Show 1 HE IS AN OVATION American Explorer Reaches Beaches i Copenhagen and the Danish King Officially Accepts Him Himas as YEan Man Who Reached Pole LEADING MEN OFDEN MARK TENDER HIM BANQUET I I II Newspaper per Correspondents Quiz Dr Cook for Long Pe Period Period nod but He Gives Satisfactory Satisfactory Satisfactory tory Answers to Questions OUTFITTED BY THE KING COPENHAGEN 1 Sept 4 Dr L 1 Frederick A Cook stepped from k the steamer Hans Egede in ut Copenh Copenhagen gen harbor on the arm of the Crown Grown Prince of Denmark at 10 this morning unshorn and looking lookin like a sailor before the mast He sat down to dinner at 8 tonight in the city hall hail the guest of ofa ofa ofa a brilliant company of the capitals most distinguished men and women arrayed in evening evenin dress provided by bythe bythe bythe the kings tailor The hours between those thee events T were the busiest of his life Polar exploration never afforded any anything aa anything thing half so o crowded with variety and excitement They were hours of speech speechmaking speechmaking making hand shaking bowing to clam clamoring clamoring clamoring oring crowds and then after addressing the people who a tore him to pieces in their emea to see the discoverer of ot the pole Dr Cook was the recipient of formal welcomes at atthe atthe atthe the hotel where he is the governments guest There he be passed through the hands of tailor outfitters and barbers Later he lunch with Dr Maurice F P Ean the American II minister JI v being plied in ID incessantly incessantly i for tor an D hour with questions He went through hundreds tH if tele tale telegrams telegrams grams including congratulations u from geographical societies of several na nations tons explorers and friends frienda offers offen of exploitation ranging from books book to mu hall hail engagements engagement and then hurried to t th palace and gave the king and other members of the royal family a al l tong ong account of his adventures Talks to Newspapers Returning to his hotel tel he received a battalion of correspondents who ho sub subjected him bun for an aD another hour bour to a 1 merciless demand demandIng p In Ing explanation of all aU criticisms that have hae been levied against his claims These questions Dr Cook answered frankly and fully tully Whatever may be thought of Dr Cook elsewhere he be has impressed all who talked with him here as a modest straightforward and an able man Danish explorers and Denmark is la I the th home of or Arctic pioneers were the first to endorse Cooks claims to the discovery of the pole and his methods of getting I I to the goal Their opinions were based baaed T primarily on personal knowledge of Dr i Cooks Cook character and former achieve achievements ments menta L Only after consulting eon them confidentially and receiving the fullest pro pronouncement pronouncement of their belief in the gen genuineness of his feat did the Danish government give its It official seal eal by to days reception to Dr Cooks Cook good i faith faithE E Guest at Banquet The banquet t this evening was held In the municipal building 11 I Four hundred persons persona many of them r t women attended while thousands con congregated congregated congregated in m the streets in a drenching S rain storm to catch sight i ht of the ex explorer explorer explorer when he entered There was a preliminary reception In hi hithe Inthe inI I the lofty and spacious entrance hall hail The company marched upstairs to the theair theair theair air of the Banner Janner Af Al After After Alter ter all aU had been seated the minister of commerce John Hansen Ban en escorted Dr rook Cook to the chair of honor amid a demonstration which caused him to toi i color olor deeply Minister Egan sat t at Dr Cooks right with the mayor of Copenhagen and Miss Mill Egan beyond Mrs Mr Garnet Gamet Garneta Garneth h a wealthy Copenhagen woman who has contrIbuted extensively to Arctic exploration and has baa been closely iden identified titled with it was at the chairman left The menu was an example of en enterprise enterprise 1 with a lithograph of the crown prince greeting Dr Cook and a map of the Arctic circle giving Dr Cooks route and anil a fao fa simile of his auto Continued on Page 3 DR COOK WITHSTANDS QUESTIONING DECLARES HE REACHED NORTH POLE Continued from Page 1 graph with wih the date which was wal a re reproduction re reproduction production Egan of oC a souvenir he h gave Miss MI Compliments to Explorer The speeches teemed teme with wih compliments copl ments menta ment to Dr Cook Cok The mayor of Copenhagen said sid that the name Wa was once more enrolled among the te great explorers explorer Minister Egan briefly pro proposed props proposed posed ps a 3 toast tt to the King of ot Denmark and the corporation In president pro proposing proposing posing ping a toast to the he president of the United Unie States State spoke of the pride that must be felt tel by the nation naton which could boast that It I was waa WI her son who first planted plante the flag fag where no human being beng had ever before set t foot tot The minister of ot commerce in pro proposing proposing posing pling the health of Dr Cook Cok paid pid a warm tribute to his noble deed de He thanked him for tor spending a little time in Denmark and said ai that tt the priva privations tione tons of ot the explorers were ere appreciated appreciate most mot by the men of ot there ther tonight whose names name are ar written with wih honor on the ice Ic rocks of northern colony When the nation naUn was waa first thrilled by br bythe b the news newl of Cooks exploit he said sid he must confess conte there was waa some skepticism skepticism cism but afterward it was wag confirmed and he hoped hOp that Dr Cook would try tr for the South Pole with wih the same suc sue success cess cees ce When the minister er raised rais his I glass glas to our n le guest there were nine nino hurrahs Commodore Hovgaard spoke from the standpoint of oC an expert explorer and commended Cooks methods r Reply of Dr Cook Cook Dr Cook replied briefly I 1 thank you very ver much for tor the warm war and elo eloquent eloquent eloquent quent words but I am unable to ex cx express e press pres myself properly It I was wu a rather hard day day for tor me but I never enjoyed a day better The Danes Dance have taken no active part in polar explorations but they have hare been of ot much Importance tance a silent partner In almost almot all al Arctic expeditions in recent reent years ers The most important factor in tn my ex expedition e expedition was wa the Eskimo and dog world and I can not be b too thankful to the Panes Banes Danes for tor their care of ot the Eskimo and know thy they also aso have instituted a mission at I I Cape Cp York Had I not met Jet with wih the right Eskimo Eskimos and an the right dogs dog and the right provisions I could never have reached the pole I owe much to t the Danith nation naton for my mv success A telegram wa was U rend read r conveying the te congratulations o of the th king k of 01 Sweden Sween For a brilliant brilant deed de of which the th rightly be American people may b proud Toasts were drunk blink Two hundred students student in uniform marched marche in I when the te company returned to the grand hell hall halland hl helland and gave Dr Cook Cok a rousing cheer cher They insisted upon a speech and sang sn songs s A A noteworthy feature of the th banquet after Dr Cooks acceptance in inthe Inthe inthe the morning moring was that applications for forts seats ts reached reche into thousands The Th most mt detailed account of ot his hi polar pr Journey as yet given by Dr Cook was wa obtained from him hi by a large lare body by of newspaper correspondents this evening at atthe atthe atthe the Hotel Phoenix Dr Cook Cok at the th request rust of the th cor correspondents correspondents respondents consented to answer all al questions First he was asked ak whether or 01 not the first firt account of his hi discovery of ot the pole could be accepted as entirely his own work He replied in the te affirmative affirmative tive tle except for fo the he obvious errors In transmission He then explained the doubt about abt the th square sua miles die dis discovered covered coer saying that he b meant that they were we able to see s fifteen miles mies on each eh side se during their journey jomey to t the pole and that therefore a hitherto unknown ter territory territory territory discovered of l square suar miles mie was now Dr Cook proceeded to show that he be was wa fully tully competent compete t to take all al observations saying that on previous exploring expeditions expeditions tion he did very little observation work which usually was divided among the members of the th party This Is time time he be continued we had hd started out to reach the th pole and and every everything eve everything thing else el was of secondary consideration tion ton It I was wa not possible to carry car eer certain tain tam apparatus and ant it I was Impossible also als to study the deep dep sea M or take sound sD soundings Ings We carried crr all al necessary simple In Instruments for astronomical observations oran and we were we very vr lucky luck to obtain ob oh observations 01 an stil virtually every evey day dy Th Tn The po positions p positions noted nt must mut have hav been nearly cor correct cort We had three chronometers reef t e one on watch compasses compas and pedometers All Al were carefully controlled by each other from Urns time Um to time tie The Th watch however got out of order gt We Ve had hd all al the le e modern moer instruments which other explorers have hava had h Including IncludIng ing lag thermometers barometers and sex sextants tants tanta tant of o the latest models moel It I is pos poe possible p ethic sible that our observations were wee better beter than those the of early days but I do not assert that I am perfectly familiar talar with making astronomical observations espel all in the polar regions I think that tha tal all alJ explorers will wi be satisfied stifle with my data Why should I sit si down dow and Invent observations he exclaimed I did not do this thing for tor anything but sport and because I take uk a real Interest in the problem tern lem em It I would not do me any good goo to invent tars things Th The only I wt two certainly but In I p j lar ar 1 I regions observations have been made me by bv byone byone one regO man ma I regard the Eskimo as much much more mor intelligent reg in finding positions than tha the white man hi in I the Arctic These Ti peo people people pie as u a rule are ar not absolutely Ignorant orant They know kow that tt the earth ea is round rd They have hav a name for tor the te pole pole which they theY call the big ig nail na They appreciate the I work therein of explorers ex lorer when participating |