Show JOHN IiTTJIR AND HIS WORK A I VoRK S irU For twentyfive years John Mulr has ai mado outofdoors his realm For more nFM than half this time he 1 c and wandered wan-dered alone over the high Sierras ti through the YosemStc valley and among rUt the glaciers of California and Alaska 3 f studying sketching climbing At night he sometimes rested luxuriously wrapped In a halfblanket beside a campfire sometimes when fuel wait wanting and the way too arduous to admit 1 ad-mit of carrying his ploce of blanket heft he-ft hollowed for himself 3 snug nest In l tie r5 Snow He is no longer a young man but when last I saw him younG making mak-ing plans to go again to the north to tjJ explore the four new discovered J discov-ered last summer by the Harriman e Peditlon What do you come here for two 1ic Alaskan Indians once asked him when OX r they had accompanied a far through c Perilous ways as he could hire or coax them to go To get knowledge was the reply rt The Indiana grunted they had no words to express their opinion of this extraordinary lunatic They turned back and left him to venture alone aerog the great glacier which now btargl his name So trilling a matter F nnthir desertion could not deter hlnv I from his purpose He built a cabin at the edges of the glacier and there settled set-tled to work and to live for two long years He made dally trips over that Icy region of deep gorges rugged de j I scents and vast moraines taking notes and making sketches until he had obtained I ob-tained the knowledge that he wan after af-ter Mulp glacier Is the largest glacier discharging Into the wonderful Glacier bay on the Alaskan coast Being the most accessible one In that region tourists tour-ists are allowed to go ashore to climb upon Its sheer icy cliffs and watch the many Icebergs that go tumbling down from It This Is 0 thrilling experience to the globetrotter but to dwell there beside the glacier to study the phenomena I phe-nomena encounter perils alone and unaided Is an experience that few besides I Knapp be-sides John In Alnalees Mulr would court Adeline |