Show ICEBERGS IN aatu V tio TIC WESTWARD BOUND CAPTAINS SIGHTS AND arx t n itlie itile 4 i p A novel an bc beautiful sight was wag witnessed during tile the past month by the passe passengers agers of several transatlantic steamers steamer mighty mountains of ice clear as crystal and shaped into 1 the most fantastic forms some bear bearing in the similitude de of amorphous boulders and others tapering into needlelike spires floated softly on the bosom of the ocean and drifted with a motion that was rarely perceptible seen at a distance they appeared mere inere white specks on the blue water but as the steamers gradually approached them their true dimensions were seen aud and noted as a marvel not alone by the tile czIp captains aud and their crets creys eho iho agreed that an artly artl panorama of equal magnitude had never taken place in such a latitude and but t by 47 thoe of 0 their pason gers whose wh ose artistic temp temperament emmen t out weighed their dislike ot intense mid cold and impelled them to remain on deck deek and gaze aze in wonder at the startling spectacle by day and by night the thu beauty of the scene remained equally great and squally equally impressive As da div dir light died the moon shone upon te the waters and lit with a ghostly splendor those white masses ot of ice lec that in moved oved on their way with an imperturbable sphinx ilke like gravity if the weather was calm tue tho steamers sped on swiftly through the night taking good heed to keep clear of trie tiie the tile white bulwark thai that loomed so grandly in the distance As the day broke tile the sun let loose all his arsenal arsenau of rays and touched avith hii his golden wand the scene and its strange denizens A prof profusion of colors such as sunlight beaming upon crystal cah can alone prod produce fice straightway straight straightway glorified the icebergs until Its it seemed eeme wai waT although as though they were no do longer white insensate masses of soli dined water but had baeli beed quickened into life and crowned with witt golden tiras C CAPTAIN GRAPHIC STORY the transatlantic ste steamers amers ameri italy and dorset which arrived in tills yester yesterday ay came within sight of an un uc usual number of these icebergs aud and othe otherwise experienced no small vicissitudes during their trips from europe the italy of the national line anich left london on february 27 met with succession of severe westerly balca gates during t the early part of her voyage and on the ath of march sighted ted sever hever several 1 I large in latitude 44 deg iongi longi longitude 54 deg 40 min on thib th following day more icebergs were passed in latitude 42 41 dc 35 min lon ion longitude etude 50 dog deg 22 min miu it was estimated ly by those on board that the largest mountain of 0 ice WO was Ls encountered in latitude 42 delg deg 23 min longitude 51 deg 53 miu the dorset of odthe the great westen steamship line which jit Bri bristol OB eeb Feb february ruari 11 met with westerly gales from longitude 22 2 degrees to 45 degrees after w N aich stormy and ana windy we weather I 1 prevailed icebergs Ice berzs bercs were passe passed between talf n latitudes platitudes 44 deg 40 min and 43 degrees lund rund longitudes 30 min mm and 52 degrees captain william stamper of th thy the dorset Dors etwas was found yesterday eveni agin the saloon of the steamer which Jay in ia dock at the foot of congress street brooklyn after heartily greeting the herald erald 17 reporter lie he said in hi reply to a qu question estloA as to how he had enjoyed hb trip I 1 alv weli weil ell eli oll sir ir I 1 have made close CB ca two hundred runs across the atlantic and I 1 can safely say that I 1 have seeh seen queerer things this time than ever be fore farer just listen we left bristol on oa J february 11 wah nineteen passengers cers gers and a car caro cango o of aln tin we touched at kwaii swansea apa cpa out eat our bow got da dared dazed damaged red zed there so we put into repairs rd rs we left Queen sown on the esth and made at once for the old cunard cunail track trach across the ati atlantia antan annan antip Uc th TAs second day ef after ter wo w got out aut the boulas commenced and at midnight vas was J a high head sea and a terrible storm storn i the next nast two days we had hall hali rain raid iraln heavy westerly gales gaies and a very nio dlo il 11 sea we shipped larye laric large quantities of I 1 i water over the bow an and t the h vessel went under a good bit I 1 can tell you we ire t were then in longitude 36 36 de dez deg and i latitude 49 about half way across on the oth of march the squalls and gales gaies increased and the tha ship labored vm verr heavily on the evening of the grew rev somewhat calmer and on satur clay ilay ay the esth about four p pm m while we irb t were in latitude and longitude 30 zo we saw two large icebergs abo about I 1 wn a mile mlle lie ile to the north of t ns s I 1 iwas was amazed ed to see them as in all ali my experience I 1 i never knew of icebergs being seen in C such a latitude and longitude anine following day sunday t the re oth we pas sed a whole army of them some north i some 8 south and many very close to us t at eight ote ole lock that bening evening we parted company with them afta keeping koep keep ing them i in ill sight for t wenty twenty elmit hours yes ya t it sounds bounds ds strange but they ney could acan a aily ally be seen foy for t cause the tho moon was at her full and catt cast i a light on tulili thern thein that made them as I 1 d distinct spinet as in the day the weather was beautiful beautia ili iii at that time and we kept I 1 up full fuli f ull uli speed say ten knots an hour so I 1 IT I 1 that at any atly one looking at the icebergs i from the ship would swear that the I 1 I 1 weg wem stationary though as a matter dif ot i I 1 fact they drifting the last oil oli ont oui we vve saw haw was the most curious of all it r was very lonz lons very low and bool K E just like a so solid lid ild w wall wali til ill fixed in the adt of the ocean others were we very st stran strad fil yil I 1 in shape some having massive to towers beni 1 like old castles casties and others blender slender spires like cathedrals their ill ili lit well I 1 should say from loo to pet bec feet i and their length some hundred yar bardi at t any rate ane tte ship looked very 1 beside them tiie passengers of cour course se I 1 where struck dumb when they hearn hearil 1 1 about them first and hurried on deck to get a look at them but after a shod shori I 1 time they found the cold too severe andl went back under cover and no won 1 der for the wl wind nd about those leeber icebergs iceberg t I 1 is L always a intensely bitter still it w a sight worth looking at tit the gui sul made the ice every color in the in rainbow lubot and to see it sparkle and flash wasi wass wonder when the moon came ott oil those great white monsters moon roon stood out against again X the sky as clear and bright as 0 her herself herleif seif self A WORD or OF AD ADVICE vice VICC dut nuit but dilt fine to look at as they ar are arc ethere therb there is great dangen dauger in them and I 1 amid like through the herald to varnall yarnall captains captai ns aliki against rist list them of course it vessel is all ali 11 right ri it is easy to steer delf deaf bf them buds bud bu s ts a vessel lire like that one did last week tho crey of which was rescued by the W glan cesler cesier I 1 it 18 n q thousand hano hado hanc to one if any lives are saved when a disabled vessel is hemmed in bk bv ice it is little use fon fod the men to ta take e to the boats as the moen melr are almost certain to be frozen to death the only way for a vessel to avoid them is to steer a s coursey courser cou rss auth of the banks bauks A tessel vessel going east edw bf ourse course would strike them in a different dir direction petion anyhow it is just as well to keep 0 ones nes eyes open f aj A STRANGE E i there is one thin thing I 1 noticed that f I 1 i cannot in any way account for on i sunday morning while wo we were passing between the noticed that the water around the vessel was sending up uj a heavy steam so hea heavy in fact that it caused a re regular bovy fog sog I 1 got gota a bucket from one of the men and lowered it 1 into the water when I 1 drew it itt up tip I 1 put in the thermo neter and to my j amazement I 1 found that ilie tile the waier water water was 1 nifty mity two fw de degrees krees hrees jt it was quite warm in fact wide while I 1 was puzzling over it I 1 heard a crash and saw that the projecting part ot of a great iceberg had toppled into the water I 1 knew at once i that it had been loosened bythe heat I 1 two bogir later I 1 tested tho the water i again and found that the temperature was on only thirty eight derees degrees while i that osyth of the iceberg could only have bave i been about thirty two degrees now liow ilow do you account for that atiat some i would say it was the gulf stream I 1 tut lut it was not because we struck that later on no sir it was s imply simply a charnel channel of warm water towing flowing for a considerable able abie distance among icebergs and raisin raising I 1 1 a thick fog iop all around it As to giving givin g an explanation of the mat j ar ter tor I 1 shall not attempt to do so but I 1 would be glad to have someone solve the puzzle for two hours we were in V that nat hat warm temperature and surrounded on all sides by icebergs yes sir this has been a remarkable t thip trip for ne ane I 1 may see an equal or a larger number it if I 1 were to go toward the arctic regi regions hs I 1 hut but I 1 doubt ift if after this season I 1 shall shail ever see such masses of ice on my route between europe and america iv Y herald |