COOK AND PEARY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 621, 25 September 1909, Page 5

COOK AND PEARY.

ft LATTER ANNOYED AT COOK'S OVATION TACTLESS MESSAGES. WHY BARTLETT DID NOT GO TO THE POLE. (By TclcEfich.-PrcJs Ansoclatlnn.-GopjrliilJt.l (Rec. Soptcmbcr 24, 0.23 p.m.) Now York, September 24. Commander Peary is so exasperated nt tho wclcomo accorded in Now' York to Dr. Cook, that ho announces that ho will not accept public honouis; also that ho will not attempt to controvert Dr. Cook's claim, and willromain in tho seclusion' of his summer, homo at Eaglo Islnnd, Maine, until scientists ha\o examined all tho records.

' Dr.' Cook's frankness ha 3 made an exoellont. impression'■:in... York, whilo. Commander Peary's abusive messages ! and jealousy have irritated the public. ■..Commander. Peary; is also blamed for refusing to allow Captain Bartlett to accompany him over the last hundred.miles to tho Pole/ .because Bartlott is .an Englishman.' Ho .admits that.Dtlrtlctfc did-all:, tho rough work.'.■;■'.■; ' : ,-':.'•.• ":'.-:-.■' ''.'.• [Captain is a Newfoundlander, as were nearly all of the Roosevelt's cVew.] : COOK ENDORSED BY ALDERMEN OF; ■■'.r y y-^ : :y.- -'".'NEW YORK.. ', ;';'.',.■'. ; ' Now York, .September 23. . '..Th'o Board of: Aldermen of.Nctv York his resolved to"give Dr. Cooki the/Pplar cxplpreri "a' piibjio reception, and to confer on 'him tho.freedom,of tho citjv'••''," ■.'.-.■•.■ ■[.': Tho. resolution adopted, by: tho hoard formally ,recognisea that Dr.'. Cook 'discovered ;iho. North.Pole.;.,.';■'■.;.. ,;';/; ... ;.:,'.:,