Show PEARY WILL TRY TO PROVE COOK A LIAR Sydney N S Sept of o evidence designed to back up his state mont that Dr Cook dId not reach rench the tho North Polo Is In the tho hands of Corn Com Commander mander Peary according to assertions made here horo tonight This view Is taken by a large number of oC explorers and others who are arc hero to tM the explorer Commander Peary win will have hae with him In incontestable proof to support ev cv every ery statement ho he has made mado in connection tion with Dr Cooks trip to the tho Are Arc Arctic tic Herbert L secretary or of the tho Peary Arctic club saId sald J ory ono one who Peary realizes that he never makes make s statements unless be din can prove proc thorn absolutely When the tho proper time and aUlI toot that will ho when Dr Cook has baa made his state iture the proof proal ments over oer his signature I will forthcoming I quite agree with President Hubbard of the Pearl Peary I Arctic club that Dr Ceol might hao learned weeks ago In Greenland of oC Commander Command r discovery and I that In the Interim he wove the story of his bis discovery of the North Pole News you Oll know travels fast mong the tho Eskimos and It is quite likely Cook heard of what Peary had done dono Bridgman Is I Flattered Mr said he C fIt lt much fial terel that Commander hid stat stated stated ed that he was the only I logical can candidate didato for the Polar I The BeJ Belgian an government in 1896 Raid mid Bridgman the I nations to attend an international polar commission The United Status Statu designated roe me to act as a Its I lye at the tho congress and I took from tile the various geographical societies Arctic and Explorers clubs I Two years ears later Inter a definite call for a meeting of commIssion the was WIlS issued I and the conference held beld I Drus Bros I i sels In lay or of that year ear I IThe The commission was designed to develop a sort of coordinate system ot of Arctic exploration which would have presented just the sort of controversy which has hus now arisen The commis commission slon sion also alBO planned to define the work of oC the geographic and other branches of such Arctic exploration in order that the tho re results of each expedition I Ilion lion tion might lie he determined and labor economized Peary Pear Moves Commander Pen Peary 1 felt I should po o made mado commissioner but nothIng fur further thor ther was as done ono in the matter Commander Peary Is moving south southward ward In the same sarno precise manner that characterized his methodical and well calculated dask for 01 the tho pole The Roosevelt Is being overhauled and painted at Assize Harbor near Harbor and her commander has or ordered derod dered that every eyen injury sustained In her long sta stay In the Ice Ico cradle of oC Capo Capa Sheridan shall he removed be ore she sh sails for this port |