Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-02

Several White Men Claim to Have Seen
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 Legend-Mr. Whites oiroun,stantiai Ao-
 count Backed Up by Photographs.
 Some one reviyes every few years the legend of the Silent City, seen as a mirage over the Muir glacier, in Gla- cier bay, Alaska 150 miles above Ju- neau. What professes to be photo engraving Of the city, with affidavit at tached, was published and sold aaH0 years abo, and at least half dozen white mon profess to have seen tHe city, while the natives of the Alaskan ea4at cherished the tradition of its existence. The mirage Is usually visible at about this time of tho year Ono man declares that he saw it on July ,, 1889. and iWo others, it is declared, have made &i-ida- yit that they saw it three days before that date. John M White, @ Vireinian who after 10 or 15 years spent in va rious parts of the west has settled down in Philadelphia, sOlemnly declares that he saw it on Juno 2f some years age.
 MT. Whites account of the phenam- enon is circumstmtial in the hiebest degree, and he joins to it theory as to what the city is and where it lies Ee declares that he studied the mirage for nine hours through powerful glass as 1t was spread above the glacier cn the side of Mount Fairweathcr He af1frms that the city is walled; that it's houses are battlemented and the chimneys sur mounted by chimney pots; that within the walls there is a tall monument sur mounted by the sculptured figure of an Indian in fall bc2ddres8 and feathers His glass revealed to I.m some Of tho inhabitants, men iii kHee brooches and jackets The only beast visible y9as 8 donlzeylille creature with 8 body as large as that of horse
 The mirage appeared at first about II 80 a. m. as a mist, and out of this rose tho towers and battlements of the city as did those of ancient Troy. By noon tho city was as clearly outlined as New York is from the Jersey heights.
 Mir White rejects the various guesaas that the phantom city is Antwerp, Mont real or Suit Lake City Its architecture is unlike that of any other city he has seen. That t is a real city ho is certain from tho fact that he has seen three pho tographs taken of the mirage, one of which shows tower rising amid tho houses and a later one the same tower finished. He believes that it is Q mirage of a city at the north pole on the edge of tho traditional open polar sea Ee believes that when the sun is a6 it's highest northern point, as it is oa June 21, the mirage of the arctic metropolis is reflected to the point where it ap- pears over the Muir glacier The legend of the Chilcats of Alaska supports this theory They say that many centuries ago, when Alaska was 8 wa1Ha and densoly paopled country, there e.mo from the north through the ice barrier q savage people fully armed wEa Iail waste tho region and pnt its inhabitants to the sword These savage Warriors he believes 10 have been the ancestors of the American Indians, and he ia eGa- vinced that in coming through fhe faa barrier tley left behind warm #.o1 about tiso pole, where the reHa55z IT their people continued to dasals5 .i+sl at longth built the metropolis s5an oa St. Johns day in miraso above tae Muir gla.iez.
 The pictaras p,upo1ting to have heon made from photographic negatives of the mirage represent an ordinary mod ern city without walls CT bataleaaats, but with spacious, comfortable looking houses, surmounted with broad ehim- neys and intersporsed with trees h fact, they look like photographs Of wash drawings made by an artist that was not too careful to follow the details of the legend New York Sun.