The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-10
- 50 So ST 50 ~ 4 n IS IS - ~
FROM A HYpRoGRAPHlc OFFICE CHART OF The DANGEROUS REGION

Newfoundland. April 20. from Cadiz. with her
bow plates crushed by coming in contact with
heavy bodies Of Ice off the coast; i3s herps OF
various sizes are IN sight of Cape, Race and are
nG go Isss .@ om 1hs n sSst are sh .T ssat Sl sh,pPii from other
'ships. Tho Britannia on April 81 passed
. sariIy1 ,Se s Sssss IF v sns1ics sI19 p,s,e I've 20 q bsys
1000 feet long and ESQ feet high A little later
Il, .nd the ss sam ss6 day S Hnot as5 was as Sc, seen .a 40" feet ,,n. long g
counted twenty Ave bergs all around us of
various shapes" Moreover. the American,s
BIZ dS' = " sa %2re1 Zoe S'f ioP ,Rir,S sais : sA'S %iIss'
nort6 and east 81 the American. counted more
lhigh." and at another hour Of the day sighted
field and pack Ice in which were numerous
Paul saw four large and twosmall bergS:
So the reports run, for the forty-two ships that
teent reports 30 the Hydrographer. And when it
rs considered that perhaps no more than one in
-Four of the ships sighting ice make a report of IL
Idea of the number Of berss and ice foes that
fwere encountered In this much-travelled trail OF
ocean carriers.
kvey to the landsman an adequate idea Of the
peril into which ships run while the iceberg
to stand on the bow of a ship that is driving at
Hrull speed through 2 dense fog and. when the
SsGoouna US Of Various shapes.'"a field Of pack
Ice thirty miles long. fair across the bow, or bet
SSsssf' the { Sl tShvet !" that not only y got got 'S Mnere
che ice WAS all around her but drove
HsSoS"s. Sill s1HiI"' one may ANU make ake'"e eomp "a oss
Chat will give some idea of the size OF an ice
SsSiiSdinnsss on a'lS lover Broadway b adj sSS' rise ssV a P,s e'1 16e
et.sst as the huge masses of ice rise above the
kfhe east side OF the street would represent one
OF The big bergs fairly as to size, as the eye
Ewoqs sr se eel T. s put as t !" WEIGHT; of ,%% ,ssL the ice
Hhe held ice. the whole Of staten Island would
make una g, C m1,sr 8 nm *, 4! pack; = lseb "afcs S as hiGh
Rof the American Loan and Trust Company. are
e sSe Bss.er ye To si tGG Hall Ih Pax HT4 are "s ss iSnr of e. from
Bat 1t ia not in the largest ~icebergs that the
Greatest menace to the ship is found. In the
leffectually from the navigator as a submarine
torpedo, but because Of a peculiar radiant light
s.eem to have stored up the SUMS rays on a bright
day IN order 70 give them out in dull weather.
Eby night for a distance sufficiently great to en-
feble an alert officer, OF the deck To get his ship
bout Of the way. 1t is in the comparatively small
dsaaaaer turks; wSen "v " ths big ss" Ser rss a TSfs their
There are found With them huge boulder.
shaped masses OF indigo blue ice. wholly
bergs. The ordinary sailors call these growl-
isrs, but the old Arctic whalers speak OF them "a
water that the top is just awash. n solid mass OF
400 tons can hardly be seen, ever In clear
weather, until so near as TO be almost unavoid-
looks almost exactly like any ordinary white
cap. IL Is the opinion OF old Arctic whalers
with whom the reporter has talked that such
Ace destroys more ships than the bergs do.
The worst feature OF the danger which ships
fisk in running through the ice-intested routes
lies In the fogs which the ice currents enGender.
Naturally the cold water current that brings
these huge masses or ice from the north atIects
the air above IL. II The wind be from the north
IL may be-, and very often Is, colder than the
water, and in that case the air remains clear.
hut "A breeze from any sontherly point comes.
warm and humid, in contact with this ice and
ice water, with the unavoidable result Of con-
'cannot penetrate. Not only does the ice lie In
wait to destroy the ship, but IL creates It's own
ambush.
quite "a startling as a portrayal OF the actual
danger Is u consideration ofthe area over which
the danger turks. A glance ut the IilOt chart
OF the North Atlantic shows accurately the ice
Infected space, as well as the reason why the
space must remain dangerous In the spring and
early summer as long As ocean currents run in
the sea and glaciers flow IN Greenland. The
! reader has only TO recall thar the iCebergs are
glaciers that flow into the sea, and that these ice
masses h0at away south with the Arctic cur
| rent until that current reaches ana dips down
under the Gulf Stream. OF course, both ice
but because of the proportion OF the mass sunk
in the water the berRs often travel not only
agaIl.st the wind, but against a shallow surface
ourrent. like tue edge OF the Gulf stream. and
well. The meeting OF the Arctic current and
4 the Gulf Stream is 20 be found between the aid
and b3d meridians, and along a line totten to 10
distinguished AS easily as the bank OF the Mis-
sissippD that usually lies between Az and ape
north OF the equator. As everybody knows, the
/ banks OF tho Gulf stream move about with the
south. and a sou'easter sweeping IL up toward
kShe shores OF Newfoundland. The Gulf Stream.
1 because Of It's warmth, Is OF course . barrier
GhAA the iCstsrss saDnO Dasa But because