Show EXPLORER COOK WELCOMED HOME DISCOVERER OF NORTH POLE IS GIVEN AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION RE-CEPTION BY AMERICANS Thousands Do Honor to Intrepid Explorer Ex-plorer Who Issues Dignified Statement State-ment Concerning the North Pole Controversy Now York CltyDr Frederick A Cook the Arctic explorer who has set the whole worM talking of his wonderful won-derful feat In reaching the North Pole almost alone and unalicd by any government or heralded by the press has reached this port feeling In ox celleut condition physically amid mentally men-tally and expressing unbounded joy at lelng again with his family and friends In tho land of tho free Time steamer Oscar II with Dr Cook on board reached quarantine early Tuesday morning and anchored to await inspection by tho health otflcers of the port Tho scene as Dr Cook was greeted by his family and friends was ono tube tu-be long remembered From 5 oclock in the morning tho explorer intermittently Intermit-tently paced the salon deck placing his glasses to his eyes and watching every tug or other vessel which ap pronched to see whether he could observe ob-serve his wife on tho deck of the craft At last tho right tug was dimly outlined out-lined through the mist and Dr Cook springing to tho wmipanlonway leaped across the intervening stretch of water to tho tug and dashed up to the hurricane hur-ricane deck where his wife was wait Ing for him waving the Stars and Stripes The returned explorer took her In his arms without a single word passing between them Dr Cook broke I the silence Where are the children he asked Itstilfif dld noNrulify tint leul him to the children a few steps away lIe kissed his eldest daughter then seized the younger one In his arms and raised her to his shoulders At this the spectators broke out Into cheers Bravo Cook Welcome home Were proud of you I rang out across the water Then the words For lies a Jolly good fellow were sung by Dr Cooks fellow passengers on tho Oscar II PS the lug left the ships side The Oscar II Immediately weighed anchor and continued up the river to lier dock and Dr Cook was transferred trans-ferred to the Grand Republic Cinematographs Cinema-tographs and cameras were turned on him from every mint as he went on board and passed through a guard ot honor of the Fortyseventh regiment to receive the greeting of the reception recep-tion committee On board tho Grand Republic Dr Cook was greeted by tho official reception re-ception committee and a wreath ol roses was placed about his nock Standing on the upper deck of the steamer Dr Cook addressed the committee com-mittee and his friends briefly Tho steamer after reaching the foot ot Wept 130th street went up the North river as far as Spuyten Duyvil and then retraced its course to the Battery and proceeded up tho East river to the foot of South Fifth street in Brooklyn whoro Dr Cook landed Tho ceremonies on the Grand Republic Re-public were informal The first person per-son to greet Dr Cook was Ida A Leh many a daughter of one of his old Brooklyn friends who had been delegated dele-gated to decorate the explorer with a wreath of roses Dr Cook wore the garland during the reception ceremonies ceremon-ies A concise and dignified statement has been made by Dr Cook regarding hip tp to the North Polo as follows I have come from the pole I have brought my story and my data with mo I have not come home to enter Into arguments with one man or many men but I am here to present a clear record of a piece of work over which I have a right to display a certain amount of pride |