| Show V HAT AT IS 13 COOKS MENTAL CON His Counsel Says if Public Knew Truth Would Take More Char Charitable Charitable Charitable View of His Situation FOOLED ALL SAYS BRADLEY Ills His Backer Lost Jost All Interest In lUin lim Anti hc t North X liole Long L Ago J o New Nest York Yarle Dec 21 If the tIme public knew the truth concerning Dr DI Cooks Cook mental and physical condition us as It Is Known by b his imis close friends they the would take a more charitable view of oC his present unfortunate situation said suld H II Wellington Vack Wack ael counsel for Fred Pied Frederick erick crick A Cook today when told that the time University of Copenhagen had ic te Dr e bud been to the time north pole IJ lle ll t t Mr 11 Week Wack said sold lie ho would w uld like Ii lee to make ake a full statement concerning Pr PI Cool Cook but tut could not do so until he lie received r the consent of the tho explorer There is much that might be bo said I that would throw a full light on Dr DI Cooks condition I mean by this tho the things timIngs that I and antl Ms lila friends observed when shen he lie was hero here In ha New York But ButI 1 I can say nothing HE liE HAS FOOLED US ALL He has fooled tooled us all nil from the king kin of Denmark down was wa the exclamation exclamation tion of ot John R n Bradley l Dr Cooks Cooka bucker backer In lii his arctic trIp when ap apprised priced of or the news from Copenhagen And he lie fooled tooled me with the rest Mr Bradley added As a matter matteI of or fact continued the tho sportsman I long ago ugo lost all Inter Interest Interest est eat In Dr Cook tho the north pole polo and everything connected with It Polar I bears and the time wild scud life lire of oC the north In general are arc the only emil anI things that have Interested me much I r have hac not seen seems Dr Cook or heard from tram him since he Ito left the Waldorf Astoria to go to to prepare his records record lot for to I submission to tho tIme University of ot Copenhagen I In communication with him hums while ho Ito was Wll at the and as a 3 mat rout matter matter ter of ot fact had hardly an hours solid conversation conver atlon with him all the while ho was ns hero after aCter his return from tram the Arctic I discounted this decision from the th University of Copenhagen some time timo ago continued Mr Ir Bradley Bradle In com corn common common mon nion with time thc rest the world I was as delighted with the tho first news from Dr Cook that ho had discovered the pole Iole His Hili actions however and his hi failure to make more than the meager mengel statements regarding his trip which early followed his Imis return to civilization took some lame of ot the smack off oft the tho sup supposed supposed supposed posed triumph I began to weaken decidedly decided when Dr Cook left lert us all without so much muchas as a word of or good bye byO When hen a man runs away you cant expect his friends to fight for tor him anti and Cooks night for what It seemed to me nie to amount to killed all my Interest In him and his affairs Before that I had never had hiltl reason to doubt Cook and hid hi whole course In this matter seems In Inexplicable explicable to me roe meI m mr I r am sick of ot the whole blooming polar Jolar business ss and I dont want to hear heal anything more about the north polo hOle or Its attributes attribute HERBERT I L BRIDGMAN From my m personal knowledge go of ot Dr Cook und and my knowledge of or the time work In Inthe Inthe the tho arctic 1 I never nevel wavered In my be belief belIet lief lIet tint that Dr Cook could never prove the tho claims he to made mude wild said Herbert Helbert L secretary of or the t le Peary r Arctic club when whon Informed of ot the ver vcr tho the Copenhagen scientists I 1 thoroughly believed in the stocy of or Peary p and the Eskimos that Cook had not gono gone far till north Again Dr DI Cooks Cool tory StorY WaS van ed with holes BO SQ 8 that any all one ono who had knowledge ol ot u arctic conditions could plainly see lice that no faith could be placed fn fim it |
