Show ICEBERG IN DELAWARE huge mountain of ice towed from orand grand bank banka a of newfoundland the strenuous work of a tugs tuga crew one of tile the strangest and perhaps the most valuable prize ever taken by a ship in order that tho the city of philador abia might bo be rescued from an ice fam amine a powerful ocean going tug has accomplished complis hed the almost impossible feat of capturing a hugo huge iceberg and towing it into port never lir fir the worlds history has this woude wonderful erful achievement been duplicated and contrasted with it tho the fascinating g exploits recounted by tho the marine historian sinbad the sailor appear commonplace and trivial with its mountain of ice in tow tho the tug tue passed up tho the delaware Dola waro stiver creating consternation among tho the loaf ing world on the stream as observers veri could not imagine other than that tho the floating mountain was wag being driven up tho bay ly by some freak of wind and current to tho the great danger of shipping its approach was responsible for or some frenzied telegraphing which threw the shipping interests into a panic orders were issued to hold up the sailing of every vessel due to leave and messages were dispatched to lower delaware station to intercept several outbound steamers and warn them to seek out of the maritime interests excited for several hours maritime interests were intensely excited by the un heard of presence of an iceberg in the bay later when the true story of tho the wonderful feat was hashed flashed over tile tho wire it seemed so BO utterly incredible that tho the excitement if anything was increased it was not until one of the fastest tugs in tho the harbor had steamed down the bay and wired verification of the story that tho the panic was allayed only the providential operation cooperation co of the winds and tides and tho the most favorable weather conditions enabled tho the tug to accomplish the faatin feat in spite salto of the almost inconceivable risks attendant upon the bergs capture not a member of the tugs crow was injured two men alen frostbitten frost bitten two men suffered from bad frost bites but this was duo due to their own carelessness in braving bravin the arctic temperature pera ture in ili the bergs vicinity without proper clothing their experience was a warning to the rest of the crow and when tho ug with the yue prize rashed ehg breakwater every man aboard was muffled as it for a peary relief expedition the length of tho the iceberg was feet and it is estimated that it will yield fully tons which Is nearly sufficient to mako make up the shortage in ice crop duo due to the mild winter the work of cutting up tho the mountain of ice will have to be pushed because of oe the rapidity with which it will melt under the spring sunshine the monster berg was captured off the grand danks of newfoundland it was made fast at great risk by the daring men on the tug who in small boats tied staunch ropes around the mountain of ice and then lot let out a long towline tow line from the tug and with grappling books secured a fastening which hold held firm after several attempts had resulted in failure the crew of tho the tug will share in the money the prize will yield As icebergs are brokon broken off portions of glaciers the ice yielded will bo be of good quality |