| Show ij 1 GREAT CRE T FEAR Am REP V V OF ICEBERGS cal to o ono I Itie V no tie 24 V t nt nt Early Appearance a Wow Now 5 in Ocean Travel 4 d V Vr Menace M n ce to r ican I m f I II munt V I 11 nc L dt degree UatI reo AHEAD OF TIME TillS THIS YEAR V V VI P PM I M VV I V Snit Salt aIt r V VV T d V V V ton oW Ito Ilio Ilioof U of Tr COW Com mad mn d I V V TU lr SIze V V VV V V NI n M 1111 nce N 8 81 L April oldest i inal es entering thin this port ott Jort have he never III al i V VCR b t re se n thus tally enly In hi tho the neo on so soS o 3 S CR r and th tl many nj ny and i nd no so great icebergs In the patti path mOil ot ocean truffle as aa now menace trans nu shippIng ehl Usually the tho toe lOt loe lIoe dI 41 V the th r north does noes dO not make dIe III I Ilk In 11 any con consIderable well t quantities no ns fur far south couth an nil the line IIno of at i el travel until the latter laller taft of ot o July or ot II early In Augusi when hen the tnt Int sea Bea tal It is calm v and storms torms are less IMS Ire fre fret IreI t I J JV luent I ent Even Iven the these e great mountains of ot ice are lire a source of Ut much murli danger l When they come earlier In lEIt V March darth Mar h and April or even in Mew May dur durIng Ing big the season of denso dense togs fogs violent s J V windstorms and arni low temperature th the V peril to shipping 1 le Increased a n hun hunI II I I 0 4 Many transatlantic entering I Port during th the last bit In It fortnight have hlll j 4 encountered el great bodies of or floating s lee Ice Ic Which entailed the most anost watchful 4 cai care III on nn the part port o of nf the navigators to tn I prevent disastrous collisions and unI re reo 4 suited edited l In much perplexing delay The log bk of f one In Incoming lm vessel shows that V nearly a n hundred varying In Inh h l ht above the water vater line train from to W to feet teet were w re on the Ih trip ocro u across ro the Atlantic these Thene fhe e covered u a aJ ot of over ItO m mItes miles being mainly t I between n latitude 42 degrees 15 rain min J utes ules longitude 49 4 degrees degreen d gree 20 minutes td to t latitude de 42 Z degrees d t r I minutes minute longi to co ti 63 62 degrees tI 53 1 3 minUtes minute which Is I i about mlle miles almost due cast east of Its passage was lUS as a most haz hnz one unit and on several occasions a 1 d collision n which might have hn sunk Bunk the rJ fl ship and ond caused n 1 frightful disaster 1 was narrowly averted Other ships J have scarcely low less sensational V to tote tell II of t experiences experIence with the perilous Ice floe noe B BRI R I According to the expert i I pher who ho know as much about It as oa stile sale anybody else and probably not much ranch suit lull more mote this thia early earl earI appearance of ot the Ice Icela ins un t Ii l la is the result ot of a 1 warm and early ivIn I spring it tim northern latitudes causing by the breaking off ort of ot large bodies of Ice leO from the great grent glacial formations ot or orIth o Ith d ds the th arctic region r glon from w whence hence they s fos J art are brought southward ulong along the thu coast cout loss jl of ot Newfoundland Into the path ot of aa is steamer t traffic raffle by b the olar currents J The fhe size else II of V e an on iceberg appearing a h 1 I above ab o tho the surface of nf the th sea Bell does docs not u rOil Its peril to ship l ip I f th g pIng Frequently that seen Ie n above the th I II i W laid I III water Is less ices than a ninth of ot Its It total ap bulk so that it u berg that stands ll feet teet above the sea level may be actual I 1 y 2700 2100 feet teet high and ond of ot far a greats Lull area than Is Indicated by y the exposed I 1 I till timi surface e clor cl In mild weather the proximity of a 1 It large body boily of Ice let at mien nen I 1 is U usually Ml inert by cower et air nIt and nad water Voler but In i de tc tm ha thick nna heavy helly weather W which pre prevails prea 1810 Is a tim B rails vails at this ne seasOn enson son ot of f the tIP your ear It Js Is der dr derMit extremely difficult to detect the pres presence ence enre of nn an Iceberg Ic by the tempera temperature Mit Mito ture until the ship I Is squarely upon it itC Ita o C irs Irr V V A familiar method ot of f keeping a n look lookout rang rona V out nut for tor Or Ice leo In thick weather eather Is to take soundings with A tI thermometer The i ef V Instrument Is lowered below the sur Hur Hurd i d taco faco at Intervals and a it nr record cord Is kept kelt keptot I c tf tit tr ot at the waters ahr temperature A sudden wext drop ct of two or three thre degrees la is usually rig utu hf the he signal for tor reducing the vessels i In n doubling th the lookout and keep V ID II Ing lag the blowing for tor echoes An V automatic signaling thermometer t Is also Used Thin Thia Is II kept kepr permanently below rel rt J I V the th surface Important change 1 V In temperature is registered in the pilot i 1 house houle Part rr I The rhe birth of ot the Iceberg ID is I In the far tar rout out routH g north AS ts A a glacier or Ice I co river pushes H II l clas cl ell Its lis way Into the ocean huge masses maises I V break away from the tha edges and ami float as 01 it r seaward Currents carry them some sometimes lay day times for tor thousands of ot miles allies before Sol Hn Solto warmer wamer climates eventually causo their ne f V disintegration Yati M Charts of ot the north Atlantic show that a n vast number of bergs neat float with to rl if the tue Labrador current In a southerly dl di een ef around the coast CORst of Newfound V land hind and Nova Scotia and aria from thence clel V V farther out to sea Ilea until they finally II melt awny avay 1 n and become a 0 part thereof nil Many Nany of these great grent Heating floating moun mountains 1 J taink come comae Coin torn the coast of ot Green I land where the succession of ot glaciers I S 1 C I Rives gIves birth to thousands of bergs Like I the t human beings each one fulfills Its Ha own I 10 Is 4 1 destiny Some Borne are lire grounded gr near the tho thor r cc J f I 1 V place of ot their formation Others pur pursue ur urta ta fa i sue suo their solitary and majestic course I t ord the open sea een and gently melt I I away awat their th lr lives on the deep leep swell of V the Atlantic Still others othera like hike despera I does of the highway make straight for tor 0 lct some noble ship and send end her founder foundering N lag ing to the bottom And I as os they are lull j different In their history so are they I i varied arl In appearance some Rome being nail u V like solid ramparts with square al oh almost I 1 t f most perpendicular faces face I Impossible to tor r V scale two or three miles long hang and half I an 1111 many broad Others Otho might at a III lit hittie mb tie distance be bo mistaken for tor a 0 splendid F palace a I Turkish mosque or a n Gothic 01 I IC church chU h 0 J I V Occasionally an on Iceberg gets gels worn Vorn Vict to ct V IWa at the water line IIno while the base bue J below be lol the water wilter Is U Intact and Supports Tm 1 nn ncr extended surface on a comparative comparatively tn In ly I 1 narrow stem item Others are tunneled tn or arched In fact tact there Is no limita limitation 1 l s I lion tion as Ie to o form torm or size The most beau beautiful Tb and ond the most grotesque may ma gall fall all id V side by side One On may ma be a mile square cot i Amid tho the other oIlier only 43 0 o I r fO 0 feet ro re Whether large lar 1 or ot small but a II small tl either cither Is U seer tr The Th great u l mass m S Is I always below the water ter t At times there Is ha something most toT 0 V graceful In the movements movement of an Ire Ice Iceberg nt berg One of the large six RIg was AS observed observe g come years ago ego which bleh for tor A time oscil acted backward and ond forward with n a 3 0 i regular n movement like Hi time pendulum laB as of a clock It was wa a 1 grotesque almost almot almoth h r humorous sight to observe the great tel 11 II i mountain of ice Iro swaying from Me Aide to tod Ill d I V Ild like one of ot the polar 1 bears that u haunt the far north Then Therm gently and andr andna r na almost cilmon Imperceptibly Im the berg turned t I turtle showing holn a n gently rounded round J cur sur surface face tAce where before had bad been jagged te t Prak and turrets It U was a 1 dissolving a view Ie In the literal sense ene U B There U is a 11 continuous change In Itt the time ot 02 appearance of ot Icebergs iceberg At times timos u A not hIe cathedral Is 11 stimulated again with the Gunset warm slow glow the W cur Wf ur kt r f aces e may take to themselves a like I not flees to n a landscape Cascades V will descend from the tho upper up er slopes dopes V breaking Into feathery spray pray as the IT meets metis with obstacles Sailors I V In n fl the tl be arctic make mental pictures as its s J I children do with passing clouds cloud of iJ I these strange forms Home with Us lie t tf familiar scenes cenes may be Imagined amid Vi 1 Vin I the very Vel abomination of desolation n L As 11 to the size of one IW m L i must m st be b among them to 10 Appreciate J V 1 U fIt proportions Sir John ohn Hoes to s ob fl rc 1 f one that wile wae 24 miles long hong by b V ji ic miles broad bread and 10 ItO feet high The I I weight w ai s estimated at 1 OO E J V V VV VV V 4 V r rj rI rf V V VV VV VI VV VV T V V j V I V f 1 V II I tons This however wag WA 4 slot not an ex cx extraordinary berg th theY y are aie observed towering to 10 a I height of or Boo feet teet As only of ot the tho mass massU massIs U Is above ater vater and visible It Is seen lern that they plenty of ot depth as ns asWell Well as liS sea Ita room for tor their movements The rhe comments commont of ot the passengers engers when wh n an nn ocean steamer lt amer passes on nn Ice lee Iceberg burg berg are often curious If It the weather Is III line tine and the time distance dl tanco sufficient for tor safety while convenient rot for the th atlon the he sight Is III taken un a spectacle arranged for tor the edification of the on onlooker looker Some Borne are They rhey expected something more moore dramatic turrets perhaps when flat surfaces are seen or am ragged r edges where th the waves wave may be sliding chiding over smoothness Oth Othera era go III Into ecstasies of ot delight over the changing han pictures presented to their view Hut limit the te t e master of ot the ship looks on the berg lJ bergue rg us his tile natural na tural enemy my and amid calculates the chances chanc ll of others being belna met with later hater on When the lire are sleeping the time watch that harm comes not nigh The fhe littleness of ot mans worK as III com corn compared pared with that of ot the Creator Is Ii I no nowhere nowhere nowhere where more mor apparent parent u than when a ship perhaps a 11 great ocean liner falls In with a fleet of these th se leviathans of the ocean The Tho captain a lower lowerIng lug Ing of vt the temperature otherwise not notto notto to 10 be accounted for causes his hIli ship to tobe tob tobe be b steeled cautiously The rhe watch Is cautioned Perhaps a n fog tog taut over oer the face tace fc of the time deep Jeep Then slowly hind and painfully In the murky twilight that even a It L search light will not pierce for any distance the great grent boat keeps on her course COUrle To lie to would be b In Ineffectual Ineffectual effectual as ns tho tim deep sunken berg has movements different from the drift rift of ot the vessel l Dimly Is la seen leen a n vast rising at al the tho side aide of ot the ship This Is not hot defined denned In outline until the Iceberg keber towers tower above the vessel no so dose close escape pe seems Impossible With tho the position of the enemy located to steer clear Ii is I a II comparatively simple matter unless other bergs ber s surround the vessel It If the weather went her Is mild and the thenea theve lien nea ve calm all ull I is Ie likely to go 0 welt well under the watchful care of the expert navigator tor tar but when the storms and toO fogs ac ne accompany company the Icebergs there Is Imminent imminent nent peril Thus ThUI It Is that the appear appearance ance once of the tIme Ice this season lenson two months earlier than Usual tauai adds a n new and seri lIerl serious sen cue ous menace m lIac to transatlantic commerce |
