Evening journal., 1910-12-21
DIR. COOK HOME
TOMORROW
Expected to Arrive in New
York to Spend the
Holidays e.
HIS ROYAL WELCOME
OF LAST YEAR RECALLED

NEW YORK, Dec. 2l-Dr. Cook is
coming home-again. He VIII reach
New York tomorrow. afternoon on the
North German Lloyd liner George
Washington to spend the holidays.
On September q, 1909, the fleet Of
excursion boats lined up of Quaran-
tine, In the lower bay, described
through the morning mists the form
of the liner Oscar II, picking her way
along through the fog.
Sirens shriekod bands played
voices rang out. On the bridge of the
Oscar, DR.. Frederick A. Cook doifed
his hat and acknowledged the salutes
Of thousands OF admiring Americans.
who had stayed up all night 10 well
come him, the finder of the North
Pole.
Customs officials had written
expedite" on his declaration and he
left the Oscar at Quarantine\ without
even exhibiting to the prying customs
men the gold medal given him blythe
King Of Denmark.
waiting tug. with his wife and
the inevitable reception committee"
with streamers two feet long. went
alongside, and the man who had stood
on the top of the world where there
is no north, no east or no west, where
all is south, amid the limitless fields
of purple ice" went aboard for a
sumptuous breakfast
The excursion fleet stood by the
while, whistles footing and bands
playing-but they reverently awaited
the great mans pleasure.
At o'clock the tug went alongside
the big excursion steamer chartered
by the Arctic Club and the Bushwick
Club Of Brooklyn. and DR.. Cook board
ed the vessel amid a din that must
have echoed back TO the land of gum
drops and E-Tok-I-Shuk, to the land
savage I'm rs drains on body and
minds"
Captain B. It. Osbon, explorer, and
soldier OF fortune, threw his arms
about Cooks neck and kissed him.
Former patrons of the Brooklyn man
placed a great laurel wreath, decked
with roses, about his neck. AtCalicoon
| Depot H. y, relatives, also kissed
Cousin Fred. The crush was awful.
Soldiers of the State militia formed q
square about the great di3coverer. aDd
bore him to the bridge, While news
paper photographers climbed the
masts to snap the man who had vis-
tied the ''land OF insanity
Up the river Hudson that Fulton
had sailed, they took the man whose
name was to rank with those OF the
other great.
Signal flags proclaimed the fact that
Cook was on board The roar OF
sirens from passing craft was deafeu-
ing Fatigued, Cook sought the privacy
of his cabin. and like a modest hero,
denied himself to all callers save
those from the paper that was buying
his story On the after-deck-John
! r. Bradley, who financed the eXpedi-
tion. was telling everyone that "Peary
! is obsessed with the idea that no one
else could find the pole.
II was gala day, and that night
the honored guest of the Bushwick
Club, in the wilds OF far off Brooklyn
Cook had TO come to the balcony and
bow and bow to the thousands who
jammed the streets below.
Later, among other honors. the Al
dermen of New York gave Cook the
keys of the city-and Americans gave
him 100000 to hear his lectures.
When Dr. Cook comes home again
tomorrow, no fleet will be awaiting
A revenue cutter-loaded with GUS
toms officers and newspaper men
J will go alongside. With the rest ol
the passengers, Cook viii have tc
( sign his declaration. The newspaper
men will ask him questions about his
trip to the North Pole" and his re-
cent confession. published in Hamp-
tons Magazine
The George Washington will come
up to her Hoboken pier without the
toot of a whistle. Cook will face the
customs officers, and have his trunks
searched they may even appraise the
gold medal the King of Denmark gave
him and make him pay duty on il.