Show MIR MUIR GLACIER IN VIEW VEW ii Something wonderful has rece recently taken taken place in Alaska This is the drilling It away of Icebergs iceberg from the front of o Muir Mui j glacier I In Glacier r bay so t that for the ii st rn-st time nil In ii nine y years t this s famous o gla glacier gie gla glacier cier the tho most noted on this has been visited In 1899 1599 a subterranean earthquake took tok place at Yakutat andeer and a ever er since nce the approach to the glade glacier has been so choked with wIt Ice that boats have turned away with their passengers disappointed Now through o some peculiar peculiar 1 f liar tilting drifting ln of the I ice steamboats b tf can kin enter the channel and after cautiously pushing their way get a glimpse of the te Mai left eft face I a aIn In the nine years ear away from the sight 3 1 of ot man te this glacier has shown remarkable remarkable remark remark- remak W able When Prof John Muir after whom It was named visited isie had a solid face two miles mUes long about feet above the water line It was a alive alive S live Jve glacier glacer and great masses of lee toppled top top- r t pled led Into the e sea with reverberations e fl like ike t thunder Water er would ul splash hat fifty r feet high and the te sight was ws fearsome and fa fascinating i Today t the e glacier assumes a different aspect Erosion has worked out a new neW lair bay which will wi soon be charted charted and ad the glacier Itself seems to have twp taO parts Darts the live lve part from which icebergs tl break and fall fal with a tremendous noise noie 8 d danti a tie anti ana a dead arm or one with land forming form form- fon bog ing anC between It and nd the sea This change t is d due tle to a h lull I which h projected jecI Js tt through the top of the ice Ie when Professor Muir was there Now that hilltop hitop is a large I mountain dividing the Ice fields feld The Ice has also receded In the nine years year This is without doubt the most remarkable remarkable remark remark- able known glacier on this continent continent ii w itt though Alaska has other wonderful glaciers glaciers gla gla- i ft ciers which occupy clefts high u up in the mountains s and s some o of which h have ire e an 1 g elevation W of f o os feet t Among these a are the tho Taku Davidson Windom and La has square Conte But Muir glacier ha such an impossible im- im miles of Ice and presents sch mies I possible sight that it is 15 considered d the th J crowning glory of Alaska's as stupendous nd scenery the scenery the sight of a al lifetime fen Iso No Noone one knows how it ii happens that Glacier bay can be entered now nowhere where here it could I not before but it is thought that favorable favor favor- able winds and mild Ud weather caused the tha e Ice to drift away ay M MAn An Interesting fact about Alaskan glaciers ala gla gJ ciers cier Is that some are dead and others I ce which Is are alive Davidson glacier alve lacer has hi really reany a tongue of tho the Muir glacier ha I t I been ascended by travelers for fora for a number 1 s of years ears It I Is a dead dEad glacier a havinga moraine r of several miles e between it and r the sea oL Looking lar at It from r t the nb boat tat it a lt represents a kaleidoscopic appearance as a lf the the- the sun shines shinE's upon It it and the te surface 1 il b seems scratched with tiny tny pin In lines crevices for These are In reality realty deep they are lurking pitfalls I for the un t kW J e Vancouver n n Providence |