Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-23
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anu t'stIlStt NitItoAil ~ " 49,
of Observation-Disclosures.
While the dispute in the ladies' sa-
Ion boiled, more temperate Passengers
elsewhere found time 20 tell without
heat OF the DOCTORS trip. be came
aboard az Bremen. they said. wearing
full beard, but had 1t shaved off
on the flrst Gay. His name did not
appear on the passenger list at first
but later WIS placed. as Herr Dr.
Frederick a. Cook. on 4 supplemental
list. He was an transformations passen-
ger playing cards evenings with Il few
friends. once, when the toasts were
going aroun before bedtime it came
his turn to name health, he was
quick to prorosc the Stars and Stripes.
One time Il passenger who had not
remarked him before asked brusquely:
.'Are you Or. Cook" He answered.:
My name is Cook"
care you the Or. Cook who went to
the north pole?" persisted the ques-
toner.
SAYS HE WAS AT POLE.
81 have been there asserted the doc
tor gravcly.
The typewriter Interview did not
satisfy the reporters. They piled him
with questions, but to almost all of
them lie parried:
THAT has already been covered in
the statement" or :. | shall answer
that in full later
'"rhcn you will not submit to cross
examination on what you have pub
lished?" was asked.
NO" said the doctor firmly. and
then qualified it. "At least not now,
and in my own time and way
You have written. doctor, after ma
turc thought. confess that / do not
know absolutely whether Preached the
pole or not Do YOU believe that you
did?'
Il still believe It,"
Does your uncertainty at all eX-
tend to your ascent of Mount McKin-
ley?"
mot in the least + shall have a re.
ply to make to Prof. Herschel C. Park
crs latest attack OF my ascent Of
Mount Mckinley in a few days"
Ibid you still believe in your records
when you sent them to the University
of Copenhagcn?"
"Oh, certainly"
Then why did you call Capt. Au-
grstus Loose to aid you in compiling
them?''
THAT will be answered in the next
statement
You have also written: Most posi-
lively and cmphatically | am not 4
thief. Most certainly there was no
plan to hoax the world to my own
financial profit But If you now adj
NIT doubt of what you spoke on the
platform in your lectures. how can you
keep the admission feees you recciv-
cd?"
THAT also will be answered in the
next statement"
why did you choose to make this
statement to the public for money
through the medium of II magazine,
rather than to the University of, Copen-
I,, ial, hnI wit IA a
degrcc?"
II wanted u medium that would DO
free from bias
yet you accept the verdict of the
university?"
Yes, think we have accepted that"
NEVER QUESTIONED PEARY.
"And you believe that Pcary got to
the pole?"
II have never questioned it,
Shall you enter into any debate with
him?"
Impossible That is not my man
ner."
do you intend to take part in any
other polar or antarctic expedition"
No. | have come home to stay, This
community Is to be my home. / am
through with exploration. There is no
other point on the globe where / par
ticularly wishto GO
The doctor said that what he in
tended to do with the instruments and
records. which he says are ut Etah
would be told later He was emphatic
that they were "as correct as any OK
plorer's Instruments" and that mo
polar proofs are positive" He reiter-
nted that, although he was not n mar
riner, he was competent to take OBJ
servations to determine his position.
From the steamer he went directly
| to the Waldorf Astoria. where he stay
cd on his Welcome home from Copcn-
| hagen. Mrs. Cook and the children, he
said. were still In France where the
| children were going to school,