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Vol.
DR. COOK AT N. Y. BANQUET
Makes Aftcr-Dinner Speech in Which He Gives
Credit to Others Rather Than Himself
Takes Lesson From the Wild Man.
New York, Special. Cheered by a
thousand men and women as he en
tered the banquet hall on the arm of
Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley
(retired), Dr. Frederick A. Cook told
his story Thursday night before the
most brilliant audience that he has
addressed since he loft the court of
Denmark.
While there was no official repre
sentative from either State or nation,
the assemblage was cosmopolitan and
enthusiastic. Crowded in the great
ball room . of the Waldorf-Astoria
they toasted the Brooklyn explorer
and listened attentively to his reeital
in the form of an after-dinner ad
dress. Among those at the tables. were ex
plorers, some of whom know the dan
gers and suffering of the Artie zone
almost as well as Dr. Cook himself,
Men of ,seienee were there also, but
the address was not technical.
Commander Peary's name he did
not mention except at the end of his
speech, when he said:
"There is glory enough for all.'.'
After due greeting for the ovation
Dr. Cook said:
"The key to frigid endeavor is sub
sistence. There is nothing in the en
tire realm of the Artie, which' is
impossible to man. If the animal fires
are supplied with adequate fuel there
Js no cold too severe anfl no obstacle
1oo great to surmount. No important
expedition has ever returned because
of unscalable barriers or impossible
weather. The exhausted food supply
from a limited means of transporta
tion has turned every aspirant from
his goal. Jn the ages of the Polar
quest much has been tried and much
has been learned.
Most Important Lesson.
"The most (important lesson is that
civilized man, if he will succeed, must
bend to the savage simplicity neces
sary. The problem belongs to mod
ern man, but for its execution we
must begin with the food and the
means of transportation of the wild
man. Even this must' be reduced and
simplified to fit the new environment.
"The effort of getting 4to the Pole
is not one of physical endurance, nor
is it fair to call it bravery; but a
proper understanding of the needs of
the stomach and a knowledge of the
limits of the brute force of the mo
tive power, bo it man or beast.
"The conquest was only possible
with the accumulated lessons of
early ages of experience. The fail
ures of our less successful predeces
sors were stepping lone to ultimate
success. The real pathfinders of the
Pole were the early Danish, the
Dutch, the 'English and the Norse.
Obligation to Wild Man.
"Obligation is due to the wild man.
The twin families of wild folk, the
Eskimo and the Indian, were impor
tant factors to us. The use of pem-
COMMANDER. PEARY IS HAILED WITH GREAT DELIGHT
Portland, Me., Special. From the
moment Commander Peary crossed
the international boundary line at
Vanceboro, shortly after 8 o'clock
Thursday morning, until he arrived
at Portland at 8 o'clock -Thursday
night his reception by the citizens
of Maine amounted to a continuous
ovation.
At Bangor important papers on his
expedition were turned over by Peary
to Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard, of New
York, president of the Peary Artie
Club.
Along the 350-mile route through
eastern Maine Commander Peary
was cordial and appreciative although
he appeared to be rather tired.
At Old Town, a city of about 6,000,
the first big demonstration on this
side of the border was made. At
Bangor - the explorer was weicoraed
by thousands and when he walked
into the concourse from the train
shed was given a succession of rous
ing cheers. With Mayor J. F. Wood
man, General Hubbard and members
of the city council he was driven to
the Bangor house, where representa
tive men of the town entertained him
at an informal luncheon. He was
mican and the snow shoe, which
makes the penetration of the Artie
mystery barely possible, has been
borrowed from the American Indian.
The method of travel, the motor
force and the native ingenuity with
out which the Polar quest would be
a hopeless task, have been taken from
the Eskimo.
"To John R. Bradley the man
who paid the bills belongs at least
one-half of the honor.
"The Canadian government sent "its
expedition under Captain Bernier 1,-
000 miles out of its course to help
us to it."
After meeting the charge that he
did not get geographic license to seek
the Pole by saying he preferred to
say little about the start and letting
the noise be made, after the Pole
was reached, he said:
"Now, gentlemen, I appeal to you
as explorers and men. Am I bound
to appeal to anybody, to any man, to
any body of men for a license to
look for the Polo?"
To the criticism against his equip
ment hevexplained that these should
-be' simple; and not burdensome and
Ahat he Jiad sufficient supplies.
"Now. as to the excitercfent of the
press, to force things of their own
pickings from important records in
to print," said Dr. Cook. "In reply
to this I have taken the stand that
1 have already given a tangible ac
count of our journey. It is as com
plete as the preliminary reports of
any previous explorer. The data, the
observations, the record, are of ex
actly the same character. Hereto
fore such evidence ,has been taken
with faith and complete record was
not expected to appear for years,
whereas, we agree to deliver all with
in a few months.
His Observations.
"Now, gentlemen, about the Pole,
We arrived April 21, 1908. We dis
covered new land along the 102d
meridian between the 84th and the
85th parallel. Beyond this there was
absolutely no life and no land. The
ice was in large, heavy fields with
few pressure lines. The drift was
south of east, the wind was south of
west. The -clear weather gave good,
regular observations nearly every
day. These observations, combined
with those- at the Pole on April 21
and April 22 are sufficient to guaran
tee our claim. , When taken in con
nection with the general record, you
do not require this. I can see that,
but this and all the other records
will come to you in the due course of
events.
"I cannot sit down without
acknowledging to you, and to the liv
ing Artie explorers, my debt of
gratitude for their valuable assistance.
The report of this Polar success has
come with a sudden force, but in the
present enthusiasm we must not for
get the fathers of the art of Polar
travel. There is glory enough for all.
There is enough to go to the graves
of the dead and to the hearts of the
living.
"Many are here tonight. The
names are too numerous to mention.
Special mention for honors must be
made to Greely,. Schley, Melville,
Peary, Fiala, Nansen, Abruzzi, Cagni,
Sverdrup, . Amundsen, Nordenskjold
and a number of English and other
explorers."
presented on the portico with a mass
ive silver loving cup appropriately
engraved.
At Waterville he was officially wel
comed to the -city. Members of the
city government, school children, a
band and- a company of National
Guard met him at the station where
a stand had been erected. The school
children, each carrying an American
flag, were banked solidly about the
stand, with the guardsmen around
them. As Peary mounted the stand
the children cheered and waved their
flags. A crowd of several thousand
people joined in the cheering for
some moments.
When Commander Peary stepped to
the front his fraternity mates of Col
by college gave a rousing Delta Kap
pa Epsilon yell, followed by the regu
lar college yell.
After expressing his appreciation
for the welcome given him Command
er Peary spoke of the importance of
a discovery that had been sought
300 years and the significance of hav
ing the Stars and Stripes the first
flag to reach the top of the earth.
Crowds also greeted the explorer
at Lewiston and other stations fte
tween Waterville and Portland.
PLYMOUTH, N, C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1,
PRESIDENLJAFT'S TOUR
Enthusiastic Thousands Greet Him
On His Western Trip.
Making his way still further to th
west, President Taft arrived in. Den
ver Tuesday afternoon and at night
in the B ver auditorium where a
year ago Mr. Bryan was nominated
as his opponent in the presidential
race, faced a crowd that in its noisy
welcome and continuing enthusiasm
recalled some of the scenes of con
vention week.
The President instead of discussing
the conservation of natural resources
took up thei subject of the corpora
tion tax.
He strongly urged that all tba
States should adopt the proposed
amendment to the constitution, how
ever, to make an income tax possible
in time of need.
The President Tuesday night de
clared that the corporation tax was ia
itself the best form of income tax
that could be levied and pointed out
that it contained many of the best
features of the income tax law of
England.
Pueblo, Col., Special.' The Presi
dent landed across the Rocky Moun
tains Thursday morning. For the
first time he traveled through the
grand canon of the Arkansas, where
at one place the half mile deep canon
is so narrow that there is not room
for the track and the river, and the
former has to be carried over the
rushing waters by means of a hang
ing bridge, uspended by cables em
beded in the rocky walls of the
chasm. The eleven-mile ride through
the canon was made by moonlight.
At the entrance overlooking tie
valley of the Garden of the Gods,
with the Rockies in the background
and dark clouds playing tag with
Pikes Peak, Mr. Taft expressed his
admiration of the view with unre
. strained enthusiasm.
At Pueblo the President was driven
at the head of a long procession of
automobiles to the State fair grounds
to face another exuberant throng;
and to make a brief extemporaneotr'
speech of appreciation.
In the pulpit of the famous Mormon
tabernacle in Salt Lake City where 4
years ago Theodore Roosevelt, then
President, preached a long sermon on
right living and the duties of good
citizenship, President Taft Sunday
faced an audience which he saiJ in
spired him to try to follow in the foot
steps of his predecessor.
The President's sermon was an ap
peal for amity between the people for
attributing the best rather than the
worst motives to the action of others
when possible to do so and not to
harbor hatred or animosity.
"A soft answer turneth away
wrath, but grevious words stir up
anger," was the text Mr. Taft se
lected from the book of Proverbs. The
sermon was largely made up of a re
lation of stories to give emrdiasis to
the points. '
From the tabernacle the President
was driven to review about twenty
thosand school children. At one
point along the line a thousand or
more children had been arranged in a
living flag, red, white and blue capa
and capes serving to outline the na
tional emblem.
Thence the President pi-oceeded to
the loung Men's Christian Asocia
tion, where he made a brief address
to men. Lastly the President attend'
ed services especially arranged foi
him at the Unitarian church. Aftei
this unusually busy Sunday morning
left Salt Lake City at noon for Ogden
where he enjoyed an 18-mile ridi
through Ogden canon and made hii
third address of the day at Lester
park.
Four Aeronauts Crash to -Death.
Monlins, France, By Cable. While
passing over the national road which
leads from Paris to Antibes at a
height of between 500 and 600 feet
the French dirigible military balloon,
Republiquo, exploded Sunday morn
ing and fell to the ground. The four
men on board were killed. They were :
Capt. Marchal, Lieut. Phaurc and
Sub-Lieuts. Viccnot and -Beaux.. The
car fell straight down, carrying the
fluttering remains of the envelope,
and the occupants ,wore buried be
neath the wreckage.
Wright Inspects Tizl'l.
New York, Special Wilbur Wright
arrived here Saturday, and inspected
the field at -Governor's Island from
which he and Glenn II. Curtiss are
expected to attempt a series of flights
over and around the skyscrapers of
Manhattan during the Hudson-Fulton
celebration. "In the last six years."
said Mr. Wright, "wo haven't ad
vanced much in the art of living, and
the biplane we used Orville and I
in our first experiments at Kittyhawk
niade some unprecedented records.
i SNAPPY AND BRIEF
Items Gathered and Tofd White
You Ho!d Your Breath.
SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS
Lively and Crisp as They Are Gar
nered Prom the Fields K v( Actios
at Home and Abroad. '
Mrs. Salvator Samoniea of Balti
more, whose house was on fire threw
down a bundle of clothes in which
she had $95. She then climed down
to find the money gone, which was the
chief loss by the little fire.
Rosa Elrod now confesses that she
swore falsely against Jack Wcrfhing
ton, of Bartow county, Ga., whereby
he received a sentence of 20 years.
She claims that she was intimidated
into that course, but that her con
science has driven her to confession
It seems that they were equally im
plicated in her shame.
A number of warrants have been
issued in Chicago for the arrest of
officials charged with "fixing" juries,
The agitation about forming a nevi
State our of part of California on ac
count of taxation methods is subsid
ing from the fact that it would have
to run the gauntlet of the State Leg
islature and Congress.
A street car riot broke out at Coun
cil Bluffs, Neb., Sunday.
Treadwell Cleveland expert in Bu
reau of .Forestry, says our timber sup-
ply is being rapidly diminished and
that only one-third of the trees is used
while the other two-thirds go tc
waste.
President Taft drank a toast to tht
Mikado last Sunday at Minneapolis.
Min., while jollying the Japanese.
Wireless telegraphy proved its mer
its again Sunday when it brought
help to the Clyde Liner disabled from
broken machinery and anchored on
Cape Hat t eras. .
The equinoctial gale eame a daj
early this year on the Gulf and it',
coasts and its fury was unusually
dreadful.
Broad Creek Neck in Maryland hai
another sensation in the finding of the
dead body of a farmer whose death ii
all a mystery.
The mother of Vice-President Fair
banks celebrated her 80th birthdaj
at Springfield on Monday. Her dis
tinguished son and his wife sent a
congratulatory cablegram from tht
Philippines.
Dr. Cook arrived at New York and
Peary arrived at Sydney, Nova Scotia
Tuesday.
Peary says he will not acept aj
public receptions or participate it
public celebrations till the contro
versy between him and Cook ii
settled, v
Mrs. Jacob Fickel (divorced), oi
Cleveland, O., embezzled $593.7G anc
being informed by the court that ii
she replaced the money she would be
spared service in the penitentiary
She asked a loan of $500 from hei
aforetime husband who refused. Hei
son was unable to raise the money
Here's what the judge said of Fickel.
"Any man who is half a man woulj
do as much as is asked of Fickel tc
save the mother of his children, ever
though he has no regard for her af
his wife."
The Spanish troops have made l
successful advance against the Moors
killing a number and taking 1,00(
prisoners.
It is said that the Japanese are be
ginning to raise more cattle and wil
eat more beef and less rice.
A Wilkesbarre, Pa., dispatch says
Francis Rogers has carried thre
grape shot in his head ever since th
battle of Antictara, until a few days
ago when they came to the surface
and dropped out. He is ninety yean
old and is now free from headach"
for the first time in. many years.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron &' Coke
Cmpany will begin at once the
construction-of an immense impound
ing dam at Village creek, near En-
sley,. Ala., together with a suitable
pumping station and reservoir pre
paratory to a $2,000,000 coke over
plant.
A bomb was found Wednesday
night in the house at Juares, Mexico
where it is arranged for President?
Taft and Dias to meet.
Judge Alford has declared section
2-4 of the Fuller prohibition law in
Alabama unconstitutional and inoper
ative. It attempted to prohibit the
importation of whiskey and beer for
distribution.
Gleen H. Curtis received a gold
medal Wednesday, at a luncheon at
the Lawyers' Club, New York, by
the Aero Club of America, for win
ning the James Gordon Bennett cup
at Reims. .
President Taft made the electrical
connection Thursday that set the wa
ter flowing through Gunnison Tun
nel, near Montrose, Colorado, by
which 140,000 acres of arid land is tc
be made productive.
1909.
WASHINGTON NOTES
Postoffice Inspectors Tuesday raid
ed the offices of the National Trust
Company, of this city, procured a
large amount of evidence pertaining
to the operations of the concern and
arrested Henry M. Lewis, manager
and secretary-treasurer, Lewis was
charged with using the mails in the
furtherance of a scheme to defraud.
Consul General Hanna, of Mont
erey, has been authorized to draw on
the Department of State for $1,000
for the relief of the flood sufferers
in Mexico. The money has been pro
cured by the American National Red
Cross. This is the third remittance
to Mr. Hanna and makes the total
sum $5,000.
Whitelaw Reid, American Ambas
sador to Great Britia'n, called at ths
State Department Monday and paid
his respects to Acting Secretary
Huntington Wilson. , Mr. Reid said
that he had no particular business
with the department, but made the
customary call preparatory to return
ing to London by the steamer sail
ing Saturday from New York.
A telegram to the State Depart
ment from the United States Embas
sy in Rome states that the Italian
Government is sending Admiral of
the Fleet Alfonso di Brocchetti to
represent Italy at the Hudson-Fulton
celebration. The Admiral is a baron
and an ex-Senator.
A cablegram of Tuesday says an
other massacre of Jews has occurred
at Kieff, Russia. It began on the
Jewish ney year day and lasted for
three days. Eighteen Jews were kill
ed while they killed several Russians.
It is estimated that there were 1,000
casualties. .--
Bids for more than $1,000,000
worth of big guns, most of which
will go to make up the armament of
the new 26,000-ton battleships, the
Wyoming and Arkansas, were opened
Tuesday at the Bureau of Ordinance
of the New Department. The spci-
fications called for 10 12-inch guns
12 6-inch and 20 5-inch. All are to
be finished weapons.
The President has denied a pardon
to John B. Powers, former superin
tendent of construction of the South
& Western railroad, who was con
victed at Statesville,"N. C, of peon
age and charged in the official papers
with inflicting almost inconceivably
brutal punishment on a negro em
ploye. Powers was sentenced April
23 last to fifteen months' imprison
ment. Lee McClung, treasurer of Yale
universit3, has been selected as
Treasurer of the United States to
succeed Charles H. Treat.
Representatives of the Nicaraguan
government and the George E. Emery
Company, of Boston, whose claim,
growing out of- the temporary annul
ment of the company's timber con
cession, has been pending for some
time, have reached an agreement, the
Nicaraguan government agreeing to
pay the company $800,000 for the pur
chase of the concession and the com
pany waiving all claims against Nic
aragua. The issue has been a notable
one and the delay of Nicaragua in
failing to come to some basis of set
tlement came near resulting in. the
breaking off of friendly, relations be
tween the United States and that
countrj.
A startling situation has developed
as the result of a taking of stock of
the forestry resources of this country
according to Treadwell Cleveland,
Jr., expert in the bureau of forestry.
It lias been shon, Mr. Cleveland de
clares, that we are taking from the
forest every year three and a half
times as much wood as is added by
the new growth.
Unless there is a modification , of
the new antirooster ordinance, which
stipulates that poultry must not be
kept within 50 feet of any dwelling
in the District of Columbia, there is
likely to be a test case in the courts.
The new ordinance also forbids the
keeping of roosters in the District un
less the consent of a majority of the
neighbors of the owner of the rooster
is obtained.
Protesting against the treatment
they are receiving at the hands ox
the State and county afiieials of Okla
homa, 10,000 Oklahoma Indians, com
prising the Creeks. Cherokees, Chicka
saws and Choctaws, have caused a pe
tition to be sent here seeking relief.
The petition was discussed by Ike
Indian Protective league in this city.
It was decided to present the petition
to congress at the next session. The
petition declares that the county and
State officials are arresting the In
dians of the four nations and are tak
ing their stock and movable posses
sions under the pretext that the In- i
dians are violating the State laws. '
td Millinery,
CELEBRATION 7th.
.
Carnival of Historic U,
Re-Enacted on the Hud:
HUDSON AND FULTON HONORED
Characters and Scenes Presented ia
Week of Pageants World's Great
est Assemblage of War Vesseb.
New York, Special. Henry Hud
son, who melted from view 300 years
ago into those Arctic mists from
which two American discoverers hav-3
but lately returned, walked his quar
ter deck again Saturday, and in sea
boots and plumed hat surveyed the,
changes aloft and ashore that maks
his second visit to these shores scarce
ly loss memorable than his first. His
reincarnation or to bo strictly ac
curte, his impersonation, Saturday
the reproduction of his ship, the Half
Moon, and their 20th century, tour of
seeing New York are expressions of
those recurrent themes of historical
contrast and instruction by pageant in
which the central idea of the Hudson
Fulton celebration germinated. Witll
New York harbor and Manhattan Is
land for a stage, the play opened Sat
urday for a week's run, and will for
another week show to lesser cities
and towns along the route that Hud
son traveled.
Hudson and Fulton.
Fulton's name follows that of Hud
son on the programme, as the repro
duction of the Clermont followed the
reproduction of the Half Moon on
the waters of the harbor. The two
little shops, once so mighty with
achievement, made their rounds Sat
urday of the warships' assembled to
do them honor, with 1,000 merchant
ships and pleasure craft trailing be
hind them in a parade, 15 miles long;
saluted the national and the internat
ional flags of peace ; were officially re
ceived by the city and the Hudson
Fulton commission in the afternoon
with the other visiting notables, and
then at night repeated the course over
a river white as day with the glare of
the ' undreds of search light from en
shore and afloat, before they anchor
ed. - i .
On Sunday with more than
three score of the picked fight
ing ships of eight nations, swinging
af anchor in the Hudson river, sight
seers at the Hudson-Fulton celebra
tion looked upon the most impressive
assembly of foreign warships that haJ
probably ever been seen in Americatl
waters. Riding in the river between
Forty-fourth street andi Spuytetf
Duyvil, besides the 50 vessels of th
United States Atlantic fleet undvr
Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder, th
foreign navies are represented by six
teen fighting craft in all. Great Brit
ian has four, Germany has four alst
France has two, Italy has two, Mexi
co has one, Argentine has one and
Cuba has one.
Their massive hulls tugged lazily
at their anchorages represent tin
highest development in construction
from the great shipyards on, the Clydj
and the best efforts of the Germa:i
naval constructors.
Swift cruisers with triple expansion
engines and long rakish lines likd
greyhounds of the ocean; massive?
battleships mounted from turrets ic
tlx1 fighting tops with batteries of tho
highest type, swift torpedo beats and
topedo boat destroyers, wonderful
submarines every type pf fight in ;
ship known to the United States and
eight other navies, four of them won
powers, are in this impressive assem- '
bly.
The program for Monday inclnried
aeroplane flights by Wilbur Wright
and Glenn II. Curtiss from Governor i
Island and tlie opening of various
commemoratory exhibits throughout
the city.
Millennium Did Not Come.
West Duxbury, Mass., Special.
The end of the world, arranged as
the finale in the strange drama
enacted here during t lie past few
days, not having occurred as schedul
ed, most cf the actors Saturday left
the theater of their activities. "Here
after they will wait in their homes,
with the same implicit faith, the ren
dering of the List act.
Strange Electrical Phenomenon.
New York, Special. Gripped bj
the mysterious "aurora" telegraph
wires practically all over the world
were paralyzed Saturday. From earl.7
morning until . night, communcation
was erratic and at times cut otr en
tirely between certain points. Old
telegraph operators called it thl"
"aurora," for brilliant northern
lights usually follow such an electri
cal phenomenon, but instead of
watching for the display, they bent
their mind and energies' to untangling;
the snarl and adjusting their instruments.