Show i ROYAL WELCOME IS GIVEN TO TOI I YANKEE WHO REACHED POLE 4 t 4 ik iki i 4 4 t S e eI I F i I s a s sst st S ic p I MRS urns ROBERT EGBERT N PEARY Wife of Commander Peary Who Joined Her Husband at Sydney Yesterday IS TAKING A MODEST COURS I Will Not Pose As Hero Until He HeIs HeIs HeIs Is Proven to Be One 0 Sydney N K S Sept 21 Commander Peary will accept no invitations to re receptions receptions receptions and no public honors until the question of the over of the north pole has been decided by scientific au authorities That he made known tonight in the following statement Acting upon the tl advice adIce of General Thomas H Hub t rd and Herbert Herbrt Her rt L Brid president and secretary re respectively of the Peary Arctic club I wish to express my thanks to friends for their kind offers and invitations and also beg g to say that I have decided not notto notto notto to accept any an invitations invitation to receptions or any an ovations until the present contro controversy versy vers js is settled by competent tent authority Commander Peary was asked a ked w when n the was w s likely to t get a 8 decision de on this subject and he replied I do not know but what I have bae to say will 1111 not Ix be very vary v r long delayed del Whether r any statement will be boned in one week or I two weeks depends on circumstances circumstance Will Stay at Home The explorer will leave Sydney at 7 tomorrow morning and will reach I his home on Eagle island Friday morn morning morning mornIng ing Apparently he has made up his mind to remain at that place for some sometime sometime sometime time The reception re of Commander Peary to today toda today day da began gan when the Roosevelt edged her hernay herway herway way nay past Low Point eleven miles down the bay ba and continued all aU the way to the harbor and until the commander reached the Sydney Sydne hotel He made a short speech and found himself elf the cen con center centEr conter ter of a great demonstration in which hundreds of people pressed about him and shook hands bands Eleven times I have left Sydney for forthe forthe forthe the north said the commander c Once I 1 brought back the largest meteor ever found the last la t time I 1 brought back bock my farthest north and this time I brought back the north pole When the Roosevelt lay at the city wharf this afternoon an eager throng of sightseers visited the ship Souvenir SOun nl hunters carried away everything port portable portable portable able and many valuable records and data belonging to Professor McMillan were lost These were records of ot tides and animal life north of 82 52 degrees lati hati latitude latitudE tude the names of all the Eskimos in inthe Inthe inthe the Etah region together with more than thana a hundred books in which many im important Important important marginal notes had b IJo been fn en made madeNo madeNo madeNo No records record bearing on the dash dah to the pole were lw lost t The missing books hooks are ure of immense value and cannot be replaced but the authorities are aTe issuing a public appeal for their return |