| Show FIGHT STARTS WHEN COOK REACHES PORT Explorer Returns to His Native Land With a Long Typewritten ten Statement Which He Hands to the Reporters i STilL BELIEVES HE I REACHED NORTH POLE OLEi Passengers Aboard Steamer Tread on Each Others Toes in Their Eagerness to r Tell ell the he Story of the Trip Over DRAMATIC SCENE ENSUES 1 11 let nr lr Fr N 1 N crIck t took ouk caine nm to 10 hi his native Inn land today on in the hi n n nI as asif I if rt hail Dr linen n D a north norh pol polon ride on I 11 lie saul nl little srI rl I ten n nerIe to reporters nil all that lie huil In Co sa t Ilic h t or of lilt hC formal Sties t ur if thrust un sin him h l rr ur f far tHorn mor dramatic In rrt T n a controversy the ht steam slip concerning I lie n he hC hail ninale on n them The Tue d br I lie 1011 lie Itt n nt as lit t fI statement In part par follows l J have hav nv no statement to make mke other than that which I carefully prepared Any Interview I might give KIe would be fragmentary and doubtless misleading ale 1 so I shall ban not Dot now give giveout out Any interviews and an any purporting to Co from nae me will not be author authorized I spent nt weeks carefully tug me my story tOl and nd I h have frankly frankl said Id in It all u that 1 th there I Is to say y Ivery charge against me I is taken up and an answered n In Its proper place in n III my tsar nar narrath rath rat lye I do not know what t my plans plan for forthe the future will N be I have not re returned turned to America with th thc Intention of i making mOD money out oat of oC na my Arctic e ox I nee Money MODe did not prompt the writing of m my tory story as I I have tn seen suggested In certain newspapers A AI As AsI I h haw said I hV back for COt forwith W with my cout mc argument t 1 h he 0 George Washington passengers roe arose when the doctor doctorI sympathizers aboard wished It understood that he was wall re with no hta ow of oC Ion by the other passengers His HIli en he ml wished It made clear that It he had been shunned ThE minute the th report reporters ers Ill who ho hd had gone one down on the harbor on ona a revenue nu cutter stepped Into the hE sa saloon loon representative of oC both sides Id a sailed 11 them 1 Persona who In ordinary circumstance clod dodge publicity as th they would the buttonholed Ih the re rC reporters porters In their eagerness to rEnt their case first I Men elbowed onto one another t trampled ampt Continue on lne Seven t FIGHT STARTS AS DR COOK ARRIVES Continued From Frn Itt Un One I en eft toes shook their fingers noer In one an others faces and shouted unqualified Women stare up I pouring pour tR ing tea lea to 10 stand allt on the h brocaded chairs and peer Ier over th the ring or of mn men Into the vortex or of the discussion Tb The dame m Ur Dr Cook Ck i Cook was 81 spared parMi th the embarrassment let of this hubbub HI he met the reporters at the ladder when they boarded the I ship Ip perfectly iced It was the lae same une I Pro Pr Cook Il a little less tanned antI and worn ern ernat but at with the same am lock ock or of halt hall bang haag In lug down ever Yer his forehead the name MMe hA If aRt and Ue the same fiRm uh It by mustache In III half tIU IOn an hour gentlemen I w will hR have It a statement for yen e Just JUlit make makeI yourselves at I home Ir In Ih the ladles I salsa h he said and h he led the ht wa way hh tt he II spoke I uk It a rev few ord here en and tile there tu to 1 a friend shook k hands hADd and himself without a trace rae C u r leU t the dispute I lit the ladles Adle cu IM Ion Ian bell boiled more 0 temporal I passengers elsewhere found time to 0 tell 11 without heat t of oe t the h doctors trl trip lie He e came me at al Bremen Ih they said A full lall beard r but had It slaved wed off om the Oral lIa day HI ills name m did tiki not appear on Ih the passenger r lust at first but t later latr was placed JUt as Pr Hr Fred ek A Cook on a supplemental 1st n ho was aft an passenger r playing 1 cards enl evenings with a r few friends once nf when hen the lusts were tr around It before bedtime It CAme hi his turn lurn t to tame a health It he was a quick to 0 p U oais the lat Stan tn And tacks fI k to In lisle r Me time Uta a passenger w who hal no not remarked hIm before asked Are you ou Dr Cook Ile name is III ook I Are you tilt the Or Dr Cook who It went fOn to 10 the h north th pole IOle persisted a tt the IU Honer I hf have been there th the doctor gravely Th typewritten in did not nol satiety the reporters y J plied I him with questions but bt to almost all or of I them h he parried h I already 01 been n revered In Inthe I the statement or Dr 1 hall answer that In ran full later latr latro Then you o will 11 not submit tM t cress on what you hn have pub b WRIt was asked ked kedo o said the doctor nr firmly It Itte aNd te then qualified It A At least not t taM now and aM In my own Im time and way a You YIttI have hat written doctor otter nr ma mature ture thought I 1 that t t I tin do not t tk k know absolutely wh 1 reached h th the note 1 or Rot Not nu you 01 Hit believe th thI that you d I still lUll believe 11 It De Dees your our uncertainty at all s t tend to 10 your our anent or of Mount M Ka KaIl Il ley 1111 Reply I 1 r ro fot In ht I least I I 1 shall late IIno a rt re reply pi ply to make kt to t Professor e C Park Parkers latest t attack I tek on my of McKinley I In a few rew days Did you ya believe In your our records when h you sent lent taw them to 10 th the eRve or of Copenhagen I Oil Oh certainly Then wh why dl did you can call t In Au Augustus u ut gustus t 1 Leone to aid you ou i In compiling t them hm Thal will b be In tt the next tat MIl You have al also Moat post 1 thel and kII II 1 sin Mm not tt thief Moat I certainly there thre was u no plan tf I hoax the world t to m my own wn financial profit But It If you ua no now doubt u uI of what you nu spoke OR on tile the I in your yourI I ture how man R you veu keo keep the sd ad admission I mission fees IMIo you on r received That also I will toe be answered I la the I I next Why 1 slid hi you a to tn make k I this hit to 10 Ih the public bile for lor moM money through the medium of r N magazine RaHe rather thAn to tn tit the rl of oe CotteR hak which had bul honored T you with A Adf df It t tI 1 I wanted a medium t Mt t would he rr free from 11 bias Set P ae accept lIt the verdict tOr of the university res r I 1 think w we ue have accepted tha tins 1111 Conic In 10 S Soa Isy And you oa believe that tha got to tf th the pole polet t I have never eer It ii you enter tr into any 11 debate with him impossible Th That is net nt my m De I you n Intend to 10 take part rt In any other polar or 01 Atar t No o 1 come h home to stay t fads community eMmIt I Is to 10 bt be my home I am through with exploration There I Is no oth other r point on n the globe where I f par particularly wish to It go goThe The doer doctor said Id that what hR he t In Intended tended to do de with th the It ItI and records which h h he 11 says I are It at k I world bf be told later tr lie He was 11 elft emphatic Oc that they h were ac correct as any till ex explorers and that no polar roofs l are positive H He roller sled that although uch h he was II Rot not a ricer h he was competent tot to take ob on to tn determine hl his position From Ih the h he went directly to In th the Waldorf where hI he stayed on n ht hits welcome home CopenhageN fI fIr Mrs r sent t the h h he said were r till still In France whore wh the ehll dren wre r fining to ss hot hool |
