Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-10
POLAR CLAIM ANTICIPATED
Constant Surveillance During Two
Years in Far North.
EVIDENCE OF HIS EsK1M0s
Broadside Will Quote Natives as
Denying That Rival Was Out OF
Sight Of Land.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, October 9.-It was learned
from an authoritative source today that
the carefully prepared broadside Of evil
dence which Commander Peary has been
compiling ever since his return from the
north, and with which he hopes to ami
hilate Dr. Cooks claim to having reached
the north pole. would be made public next
week.
Gen. Thomas Hubbard, president Of the
Peary Arctic Club. was IN conference with
til late last night. Your correspondent
learned that the finishing touches have
been given to Commander Peary's attack.
The official statement is said to comprise
many typewriter sheets. Peary's friends
who have seen it today expressed the be-
lief that it will completely disprove not
only DR.. Cooks claim to the pole. but
many statements he has made concerning
his adventures within the arctic zone.
Maps Made by Cooks Eskimos.
Your correspondents informant, while
refusing to divulge in oetail the features
of the broadside of the explorer, stated
that maps made by Cooks Eskimos of
distance Travelled by them while in his
company, statements Of other Eskimos as
to'what Cook had told them, and observa-
tions Of the Peary party play an impor-
rant part in the brief.
The broadside has been stamped with
Commander Peary's 20. K" and sealed
Of the explorer who has given twenty
three years Of his life to arctic inyestiga-
tions.
Among other things, the document which
Peary hopes will wholly discredit DR..
Cooks claim is said to contain a state
ment that the Cook expedition left this
city two years ago with the dissemination
to return with the assertion Of polar dis
covery.
With this in mind Commander Peary, as
he is expected to assert. laid his plans to
combat claims Of the Brooklyn physician
before the Roosevelt last set sail for the
polar seas.
Cook Shadowed in Arctic.
1t is asserted that Commander Peary's
document will tell of constant surveillance
Of DIR. Cook by Pearys men during the
two years Cook spent in the ice-bound
regions.
That this surveillance resulted in the
discovery that DR.. Cook never went out
of sight Of land and that his assertion
of polar success was a mere fabrication
are confident declarations from the au-
thoritative source through which your
correspondent obtained Information re.
garding Peary's report.
While the Peary Arctic Club is pre-
pairing to controvert Cooks claims. Peary
is resting at Eagle Island Me-, waiting
the psychological moment to deliver the
word which will let fall his wrath upon
the head of his rival. 1t Is merely
matter of a telegraphic communication
from the commander when the battery
will be turned loose.
Cook May Ignore Charges.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, October 9.-Dr.
Cook. when asked today if he would make
an immediate reply when the Peary
broadside was fired against him, charging
he had never reached the north pole, re-
piled:
IF the charges are the same vague.
indefinite statemens that have been made
heretofore, l shall pass them by un-
noticed and await the conclusions Of the
scientists of Copenhagen University, who
will pass upon the complete record and
all data of my trip
DIR. Cook said 1t would be ninety days
before he would have his data in shape
| to send to Copenhagen.