PEART REFUTES
' THE CLAMS UF
' EXPLORER COOK
ISSUES LONG PROMISED STATE
MENT IN NORTH POLE
DISPUTE.
GIVES STORY OF THE ESKIMOS
The Statement Is Signed by Peary,
Bartlett, McMillan, Borup and Hen
son of the Roosevelt Party—Eski
mo Boys Closely Questioned by All.
>4t "
(Entered according to Act of Congress.
In the year 1919. by the Peary Arctic Club,
hi the office of the Librarian of Congress,
at Washington, D. C.) %
New York, Oct. 12. — The
following statement of Command
er Robert E. Peary, which he
submitted, together with the accom
panying map, to the Peary Arctic club
in support of his contention that Dr.
Cook did not reach the north pole,
is now made public for the first time.
The statement and map have been
copyrighted by the Peary Arctic club.
INTRODUCTION BY PEARY,
Some of my reasons for saying that
Ur. Cook did not go to the north pole
will be understood by those who read
the following statements of the two
Eskimo boys who went with him, and
who told me and others of my party
where he did go. Several Eskimos
who started with Dr. Cook from An
oratok in February, 1908, were at
Etah when I arrived there in August,
1908. They told me that Dr. Cook had
with him, after they left, two Eskimo
boys, or young men, two sledges and
some twenty dogs. The boys were
I-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah. I had
known them from their childhood.
One was about eighteen and the other
about nineteen years of age.
On my return from Cape Sheridan
and at the very first settlement I
touched (Nerke, near Cape Chalon) in
August, 1909, and nine days before
reaching Etah, the Eskimos told me,
in a general way, where Dr. Cook had
been; that he had wintered in Jones
Sound, and that he had told the white
men at Etah that he had been a long
way north, but that the boys who were
with him, I-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah,
said that this was not so. The Eski
mos laughed at Dr. Cook’s story. On
reaching Etah, I talked with the Es
kimos there and with the two boys
and asked them to describe Dr. Cook’s
Journey to members of my party and
myself. This they did in the manner
stated below.
((Signed) R. E. PEARY.
Signed Statement of Peary,•'Bartlett,
McMillan, Borup and Henson, in Re
gard to Testimony of Cook’s Two
Eskimo Boys.
The two Eskimo boys. I-took-a-shoo
and Ah-pe-lah, who accompanied Dr.
Cook while he was away from Anora
tok in 190S and 1909, were questioned
separately and independently, and
were corroborated by Panikpali, the
father of one of them (I-took-a-shoo),
who was personally familiar with the
first third and the last third or their
journey, and who said that the route
for the remaining third, as shown by
them, was as described to him by his
son after his return with Dr. Cook.
To go more into details: One of
the boys was called in, and. with a
chart on the table before him, was
asked to show where he had gone
with Dr. Cook. This he did, pointing
out with his finger on the map, but
not making any marks upon it.
As he went out, the other boy came
In and was asked to show where he
had gone with Dr. Cook. This he did,
also without making any marks, and
indicated the same route and the
same details as did the first boy.
When he was through, Panikpah,
the father of I-took-a-shoo, a very in
telligent man, who was in the party
of Eskimos that came back from Dr.
Cook from the northern end of Nan
sen’s 6trait, who is familiar as a hunt
er with the Jones Sound region, and
who has been in Commander Peary's
various expeditions for some fifteen
years, came in and indicated the same
localities and details as the two boys.
Then the first boy was brought in
again, and with a pencil he traced on
the map their route, members of our
party writing upon the chart where
according to the boy’s statement, they
had killed deer, bear, some of their
dogs, seal, walrus and musk oxen.
The second hoy was then called in
and the two went over the chart to
gether, the second boy suggesting
some changes as noted hereafter.
During the taking of this testimony.
Trained Eagles for Aviation.
One of the most fanatic ballooning
projects of the past was that of an
Austrian who suggested, nearly a cen
tury ago, that balloons might be
guided in any desired direction with
the aid of trained eagles.
Long Delayed Tribute.
“The experienced reporter is n
model of courtesy,” acknowledged a
Philadelphia preacher. First bouquet
of that kind in years and years.—
Cleveland Leader.
Asbestos Houses.
Asbestos houses are much used In
Australia. They are not only fire
proof, but impervious to water, unaf
fected by beat or cold, and of high in
8ulating properties. Still another fa
vorable feature is the fact that It is
not attacked by white ants.—Popular
Mechanics.
New York Hospitality.
Hospitality in New York is the
easiest thing in the world to buy if
you have the price.—Washington
. Post.
It developed that Dr. Cook had told
these boys, as he told Mr. Whitney
and Billy Pritchard, the cabin boy,
that they must not tell Commandei
Pe-ary or any of us anything about
their journey, and the boys stated Dr.
Cook had threatened them if they
should tell anything.
The narrative of these Eskimos is
as follows:
They, with Dr. Cook, Francke and
nine other Eskimos, left Anoratok,
crossed Smith's Sound to Cape Sabine
slept in Commander Peary's old house
in Payer Harbor, then went through
Rice strait to Buchanan bay. After a
few marches Francke and three Eski
mos returned to Anoratok.
Dr. Cook, with the others, then pro
ceeded up Flagler bay, a branch of
Buchanan bay, and crossed Elles
mere Land through the valley pass at
the head of Flagler bay. indicated by
Commander Peary in 1898, and'utilized
by Sverdrup in 1899, to the head of
Sverdrup’s “Bay Fiord" on the west
side of Ellesmere Land.
Their route, then lay out through
this fiord, thence north through Sver
drup's “Heuerka Sound” and Nansen
strait.
On their way they killed musk oxen
and bear, and made caches, arriving
eventually at a point on the west side
of Nansen strait (shore of Axel Hei
berg Land of Sverdrup), south of
Cape Thomas Hubbard.
A cache was formed here and th-3
four Eskimos did not go beyond this
point. Two others, Koolootlngwah and
Inughito, went on one more march
with Dr. Cook and the two boys,
helped to build the snow igloo, then
returned without sleeping.
(These two Eskimos brought back
a letter from Dr. Cook to Francke,
dated the seventeenth of March. The
two men rejoined the other four men
who had been left behind, and the six
returned to Anoratok, arriving May 7,
This information was obtained not
from the two Eskimo boys, but from
the six men who returned and from
Francke himself, and was known tc
us in the summer of 1908, when the
Roosevelt first arrived at Etah. The
information is inserted here as supple
mentary to the narrative of the two
boys.)
After sleeping at the camp where
the last two Eskimes turned b2ck, Dr
Cook and the two boys went in i
northerly or northwesterly directior
with two sledges and twenty-odd dags
one or more march, when they en
countered rough ice and a lead of eper
water. They did not enter this rcugl1
ice, nor cross the lead, but turnec
westward or southwestward a shori
distance and returned to Heiberg l.anc
at a point west of where they had lefi
the cache and where the four men hac
turned back.
After being informed of the boys’
narrative thus far, Commander Peary
suggested a series of questions to be
put to the boys in regard to this trip
from the land out and back to it.
Did they cross many open leads or
much open water during this time?
Ans. None.
Did they make any caches out on
the ice? Ans. No.
With how many sledges did they
start? Ans. Two.
How many dogs did they have? Ans.
Did not remember exactly, but some
thing over twenty.
How many sledges did they have
when they got back to land? Ans.
Two.
Did they have any provisions left on
their sledges when they came back to
land? Ans. Yes; the sledges still had
about all they could carry, so they
were able to take but a few things
from the cache.
From here they went southwest
along the northwest coast of Heiberg
Land to a point indicated on the map
(Sverdrup’s Cape Northwest).
From here they went west across
the ice, which was level and covered
with snow, offering good going, to a
low island which they had seen from
the shore of Heiberg Land at Cape
Northwest. On this island they
camped for one sleep.
From this island they could see two
lands beyond (Sverdrup’s Ellsf Ring
nes and Amund Ringnes Lands). From
the island they journeyed toward the
left-hand one of these two lands
(Amund Ringes Land), passing a
small island which they did not visit.
Arriving at the shore of Amund
Ringnes Land, the Eskimos killed a
deer as indicated on the chart.
The above portion of the state
ment of the Eskimo boys covers
the period of time in which Dr. Cook
claims to have gone to the pole and
back, and the entire time during
which he could possibly have made
any attempts to go to it.
If it is suggested that perhaps Dr.
Cook got mixed and that he reached
the pole, or thought he did, between
the time of leaving the northwest
coast of Heiberg Land at Cape North
west, and his arrival at Ringnes Land,
where they killed the deer, we must
then add to the date of Dr. Cook’s let
ter of March 17th, at or near Cape
Thomas Hubbard, the subsequent four
or five sleeps at that point, and the
number of days required to march
from Cape Thomas Hubbard to Cape
Northwest (a distance of some sixty
nautical miles), which would advance
his date of departure from the land
to at least the 25th of March, and be
prepared to accept the claim that Dr.
Cook went from Cape Northwest
(about latitude eighty and a half de
grees north) to the pole, a distance of
five hundred and seventy geographical
miles, in twenty-seven days.
After killing the deer they then trav
eled south along the east side of Ring
lies Land to the point indicated on the
chart, where they killed another deer.
They then went east across the
south part of Crown Prince Gustav
sea to the south end of Heiberg Land,
then down through Norwegian bay,
where they secured some bears, but
not until after they had killed some of
their dogs, to the east side of Gra
ham Island; then eastward to the lit
tle bay marked “Eid's Fiord” on Sver
drup’s chart; then southwest to Hell’s
Gate and Simmon’s peninsula.
Here for the first time during the
entire journey, except as already
noted off Cape Thomas H. Hubbard,
they encountered open water. On this
point the boys were clear, emphatic,
and unshakable. They spent a good
deal of time in this region, and finally
abandoned their dogs and one sledge,
took to their boat, crossed Well's Gate
to North Kent, up into Norfolk Inlet,
then back along the north coast of
Colin Archer Peninsula to Cape Vera,
where they obtained fresh eider duck
eggs. Here they cut the remaining
sledge off, that is shortened it. as it
was awkward to transport, with the
boat, and near here they killed a wal
rus.
From Cape Vera they went on down
into the southwest angle of Jones
Sound, where they killed a seal;
thence east along the south coast of
the sound, killing three bears at the
point noted on the map, to the penin
sula known as Cape Sparbo on the
map, about midway on the south side
of Jones Sound. Here they killed
some musk-oxen and, continuing east,
killed four more at the place indi
cated on the chart, and were, finally
stopped by the pack ice at the mouth
of Jones Sound. From here they
turned back to Cape Sparbo, where
they wintered and killed many musk
oxen.
After the sun returned in 1909 they
started, pushing their sledge, across
Jones Sound to Cape Tennyson; thence
along the coast to Clarence Head;
(passing inside of two small islands
not shown on the chart, but drawn on
it by the boys), where they killed a
bear; thence across the broad bight
in the coast to Cadogan Fiord; thence
around Cape Isabella and up to Com
mander Peary’s old house in Payer
Harbor near Cape Sabine, where they
found a seal cached for them by Pan
ikpah, I-took-a-shoo's father. From
here they crossed Smith Sound on the
ice, arriving at. Anoratok.
(Signed) R. E. PEARY, U. S. N.
ROBERT A. BARTLETT,
Master S. S. Roosevelt.
D. B. M'MILLAN,
GEORGE BORUP,
MATTHEW A. HENSON.
(8490 D)
Suggestion as to Clothing.
Clothing ought to be made with the
soft ancient Egyptian or modern Chi
nese buttons. Maybe removable ones
are better still. If it were not for
buttons most laundering could be done
by machinery.—New York Press.
Salt Whale.
Already quite a trade is done with
Japan in canned and salted whale
meat. It is said to be more tender
than beef and to taste like it.—Na
tional Food Magazine.
Words of Wisdom.
The old Congressional Globe, the
predecessor of the present Congres
sional Record, in Which proceedings
of congress were published up to some
time in the ’70s, by the old lira of
Gales & Seaton, bore for its motto,
“The world is governed too much.”—
Square Deal.
If We Could Get There Pirst.
We give it as our deliberate opinion
that the best thing next to b. pretty
girl is an empty seat. — Chicago
Record Herald.
Damage Done by Brown Rat.
The brown or Norway rat is re
garded by the United States depart
ment of agriculture as “the worst
mammal pest in the United States, the
losses from its depredations amount
ing to many millions of dollars year
ly."
Peculiar Florida River.
The St. John's river in Florida ts
the only navigable river in the coun
try that flows in a generally north
erly direction into an ocean.
Sinful.
Charity may coves a multitude of
sins; but when you see a beggar buy
liquor with the money you gave him
in response to a piteous appeal for
“something to get a meal with," you
are convinced that charity is incap
able of covering itself, among the oth
ers.—Salt Lake Tribune.
In Price, Not Size.
He looked in a store window, and
6aw “Hats reduced.” “Heavens!” said
he to himself. “What was their orig
inal size?”—Lippincott’s.
- *.
Sad.
Two little girls were out walking
when they passed the big brick build
ing of an orphan asylum. “That, Min
nie," said Rosy, anxious to impart her
knowledge to her younger sister, “is
where the little orphans live. Mr,
ar.d Mrs. Orphan are both dead.”
A Foolish Notion. »
Most of the men who think the
world is against them are so insignifi
cant that the world has never noticed
them.
Filling the Bill. .
Being in want of a steady, reliable
servant a lawyer advertised as fol
lows: "Wanted—A girl with simple
tastes; must not be extravagant; no
flashy clothes; not flighty; mustn't
gad about or exchange remarks with
any casual pedestrian." Some friend
sent him a baby.
Kepler Ahead of Newton.
The theory of gravitation was ad
vanced by Kepler in 1617, 70 years
before Newton announced his dis
covery.
STANCHION-MANGER
FOR CALF FEEDING
System Gives Utmost Satisfaction and Permits Youngsters
to Be Fed Individually ~ By
J. B. Monston.
_LJ_4_
View Snowing Stanchions.
A form of combined stanchion and
manger for calf feeding is illustrated
In a bulletin published by the Michi
gan Experiment station and is recom
mended as being very convenient. The
principle on which the stanchion is
built is not claimed to be new; the
use dates back a number of decades,
but the especial application and ad
justment of the one hereafter describ
ed presents some new teatures. This
particular model Is produced as the
result of three years’ trial, having un
dergone several changes since the
first one was installed. This appli
ance can be adjusted so as to accum
modate the calf lrom birth up to 12
months of age. The calves are con
fined in the stanchions at feeding
time only. After the calf has been
secured the miik bucket is placed in
the manger; when the milk is con
sumed the bucket is removed and en
silage and meal supplied, followed by
hay. By using this stanchion method
of feeding the maximum number or
calves can be kept in a minimum
amount of space in a clean, healthy,
thrifty condition, providing they are
given access to the outdoor yardage
The average size of the four calf pens
in the dairy barn, including manger
space is 15 feet three inches by 12
feet 3 inches. Each pen accommo
dates eight calves up to five or six
months of age. The average size of
two pens in the grade herd barn ac
commodating six calves each, is 9 feet
View Showing Manger.
9 inches by 14 feet 10 inches, and
three occupied by five each are 10%
feet by 11 feet 9 inches. Of course,
in all cases except one, the calves
have access to yardage at will.
Referring to the illustration for de
tailed description, the bottom of the
manger, 18 inches wide, consisting of
2-inch hemlock, is 6 inches above the
floor. As the front of the manger
is built on rather than against the
bottom it leaves the inside bottom
measurement of the manger 16 inches.
The side of the manger over which
the calf's neck is placed in feeding is
8 inches above the bottom, one-half
of this distance being taken up by a
2x4, the balance by the bottom frame
work of the stanchion resting on it.
The top part of the manger over
which the calf feeds is 15 inches
above the floor and should not be
made higher, as even this Is ratner
high for the new born calf. The young
est calves can feed over this, nut
should not be left fastened during the
day, as they could not lie down com
fortably. The side of the manger next
the feed alley is practically 2 leet
high and 2% feet above the floor; the
slope given to this part of the man
ger is a very decided advantage, espe
cially in placing and removing buck
ets while the calf is fastened in the
stanchion; even more slope than that
indicated would be well. The manger
is partitioned off every two feet; this
should db the minimum width, for
while it is ample room for the youna
calves, even more room would be de
sit-able for the roughage of the older
ones. The manger partitions extend
upward as tar as the curved line
shown in the illustration, but this is the
most lauity feature of the fixture, as
it is possible for one calf to reacn
over and suck another one's ears it
the mual and ensilage is not promptly
supplied after the milk is consumed,
though this rarely happens. A more
perfect manger division will be mane
by hoarding up from the manger to
the dotted line shown between A B
The front or stanchion part of the fix
ture is 3 feet 6l/2 inches high and
slopes away from the manger to in
crease its capacity and give the calf
the benefit of a little more spread in
throwing the head up to remove it
from the open stanchion. The stan
chions are made of well-seasoned 1
inch elm and no breaks have occurred
thus far. The youngest calves do no:
require more than 5 inches space for
the neck when confined. The stan
chion frames are bored with a num
ber of holes so that the movable up
right pieces can be shifted according
to the size of the calf. As calves ap
proach the yearling stage and their
horns interfere with the working of
the stanchion the movable piece may
be removed and the animal allowed to
go free while feeding. This system has
given the utmost satisfaction, permit
ting calves to be fed individually ac
cording to their needs and entirely
preventing the many bad habits so
frequently acquired by the pail fed
calf.
CROSS-CUT
SAW SUPPORT
! Pieces of Lisrht Timber- Attached
to It Make It Possible for
One Man to Oper
ate.
Two pieces of lath or other light
strip of wood bored together as shown
at 3 in the accompanying iilustra
tion, will stiffen a cross-cut saw so
that one man will be able to saw with
it without difficulty. The strips ot
wood tend to control the wabble of
Strengthening Saw.
the free end. A piece of stove wire
1 twisted around the saw and a strip at
2 will aid in keeping it in place. A
wire twisted about the laths at 3
will help to maintain the strength.
Keeping Cabbages.
Early in December turn each head
over to the north and bank the soil
over the stem and base of the head,
leaving merely the top exposed.
Some make the mistake of turning
the heads south anti the heads will
be certain to get damaged, for the
stem and base of the head are the
most tender parts, and these will be
to the north, while the morning sun
will strike the open head to the
south when frozen and damage it,
says Progressive Farmer. Any plants
that are not well headed- will head
during the winter if the leaves are
well tucked around when buried. If
you grow late cabbages as I have sug
gested, you will get something far
ahead of the coliards. and if you grow
collards they will be a great deal bet
ter for blanching in the earth.
DISEASE GERMS
FROM COWS
MUk Contaminated In Various
Ways From Tlijie It Leaves
Cow Until It Reaches Table.
There are a hundred and one places
where milk can be contaminated from
the time it is drawn from the udder
till it reaches the table in the form
of sweet milk, cream, or butter. First,
a great deal of bacteria, impurities
and disease germs get into the milk
at the barn or lot in which the cows
are kept. Second, a great many more
of these owe their existence in milk
to the attendant and the place in
which the milk is kept.
The moment the cow shows signs
of being ill, or when even a slight
eruption is noticeable, a person may
contract disease by partaking of her
milk.
Impure water is another way in
which milk is contaminated. If the
cow is compelled to drink out of a
mud hole, filled with disease germs,
she cannot help but drink a large
number of those germs into her sys
tem, some of them being sure to reach
the milk.
Milking the cow Into an open pail
when the barn is filled with dust, and
from which there hangs an untold
number of dirty cobwebs, or milking
her in an offensively smelling lot.
where the filth is ankle deep, or milk
ing a cow where udder, flanks and
legs are covered with dirt and filth—
in such cases it is impossible to avoid
contamination of the milk.
We believe that more disease germs
are given the human family through
milk than are given in any other
agency; and we also believe that less
attention is paid to the care of milk
than to any other food consumed
upon the table.
Danger of Barbed Wire.
Barbed wire is all right for stock
cattle and makes a cheap fence for
it. but it is hard to construct such a
fence to turn hogs and, owing to its
dangerous characteristics, it is out
of the question for horses, and even
for milch cows.
ANOTHER
WOMAN
CURED
By Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound
Gardiner, Maine.—“ I have been a
great sufferer from organic troubles
ana a severe iemaie
weakness. The
doctor said I would
have to go to the
hospital for an
operation, bnt I
could not bear to
think of it. I de
cided to try Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Veg
etable Compound
and Sanative W ash
—and was entirely
... ■ i lutiu alter tnree
months’ use of them.”—Mrs. S. A.
Williams, R. F. D. No. 14, Box 39,
Gardiner, Me.
No woman should submit to a surgi
cal operation, wliich may mean death,
until she has given Lydia E. Pinkham s
Vegetable Compound, made exclusive
ly from roots aud herbs, a fair trial.
This famous medicine for women
has for thirty years proved to be the
most valuable tonic and renewer of
the female organism. Women resid
ing in almost every city and town in
the United States bear willing testi
mony to the wonderful virtue of Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
It cures female ills, and creates radi
ant, buoyant female health. If you
are ill, for your own sake as well as
those you love, give it a trial.
Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass
invites all sick women to write
her for advice. Her advice is free,
and always helpful.
P03R BOY.
“Dear me! Why Co you cry so bit
terly?”
“I’m eryin’ ’cause I’m so wicked dat
I’m goin’ ter play hookey, instead cf
goin’ ter school, boo hoo!”
The Soft Answer.
At a dinner in liar Harbor a Boston
woman praised the wit of the late Ed
ward Everett Hale.
“Walking on the outskirts of Boston
one day,” she said, “he and I inadvert- *
ently entered a field that had a ‘No
Trespassing’ sign nailed to a tree.
"Soon a farmer appeared.
“ ‘Trespassers in this field are prose
cuted,’ he said in a grim tone.
“Dr. Hale smiled blandly.
“ ‘But we are not trespassers, my
good man,' he said
“ ‘What are you then?’ asked the
amazed farmer.
“ ‘We’re Unitarians,' said Dr. Hale.”
—Washington Star.
Expensive Silence.
Little four-year-o d Alice was lying
on the floor whining and crying stead
ily one afternoon, until, her father’s
patience exhausted, he called out to
her: “Oh, stop, Alice, and I’ll give
you a penny.”
Alice stopped only long enough to
answer: "I can't stop for less than a
nickel! Boohoo! Boohoo!”
Tuberculosis Among Soldiers.
For 1,000 active troops in the armies
Df the great world powers, the follow
ing figures show the percentage of
cases of pulmonary tuberculosis:
United States, 4.72; Great Britain and
colonies. 2.4; France. 5.3; Germany,
1.5; Austria, 1.0, and Russia, 2.7.
A Frencch Scholar.
As William bent over her fair face
he whispered: "Darling, if I should
ask you in French if I might kiss you,
what would you answer?"
She, calling up her scanty knowl
edge of the French language, ex
claimed, "Billet doux.”—Tit-Bits.
A Ready Explanation.
“What is the reason you were so
late in discovering the north pole?”
“Well,” answered the explorer, “you
see they have such long nights in the
arctic regions that 1 overslept.”
The angels are always waiting to
open the windows of heaven over the
head of the man who will bring the
last tithe into the storehouse.
A BANKER’S NERVE
Broken by Coffee and Restored by
Postum.
A banker needs perfect control of
tbe nerves, and a clear, quick, accu
rate brain. A prominent banker of
Chattanooga tells how he keeps him
self in condition:
“Up to 17 years of age I was not
allowed to drink coffee, but as soon as
I got out in the world I began to uses
it and grew very fond of it. For some
years I noticed no bad effects from its
use, but in time it began to affect me
unfavorably. My hands trembled, tho
muscles of my face twitched, my men
tal processes seemed slow and in other
ways my system got out of order.
These conditions grow so bad at last
that I had to give up coffee altogether.
“My attention having been drawn to
Postum, I began its use on leaving off
the coffee, and It gives me pleasure to
testify to its value. I find it a delicious
beverage; like it just as well as I did
coffee, and during the years that I
have used Postum 1 have been free
from the distressing symptoms that ac
companied the use of coffee. The'nerv
ousness has entirely disappeared, and
I am as steady of hand as a boy of
25, though I am more than 92 years
old. I owe all this to Postum.”
“There’s a Reason.” Read the little
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