PRESS ENTERPRISE.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12682, 29 October 1909, Page 4

PRESS ENTERPRISE.

Evidence of tho enterprise of Amerioan newspapers when news is about is illustrated in. a cable message that reached Lieut. Shackleton prompt-ly-on publication of the announcement that Dr. Cook on his way home from the Arctic regions would call at Copenhagen. It ' Avas sent by the manager of a well-known New York paper, offering Lientenant Shackleton a fee of £400 and all expenses paid if he would await Dr. Cook's arrival at Copenhagen and interview lim. The proposal was politely and promptly declined. Another communication reaching the Antarctic explorer came from the Royal Geographical Society of Denmark. Lieutenant Shackleton was engaged to visit Copenhagen in tho early autumn in_ order to receive a gold medial the society has ?ot_d to him. Ho. was asked to pay his -. sit forthwith, so that he might share the ovation and honours prepared r or Dr. Cook. This also Lieutenant Shackleton declined, "and," he laughingly added when relating the incident to a friend and much enjoying. a grim joke the Danish Geograph-cal Society "will not be inclined to linger over, "they have given my medal to Dr. Cook."