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Show LEFT COOK'S RECORDS BEHIND. Peary Would Not Allow Them to be Taken Upon the Roosevelt. New York. Commander Robert E. Peary refused absolutely to allow any of the records or instruments of Dr. Frederick A. Cook to be brought aboard the steamer Roosevelt and was thus instrumental in causing these records to remain in a cache at Etah, Greenland, according to Harry Whitney, the New Haven sportsman, in a dispatch received in this city by Dr. Cook on Sunday. Dr. Cook did not appear to be greatly perturbed by the news he had received from Mr. Whitney. He hopes to set him in a very short time and hear a complete explanation of the occurrences at Etah. Dr. Cook denied the report that he was to bring suit for slander against Peary- |