Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-02-20

been made by the ice worms They
I say thcr" are certain worms that live
( iii the Ice. and that these are often
taken out and eater by IN" miners
when starving. Indeed. they prove the
story 10y showing q photocraph OF n
! miner Actually nasticating tho worms
Ahich he ia sucking from the ice The
rh"toSraph Is :; real one, buc the worms
am toll, are strings OF spaghetti
As stood in front OF the Mcudcn-
hall glacier and looked at the wall 1t
seemed 10 me that was under Il clin.
looking up at range OF ice mountains.
ne horaine was made up OF powders
ana pcbbicS of all sizes Some OF the
stones were not ns big as "A marble and
olh.rS weighed tif,y tons The bed
rock OF oil" Mother Earth had been
secured smooth by the glacier ~ II
passed over il. and high up on the hil
II had left bowldcr thai must hay.
%e,Shtd 100 tons The bed rock wa.
siat". The bowlder was granite.
from the Lynn Canal westward. run
'""S from mere for Il distance OF four
or hrc hundred miles are to be found
the greatest glaciers OF Alaska. Gen
'''' ''reeiy gives q catalogue OF the
nt!ncs AMI localitie. OF more than 200
"t them. and G.. X. Gilbert. OF the tIar-
r'm"" expedition. saws their glacial
ic" covers from $1,000 to 10000 square
miles These glaciers are mostly found
within 100 miles Of tn. ocean. and tho
Coast Range. There arc eleven wide
glaciers on Prince William Sound. and
YOU can stand IN Seward and see gla-
v . az about you or til" sides of the
MOUNTAINS There ar" two great cla-
ci"'s IN the Mount Mckinley region. one
OF which is forty miles long. The lat
Ter is weighted dowr Wit, broken
stones and is said to HAY" a larger
'n"rhine than any ether glacier of the
world
glaciers arc three mighty ones. named
after three OF our chief mems colleges.
Columbia, Harvard and Yale: and there
are hNc named after woincn'S colleges,
wellesley. Bryn Mawr. Nassar. Rad
clif. and Smith. The latter are all cas-
cade glaciers ana have mountain
streams pouring from uudcr them.
SOURCE or NEARLY ALI.
RIVERS N ALASKA
Nearly every riyer in Alaska has it's
source in a glacier. 'hc tributaries of
tho Yukon fed 10y clncicrs and the
same is true Of tho Kuskokwim. The
Panama. upon which Fairbanks is To-
Gated, is formed by tho t,hisana and
Nabcsna Rivers. h"th OF which rise in
glaciers in the WranEell Mountains
ana the Susitna springs forth from II
glacier OF the Alaskan range. The
copper River is fed by glaciers. and the
copper River RailWn'. which connects
III" kennccott mines with the sea
passes between the Childs glacier and
the Miles glacier on it's way TO Cor
d"va. The Childs glacier is 200 feet
high and three miles in width II winds
ITS way down the mountains like "A
mighty frozen snake or n distance OF
scrcnty-five miles rhc Miles glacier
Is almost as largo.
Glacier Fay is only short distance
from where ! am writing. This body
OF water is hftE miles long. and it has
NOR" than " II dozen .-,a-i"rs
enormous size. The biggest is the Muir
glacier. named after John Muir who
discovered il. I. is three miles wide
where II enters the water. and the
height OF the ice wall is almost 1000
feet 700 feet being underneath tho
surface. The glacier il very lively. and
1t has been supposed by some TO nov.
as much as sixty fc; a DAY. but a fair
estimate would probably be onc-sixth
OF that speed Very few of the we'll
.ino"n glaciers move more than a foot
Il 'a%, although there arc some i'll
Alaska that move five and ten f..,.
and one in Northern Greenland that :
saii to move over -four feet every
nour. The movement o: a pl:.cier ma,
be measured by laying stones upon or
driving posts into the surface. \, The
Glacier moves onward the sIacc be-
~ cen these posts and i~c1 ;,oints u,
the landscape shows how .ast :, i
travelling.
III addition 20 the vall"y glaciers.
Alasfa has some great ice fc.ds. or ice
cans &ucl, rs the MaIaspina glacier.
This glacier is a great sheet OF ice
larger t3ai the State OF Rhode Island.
II has q front o: about fifty miles as
il faces the sea. and runs thirty miles
back into the country 10 the 81. Elias
range OF mountains 1t is really Il vast
plain or plateau Of ice. with lakes and
rivers, and with hills and mountains OF
gravel 1t Is the biggest ice field OIL
the North American Continent. al
though II is only patch in conlpari-
son with tho great ice caps o. Green
land and Autarctica. The Greenland