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Show 61. COflK 1M TO Will Send to Greenland and Secure Eskimos to Back Assertions. j COPENHAGEN NWSPAPERS' FULL OK THE CONTROVERSY Foreign Scientists Generally Place Credence in Story of Man Peary Attacks. COPENHAGEN. Sept. 0. Dr. Fred crick A. Cook will sail from Christiana Saturday on board tho Scandinavian-American Scandinavian-American liner Oscar IT for New York, where she is due September 0 or 21. Probably Captain Ronald Amundsen will accompany him. Dr. Cook has abandoned his proposed visit) to Brussels Brus-sels on the advice of friends. Dr. Cook lodav asked :ie officials ot he Dau:sh Greenland administration to arrange for the dispatch of one of their boats to Greeninod at. his expense to get the two Kslcimos who accompanied accom-panied him to the pole. Tho official said it is now loo late for such an attempt, at-tempt, and advised him that ho must wait for spring, which he will do. He proposed to Gould Brokaw, who is hero with his yacht Fedora, that they made a start for Crcenland immediately, but Brokaw would not agree. Dr, Cook Supported. The Copenhagen papers are full of the controversy. Almost all support Dr. Cook's claims, but throw no new light on the subject. Captain Amundsen Amund-sen is one of the .strongest supporters of the explorer, who is now bucked up by Dr. Khvard Hay, the zoologist, of tho expedition under Captain Sverdrup in the Frnin in lStlS-li)02. On thai expedition ex-pedition Captain Sverdrup made .lighly important scientific investigation, and is was over the route mapped by Sverdrup Sver-drup that Cooh mad.' his .journey north ward. Dr. "Bay todiy had a Jong interview with Dr." Cook, -.it tho conclusion of which he said thai v.bilt. at firn ho had doubted Cook's sttorv, ho was now certain of its truth so far as the route claimed 1o be. taken was concerned. Dr. Cook, he said, gave him accurate descriptions of places and things which no other white- man except liny had over seen. Dr. Bay asserted that, the Danes in Greenland were unfriendly to Commander Command-er Peary because they believed he treated the Eskimos badly and forced them ti work for him. Tho University of Copenhagen today conferred upon Dr. Cook tho honorary degree of doctor of science (Honoris Causa) in the presence of more than a thousand jtooplc, who cheered the explorer ex-plorer heartily. Tn thanking tho rector. Dr. Torp, for the honor, Dr. Cook said that the university should bo the first to sec his records, PLAN AEBITRATION BY GOVERNMENT SCIENTISTS WASHINGTON, Sept. .- The coast and geodetic survey will undertake to arh'trate tho Peary-Coo;: north polo controversy, providing Dr. Cook re-' quests that it should do so. In view of the fact tail Peary b.m been operating under the directions of the geodetic survey, it, will become the duty of that institution to compute Jus notes without request front any one, and acting Superintendent Perkins said today that, u Dr. Cook should so desire the survey would go over his papers also. ''It is a delicate matter,' said Mr. Parkins, "to decide the claims in such Continued on Page Two DR. COOK READY TO FIGHT FOR CLAIMS Continued "From Pago One. an important case, but our men are scientists sci-entists and would be impartial, not lo say cold-blooded in such an investigation, investiga-tion, as it would be necessar- for them to make in arriving at the comparative merits of the claims of tho two men. Moreover. 1 believe," he continued, "that any conclusion arrived at by tho survey would be accepted as controlling." con-trolling." Mr. Perkins admitted that he had received re-ceived a 'suggestion looking to such action ac-tion by the survey, and -while saying that, the bureau would bo willing to undertake tho task of arbitration, he had noticed that Dr. Cook had expressed ex-pressed his intention of referring his chums to the University of Copenhagen. Copen-hagen. "He could senrcel' do better." said Mr. Perkins. "The Danes arc a seafaring sea-faring poeplc, and for centuries have been engaged in the Arctic exploration. Their scientific men would bo peculiarly adapted to an inquiry of this character, and T believe that any results arrived ov. by the university. would be accepted as conclusive." Mr. Perkins said, however, that even if the university should review Dr. Cook's work, the coast and geodetic survey would be willing still later to compare the doctor's notes with Commander Com-mander Peary's The subject, he said, was one of such importance that the world wanted lo know tho exact truth, and too much pains could not bo taken in settling the dispute. Ho expressed t lie opinion .that tho work could be concluded within a month after the notes were submitted. |