Show COOK WAITING I fOR DAYLIGHT I Will Reach New York Today and Will Receive an Enthusiastic I 1 I Welcome After an Absence of Two Years 4 1 A 4 9 New York Sept SO Its good to 4 4 he be an American it se that I have 4 been gone ten years 4 f Gazing Casing toward the lights of New NewYork y 4 York after an absence a nc since July 4 1 t Ita 1 thes were the first sentiments 4 i expressed ed tonight by Dr Frederick i 1 A Cook of Brooklyn as a he pac paced d the th deck of the steamship Oscar 11 II 4 waiting for tOl daylight and his actual 4 4 return to his native land 4 tt 4 M tt 4 t t Dr Cook was U virtually at home tonight for the th Oscar Oacar O car II anchored off Fire re I 11 1 I and The ship marked time as a it were so 10 there might be no hitch bitch in the home homec m mIng lag Inc of the explorer Though sixty miles from the city p pp p per Per er cc the Oscar Oacar II H was in easy wireless c m ro with Nw K w York during th day and night Dr Cook was on eck eek almost constantly and as sunset ap 81 approached preached he watched the brilliant pir pr I rama and conversed with newspapermen n with a brief hall hail in reply to their gr ot ings Inga through a megaphone Dreads Ordeal Ordea I feel anxious to get ashore he said But I dread the ordeal of landing to tomorrow tomorrow morrow morro T J would woul much prefer landing quietly without a repetition of the scents at Copenhagen I hope that I 1 shall b left In peace with my family by tomor tomorrow tomorrow row roy night at least Soot Some New York papers were brought broughton on board this evening containing long re reports reports reports ports concerning Commander Peary ar s achievement Dr Cook read them care carefully carefully carefully fully then said There Is nothing new here b and I shall sha wait until something more definite l 13 B t published before saying anything further on the matter Aside from this short reference to Peary Dr Cooks expressions espre lo today and tonight chiefly cl fly concerned the Joy of his b l arrival at home Dr Cook left the deck only a few tew min rain minutes minutes utes during the entire day and with con continued continued good nature posed repeatedly for photographs at the urgent requests of his hie fellow passengers pa Dr pr Cook s I sent nt a wire wireless wireless less 1 dispatch to his wife asking kias her to come down the bay b y tonight and Join him himon on board thus avoiding the crush at th public greeting tomorrow Mr Mrs nt Coat Ceo was wasilI ItI ilI and replied by bF b t ts s J is t toeo to t Cc Toe The first tug tu bearing the advance guard of newspapermen from New N w York reached the Oscar oar II tonight but bat no one was ai al allowed lowed towed aboard the tile vessel ves el except Anthony Fiala th the Arctic explorer who Is s a friend of Dr Cook He lie swung himself up from the tug held a brief conversation with the explorer and departed The passengers including Dr Cook watched with amusement the vain at attempts attempts attempts tempts of the reporters to get set aboard and Dr Cook shouted Glad to see you OU boys It was wall evident that Dr Cook wished i hed to avoid too demonstrative a reception to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow morrow and his attitude may curtail some Bome of the arrangements ments in Brooklyn which have been tentatively made pend pond pending pendIne ing Ine some announcement from him The Oscar II will r reach ach quarantine qu about half past eight There Mrs Cook accompanied accompanied nied flied by the two children Dr Cooks brother William Dr Roswell O 0 Steb Stab Stebbins Stebbin bins bin and J Knowles Hare Of the executive executive executive tive committee of the Arctic club of America AmerIcas will be waiting on the tug Dr Cook will wll join his wife on the tug and will be transferred from there thre to the steamboat Grand Republic which will carry rry a party of friends and enthusiasts ts down the bay ba to meet him More than thana a thousand persons will be on the Grand Republic but the borough of or Manhattan will not be officially represented An Official Welcome Bird S Coler president of the borough of Brooklyn will officially welcome him Mm there The greatest reception however will wUl be in Dr Cooks CO k home section of or Brooklyn at the Bushwick club at noon Soon after that Dr Cook will join his family at the W His plans thereafter with the exception of being the guest of honor at the banquet of the Arctic club of America to be held at th on Thursday night have not been announced Alexander Begg of Washington representing the National Geographical socie society society ty arrived in 1 New York tonight and will represent the society on board the Grand Republic Mr Begg comes as a representative representative of the society vice Willis L Moore chief of the weather bureau ser see service r rIce vice Ice who cannot bs be b present There was a flurry among the mem mom members hers bers rs of the Arctic club and the Bush Bushwick Bushwick wick club of Brooklyn this morning when word woid came that the Oscar eRr II It was w s only Ii 65 miles east of Fire Island This position would have enabled her to reach her dock here late this afternoon Make Certainty Certain Although the reception committees had received assurances last lut night that the steamer would be hi delayed so 80 as not to in interfere Interfere interfere with their plans and although a aI I wireless message from Dr Cook himself at 1230 I a 8 m in declared that he would I meet them at tomorrow morning tel telephones telephones telephones and wireless apparatus were at once put in operation to make certain that there might be no change in the original arrangements arran The local office of the Scandinavian American line notified the captain of the Oscar II that he lie should not attempt to I dock today tocla and he replied by wireless that he would anchor off Sandy Hook and spend the night there starting up the tile harbor at daylight ht The United States stat revenue cutter will leave Its ts dock at a m tomorrow and meet the steamship at quarantine in tUDe tle to complete the examination of Dr Cook Continued on Page 2 COOK WAITING FOR DAYLIGHT DA Continued from Page 1 1 and leave him free to join his friends a at that point at On account of the number of per persons sons eons who will participate In the tho first greeting ing to Dr Cook on this side able of the th Atlantic it would have been impossible to carry carr out any of the original program had he landed today tolay tOt lay Nearly tickets have liae been sold old for foi forthe the steamer Grand Republic on which the committee from the Arctic club will go down don the bay tomorrow Slightly in advance of the steamer wilt will w l go a tug bearing Mrs Cook and her children and the explorers two brothers with two or three members of the committee The plan is ill to take Dr Cook from th liner aboard this tug thus enabling him to spend the first few minutes following his hie arrival at quarantine with his family faintly Then the tug will go alongside the Grand Gran Republic and the explorer r will be taken on Ott board for the last stage of the trip to American Amerlan soil The rhe neighbors of Dr Cook in Brooklyn were equally equall concerned when they heard that there was danger of his lila arrival ahead of schedule time At the Bushwick Bu club a neighborhood where the physician used to go they had bad planned a rousing welcome After Arter a triumphal procession through the streets of Brooklyn the explorer will reach the club house wh where re there will willbe willbe willbe be a reception and a luncheon No public events have been planned for tor forthe forthe the interval between the first welcome and the dinner to be given at the Wal al Thursday night Mrs Cook and her children have hae taken rooms at that hotel D V Y Esken en chairman of a com corn committee committee representing all the r rI ican lean societies in this country received a I wireless message from Dr Cook today accepting the invitation to a banquet I which the joint associations will give here hereIn In Dr Cooks honor The date has not been en fixed fI |