The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-03-07
Men of Science to Enter
the Frozen Portals of
Steaming Crater.
HeliOgraphs to Flash the TidinS
From the TOpmOSt Peak.

west Is view gnriyalled in Auseri-. =.
beyond the Columbia basin. in Ws.a...
ton. Mount Adams shows the tin = n
peak. much like flecky cloud rex.sr.
the horizon. Then comes Hood. xs.cA.-
ciear-cut against the sky; then Jeesr.-s
50 near that the timber line n s,.,~s
as In picture and 50 wondronx,v -.
that the intervening atty miles sees. =.
more than five, then Thrse- rfn,...s
Jack. as = curiously cleft peak q h,o,s
then the Three Sisters. and mar 49,
The shapeiy pyramid OF Snow moasf,s.
Diamond peak glistening in the -
the last jewel in the chain visshls A..
the point OF view.
The spurs OF these vast eIeyatscc. :.
themselves mountains that In n,oss -.
other region would be regarded a ~
wells. Everywhere one can see : rnss
tude or peaks. 700 or se,o. or eve, -
feet high, thrown about in such nros..,.~
that catalogue OF their names vour
I'LL a book. These same .nx.sr,ass..
spurs. II placed beside a hummoet ~
Mount Washington. y. H. or ltt,e n.
suvius, would overtop Il as Rainier {. :.
tops his companions in the CASCADE
In 1855 Bailey Willis prepared 49,
spective OF Mount Rainier, protected ~.
a contour map. showing accurstely 4.
connguration Of the summit, win A.
tinctive outlines OF Liberty Can d.
Dome. South peak and a portion al 4.
glaciers. The elevation OF the co,n, Z
sight above the sea was ao.ouo feet A.
tance OF point OF sight from the mouutas
22na miles: and the distance Of point i
sight from picture plane mica N
drawing, which was presented BY the rr<
logist TO Mr.. Ricksecker. shows the raort
tain standing loftily above It's rugged gr
roundings. and lifting It's three sumnss
far into the sky. At Rain.er's side
Mount AK. 7.623 feet high. bur 20 iass
nificant as TO be unworthy OF notice.
The tourist who has never seen the ~
tastic in nature should visit the lava hea
OF the Cascades. There are miles ncm
miles of dreary waste, where onts mo!sn
rock was thrust out from the earth. Gs
then frozen stiff. II looks ike . Ere
slackened river that had swept aiaa
from some hidden source. had b<ss
checked and then soIidified. The iuaKHs.
ton can picture along the lifeless ssra1
odd shapes resembling animals. grim an
forbidding ghosts OF tremendous cor.
vulsion in ages past. when everything va
turned TO rock at the death OF the risE
Va III Pifc 10 stsAAkAfHAy slAE
monkey; another seems TO be man al
so the fantastic images may be muItiruA
10 infinity. In some regions. for sxamrs
the neighborhood OF Mount 81. Hsl<ns
trunks OF trees are yet standing In ~
midst OF the lava. indicating that the dcs
was comparatively recent. The Bad Lamb
OF the Dakotas impress the behcldH q
weird and chaotic; the lava beds Of IL
Cascades, in conjunction with their Hlf-
roundings. are chaos in the saptrlatia
degree.
Amid the stupendousness OF these rnoass'
AIMS over which Rainier towers ~ kifx
Individual man feels himself dwarfed al
made enthusiastically small Here ~
Mazamas make their annual excarlna
and here the true lover Of the bexsrfl
and the grand. and the sublime In ratss
can revel TO his hearts content Ever
year witnesses an addition 10 the numnefa
people who in summer time press re
glacial ice beneath their feet and rH
life and limb In order 70 achieve the d.
tinction OF having entered the frosen ~
gion OF eternal snow.
HORACE MCCLURE