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Bleriots and the men who are carrying on the great traditions not 

 of nations but of all mankind. I felt, I think all felt, that the verdict 

 of the Copenhagen jury was quite unanimous as to the discovery of 

 the Pole." 



The early morning and the late evening seemed the only times 

 in which Dr. Cook could attend to his correspondence. A moun- 

 tainous pile of letters, telegrams and cablegrams descended upon 

 him every day kings, princes, potentates, scientists and men of 

 letters in all parts joined in congratulating and paying tribute to 

 him, but he received with the greatest gratification of all a char- 

 acteristic reply from the President of the United States to his 

 message announcing the discovery of the North Pole. The text of 

 these messages is as follows. 



"COPENHAGEN, September 4. 

 "President, the White House, Washington. 



"I have the honor to report to the Chief Magistrate of the 

 United States that I have returned, having reached the North Pole. 



"FREDERICK A. COOK." 



"BEVERLY, Mass., September 4. 

 "Frederick A. Cook, Copenhagen. 



"Your dispatch received. Your report that you have reached the 

 North Pole calls for my heartiest congratulations and stirs the pride 

 of all Americans that this feat, which has so long bafHed the world, 

 has been accomplished by the intelligent energy and wonderful 

 endurance of a fellow-countryman. 



"WILLIAM H. TAFT." 



It seemed that every honor in the gift of the Danish people had 

 been laid at the feet of the hero of the hour, but one in the view 

 of the scientific world perhaps the greatest was reserved to the last 

 days of the explorer's stay in Denmark. This climax came when 

 the University of Copenhagen, a world-famous institution of learn- 



