Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-07-26
Polar Controversy Not Yet Settled, Declares
Dr.. Fredrick A. Cook Who is Coming Money
Noted Rival Of Baron Mum
chausen Says Verdict of the
Public Is Going to vindi.
cate Him in Not Far Dis
tant Future.

bant futufe.
Kansas city. Mo July 2G.-Ro-
member that spirited little contro-
yersy between one Or Frederick A.
Cook and one Lloutenant Robert y.
peary, concerning who IL the rightful
owner Of the NOrth Polee
Perhaps ~ these days OF hign tenn
peratures and Tow spirits. when your
mind has been more or less occupied
In the contemplation Of awaiting food
prices. bull crop reports. hull moos-
era.' Summer clothes and chiqger
bites, you careisasly have come 10 the
conclusion that the North Pole dis
/ pute ~ a dead issue. Ike the slavery
| question, the doctrine ~ original sin
and tie Identity ~ tie person VINO
assaulted william J. Patterson.
Nay. verify, saith Dr. Frederick A.
| Cook and he dives into his suit case
/ to exhibit bunch 81 Chautauqus lee
ture contracts that speak for them
| selves. TWO lectures q day every day
except sundays since the opening oil
1 the Chautauquh season, each lecture
/ bringing n sum that runs well into
three figures. is pretty good evidence,
/ thinks the explorer, that the cOntro-
/ ,crsy isn't settled. unesR II may be
said To- have been settled IN his favor.
1 DR. Cook believes that the contro-
versy has actually. resulted in his vim
dicatlon, ana that n has been decided
upon expert testimony lie announce
ed, while taking day on from his
Chautauuua lEbOrs al the baltimore
yesterday. that the evidence u going
10 the jury Within week or two.
rhe jury he says N the public az
large.
Tho expert testimony IL that OF
thirty o. forty 81 the most famous
Arctic ANA Antarctic explorers ana
the evidence n 20 boz submitted to the
public in tho form ~ book nov on
the presses in New York TIE book
Nlll contain not only DR. Cooks re-
yised story ~ the dash for the big
nail" but the opinions ~ explorers
ana scientists who support his claims.
Most COnccrn, Vindicati0n.
'Of course Il In gratifying to be- able
90 earn Koodly sums " money AZ a
lecturer" said Dr. cook. but M pres
ent SIN moro concerned IN establish
ing historically my claim To being the
discoyerer of the North Pole than I
ann IN adding % my hank account n
u were not for that motive I should
be somewhere up In the north now.
away from this heat Hut che Chau-
lauqua AFFORDS me the best means
possible OF reaching the people VITA
my story and Il u the ambition Of my
llfe 10 establish my claims and make
safe my place In history.
Il kaas.. uuf a. much M linn
during the last three years In Iectur-
ing. 1 have only recently returned
from Germany. whore ! leclured In
university towns"
Or. Cooks residence In Germany
makes him look more German than
American. Ne mas the look 81 we'll
fed. unworried and prosperous burgh-
or. The fact that he waH not bosleged
with visitors ~ he YVES three years
ago IN Kansas city doesn't bother
him.
AFTER presenting my claims 10 the
University Of Copenhagen" went on
the explorer. Il submitted my data 10
forty Of the greatest polar oxpiorefa.
Thirty 81 them have replied that the
believe fny statements. ! have heard
nothing from the other ten aud do
not know how they regard them. The
findings OF the sclentlats Of CoJenha-
gen showed me that there ID no way
OF dcmonAireilng accidentally that
any man has found tho pole, Observ-
atlons 81 latitude and longitude taken
there are necessarily inaccurate.
Conditions deny us the use Of various
shecks and comparisons possible else
0 where on the oaFths surface. Hence,
. the authorities found that had SUBJ
mlttcd no positive proof Of my pres.
cncc az the pole
same True at I'eary.
Upon invesiiRatlon. have found
that tho same findings in effect. have
been made IN the case o. Poary. so
decided 90 leave the matter Ia the
J men most likely 70 know--so Arctic
and Antarctic explorers, especially
the former. Il il now only a question
Of educating the publie--of giving the
people the facts AMI letting them
Judge for themselves.
= Among the explorers who have ap.
proved my claims are General A. w
Greeley, Admiral w. \. schlcy, Raold
4 Amundaen. finder Of the South polai
Professor GeorRe - Colnte Of Bel.
nium. secretary "a che international
4 Bureau of Polar Itenearch Prof
y Evelyn Baldwin, and your reishoor
J. Prof Il. y. pyche ~ kansas CITY
q Capt }. y. vernler. the Canadian *
|. ploreri Prot otto Nofdenahiold 81
II Sweden and Prof Julius Payer Of
y YlennR. When The opinions " thes'
q men ate given publicity there VIII b
3 no dpuol 40 70 ny haylng reaches
/, the pole.
q Here u letter from ine Hwfalal
}. authority, hitherto unpublished y
4 American
? 'uolenhnTg. sweden. 0rt 9. 1911.