The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-22
,;nau's Scientists View Alas
ka's Great Glaciers.
: eeplETe WITH INTEREST.
nn $50 Delays - the Party
II - voyage HOFth-Pgof. J~hn
Il -. anA PresbyteRtan Mission
I~ Y~ung Meet After Years -
ae~assasss-The Natsrasssts ana
n.aaeGisss Busy aaa HapDy.

s.. ~est interesting description Of the
- a the Hartman scientific party in
- Ray. Alaska, waa resolved IN this
- rseferday BY John A. Whailey from
.ssarhs OF the expedition. The letter
$3.50 eitka, June II. and In as follows:
-. are now at siika 70 stay Tor few
- The parts made a TRIP over the
-. which Mr. Hawkins kindly placed
- disposiison. The scenery NsAa very
- - several yare birds and animals
- colIecied during the short stop At
esmmi,. A party OF government
se,sur1jSsss from Washington. d. c.. were
ssSsnin0 IN the line II the road. and took
- cftde In their success 20 far In cell
1920 the Characteristic animals OF ths
ntfy. They are 10 descend the Yukon,
nktng short stops ~ various points. and
s5'seS y Nschses about October /.
~ tnteresting event was the meeting
= - Muir with Mr. Young. the Pres
Ke1nlaa missionary. When MI. Muir first
sssd e g 10 yai as1a 70 iss ne .oo wen,
~ ccmpanion To make visit with him
~ - then unknown region OF Glacier bay
- Icy straits. the home of the Hoon,ah
80 81 Indians. Al this time sir. Muir
Enesered the Muir glacier and visited all
- paints where glaciers were dischsrgfng
10 - water.
~rSefs were then seven live glaciers
sshrcvtng on icsLergs into the bay: nov
- 10 decrease In the size OF the old
G11ede<s, making glaciers that were fribu-
6Sieq ~ that time separate and lndepend-
II glaciers Al the present date. This fact
"a 10 the discovery OF a very beautiful
1iseisr which was formerly portion of
NJ Jthns Hopkins glacier on Reid inlet.
Han tho Johns Hopkins glacier has re-
6sated some three or four miles. leaving
Z - ~ glacier quite q distance from the
1osenf front Of Johns Hopkins Harri-
~ glacier. far Each was fhs name be-
GleNs1 on the new glacier by the party.
a1lg 81 II. Hartman. tho patron OF the
SlIe 81 caying ice which il continually
epsrinG with the great number OF icebergs
The face OF the glacier is from 80 TO
81 feet In height. sweeping across the
qued IN a magnificent crescent. This
olao1er " some distance above the ordi-
tAu tourist i!ne of travel. being very
00eult OF access owing 10 the great
ttfeam Of icebergs continually thrown OH
4 Reid Inlet. Ore icsbers measured 6y
~ party was almost loo feet long. 900
1eet vide and 100 feet high Truly a
asditable berg for tbs. North Atlantic.
isom The glaciers. The rolling and splissins
~ the htrEs In the fog. make Reg inlet
N AWa-inspring place and most danger
80 70 small bnatsw which alone are Abis
e ssesra the inlet any dissns. and Tia
0evp from these huge hergs are very
0uDoQhced at a distance Of several miles.
End are llahi- To cause other icebergs TO
rack and erumbis.
the nrss days in Glacier hay were de-
Voted g lie Muir glacier. the most beau
ufol Of all and the most accessible A
TIP WAS made for some fifteen miles over
the surface OF this glacier and a camp
made On fhs fre foS-one night The great
smouns OF SOFT snow and danger from
cfcvtcfs made further adyanes in that
arectloa both difficult and dangerous. 30
sssesl ss 81 wood ss," we,c takcr, from
trunks Of trees three feet In diameter
shsfa new there Is not tree growing.
snowlax estdenee Of an ancient forest
where such growth Is impossible nov.
Nome wears ago the Hooniah Indians
cane TO Mr. Young to get him to pray 10
Qod TO keep the glacier from cutting down
Ne trees on one Of the bays putting into
sfoss sound saying their shaman had
aas'sed them 10 sacrifice two slaves 10
The god ~ tho glacier This they had
onae without any esyec. on the remorssless
ics. which continued To advance on the
voods surrounding their homes and
threatened soon 70 wipe away what had
ONE eeeh a beautiful forest They wers
usatly disappointed when Mr. Young told
s ne could do nothing for them. n
nstis .ssb snow or little more sunshine
vas all that could save The forest.
ne present popularity Of the upper
enc OF Glacier hay ia thu almost entire
sesence 81 any vegetation No trwe. no
moss. but every where great stretches az
osf~ rocks polished and carved by that
master hand glacier
= Hplend.d views were obtained of the
assrweathsr s'haia 90 mountains, one of
tns NEST heauslfti ranges in the world
vhase highest peak. Mount Crilion rears
" Read to height az 1890 feet Many
peaks are ever iepss feet i'm altitude
IN June cold - the water Of Reid
nes thAt tce freezes 10 thu few hours that
we sun IL cbsrnt, great Patches OF <k N
- eeihs found by the party on the morn
ins ef June Il,
~ twenty years most ~ the glaciers
~ shls section have recsssfed from a mile
!" tour miles, following the law of re-
sessson which hss heen observed the wortti
~ ~ connection with glaciers
Ihe nasuraiists and biologists are busy
nc naprf HIDING these apparently de-
49, regions a rich Held for study In