| Show DANGERS OF THE DEEP it is ia one of the curious facts facto that here in utah where we have rail communication muni cation and cheap with every point of the compan and where we are within two days 1 travel of the rat mighty gaty Paci pacific flo there arb ar grownup grown up middle aged and even old men who have never been confronted by a body of water which they could not see across I 1 11 to most of these them the vastness of the ocean contains no more of actual in dinv inv pre asi veness than the vastness vast 1 ot space being in either cue case practically incomprehensible how could it be otherwise when their knowledge of the vasty deep and the lands land beyond it and this may in many oases cases amount than in that of some who have hav been there is learned from roana maps charts books newspapers and co oon verea tion they may and generel generally JV do know as a matter of abstract knowledge all about these thin chinen and so may they in like manner a know all about the worlds fair buildings at chicago but it takes that realization that comes through til tha organs of sight eight and touch to fully real lee le their greatness and grandeur those to whom the ocean is thule would doubtless be as sternly 1 lm pressed with the appearance of monster iceberg as 88 with the Mo noto ous one highway of nations nation vo across which these then sometimes go at certain seasons of the gearas is in well known know nth thA atlantic route to europe is i a cros crossed by bar great processions professions process ions of im icebergs berge those were especially numerous in 1890 and yaki one that was passed on july 10 in 4 aft degrees north 24 degrees west Is in BUD posed pond to have hare made the nearest an n to british shores of any aby aceb iceberg since the glacial period fewer 9 ite leberes berge than usual were in may and june of this year been elb they were however reported to t washington by vessels vessel pt and one i of 0 them seen from a german k vessel ir in 46 degrees north 87 degrees west was wak feet high and four miles long in the antarctic waters to have rh been a maximum year of floating ice foe there the icebergs are always more numerous and formidable than in the north yet it is not dot often that tors have the experience of ra an aber deen captain who about the middle of may in 45 degrees south 25 west amr narrowly escaped running into an iceberg 1000 feet aud high on the next day sailed along an immense too ice island 80 to 1000 feet fur for high a distance of forty miles other reports as extraordinary as the foregoing have been made to recite them would not perhaps be the mean of sending a chill through the reader who never looked upon an iceberg la in any moro more menacing attitude than can be taken upon white paper by beaus of printers ink but if he could 0 see nee one we guarantee the sensations ioa would be different especially if it wag bead on in a heavy fog and the ship from which the floate floating monaco menace was wan seen was making twenty knots an hour boule or thereabout there about A concussion between the two tw in view ot of the fact that only about one third of the iceberg above the water would have about the same effect upon the ship that robert stevenson explained to a committee of parliament his locomotive would haver have upon a cow that came upon the track it would be b ad for the coo |
