Show WORD DOUBTED Commander lecture bureau manager has cancelled the southern en engagements engagements engagements of o the Arctic explorer on account of the frigid reception accord accorded ed him at Atlanta As a matter of ot fact there Is js s a disposition ow on the part of many people In hi and out of Congress Congress to put Peary In the same class with Cook and discredit his assertions that he reached the North Pole The New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Titres Thres which has faith In the commander while branding the doctor as a rank impostor and prevaricator revives General complaint re reo regarding garding the treatment his men received after their return from the frozen north where so many of their com companions companions companions miserably perished In his story entitled Three Years of Arctic Service General Gener l Greely says No man of the party has received promotion except such temporary ad advancement advancement advancement of at my personal urging could secure Two men with broken health have adventured their private fortunes and one a most soldierly temperate and loyal man lies as ns these lines are penned helpless in m a city hospital aided by private charity his pension not even aware JEven J 1 JEven Even the meagre allowances originally promised for Arctic service have not been fully tully paid pad and the widows of the dead are generally gener lly as yet unrecognized Our great country in these days asks not in vain for its sons ons to venture their lives for tor any idea which may its interests or enhance its greatness I trust that posterity may never mourn the decadence of that th t indomitable American spirit which in this genera generation generation generation tion fought out to the bitter end its great grat civil war and made It seem an easy thing in iii time of peace to pene penetrate penetrate penetrate the heart of ot Africa to perish In Inthe Inthe inthe the Lena Delta to die at Sabine or to attain the farthest north n rth The friends of Commander Peary are angry algry over the manner In which the proposition to retire the explorer with the rank and pay of ot a rear tear admiral was turned down by the House committee on naval affairs So S the North Pole controversy rages once more with re renewed renewed renewed intensity Dr Cook Gook is headed for home and has cabled for rooms In itt Ina itta I Ia a Now New N w York hotel Another outburst may be expected upon his arrival The good Lord deliver us uso o |