Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-17
Decided Not to Wait at Sydney for Commander
 PearyS Return
0ABLEGRAMS OF CONGRATULATIO.a
Addressed Peary ound by Secretary Pridgman Unop ened on His Desk at the Arctic Club-Explorer Cooks Wife to Be the First to Meet and Greet l. i'm in New York Next Week.

reaching the pole" Commander Peary said. 1.-TWO of them were made and i worked out by the late Prof. Ross G. Marvin, who prepared duplicate rec 1 ords in each case, and duly signed the duplicate certificates. To guard against
 aeident I took one set of these papers
 and Professor Marvin took the other.
 When at a distance of 125 miles l from the pole, the third observation
 was made by Capt. Bartlett, who also 1 signed the records and certificates in | duplicate, he retaining one set and l I the other The fourth and fifth ob-
 servations were made by myself, the l last being taken five miles from the
 pole proper"
 "Was more than one observation ] taken at the pole, and by whom?" the explorer was asked
 | Several Observations at Pole.
 There were several observations"
 he replied And I took them all my self. They all agreed You must un- I derstand that the pole is a theoretical point, without length, breadth or thick ness. Its actual location depends on the accuracy of the instruments em
 ployed and the conditions under which the observations are taken" You have stated, Commander Peary that a copy of your records and polar
 
 of silk American flag and deposited in an ice cavity at the pole; did any person witness this act?"
 To this question Commander Peary declined to make any answer at pres ent.
 He said that Dr. Cook was expected by the world to submit to an impartial tribunal or board of arbitration, re- vised and authentic signed statement of his alleged discovery of the pole. Dr. Cook soon would reach the United States, Commander Peary said, and he was glad at the prospect of the matter being submitted for consideration at an early date. It should be done inside of couple of weeks, and when it was done. the commander declared, he was prepared to turn over to the board of arbitration, to the public, and to sci- entific bodies, an array of testimony which would disprove Dr. Cooks claims for all time.
 Why Whitney Remained. Asked how Harry Whitney happened to remain in the north, Commander Peary said Whitney was one of a party of sportsmen who went as pas sengers on board the steamship FS~<. The party included Whitney, w. Nor ton of New York, a man named Harm ed, and c. J. Crafts of Washington, who came for the purpose of taking magnetic observations for Dr. Bauer. head of the department of terrestrial magnetism of the Carnegie Institute, at Washington. At Etah, where it was determined to land a party and sup plies for the relief of Dr. Cook, par ticularly in view of the fact that Ru- dolph F'rancke was being invalided home, Whitney asked if he might re- main on the station to hunt walrus and polar bears in the spring and make the trip to Ellesmere Land with Es- kimos after musk oxen. This was decided on. In order to provide against the contingency of the Roosevelt not coming down from the north in the summer of 1909, in which event he would be obliged to remain in the Arc tic for two years, MT. Whitney made arrangements for ship to come up for him this summer.
 As a matter of fact, the party of sportsmen did not materialize, but the relief vessel Jeanie was sent north to bring Whitney back. On her arrival Whitney was transferred from the Roosevelt to the Jeanie, and he is now probably engaged in hunting bears somewhere on the west side of Baffin Bay or Davis Strait"