himself the center of a demonstration in which hundreds of peo- f'N PASS7So opOdh AAiiil elo SllOOh Ills hand
 Eleven times I have left Sydney for the north" said the commander. "Once l brought back the largest meteor ever found; the last time I brought back my farthest north record, and this time I have brought back the North Pole.'
 When the Roosevelt lay at the city wharf an eager throng of sightseers vis- tied the ship and went through her from stem to stern. Souvenir hunters carried away everything portable and many val uable records and data belonging 10 Professor McMillan were lost These were records of tides and animal life north of S2 degrees latitude. the names of all Es- kimos in the Etah region, together with more than a hundred books to which many important marginal notes had been made. No records bearing on the dash to the pole were lost. The missing books are of immense value and cannot be re- placed, but the authorities are issuing a public appeal for their return
 The explorer spent the evening quietly with his family. happy that the object of many years struggle in the arctic had been achieved, and delighted. too over the hearty welcome given him and his crew by the people of Sydney,