The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-01-04
COOK GETS BACK.
saz,ss 10 His Naive Country Fsun E.
rope On Last Thursday.

JUST AS CAIN AS EVER
Hta Presence aboard Causes = Dis
puce on the Ship.-The Passengers
We're Divided Into Two Camps On
tho Question Of His Reception
What He Says
Dr.. Frederick A. Cook. arrsred ID
New York on Thursday on the steam
ship George Washington as calmly
- e there had never been North
Pole CONTROVERSY. He looked vel!
and sa:d little: In fact typewriter
Interview handed the reporters EN-
braced all that he had to say wito
the exception o: the necessity fo-nias-
tiles OF conversation thrust upon him
oy interviewe-s-
OF far more dramatic !nteres: was
. beaded controversy among the
steamship passengers concerning the
Impression he had made uron them
TIE doctor still asserts that be be-
lisves he was at the pole.
Dr.. Cook IN his statement referred
10 the fact that he was IN the United
States less ekan q month ago.
.sI arrived in Quebec on October
2s, went to Troy. n. T.. then to
Newba.gh and Poushkeeps;e." said
he. ..I xas IN the two last naEsec
cities about three weeks. writing. -e-
vising and correcting proofs OF N,
story. registered under an assum-
ed name because was very busy
too busy to receive my personal
friends or newspaper men No 9th
e. precautions were taken 70 keep
my presence concealed
Dr. Caad sa;e be didn't know wha:
his plans for the future will be:
that he had no plans whatever tos
going on the lecture platform
'I have come back solely for the
perpose Of 7ehabilieatins myself and
my family by setting matters r!shf
with my countrEnen- he declared
The argument among the George
washington's passengers arose when
tAe doctors sympashize-s aeoare
wished 1t understood that be was r.-
cesred with no shadow Of d:scrsuina-
tson BY the other passengers. His
enemies wished It made clear that De
had been stunned. The minute the
men who had gone down the harooI
On the revenue cutter stepped into
tho saloen. representatives Of both
ssdes descended on them Persons
who in ordinary circumstances dodge
publicity as they would the plague,
fairly brtson-ho!ed the reporters n
their esserness to present their case
Hrse-
While the dispute II the ladies ga
loon mosled. more temperate minded
passengers elsewhere found time TO
tell withou: hea: about the doctors
tip. He came aboard at Bremen.
they said. wearing full beard. bu;
lad It shaved OF the next day. He
was an uRostentations PASSENGER.
playing cards Of an evening with a
few friends and neither seeking nor
syoiding attention.
Once when the toasts were going
around before bedtime and It came
his turn to name health. he was
quick 20 propose the STARS and
Stripes" !" 8 toast that none could re
fuse.
Another time when e passenge.
who lad not remarked to him before
asked orrsquely: Are you Dr.
Cook" He answered. My name IS
Cook
"Ars you the Dr.. Cook who went
to the North Pole?" persisted the
cress:oaer.
''I have been there" asserted the
doctor gracely.
The typewriter interview with the
doctor did no. satisfy the reporters
They piled him with questions. but
almost Al: OF them he par-ied.
You have written this. doctor:
Alter mature thought. ! confess cha:
I do not know absolutely whethe.
reached she pole or not Do yon be-
Eeve eaae you did,
''I still believe It"
''poes your uace.ta.nt: q. all ex-
tend to your ascent OF Mt. Msk!a-
sey."
Not in the lesse. I shall have
reply to make to Prof Hsrschel c.
Parker's latest attack on my ascer,
OF Mount Mckinley IN a few days
probably mex: Monday.
'-D!G Soa ssill believe n Eour rec
oeds when Sou sent them to the Cni-
sersity OF Copenhagen"
''Oh. certainly"
'Then why did You call Capt. Az
gust ". Loos to aid you in comp,L
Ing then?"
THAT will be answered IN the
next inseaIiment
eye. you accep: the verdict o. TIE
university"
-Yes. think we have accepted
enat-''
and you believe tha. Peary got to
the pole?"
81 have never questioned IT.
Prom the steamer Dr.. Cook went
direct to the Waldo-f-Asto-.a. where
BE stayed before. or his welcome
from Copenhagen.
Killed ia Row.
As the result OF q fsh: between
burglars and the police IN London