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ment. Capt. Bartlett of the Roosevelt
also spoke and was cheered heartily
Henson's Talking Shut Up by Peary
Matt Henson. arriving back in civiliza-
ton, at once became the negro orator
when surrounded in the Sydney Hotel by
almost half hundred persons bent on
learning as much Of the pole from him
as was possible.
He greeted every one with a smile and
then talked freely until courier came
from Mr.. Peary and ordered him not to
divulge any of the secrets of the dash
to the pole. Instantly Henson closed up
like a clam.
AS soon as he came off the Roosevelt
he was the center of a throng of hero
worshipers six deep Prominent men of
the city came to congratulate him and
mine owner from Mexico pushed his
way through the crowd and said:
Mr.. Henson. I'd give half what I have
to be in your shoes"
Offered $1,000 a Week.
He was showed out of the way by an
agent of vaudeville house, who tried to
get Henson to sign a contract for $1,000
week. Henson declined to accept on
the ground that his services would not
be at the disposal of any man until he
had gone off the Roosevelt in New York.
No, sir" he said with a broad grin,
Il want the honor of going to New York
and of being in the reception there"
Then he turned loose into an impromptu
lecture on the north pole.
You people needn't worry about DR..
Cook" he said. HE has never been to
the pole.
ones that have ever been there except an
Eskimo servant. l talked with those
Eskimos that went out with DR.. Cook.
Why, they're only boys"
Pritchard "Sweated" by Peary.
The true story of DIR. Cooks transaction
with John Murphy, boatswain on the
Roosevelt, and his fellow seaman. Will
liam Pritchard, has been divulged fol-
lowing the filing of a private news dis
patch at Battle Harbor Thursday Of last
week The information regarding Murphy
and Pritchard's dealing at Annootok and
Etah got to Commander Peary.
What became of this dispatch was
mystery unsolved until the two seamen
talked with a correspondent on the
Roosevelt yesterday morning The inter-
view also revealed that Pritchard was put
through the third degree in Peary's pri-
vate cabin Saturday MORNING at Battle
edge of DR.. Cooks discovery was known
to the others.
Pritchard broke down and told a part
at least of the facts. Yesterday morning
he told the rest of the story.
Pritchard Tells His Story.
Pritchard said:
Il promised DR.. Cook faithfully I'd never
tell soul about his having been to the
pole and l meant to keep my word But
/ was SO glad to talk with some one
from home Then I remembered my
promise and tried to get out of it.
Il was taken into the commanders
cabin and made to give up.
This is Gods truth I'm telling you this
time. When the boatswain and 1 were
left at Etah to watch the commanders
stores during the winter we were ordered
to look after another cache of stores at
Annootok, about twenty miles away,
which belonged to DR.. Cook.
L was In DR.. Cooks place with Whitney
when Cook got there. He said: I've been
to the pole He made Mr. Whitney and
l promise We would not tell. He said he
didn't want Peary or any one else to
know anything about it.
II don't want to say ANYTHING about
troubles up there on account of the
stores. You ought to see the commander
about that or the bOatswain. l didn't
have any trouble with Cook. anyway
L
until he let me off himself
II don't believe the bos'n knew any,
thing about 1t. because at the time DR..
Cook told Mr.. Whitney and me the bos' n
was at Etah."
Murphy Told to Be Quiet.
Murphy told a story that confirmed
Pritchard's In part. He. declared that
yesterday morning he had cen taken
into Peary's cabin and ordered to say
nothing whatever about DIR. Cook or the
affair in North Greenland.
lone time left Etah," declared Murphy.
land went to Annootok. where Mr.. Whit
ney and Pritchard happened to be to-
gether That's the time l found DR.. Cook
there with them.
Cook never told me he had been to
the pole. but l knew'he had tried to get
up there. We all know It. We were
talking about Peary's trip to 81 one time
and Cook said. That's nothing. I've
been way beyond there I didn't have
certain reasons.
Its all a lie about my stealing supplies
and trading them for furs. The only
supplies traded for skins were mine
tons at both places"
Lure Of North Has Bartlett.
'The lure of the north is in my blood
and I've got to go back"
A big. raw-boned. sturdy master of the
sea stood at the rail of the Quarterback
of the Roosevelt yesterday morning as
she swept up the harbor from her VOYAGE
to the arctic. and in an unguarded mo.
ment. that was like a flash from Some
smoidering volcano unbosomed himself
of perhaps the only sentimental Thought
that escaped his lips in his lifetime
1t was Capt. Robert Bartlett, the skim
per who had taken the Roosevelt throueh
all kinds of perils, and as he spoke the
steam sirens were roaring far away on
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