The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-12
ROOSEVELT PUT WISE TO COOKS
 POLE HOAX
B Dimes With Correspondents and Fires Broadside of Questions at Newspapermen, Touching on Affairs in This Coun- try.

By a Staff Cores. of United Press
 Rabak, Soudan, March 12.-On board the steamer Da1 last night Colonel Theodore Roosevelt gave a dinner in honor of the United Press correspon- dent and the four other correspon- dents who had come up the Nile on the Abbas to meet him at Renk.
 The dinner lasted far into the night and most of the time was occupied by the Colonel asking questions faster than the combined energy of the cor respondents could answer them. Af- ter his almost complete divorce of ten months from political and business conditions in America Roosevelt show his classes and by the time he reaches Cairo it is a safe prediction that he will again be in thorough touch with affairs in his own country.
 The Colonel was particularly inter ested in learning the details of Dr.. Cooks North Pole fasco and the dis covery of the pole by hisssown friend, the extent of the Cook hoax he ex- press his pleasure at not falling a victim to his first impulse. to send a ed the achievement of Peary to be one of the greatest exploration triunphs in history.
 'tAnd it's fine to think that an Amer
  he said.
 During the dinner which was given while the Dal was tied up at the bank the correspondents tried many ruses to draw the Colonel into political dis cussjons but every attempt found him on his guard
 tical matters" he said, tyou fellows can tell me all you know and with that he fired a broadside of questions at the newspapermen touching on var fTT1c, rN1 No1f
 I've not only had good time but I think the results of the African ex- petition from a scientific standpoint will meet the expectations of all those interested in it's success" said the Colonel "I have hunted all over America and through Africa and I am now content to lay down my gun"
 Roosevelt is hard at work completing the story of his African hunt and will also spend much of theatime between now and his arrival at Naples in the to give in Paris, Berlin and London.
 The Da1 left today for Khartoum and will arrive there tomorrow, one day ahead of schedule time and four days ahead of the original schedule.
 Mrs. Roosevelt and Ethel Roosevelt may not reach Khartoum until after the arrival of the Colonel and Ker- init, the latest word from them being that they expected to arrive Monday. Four days will be spent at Khartoun, the party leaving Thursday.
 w nile III hndflO0Iu ILIe I1OOSeNelLS will be the guests of S1atin Pasha, the inspector general of the Soudan, at the palace. The entertainment at Khartoum while unofficial in charac- ter, will nevertheless be on lavish scale and will include several recep- tions and visits to the most interest ing places in the city and the nearby country.
 Leaving Khartoum, stops will be made at Assouan and Luaxor where the old palaces will be visited.
 nf al n oT-7 a for the correspondents and they are making the return trip to Khartoum on the Abbas. Roosevelt seemed keenly appreciative of the great in terest taken in America, over his re- turn,
 'I thought they had gone the limit in giving me such a wonderful farewell But it's good to know that you are still in good standing.