Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-30
MAY AND MY NOT
HAVE DISCOVERED
The NORTH POLE"
On. COOK
Exiled Explorer Out with Mag.
azine Article in Own
Defense.
IN. Coon

NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-Dr. Frederick
"A. Cook, the Brooklyn explorer. in an
article which will be published in
Hampton's Magazine, confesses that he
does not know whether he reached the
North Pole or not.
DR.. Cook, who has been in hiding for
over a year has informed the editors
Of the magazine publishing the story
that he will return to the United States
with his wife and children December %,
in order to spend Christmas here.
DR.. Cook in his story deals with the
psychology of his adventure and says:
Did 7 get to the North Pole? Per-
haps / made a mistake in thinking /
did. Perhaps ] did not make a mistake.
After mature thought | confess that I
do not know. absolutely, whether I
reached the pole or not. This MAJ
come as an amazing statement. but l
am willing TO startle the world il by SO
doing / can get In opportunity to pre-
sent my case. BY my case l mean not
my case as a geographical d%iscoverer,
but my case as O man. Much as the
attainment OF the North Pole once
meant to me. the sympathy and cen
i40CAA11 y IL a fAACA A@ChA AaAO o
Fully. freely and frankly, I shall tell
you everything; tell you everything
and leave the decision with you. If,
after reading my story, you say Cook
is sincere and honest: half-crazed by
months of isolation and hunger, he be-
lieved that he reached the pole; he 10
story of His Life.
DR.. Cook tells the story OF his life and
pictures what ne calls the oyer-power-
ing ambition for exploration that peset
HIM until it finally eliminated IN his
EFFORT to reach the pole. Dr. Cook de-
cares that at the time he convinced
himself thai he had discovered the pole
he vas halt-mao. he spent two years
in his quest and during that time en-
dured hunger n p~rivation that, ne
says would unbaiance any mind The
explorer states that it would be impos-
Siule for any man to demonstrate be-
yond question that he had been to the
north pole. lie characterlzes the region
as a region OF insanity, where n can
not beileye the evidence gathered by
ones own eye. He says that he had
Always looked. upon the discovery of
n poe as an achievement for his own
personal satisfaction, tor the satistac-
zion of a craving and desire that was
greater than n other factor in his
life. When he found now tremendous
a sensation his statement that he a
attained the pole created, he was over
come with bewilderment.
DIR. Cook then tells the story of the
days in Copenhagen and later in New
York, and of the crisis in mis- life that
led to his flight from New York and
his voluntary exile from the United
States. The explorer says that not
w~iuhstanding the fact that he was fol-
lowed by the shrewdest newspaper
men in the world day after day and
that sums ranging up to several thou
sands of dollars were offered for a clue
to mis- whereabouts, he has never worn
q disguise and has never taken I'M
unusual precaution to conceal his iden-
tity. Part of the time, he says, his
wife has been with him and part of
the time his children.
Is Now I'm Europe.
DR.. Cook and his wife are now in
Europe, and the children are now in q
convent in France. Most of the time
during his exile DR.. Cook has been in
London. He says that he has gone
about among Americans there with the
utmost freedom, and at times has reg
istered under his own name, n that
only a few have guessed his identity.
Those who did guess it, DR.. Cook says.
we're turned away with ease by the
remark: why, yes. l have been told
that before"
With the opportunities for thought
that his exile has given him-Dr. Cook
says he never even had time to sleep
more than three or four hours between
his arrival at Copenhagen and his dis
appearance in New York-he has found
growing stronger and stronger the de-
sire to return to his own country, to be
understood by his own people. He real
ICES better than any one else the es-
TEEN In which he was held.
Il have been called the greatest liar
in the world, the most monumental inn
poster in history" says DR.. Cook. II
believe that in every undesirable way
1 stand unique, the object of such sus-
picion and vituperation as have as
sailed few men,