Show BOOK TEllS OF I 1 I ALASKA VONDER I Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes Described in New Volume I t WASHINGTON Jan ir r nOW In the tho lies Hies of mean I much volcanoes eli human beings even eveh though they ha e never been ben within sight or hear- hear i ni i naw lo log ot of cne Is told In i a 0 n new just Issued I by y the National Geoe The Tho publication Is the it- it society of the tho fIndings summary fh t complete I 4 of six iX sent to the region o of oft vi Valley of Ten the tho and t It Thousand Smokes In hy by the tho society and of the tho results or of years yearA careful stud of oh- oh made y by tho expeditions Valle Valie or of Ten Thou Thou- Thousand 1 ho he book Th rho Dr II 5 by Smokes sand and 1 tobert obert rt F Grins Grigge of the geographic phio society and contains a great fund of ne DC Information In this little devel de developed 01 Held field of ot science Within recent years tho the fascination and romance of ha hae ha e begun to ture Imagination imagination nation and this book 1001 adds a 0 chapter to the th story of ot modern explorations explorations and scientific study ll fIU Dots Dot's UJ AVAL UK AL A tremendous volcanic that could blow from front the top of a great mountain 40 41 times the amount lot of earth and rock dug out of ot the of Panama lana to build the tho Pan Pan- Panama Pan Pan-ami am ama canal I leaving a 0 hole large enough to contain au all the In 15 l cIties clUs the Blie of New York Is worth ini leg huch a cataclysm occurred hon hen the top oft of Mt t we was wu blown oft off offIn In an au eruption In tn 1912 Climatic ef- ef effect ef effects eliding tho the world resulted from the anthe and an the volume deals with these phenomena as well seI elt as those of the Kl at seething ote aile alley front from it derives Its till title In addition it describes the Alice In Allce Wonderland phenomena In th tho wake oke of the eruption sueh eruption as A a that CruIsed along the top of a ridge of ot streams that ed I Led ed their th lr courses ash uh aha bo- bo en that thai formed great thermal blankets to pre pre- I sere r c deep dp de p snow drifts and a R flood hid Md a 0 million Urns times s the Iho the e I tIe the po lO of the Jo JoU Joa U u dam dam- burat burs An amu amusing ng Instance ot of the careful checking UI up of ot facts Is elated l 1 by Dr Griggs who sho ho tell tells how u aI chemist after learning of the pro pro-I pro proposed posed pOled name for the alle bet set out In methodically to count the columns column of hissing st steam am for tor or fear Cear the name sas sasan DB au an exaggeration Lon lie He returned to camp to report sol soberly erly that the tho name namo had realI been in the error error tb Dam name ho he said should have been the tho Valie of ofa ofa a 0 Million Smokes I GIS Tho The problem I F Is not a dry technical one for tor thrills of personal ads od fill III the pages Tho The writer explorer elates in matter of fact fashion how members of the tho parties s walked over hOWl acres where A s would OUid have plunged them to a parboiled deith havel In inthe Ithe the seething of ot the alley salley I with the e plesent eser-plesent fear that a gust of wind might snuff out their lives live with some gas gns that was tS more deadly It if lesa less odorous than those tho among which they ad I And set et It is im added the tho region now hOW that It baa haa been stu a would seem seem safer fer than a city street fOr tor not Cot Cota nota fa a single member of the era ae par par- ties parties was as as lost Reports brought back backo so 80 Impressed ed the president of the United that he lie Immediately set Ret netI It aside as aa a national mon monument nt some da da dato to become become- a park lark T ark able bl bI only b he he l w ello ell 1 slone and like nothing else ehe on earth tor for its amazing wonders ond ers s tINEI INID The Tho writer riter after apologizing for his use of superlatives admits the fear tear that he like Jim Bridger who heralded the stones stone's Yellow stones stone's mar mar- marvels marvels marvels vels might be set et do down don n as a Mun Mun- Mun Mun until futuro future generations vindicate him lie He adds Many rany times also alio l aie Ia I t been thankful for or the tho tools which modern Invention has lias placed In our hands bands With kodak and halftones and motion pictures to record our discoveries our o cr the time old explorer whO could supplement his Ills accounts with nothing bettor than sketches v vas as enormouS normous Many ot of Dr Griggs marvelous photographs aro are d to ho bOs the wonders onders of the tho region region- and thu tet e ot of the book forms a a valuable ble contribution contribution contribution tion to th the scientists scientist's store storo tore of ot tutor tutor- Information Information mation nation about volcanoes and the many phenomena that accompany eruptions |