Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-09-30


oral hours watching eur approach
to the face Of the glacier and ad-
miring the wonderful ranges and
pe.ks on al sides, and caught =
GLIMPSE of still smother immense
glacier set in green hills little to
the South Of this one. About
8 o'clock in the evening We reached
the Muir Glacier. I will never for
get that hour. 1 stood with my
husband At the prov Of the boat ~
she slowly pushed her nose nearer
and nearer until We were within
200 or 800 feet of it, face and
stopped there some time watching
it in the evening light. The ice,
clif-like, face Of the glacier rises
from IT'S to 225 feet above the
water and is from seven to ten
miles in width. No one has yet
computed it, length, but it Is sup
posed to begin in the Mt. Far
weather Range. Its front is CORFU
gated and scanned, in places
smooth, in others rough, in some
blue as blue vitriol, in other white
as quartz, and all of its surface rug
ped bevond description. The
| vino that blew from~it was pierre
ing and cutting as could be. Once in
a while there would be sharp re-
port, as from artillery, announcing
the breaking of q piece OF ice,
which soon would float out to sea
as an iceberg. The clear lines
against the sky of this mass OF ice;
the surrounding mountains; the
wonderful boldness of it all; the
deep stillnes. broken only by those
sharp report once in while, and
the tightening up of a brilliant
aurora as back ground, produced
| an effect that is not readily for
gotten. It was very kind of Car
rell, our very kind and agreeable
commander of this ship, to run in
to this place, for he did 1t only to
please US. as it is out of his usual
course. and he had no business to
transact near there. We left be-
tween 8 and 9o'clock in the even
!, ing. and now back to a little fishery
called Bartlett's Cave, situated on
, such a pretty grassy little island
, that it is called Garden Point, and
, It was hard to remember that We
!. had been in such frozen regior
r 40 short a time before. We lef
Rartiett's Cove at noon on Sat
z urday and had some beautiful
5 views during the afternoon, one o
i Mt Fairweather, a great old snow
, covered bluff to the Northwest G
). Us. and nearer by very large, I'm
e glacier called Taylor Bay Glacier
n which flows South from Mt. FAN
e weather as the Davidson Glacier
d at Chilcoht, runs to the Northwes
e Then we ran cut to sea arouh
n some islands. and toward sundo|
t old Mt Edgcumbe, enc OF sitka
&. land marks, doomed up in sigh
st About II clock we had a view
is another fac aurora, not so res
3t in hue as the one Of the night b
t. fore. but mere varied, the rays b
S. inc larger and shifting posit'o
is oftcner. 1t l o'clock We reache
i Sitka. but none of us went asho'
ID till after breakfast Sunday NOR
re inc. the 1ith Of September SltS
s, is a struggling, delapidated tow
y but decidedly the best OF the Sc
G. dement's, and is beautifully sit
Y, atcd. In front of the town IS
re lovely bay 10 miles IN depth, su
ne rounded by high mountains fro
Sc 1909 to $500 feet i'll height, al
he flied with lovely, grassy al
il woody islands from few hundr'
il feet in size to some a mile or t'
ay across. Back of the town are the
an same high mountains, and 1t
~. built on strip of rich land
" their base. A U. S. man of war
is stationed here, and on shore is
he officer Of Mariners with Is m
ir- who do police duty, and 1--we II
ow large old Government bulldl'
rer which has always been used
ks, barracks. There is also slg'
es, station there and Custom Hot
ur- with collectors and deputies. Ii
ely the Capital, and here Cover
vas Kinkead. Marshal and ex-offl
my SUPERINTENDENT Hil]yer, Dist
ne Judge McAllister, District Att
tn ney Hoobeth, Clerk Of the 70
nil Lewis, U. S. Commissioner Bra