Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-12-23
COOK RETURNS
SMILING AND
UNASHAMEO
ONLY CALM MAN ON
GREAT SHIP WASHINGTON
Passengers Divided Into Hostile
Camps Of Admirers and Scot
ferS Excitedly Praise and De-
nounce ErstwhiIe Explorer.

Especial Dispiteh to the MORNING JournaIl
New York, Dee. 22.-Dr. Frederick
A. Cook came back TO his native land
today ON the steamship George Wash
ington az calmly as IL there had never
been d north pole controversy. lie
said little A typewritten interview,
handed 10 reporters embraced all
that he had to say. with tho excep-
tion Of the necessary. ~fornnlities ~
conversation thrust on him BY inter-
viewers.
OF far more dramatic interest was a
heated controversy among the steam
ship passengers concerning the inn
preston he had made on them. The
doctor asserted that he believed that
he was at the pole. HIS statement ~
part follows.
II have no statement 10 make other
than that Which | carefully prepared.
Any interview | might give would nec-
eesarily be "fragmentary ana doubtless
misleading also, so | shall not now
give out any interviews and any pur-
porting 10 come from me will not be
authorized. ! snent weeks carefully
preparing my story, and | have frank
! ysaid IL Il all that there Is 70 a y
Every charge against me Is taken up
and answered in It's proper place in
my narrative.
Il do not know what my pans FOR
the future VIII be. / have not re-
turned 10 America with the intention
OF making money out OF my Arctic eN-
periences. Money did not prompt the
writing % my story, as | have seen
suggested ia certain newspapers. AS
] have said. / have come back solely
H. 49, .l4lU4. 4au $3.50.
self IN my family by setting matters
right with my e~ountrymen."
The argument among the George
Washington's passengers arose when
the doctors sympathizers aboard wish
ed Il understood that he was received
with no SHADOW Of discrimination by
the other passengers. His enemies
wished II made clear hat he had been
stunned. The minute the reporters
who had gone down the harhor @ "a
revenue cutter stepped into the sa-
loon, representatives OF both sides, ns-
sailed them. Persons. who Ia ordi-
nary circumstances dodge publicity as
they would the plague. button-holed
the reporters Ia their c%aperness to
present their case first.
Men clbowed one another. tramplcd
on toes, shook their fingers In one
nnothefs faces n shouted unQuuli-
fled contradictions Women gave up
pouring tea 70 stand on the hrocaded
chairs and peer over the ring OF men
into h vortex OF the discussion.
Cook was SPARED the cmbarrnss-
ment of this hubhuh lie met the
reporters at the ladder when they
boarded the ship perfectly poised. Il
was the same Or. Cook, "a little less
tanned n worn, but With the same
lock Of hair hanging down oVer the
forehead. the same reticcnt smile and
the same stuhhy mustacho
In half an hour, gentlemen. ] win
have "a statement FOR you. Just make
yourselves at home la the ladies sac
loon he said. ana ne icd the way
himself. He excused himself without
a trace % sclf-consci0usntss.
While the dispute in the ladies' sa-
loon boiled. mare temperate unsscu-
gers elsewhere found time a. tell
without heat OF the doctors trip no
came aboard az Bremu. they said.
wearing a nuli beard. hut haa 10 shaw
cd of on the first dan TITS nnme
did not appear on the passenger iia