Arizona republican., 1910-12-23

New York. Dec. 22.-Dr. Cook came back to his native land today on the steamship George Washington, as calmly as if had never been in a north pole controversy. He said lit tie. A typewriter interview. handed to reporters. embraced all he had to say, with the exception of the neces- sary fOrmalities of conversation thrust on him by interviewers. Of far more dramatic interest was a heated con troversy among the steamship pas sengers concerning the impression he had made on them.
 The doctor asserted that he believed that he was at the pole. His state- ment in part follows:
 Il have no statement to make other than that which I have carefully pre- pared. Any interview l might give would be necessarily fragmSntary, and doubtless misleading also. so l shall not now give out any interviews, and any purpOrting to come from me will not be authorized. I spent weeks carefully preparing my story, and l frankly said in it all that there is to say. Every charge against me is  place in my narrative.
 T do not know what my plans for the future will be- l have not re- turned to America with the intention of making money out of my Arctic experiences. Money did not prompt my writing of my story, as I have seen suggested by newspapers. As I have said. I have come back solely for the purpose of rehabiitating my self and family by setting matters right with my countrymen."
 An argument among the steamers passengers arose when the doctors sympathizers aboard wished it under stood that he was received with no shadow of discrimination among the passengers. His enemies wished it made clear that he had been summed. The minute the reporters Who had gone down the harbor on a revenue cutter stepped into the saloon the representatives of both sides assailed them. Persons who in ordinary cir cumstances dodge publicity as they would the plague buttOnholed the re- porters with an eagerness to present their case first.
 Men elbowed one another. tram pied on each others toes, shook their fingers in one anOthers faces and shouted unqualified contradictions. Women gave up pouring tea to stand on the brocaded chairs and peer over the ring of men into the vortex of discussion.
 Dr. Cook was spared the embar- rassment of this huffuf He met the 1
 
 bearded the ship. perfectly poised. It was the same Dr. Cook, a little less tanned and worn. but with the same lock of hair hanging down his fore head. the same reticent half smile ! and the same stubby mOustache.
 Tn half an hour gentlemen. I will ! have statement for you. Just make 1 yourselves at home in the ladies sa- | Ioon," he said as he led the way himself He spoke few words here | and there to a friend. shook a hand l and excused himself without a trace ! of self consciousness.
 While the dispute in the ladies ! saloon boiled, the more temperate pas ! sengers elsewhere found time to tell i without heat. of the doctors trip. He ! came aboard at Bremen. they said. : wearing a full beard. but had it shaw | ed off the first day. His name did : not appear on the passenger list at | first. but later it was placed as Herr ! Dr. Frederick A. Cook" on a supple | mental list.
 He was an unOstentatiOnS pasSen- 1 ger. playing cards evenings. with a few friends. Once. when tOasts were | going around. before bedtime. it came ] his turn to name a health and he ! was quick to propose the stars and | stripes
 One time a passenger who had not | remarked him before. asked brusque- | ly: Are you Dr COOk?''
 He answered: My name is Cook. i
 Are you the Cook who went to the | north pole?" persisted the questioner. |
 T have been there" asserted the ! doctor gravely.
 The doctor said that what he in ! -