The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-27
DR COOK 4IURhS TABLES --DECtARES PEARY's POLAR
 SPEED IMPOSSIBLE

Wher pr Cook first returned from ina Arctic, 1f5kfy paffisa nS asof MT. Peary. a among 5n thef2 if Melville. declared that his speed records were simpossible4 Biding his time so that. as he says, '.he- might secure irrefut- able evidence conv1cting his enemies shows-what has never been brought out before-that Mr- PeaFT g. claim edrNpe eds so14 the last lap. of his Polar journey borders on the Impossible.
 Just as Peary, upon his return from the Arctic quoted Dr, Cooks two M Es. he did not reach the Pole, pr. Cook now quotes Matt Henson, Mir. Peary's g negro companiOn,4w who IS reported as having denied that MT. Peary reached the Pole, and whose published inter publfsAed statement ts--s,r eg z
 Dfs Cook says..4 7Ai- -s < %sq have never attempted to .diSprove Mr. Peary's claim to having reached the North Pole. prefer to believe that Mir. Peary reached the North ..So avid have been my enemies, s however, to cast discredit upon my own achievement, by such trivial and ] petty charges, that it seems curious they have never noticed or have re-
 
 stagEering discrepancies in MT. Pea ry's own published account of his < journey. Tn MT. Peary's, book, entitled The v North Pole: Its Discovery 1909. on @page 3O2. appears the following: We turned our backs upon the Pole at about four o'clock of the saf- s ternoon' of April T.
 ssAccording to a statement made on page BOA. MT. Pearyetook time on his X-- r. Ix1 Of Q sef sssre Irnilesi from sthe ReIerc
 .sOff page s306; Mr., Reary says: Friday, April g., was wild day. All day long the wind blew. strong from the north-n ortheast. increasing finally to. a gale And on page 306: We minutes
 "Mr. Peary thus claims to have travelled from the Pole to this point, a distance of 133 nautical miles, or 153s4ta tuteI 1niles.j iI a. pt5Ies 9xer two days5 his useIradoss yeTaee1 70 4 stat make such speed? During this time MT. Peary camped twice, to make tea, eat lunch, feed the dogs and rest several hours in each camp.
 ssWhy L should never have gone out of sight of land for more than two days, as he has charged, when such miraculous speed can Ee made on the circumpolar sea, is son. ethlng MT. Peary might find interesting req sons 'to explain. . Aafssfs1 S+
 ssOn page BIO MT. Peary says: We were coming down the North Pole hill in fine shape now, and another double march, April 16-17, brought us to our eleventh upward camp at S5 degrees minutes, one hundred and twenty-one miles from Cape Colum- bia.'
 .sAccordiug to this, Mr.. Peary cdv- cred. rnes distance zfom-s 2 degrees, 47 minutes on ApriT9, to S5rdegrees. minutes on April f7--a distance of 15s nautical miles in eight days. This averaged twenty miles a day. 7<s "On page 316, he says: It was all most exactly six o'clock on the morn ing of April 23 when we reached the igloo of Crane City," at Cape Co., lSmbic, and the work was done
 sHls rPe ea9y left S5stdegKeessfS min utes oif April 21f, according ' to his statenaeslt and travelled SIPS miles to Cape Columbia in six days, arriving on April 23 This last stretch was at the rate of twenty miles a day. To sun up, he travelled from the North Pole. according to his statements, to land, as follows:
 'sThe first 1SS nautical miles south ward in two days, at the rate of 66 ma uticai miles. or 76 1z statute miles q day; the last I279 nauticaI miles in fourteen days, an average of 20 miles . day.
 According to Peary's book, Bart lett left him at ST degrees. 46 m1n- rtes and MT. ?eary started on his ffn- al squirt 10 tho Pole little after mid night on the morning of April 2. By arriving at the point SWhere he left