New-York tribune., 1909-10-01
PEARY'S SHIP READY
ROOSETELT IN PARADE
CAPTAIN and CresC Instructed Not to
Discuss DR.. Cook.


waiting to take her place with the other ships
which san Up the Hudson to-day. Captain Bart
lctt her master stood the deck hatless. IN blue
6aunc shirt. new gray trousers and shapeless felt
footwear and tried 10 say little he could.
Were YOU disappointed not 10 10 the pole"
he asked
Captain Bartlett scratched his head and medi-
tated.
You see." ho said u didn't expect TO go the
pole. Anyhow. that has nothing 10 do with st.
knew Commander Peary was going there went
70 do what ] told 7 going 10 do Il. II
he'd told me 10 go hack with the lrst party I'd
have done it II he'd told me 70 stay with the ship
Ia have done it- II he'd told me 10 so TO - I'd
hsve done st
He said this merely as an explanation of the
real state cf affairs. matter Of fact like any
either. Captain Bartletts province is matters OF
fact
BARTLETT GROWS SARCASTIC
-'Ele went 10 the pole" he and he is
about the only man that could have done H. No
other man could ever have got those Dsquimaus TO
30 the polar ice. ! didn't help bury the
things Cook left with Whitney, but saw them
They were in q box like gun chest"
Gould Cook have reached the pole with the
equipment he had?"
why most anybody can so the pole these
DAYS, cant they? Il one man and two boy huskes
can get there with two sledges what's to hinder
all OF Us Roing?"
Whereupon the captain found that he had 10 go
Rshore thai very minute telephone Herbert L
13ridgTnan. The boat back without him and
presently government tug steamed up with IN
vitation 10 Professor Mcmillan and George Borup
Commander Peary's assistants. 10 dine with the
captain the guests of the coninandant of the
fort.
So miscellaneous ship as the Roosevelt seldom
comes into port Pale seal skins. thick musk
skins, fox skins and the like were strewn about
her quarterback. where the spare rudder was still
dashed. Nine Esqumau pups. like intelligent live
Teddy bears yapped and fought over the coal
heaps and between the crowded timber work Of
ner hoid- Out OF -he foreCasIle where ffty-Odd
EsQuimaUs had lived on the voyage from Cape
Sheridan 10 Etah they dragged one OF the pole
sleoges 10 be photographed. overturniug heaps of
snoWshoes. skins rartlinE skulls Of reindeer suit
cases, spare spars and hundred other things.
PEARY's BoDTGUARD CAUTIOUS.
Kyoto. little blue fo1 LOST her mate and her
temper during The gale which broke on The coas,
early IL the week. Kool-look-to the other ble FOX
Whep. was washed overheard bv a sea and Kv,+o
set her teeth in rhe right calf o. Professor Donald
Mcmillan in uncertain manner
Matt Henson explained the workings of the sledze
a. quietly II he had no cause for pride in having
followed il So far. II is OF the new type which
Commando Peary evolved for This expedition The
runners are bent up forward in curve reaching
several inches above the level Of the fat part and
rounded at the ti7 Because OF The shape they ride
easily over The Inequalities Of the snow surface As
70 the pole. what il looks ike and how it feels 10
De there he had few words
There's only one man in me world he said
'that can tell you bout that You know who
thar is"
DR.. Cook"
ASK somebody tast Knows TINS with a r~,,
Orders had come by wire from the commander
that nobody was 10 talk about Dr. Cook until after
ne pageant ot to-day As a result the crew spent
their first day in port lodging from one wildly
Uttered part OF the snip 10 another To keep avn,
from the reporters VINO came down IN half a dozen
tugs
Daniel Murphy the boatswaiu with whom, r,-
Cook Guarrelled in the box house at Etah said only
that ne heard nothing about The pole while Cook
was there William PriJchard, The cabin bov was
asked u he overheard Cook telling Harry whitney
That he had been 10 The pole.
Yes. he said, and threw up his hands and fed
HATED TO LEAVE THE NORTH
Professor Mcmillan and George Borup. aids TO
Commando Peary, eschewed the polar affair and
wished they We're back IN the North
Il think we all feel that way" said Professor
Mcmillan. i sorry when we broke oIt of
tine ice and headed south ] think We AN would
have liked 10 stay there Borup and Bartlett and
d. GoOdson and 7 az least. don't know f,s,
what Il is; its''-With gesture. pushing ont Won
know. II those great places. The hords and noun
tains"
And unexplored. too.' Borup broke in like a
aash.
Yes. it's the mystery OF IT, perhaps and then
1he-the--y-astness or il al up there. The men
teel H. too I wa king one day with Barens
One blue fox was playing rle snow. and We We're
there that all. H5e said. We've got 10 go home
soon and asked him wins he was sorry He
didn't know"
But isn't the cold paiufue"
'Oh, YOU have 10 keep your attention on Yourself
70 see that you cont freeze without knowing H.
but you get used TO that soon enough
One Of Professor AcAIIan's books which was
stolen when the Roosevelt was ulundered by sou
venr hunters az Sydney was returned to him before
he left the port ana Ae hopes 10 recover three more
which were taken al the same time. They included
books n which He had written extensive notes OF
his own Albert Edward Marvin d brother Of Pro
lessor Ross q. Marvin. VINO drowned in the
Dg lead while returning with a supporting party
boarded the Roosevelt during the afternoon and re-
manned on her overnight E5e talked with ForlIp
nno Professor Mcmillan who had last seen his
brother They could add nothing TO tho story of
Professor MarTins Esquiraus which has already
been made public
PEARY NEXT THE GODS"
Professor NcAlan contributed two new phrases
Juander Feary. he said is called ''Pe-uk- h, the
Natives which means ''Ffe who Is superior TO men
and next ihe gods AND Aunootok. or as he would
FDel iJ. An-not-a-tuk ~ ach was tHc base Of Dr.
CSok's campai isu signifies 9Th, ,rIua-Io.-d sror
All day long steamboats, and small craft came
out 70 uay friendly calls 10 tse Roosevelt ana
he- whistle. hoErse frou recent orer7ork shouted