i/o EUROPE GIVES HONOR TO DR. COOK 



ference in Dr. Cook's appearance. His room at the hotel, where he 

 was the guest of the Danish Geographical Society, was littered with 

 ready-made suits of clothing, new patent leather boots, hats, etc., 

 which were tried on while a hairdresser was cutting his tangled 

 hair. None recognized in the well-groomed, dapper new gentleman, 

 who soon issued from the apartments, the travel-stained, weather- 

 beaten individual who arrived a few hours previously. 



After lunching with Minister Egan at the American Legation, 

 the explorer was received in private audience by King Frederick 

 of Denmark, the Queen and her three daughters, Princesses Inge- 

 borg, Thyra and Dagmar, being present. Dr. Cook was presented 

 by Maurice Egan, the American Minister, and was received most 

 cordially by King Frederick, who asked him many questions and 

 drew from him a long account of his expedition. The audience 

 lasted for half an hour. 



Returning to his hotel, he received a battalion of correspond- 

 ents, who subjected him for another hour to a merciless cross-exami- 

 nation, demanding explanations of all the criticisms that had been 

 leveled against his claims. 



These questions Dr. Cook answered with the best temper, 

 frankly and fully. Whatever was thought of Dr. Cook elsewhere, 

 he impressed all who talked with him there as a modest, frank and 

 able man. Scandinavian explorers and Scandinavia is the home 

 of many Arctic pioneers were the first to indorse Dr. Cook's claims 

 to the discovery of the Pole and his methods of getting to the goal. 

 Their opinions were based primarily on personal knowledge of Dr. 

 Cook's character and former achievements. Only after consulting 

 them confidentially and receiving the fullest pronouncement of their 

 belief in the genuineness of his feat did the Danish government 

 give its official seal, by this reception, to Dr. Cook's good faith. 



In the evening the first public banquet to Dr. Cook was given 

 in the magnificent municipal building. Four hundred persons, many 

 of them ladies, attended, while thousands congregated in the streets 



