The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-11-30
Exile, Who Has Worn No Disguise to Escape
Detection, Now Eager to Regain the Con-
fidence Of the American People,
Calls the North Pole the
Region Of Insanity

New York. Nov. 30-Dr. Frederick
A. Cook, the Brooklyn explorer, In an
article which will be published in
Hampton's Magazine, contesses that
he does not know whether he reach
ed the North Pole OF not.
DR.. Cook. who has been in hiding
for more than a year. has informed
the editors OF the magazine publish
ing his story that he viii return to
the United States with his wife and
children Dec. 22 in order TO spend
Christmas here.
DR.. Cook, In his story. deals with
the psychology of his adventure. and
says:
did / get TO the North Pole7 Per
haps made 4 mistake in thinking
that | did, Perhaps / did not make
mistake. After mature thought,
confess that | do not know absolute
ly whether I had the pole OF not
This may come as an amazing state
ment, but ! am willing TO startle the
world il by SO doing l can get an op-
portunlty to present my case.
by my case l mean not my case as
a geographical discoverer. but my case
as man Much as the attainment of
the North Pole once meant to me, the
sympathy and confidence OF my fell
low men mean more.
Seeks Exoneration.
Fully, freely and frankly | shall
tell you everything Tell you every
thing. and leave the decision with
you II. after reading my story. you
say. Cook is sincere and honest. half
cra2ed by months of isolation and hum
ger, he believed he reached the pole
he Is not u falJr'-then i shall be sat
isfied."
Dr. Cook tells the story OF his life
and pictures what he calls the over
powering ambition for exploration that
beset him until il finally eliminated
in his effort to reach the North Pole.
Cook declares that at the time he
convinced himself be had discovered
the pole he was half mad, He spent
two years in his quest during that
time enduring hunger and privatiOn
that he says would unbalance any
mind.
Region Of Ineanity.
The explorer states that II would
be impossible for any man to demon
strate beyond question that he had
been to the North Pole. He charac-
terlzed the region as a region of In
sanity, where one cannot believe the
evidence gathered by ones own eyes.
He said he had always looked on
the discovery of the pole as an
achievement for his own personal sat,
isfaction, for the satisfaction of
craving and desire that was greater
than any other factor In his life.
When he found how tremendous
sensation his statement that he had
attained the pole created he was over
come with beWlldermenL DR. Cook
then tells the story OF TIN, days IN
Copenhagen and later in New York,
and of tho crisis in his life that caus-
ed his flight from New York and his
voluntary exile from the United
States,
Wore No Disguise.
The explorer says that notwith-
standing the fact that he was followed
bv the shrewdest newspaper men In
the world day after day, and that
sums ranging upwards OF thousands
OF dollars were offered for clue as
To his whereabouts. he has never worn
4 Disguise and has never taken any
unusual precautions 10 conceal his
Identity
Part Of the time, he says, his wife
has been With him, and part OF the
time his children.
DR. Cook and his wife are now in
Enrnu. oh ny m a
sHent in France.
Most OF The time, during his exile.
DR.. Cook has been in London. He
says he has gone about among Amerl-
cans there with the utmost freedom.
and at times has registered under his
own name. and that only a few have
guessed his Identity Those who did
guess II, Dr. Cook saws. were turned
away with case by the remark. Why.
yes. have been told that before.
When the opportunities for thought
that his exile has given him Or. Cook
says. he never even had time 10 sleep
more than three or four hours at
time, between his arrival at Copen-
hagen and his arrival at New York
he has been growing stronger and
stronger with the desire to return 10
MS o"u 'ountTNs 10 De understood
by his own people He realizes bet.
ter than anyone else the esteem in
which he was held.
Has Been Called a Liar.
Il have been called the greatest
liar In the world. the most monumeu-
tai impOster In history" saws Or.
Cook. 81 believe that in every unde-
sirnblc way | stand unique. the OBJ
jcct OF such Slspicion and viiuper-
alton as have assailcd few men"
with this realization, Br. Cook
wrote his story. and says that 10 him
Tho honor OF discovering The North
Pole no longer means anything. Tho
explorer has been working on his sto-
~ aimee last August. and SAYS. ac.
cordlng 20 the editor OF Hampton S
Magazine that his sole desire Is Ia
make the people Of the United States
realize just what he went through
turng his two and half wears in
the Arctic fastnesses. and TO make
them see what processes Of thinking
or lack Of thlukine n was that 1cd