Show NA NATIONAL AL C CAPITAL AL R OVER FEAT Washington Sept Sel an American first or of all place the tho Stars and Stripes at that coveted spot there thoro Is not an American citizen at home or 01 abroad but what would feel feol feola feela a little mUe better batter and a little prouder I of being an American Commander Robert E Penry Peary almost three years rears ago thus prophetically outlined his vi view ow of the value and attached to the tho achievement he announced In dispatches today The news of feat fent following g close upon that of Dr Cooks planting of the American flag at the same silme spot ool evoked cd enthusiastic plaudits In Wash Washington ington Such wonderful achievements as this make epochs In the Ole history or of the world declared Captain In charge chargo of the United St States Les naval observatory Penny Penry dds adds sun still another name to the long list of American heroes said Prof Asaph Pall or of the observatory Energy he has displayed his persis persistence tonce tence and the intelligence he has brought to La hear bear on this great problem lean lem are worthy of all commendation Those persons who had associated with Peary here spoke of him today as a man of wonderful capacity for doing things an and they Instantly ac accepted accepted the statement that ho he had dis discovered covered the thc pole Courses Are Similar The courses taken b by Commander Penny and by br Dr Cook did not differ very materially according to Prof Henry Gannett the geographer It scorned to me that Peary was Yag being delayed cd when he left leit n year ear or so ago said Prof Gannett Penns plan was to Lo got up to the cape or of Grantland where here ho he made his former headquarters be before fore foro the ice closed In He had been to the vicinity of Lady I Franklin Bay and the tho northwest along the coast for quite a distance before proceed proceeding Ins away from land and start Continued on Page Pago Eight DR COOK IS GLAD THAT PEARY HAS DISCOVERED DISCOVERED ERED NORTH POLE Continued from Page Seven tag out f for r the pole I sli should uld say sar lie he took about the same course this time Dr Cook started at Etah and crossed over into hilo land to some point un the North coast near where Pear Peary Their courses seem to havo vari d little After Many Years attainment crowns the work of expeditions that ho he has led tot Cor a number of years His last expedition was in 1906 when by means of the lit litlie littIe tIe lie Arctic steamer Roosevelt and b by journeying on sledges he succeeded In reaching 87 degrees G 6 seco seconds north latitude ThIs was accomplished on April 21 after a zigzag Jour Journe I ne fey In iii the tho Arctic ocean exactly two years to a da day before Dr Cook reached the tho pole lie He regarded that thal expedition as simplifying the task b by 50 per cent and hIs to reach I the polo then was wag attrIbuted by b hint him I II to the tho fact that tho winter was not notI normal being a 11 open seaS I son throughout the Northern hemia I ph phere ere He believed lie could have I the pole then In spite of the open season If ho he had known what the actual conditions wore northward as ashe aslie lie he kne them themAn I An explorer followIng him accord according ins ing to Commander P nry could not I only attain the tho pole but could make mak makI I deep sea soundings throughout the central polar ocean antI and delineate t the IC unknown gap In the tho northeast coast coastline line lIno o of Gr Greenland from Cape Morris Jessup to Cape Man and Dogs Commander Peal last public ap appearance appearance at Washington was when whee President Roosevelt presented to him himon himon on December 15 1906 lh the Hubbard medal of the National Geographic so society clel It was then that Peary de declared dared that man and the tho Eskimo logs clogs are aro the only two mechanisms that could meet all the contingencies of Arctic work Prof William N 11 Moore In discuss discussIng dl Ing the achievements of Dr Cook and Peary said It was entirely probable that the data dala of one would not aol check ck up UI with that of tho ho other athel o of th the moving Ice and that Peary mn may not have found on April Ii 6 anY trace IndicatIng that Cook had been there the year before The Tho ments of both hoth that the they have found the iole are accepted b by Prof Moore he be that they will he be sub substantiated by scientific data Ho He stated that lat later r In the week ho he would call a special meeting of the Geographic society for Cor the purpose taking action to Lo toward ward making suitable recognition of the tho remarkable exploits or the two AmerIcan explorers explorer |