Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-09

II can say no more. can do no more; ]
show you my hands.
Cook Would Go for Eskim0s
to Rebuff Peary's Statement
COPENHAGEN, September '9-It seemed
useless all day to submit the most scath-
ing dispatches rejecting on him to DIT.
Cook. for he simply smiled. said they were
untrue and refused to discuss them fur-
ther He has an air Of perfect confidence
without touch of braggadocio.
Although not very willing he at last con-
sented late yesterday to make state
ment. After repeating his denials, which
have already been published. he said:
"As to the report that Peary says
took provisions stored by him, my reply
Is that Peary took my provisions, OBTAIN
ing them from their custodian on the plea
that / had been so hong absent that ne
was going to organize relief stations Tor
me in case should be alive. For this i
have documentary proof.
Ready to Go on Trial.
IT ara willing to place my facts and
the figures of my worked-out observa-
tons before joint tribunal of the scien-
tific bodies of the world. In due course
I shall be prepared to make public an
announcement that will effectually dispel
any doubt, IL there can be such, OF the
fact that i reached the pole, but knowing
that / am right and that right must pre-
vail. I will submit at the proper ss time my
Dr. Cook asserts that he has written
and other satisfactory evidence that
Peary took his stores. perhaps believing
Harry Whitney is personally ac-
quainted with all the facts, and perhaps
what he has to say when he returns
NAV be interesting added the explorer.
Then DR.. Cook remarked quietly:
Make as little as you can of this and
don't say anything disasreeabls about
DR.. Cook told Capt. Sverdrup and an
other friend the day after he landed
here that he hoped there would be no un-
pleasantness over supplies with the Peary
men in possession Of one Of his depots
and had turned them out unceremoni-
ously.
Danish Explorers Sustain Cook.
The people of Denmark have perhaps
been more stirred by the vague tales
about Rasmussen's letters to his wife
than anything else. These. rumor has
said, express regret that Cook claimed to
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generally on his whole story.
Mrs. Rasmussen now issues state
ment through q Danish agency saying
her husband has instructed her on his
Peary relating to the two Eskimos. add
ing that he fully believes Cook reached
the pole.
Cooks Danish friends, such as Sver-
drup. and others experienced IN polar
research, keep undiminished faith In
him. In regard to the statement that
the two Eskimo boys said that DR.. Cook
did not leave the land. Sverdrup says;
Cook could not have been such g
the land and pretend they had left it
The Eskimos know better"
'Peary will never admit that the pole
was reached before he got there. He
is the most jealous Of men and thinks
he has a lease on the pole.
He is sure to. be keen and sharp
adversary. He is not afraid to use any
means.
"Pearys treatment OF myself when
we met at Smith sound Is well known
"Dr. Cook is amply prepared to de-
molish Commander Peary at the prop
er time. He has scientific ammunition
with which he can riddle every accuse
ton that Peary, in his disappointment
at not being the first to search the pole.
may make"
Rasmussen's Word Accepted.
The National Tidende says:
Doubtless Knud Rasmussen has
means OF producing reliable evidence.
and when he says Cook must be trust
ed that opinion counts for more than
Peary's statements OF what Eskimos
told him. Peary is too much a party
Internationally.
Besides. there is this remarkable
point: that now the Eskimos' opinion
suits Peary he does not mind using It
" repudiated 1t as such. But the truth
is the Eskimos have not said anything
at all Of what Peary has stated.
Those who remember how Peary be-
as9 s NE .oyna %
be certain that Pear1 would be an UNI
compromising enemy OF anybody having
the audacity to rival him in the run
for the pole. and would employ all pos
sible methods to defeat competitor.
But that Peary would use peridious
means nobody had imagined"
Cooks Fear Of Peary.
It Is rather surprising that serious
man like Norman Hansen should. in an
article In the Politiken. say that Cook
took the homeward route that he did in
order TO avoid meeting Peary. fearing
that Peary. out Of jealousy, would kill
him.
Hansen has been close to Cook since
his return. He first met him on the
Greenland coast. They lived alone to-
gether In Greenland, except for the ma
tives, for weeks. and Hansen apparently
believes that Cooks fear was justified.
When the newspaper correspondents
here interviewed him yesterday with re-
gard to the cable from Commander
Peary IN which the latter advises against
Cook expressed himself as Indifferent to
the doubt expressed by Peary and said
that his reply to the denial Of his story
would not be forthcoming until ACCUSE
tions were made upon scientific data.
The newspapers print abstracts Of
Cooks address OF Tuesday night With
out comment beyond saying that It con-
tanned nothing new. Dispatches from
New York concerning Peary are pub
lished prominently. but also without
comment.
Cook Convinces Sverdrup.
Sverdrup. iaconic. tough little sailor
man. much liked. respected and COM
pletely trusted. reasserts his confidence
in DR.. Cook.
He says:
"Dr. Cook has shown me methods OF
taking observations and SO forth which
are quite right
Il know nothing of Peary's expedition.
don't know what route he took. but It
could not have been DR.. Cooks Nor
wegian route. That way Peary could
never have gone"