The sun., 1903-11-08
GL4ZIER BOBS UP SERENELY.
His Latest Batch OF Geographical Dlscov.
cries Comes From Labrador.

Capt Willard Glazier has just reappeared
on the scene with his latest budget Of in
formation from the Unknown. He had been
travelling in Labrador again during the
past season, and press despatch is in cir
culation telling of the new rivers, noun
tains lakes and other things he has brought
home to put on the maps
AS some of the best explorers of the
Canadian Geological Survey have been
traversng that region in the past few years
it is more than probable that Capt, Glazier
has had his usua! misfortune Of falling
afoul of earlier discoveries. The Captains
chief discovery on his first visit to Labrador,
in 1892, was an important river widening
in its course into series of lakes which,
according to his account, had never been
heard of by the Oldest inhabitants
along the coast. A plodding student was
SO unkind, little later as to refer to the
volume and pages in which this river and
its lakes we're first described, some twenty
or thirty years ago
If Capt. Glazier had not the elasticity
of a rubber ball he would have been crushed
to powder long before this by the unkind
remarks of his envious critics. II was
this unappreciated explorer who "discov-
ered' little lake, known on the maps as
Elk Lake, just south Of Lake Itasca, which
he named Lake Gla2ier and made known
to the world as the ultimate source of the
Mississippi River.
The energy with which the Captain
blazoned the news of his great discovery
| has never been equalled by any other eS-
| plorer. His map of the real source of
| the Mississippi" was printed by the Royal
Geographical Society OF London and Lake
! Glazier was introduced to the public in
many thousands of copies of geographical
| text books before serious examination of
| the pretensions of the indomitable eX-
plorer began to be made.
Before the critics were through with
| him, H. d. Narrower of New York wTote
Iamphlet in the sharpest of Eng
lish to show that Glazer had discovered
nothing at all Russell Hinman of New York
had proved that the Meteorological OBJ
servations' published by Glaaier had be- n
copied, word for word and figure for flgurc,
from the observations madcly Schoo lcraft in
1870; the American Geographical Society had
| told the story how she succeeded in imposing
his Lake Glazier upon the people" j. v
Brewer had printed columns to. show tina,
Minnesota Historical Society had dubbed
! him "a porverter of history and distortcr
of geography;' the Fifth lnternatiore!
Geographical Congress, at Berne, had vot d
that his pretensions We're unfoundr d;
seventy googranhical societies had said tn
same thing and the Legislature of Mime
sofia had enacted law forbidding the use in
the public schools of any school geography
giving the name of Lake Glazier to Elk
Lake.
But Glaaer only throve under this storm
of denunciation ard protest, He has been
| knocked down repeatedly, only to come to
the scratch again with a smiling face.
He has answered his detractors by send
ing them copies Of his books. His dsin.
guished career as an explorer has known
| ut and nnnIip his brilliant
achievem nts on record in the very latest
! edition of who's Who in America" u9Oa
I9O5,, in the notice devoted to "Willaro
Gazer. soldier. author explorer" are
found theso words:
Located 1851. and verified on his second
cypadition, 1891, the true source of the Mis-.
sissippl in lake beyond Itasca, now known
| as Lake Glazer.
Thus is the truth of history, as expounded
by GIazier, triumphant to this day,