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make a demonstration that makes me very happy and should fire 

 the pride of all the world. I would have preferred to return first 

 to American shores, but this pleasure was denied me. Instead I 

 came to Denmark and the result has come to you by wire. 



"I was a stranger in a strange land, but the Danes with one 

 voice rose up with enthusiasm and they have guaranteed to all 

 other nations our conquest of the Pole. 



"You have come forward in numbers with a voice of apprecia- 

 tion still more forcible. I can only say that I accept this honor 

 with a due appreciation of its importance. I heartily thank you." 



In the front rank of those greeting Doctor Cook as the speech- 

 making ended was his sister, Mrs. Joseph Y. Murphy, of Toms 

 River, N. J. The explorer took her in his arms and hugged and 

 kissed her regardless of the cameras trained upon them. Then 

 he saluted his niece, Miss Lillian Murphy, and shook hands with 

 Joseph Murphy, his brother-in-law. 



It was a disheveled discoverer that finally returned to his cabin, 

 where he remained during the rest of the voyage up and down 

 the North River. The "Grand Republic" steamed up the North 

 River amid a shrieking of whistles of all sorts of craft from the 

 Battery to the foot of West 130th street, where a short stop was 

 made. The vessel continued as far as Spuyten Duyvil and then 

 moved downwards to the foot of South Fifth street, Brooklyn. It 

 was half an hour too early for the Brooklyn reception, so another 

 turn around the river was made, while the band played "Auld 

 Lang Syne" and "Home, Sweet Home." 



Brooklyn's reception had all the elements of a riot except vio- 

 lence. From the moment the explorer, flanked by militiamen 

 and police, fought his way into an automobile at the pier, until 

 he left the Bushwick Club at night for the Waldorf-Astoria, in 

 Manhattan, the surging crowds often got out of control of the 

 police. 



As the Grand Republic reached her dock the whistle of every 



