The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-01-06
A BIG POLAR CONTROVERSY is ON
Opening Shot Fired EGr Over Discovery OF the North POeNaOna deO
graphic Society Demands Proof From Both MenOeS Postpone
It's Medal Until Commission Experts Has Passed on the
Reports Made by Commander PGary and Dr. Cock.

A special cable says the Standards
Copenhagen correspondent quotes
Cook as saying:
Having 4 suspicion that Peary had
Succeeded rIawas more than eager TO
feach 'ciyillzatiop'in order to publish
my"iyesdlts;% hich't AapeTPeafy viii
~ EyiAsswS WITH f63ressiglt Of the
Iv6h ms eepaiot for tie"hoaq3Es of-dis+
rsSeFt, the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS So
ciety in Washington While telegraph
In. ,",JaeaFtiest Congratulations" 20
lsptIry ,in, answer to'a message an
Fsfou atinghls achievement, issued the
following guarded statement:
The board of managers of the Ma
tlonal Geographic Society decided to
take no action with regard TO honors
to Arctic explorers until after detailed
observations and records are sub
mitted to, and passed upon by, COM
petent authorities.
This statement from the heads OF
an organization OF which Peary and
Cook are both meslbers showed plain
~ that the society, while not officially
corroboratng Peary's claim, declined
TO accept the decision Of Danish scien-
lists that Cooks records proved he
reached the pole.
Dr. Cook, according to his present
plans, will arrive in New York Sep
TENDER 20 or 21, on the Scandinavian
American liner Oscar IT,, which means
that the two rivals for the first honor
OF the greatest feat of exploration IN
400 years may reach their home city
( within n few days of one another
perhaps within few hours.
The following message from Peary,
received by Mr.. Bridgman. gave added
assurance that he will claim priority
/ over Cook in reaching the pole:
Indian Harbor, via Cape Ray.
Herbert l.. Brldgman, New York.
Kindly Rush following: Wire all
the principal home and foreign geo.
graphical societies of all nations, In
Guiding Japan and Brazil, that the
North Pole was reached April by
Peary's Arctic Club expedition, under
Commander Peary. PEARH."
Mr.. Bridgman dispatched messages
to the Royal Geographical Societies
Of London, Rome and Brussels.
New York City.-The people In
and around New York who lay claim
" SUM- hhOhlNhbN VI BpiNi NAR'N'N
p ton, astronomy, navigation, ocean
currents, geography in general, and
any of the allied sciences that have
suddenly been brought into the fore
by the strangest coincidence in the
= history of mans endeavor to lay bare
, the secret corners Of the earth, hast
ened to send to a central depot of re
5 ception all sort OF kilograms of con
\ graduation for future delivery e
{ Commander Robert e. Peary whei
{ he shall have left the deck of tn,
o. Roosevelt somewhere up in the nortl
} and returned by rail TO New York
In the food OF feicitation that poured
;. down upon the head of Herbert L
J. Bridgman, of Brooklvn, the secretar
Of the Peary Arctic Club, and one o
n the sponsors of Peary's many dashe
= for the pole, there was evident tn
!. first minor note OF controversy whic
4. Is hound TO follow the arrival OF tn
d commander Of the Roosevelt and tn
d coming 10 these shores of the much
feted Dr. Cook, Of Brooklyn.