The San Francisco call., 1895-12-30

who spent three years in that part OF the
country compiling it. That was over 100 years
ago, but the chart has been used ever since by
explorers and mariners. / found 1t possible 10
90 up from the mainland nearly forty miles,
and was dumfounded to see that Vancouver
had not recorded that bay. lnasmuch as ne
had every little indenture and point carefully
mapped out in all other parts OF the coast be-
gan research for further information. The
result was that 1 found seven distinct glaciers
running al around the bay. The first one l
came to I named after Professor Geikie, the
head of the Geodetie Survey OF Great Britain,
whom / regard the greatest authority on
glaciers we have in modern times.
ait was little late in the season, so l re-
turned to Sftka to make preparations for my
trip back to California. While at Sitka / told
some naval officers of the presence of the gla-
ciers and it finally got TO the ears of an officer
by the name of Nichols, who invited me to
dine with him. He was up there on the old
jamestown, and Lester A. Beardslee, now an
Admiral in the United States Navy, was COM
mander. 1t so happened that we dined on q
little steamer anchored in the harbor, and
after we finished he got out Vancorvers map
and showed him the exact location of the
glaciers. He took leadpencil and defined
them with dotted lines. Across the face OF the
largest one he wrote, THE Muir Glacier saying
as he did so, Il think you are the discoverer,
Mr. Muir, so it would be well TO give it your
name He forwarded the chart on to Wash
ington and never thought of the matter again
until saw it on the Government maps"
'fWere you working for the Government
then, John?" inquired Mr.. Keith.
"No, indeed. l was doing it for John Muir
lust as much as I eat breakfast for him.
wanted to go up into the cold region and
went. 1t gives me the greatest pleasure to get
out in the wilds of creation and see what the
undiscovered countries contain. 1 tell you,
William, it was grand sight to see those
glaciers discharging their icebergs into the
ocean with a noise like thunder. For thou
sands of years they have been pouring their
frozen cargoes into the sea, and, like mighty
rivers, they will go on until the end. 1t is the
height OF grandeur, Keith, the pulsations of
nature, the throb of the mighty machinery of
the earth. For those things, and those things
alone, I wandered into the North, to return
awed and bewildered by their magnitude"
Frank Fairbanks of Petaluma and Arthur
Whitney were in the lobby of the Occidental
talking with some friends the other day when
Ian Miner passed by. ''I have never had a
chance to get even on Mizner," said Whitney.
'I owe him one. In my sophomore year at
Berkeley we had made preparations for the
usual spread on Junior Ex' at the Zeta Psi
house. had ordered, among other things,
lot of Ice cream and cakes down in Oakland.
The man who was sent out with it ON the old
dummy line stopped at the corner of Ban
croft way, where he had been told to get off
the cars, but did not know where the Zeta Psi
house was from there. But Miner happened
along, and the man handed Ian card with
our address, which l had left at the shop
Miner was member of the Chi Phi fraternity
and in those days was not in the habit of losing
any tricks when he held the cards. So he di
rected the man to the Chi Phi clubhouse, and
then hurried down there himself by a different
road so as to instruct the servant to receive the
ice cream. Our spread was not as much of 9
success as it should have BEEN"
'What did you do to Miner when you found
out about it ?' was asked.
"Do to him Nothing, OF course. We kept
mighty quiet about it. 1t was q horse on u.s. ,