The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-03
Still Insists He Is Bona
Eide Discoverer
Of Pole.
rs COMING BACK
TO PROVE CLAIM
Man Who Won Favor of Kings
and Freedom Of Cities, Only to
Be Branded as Irnpostor, Lo-
Gated in London-Story
Of Flight From New
York.

Copyright, 1910. by The Press Publish
Ing Co. (The aew York WORLDLY
Especial from a STAFF Correspondent OF
The World.)
London, October 1.-The great In
ternational mystery OF the century
the whereabouts OF DR.. Frederick A.
Cook-has been cleared The World
has found Dr.. Cook.
The man whose claim to the discov-
cry Of the North Pole won him at
first the favor of kings. the acknowl-
edgement OF savants. the freedom OF
cities. the hero worship OF the conti-
nents, and then caused him to be
branded and denounced as one OF the
most monumental takers the world has
ever known. and the man whose flight
has batled every modern agency OF
pursuit for more than ten months.
stood in dingy office room In
building In the West End of London.
a meeting place of his own designation
and smilingly and frankly admitted
that he was DR.. Frederick A. Cook.
He did more He gave In detail and
with several amazing revelations the
complete story of his flight which
has engaged the attention OF every
civilized centre on earth.
In brief. he left New York Noyem-
ber rs. 1909. for Toronto. thence to
Halifax. thence to Liverpool. thence
to Gibraltar, thence to Tangter, Mo-
rocco. then to Portugal and from Lis-
bon to Buenos Ayres then around the
Horn TO Valparaiso. Chill: then across
the South American continent by
horseback and stage over the lordly
Andes Mountains and back to Buenos
Ayres. and from there TO Liverpool
and London. He has made his head
quarters In the English capital since
last May. taking occasional jaunts to
the Continent. Most OF the time he
had his wife for companion. His chill
dren arc in European schools.
Three Methods OF Disguise In His Flight.
In all this time Of flight and con-
realment he used but three methods
Of personal disguise. When he went
away he shaved off his mustache.
When he STOOD before the World COR
respondent he wore mustache and
a beard-the beard cut Van Dyke and
grizzled at tho sides; the mustache,
Instead OF being closely cropped, as
all photographs of him show he used
10 wear It, has been allowed to grow
long. with flowing ends dropping on
either side OF the sharply pointed
beard.
He has changed also the fashion of
wearing his hair. Formerly It was
parted on the side and combed with a
broad sweep over his forehead. Now
1t Is more closely clipped and brushed
Forward. forming sort Of bang over
his forehead. making his forehead ap-
pear low and narrow. instead OF high
and broad.
One Of Dr.. Cooks most surprising
assertions is that for the most part
he Travelled openly under his own
name the only effort at concealment
nal haf ha
initials. IF. A. Cook" instead of Fred
erick A. Cook" as in the heyday or
his fame.
But more surprising Is the fact
which the World correspondent had
opportunity to observe for hirnser-
that DR.. Cook has been living openly
In London with an apartment in a
Westminster hotel, where there are
many other Americans; riding in open
where thousands OF other Americans
daily walk and drive. This. he as
serts, he has been doing since he ar
rived In London last May.
But more surprising even than thar,
Dr.. Cook declares that when Peary
was In London last spring he. the
hunted. hiding and denounced Cook,
occupied seat in Albert Hail when
Peary, his rival and excoriator. lectured
before the Royal Geographical Society.
Il stood twenty yards from Peary
at the time" chuckled Dr. Cook, -and
none recognized me-"
Moreover, he says, he occupied a seat
among hundreds of other Americans
on one Of the grandstands watching
the pageant OF King Edwards funera!
and none knew him. And time ano
again he sat in trains, on ships, In
dining rooms, in theatres and heard
himself Observation-Disclosures admired
Tor nerve and craft, denounced and
defended.
The story of his fight told, pr. coo,,
spoke In defiance of the scientists
writer's and the public that have p,l.
1oried him as the monumental faker
OF the age.
Still Insists He Will Prove His Claim
He says he will come back te
America and refute them all. He says
It will be Peary and not he that viii
20 down in contumely and obloqus
when his f1ghti is finished, He declare:
he was so broken physically that hi
had to go away to save his life, bu
now that he is we'll and strong he /.
coming back. and that when he doe!
the Arctic fur will fly, He jeers a
Peary and announces In the end 1T vii
be he-Frederick A. Cook--whn will
enter history's pages as the bona-f fdt
discoverer of the North Pole.
The interview was given by Dr. Cool
u to the World reporter last Friday
In the negotia tions that were made I
Was demanded by DIR, Cooks repre-
sentative that the interview. whel
givon, should not be published 70
forty-eight hours. DR., Cook franlsl,
admitting that he was not yet quit
ready to come out and face the storm
: that would break around him II hi
were not given an opportunity Y
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