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Frank c. Carp

of water is fifty miles long, and il has
more than a half dozen glaciers -;
enormous size. The biggest is the MUIR
glacier. named after John Muir, VII"
discovered it. II is three miles wide
where it enters the water. and The
height of the ice wall is almost 900
feet. 700 feet being underneath the
surface. The glacier is very lively, ana
il has been supposed by some to move
a much as sixty feet a day. but a fair
estimate would probably be one-siNtn
of that speed. Very few of the wei
known glaciers move more than "A foot
day, although there are some In
Alaska that move five and ten feet,
and one in northern Greenland that Is
said to move over four feet ever
hour. The movement of a glacier NAV
he measured by laying stones upon or
driving posts into the surface. As th.
glacier moves onward the space he
tween these posts and fixed points on
the landscape shows how fast il j.
travelling.
In addition to the valley glaciers
Alaska has some great ice fields, or ice
caps. such the Ma laspina glacier
This glacier is a great sheet OF ice
larger than the state of Rhode Island
1t has d front of about fifty miles as
il faces the sea. and runs thirty miles
back into the country TO the ST. Elias
range of mountains. II is really a vast
plain or plateau of ice with lakes and
rivers. and with hills and mountains Of
gravel. 1t is the biggest ice field on
the North American continent al
though it is only patch in compari-
son with the great ice caps of Greer
land and Antarctica. The Greenland
cap has an area of over 100000 square
miles or two-thirds that of Alaska
The ice sheet of Antarctica is supposed
to cover about three million square
miles. 1t is as big the United States
proper.
The Malaspina glacier had a series 81
commissions about ten years ago which
changed it's whole surface, twisting
the bed rock and uprooting the timber
for miles about. In 1912 a lake in one
of the crevasses of the Miles glacier
burst through the walls of ice and
hurled blocks weighing thousands Of
tons down into the river. A wave
thirty feet high spread over the flats.
and icebergs weighing many tons were
damned against the bridge of the Cop
Der River railroad
FRANK C. CARPENTER.
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rted here and the first child of that
marriage was born in 1850. Isaac
PIERCE took as his wife. Betsy Cloud, who
was born in 1861. And here is some in
teresting matter Betsy was the daugh,
ter of Abner Cloud. and Abner Cloud
was one of the pioneer millers of upper
Maryland. His mill was grinding meal
and flour when that part of the District
of Columbia west of Rock creek was
Prince Georges county. Md, which was
The ruins of Abner Clouds mill are
standing. Thousands of Washington
ians travelling between the city and
Chain bridge over the Conduit road. the
Canal road or the electric railway have
seen pile of gray ruins on the low
land between the canal and the river
about midway between the Aqueduct
bridge and Chain bridge. BY the side
of the Canal road is a great old stone
house the back garden of which reaches
home Of Abner Cloud and in the Chin
ney is the date of its construction 1741.
The mill, which was Clouds mill, a few
hundred yards from the house, is bet
ter known to the old jewellers in that
part of the District as Eads mill. be-
cause as far back as the memory of
the Oldest man or woman out there
goes a man named Eads ran the mill.
But though the mill is called Eads'
mill, the house is still called the Cloud
house.
Isaac PIERCE. about twenty years
after his marriage. bought a mill seat.
erected a mill and went into business
for himself.
Isaac Peirce and his wife had a large
family The first of their nine children
was Amy, who was born in 1850. A
son, Job was born in 1871, and he
married Sarah Harvey. Anne was born
in 1888, and became the wife of Sam
uel Simonton. who went west, became
a man of considerable prominence and
was one of the founders of Elkhart,
Ind. Anne PIERCE Simonton died in
1871.
The fourth child was Abner Cloud
PIERCE. born July "a. 1855. and died
June -. 1851. He succeeded to the
ownership of the mill property and
ran it within the memory of Washing
tonians now living.
Hannah, the fifth child, was born in
1889. She married Hayes Speakman
and died about 1875. There were two
other daughters. Mary, born in 1871.
and Betsy, born in 1893. Betsy died in
1886. Then came Joshua PIERCE, the
eighth child. born in 1895. In 1870
he married Susan Coates, daughter OF
Jacob Coates of Philadelphia. 1t was
of this Joshua and his wife that the
Rambler wrote last Sunday. About
1921 Isaac Pierce gave to this son a
tract of land on which he, Joshua.
built the store house that stands on
the hill a quarter or third OF a mile
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ii bursts forth from the mountain, is
not more than a mile wide. IL rises al
most precipitouSly, with great cutters
cutting its face and with many small
holes which the guides tell the cred
ulous Cheechako. or tenderfoot. nave
been made by the ice worms TheE
say there are certain worms that IlNe
in the ice. and that these are often
taken out and eaten by the miners
when starving Indeed. they prove the
story by showing a photograph or a
miner actually masticating the worms
which he is sucking from the Ice. Inc
worms, | am told, are strings of spa :
ghett.
AS stood in front of the Menden-
hall glacier and looked at the wall II
seemed to me that | was under GIN.
looking up at a range of ice mountains.
The morair.e was made u pot bouiders
and pebbles of all sizes. Some OF the
stones were not as big as marble ana
others weighed fifty tons. The bed
rock of old Mother Earth had been
secured smooth by the glacier as 1t
passed over it, and high up on the mn
il had left a boulder that must have
weighed 100 tons. The bedrock was slate.
This boulder was granite.
From the Lynn canal westward. run
ming from here for distance of four
or five hundred miles. are to he found
the greatest glaciers of Alaska Gen.
Greedy gives a catalogue of the names
and localities of more than 200 of
them. and G. X. Gilbert of the Harri-
man expedition says their glacial ice
covers from 5000 to 10000 square
miles. These glaciers are mostly found
within 100 miles of the ocean and the
largest are on the south side of the
St
glaciers on Prince William sound. and
you can stand in Seward and see sla-
cierS all about you on the sides OF the
mountains There are two great gla-
ciers in the Mount Mckinley region, one
of which is forty miles long. The lat
ter is weighted down with broken
stones and is said to have a larger
moraine than any other glacier of the
world.
Among the Prince William sound Gla-
ciers are three mighty ones. named
after three of our chief mems colleges,
Columbia, Harvard and Yale: and there
are five named after women's colleges.
Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Rad
cliffe and Smith. The latter are all cas-
cade glaciers and have mountain
streams pouring from under them.
Nearly every river in Alaska has its
source in a glacier The tributaries of
the Yukon are fed by glaciers and the
same is true of the kuskokwim. The
Tanana, upon which Fairbanks is To-
ted. is formed by the Chisana and
Nabesna rivers, both of which rise in
gla ciers in the Wrangell mountains.
and the Susitna springs forth from a
glacier of the Alaskan range. The Cop
per river is fed by glaciers. and the
copper River railway, which connects
the Kennecott mines with the sea.
passes between the Childs glacier and
the Miles glacier on it's way to Cor
dova. The Childs glacier is 300 feet
high and three miles in width. 1t winds
its way down the mountains like a
mighty frozen snake for a distance of
seventy five miles. The Miles glacier
is almost as large.
Glacier bay is only a short distance
from where ! am writing. This body
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southern Alaska, and give the snowfall
that has built up the glaciers and
keeps them alive.
Before l write more of this region
masses of southeastern Alaska. l have
just left the Taku inlet. 1t is a ford
eighteen miles long, walled with steep
mountains and guarded by islands. In
steaming up 1t you can count forty-five
glaciers. and at the end of II come to
the famous Taku glacier, the front
wall of which. where it enters the sea
is mile wide and more than 200
feet high. The great river of Ice
widens as it goes back between the
two mighty hills on each side. A little
distance from the sea it is two miles
in width. and it continues to widen
for distance of eight miles. where
it is lost in d great ice field close to
the boundary of British Columbia.
The Taku glacier is a live glacier
that Is, It is moving down 10 the ocean
and is always dropping great bergs
into the sea 1t is travelling DOWN
ward at the rate of eight or ten feet
a day. and some OF the masses which
drop are as large as the sky-scrapers
of our principal cities. Only a little
distance away, SO near that it can be
photographed by a swing of the cam
era, is d dead glacier, which shows out
on the other side of the hill at the
west This is also about a mile wide.
but It seems to end at the shore and
no lcebergs come from it's great dusty
wall
II was at O'Clock in the morning
that l had my first sight of the Taku
glacier. The sun was already two
hours or more high, and it's rays
caught the icebergs which foated
about in the inlet and turned them to
sapphires. There were hundreds OF
these blue ice masses, through which
our steamer pushed its way to the
face of the ice wall. The steamship
was the Humboldt, with d crowd of
tourists on board. 1t took us right
within 500 feet of the ice when we
stopped.
AT this moment the sun struck it
full and the great wall became one
and sparkling with sapphires. Where
the ice breaks off the wall looks like
a mighty cutting of the whitest ice
cream. When the berg falls into the
water IL rises up in gigantic floating
masses of aquamarine.
AS we anchored the wind came to US
over the glacier. 1t had been warm
coming up to the inlet. but here the
icy breath of Jack Frost sent a chill
to our bones. 1t was SO cold that I
could hardly write, and this cold con =
tinued during our stay.
The face of the glacier is ragged
and it's top has hundreds might say
thousands-of peaks. some of them as
sharp as spires and others broken and
shattered. 1t reminds one of the re-
lief map of rugged mountain range.
The ice is melting, and now and then.
with noise like thunder, a great
mass slides Off into the water. The
shooting of cannon would bring
down hundreds of iCeber1s. and the
vibration of the air caused by the
blowing of our steam whistle never
failed to send an avalanche into the
water.
The captain of the steamer gave a
number Of salutes to show the effect Of
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The Gay Deceiver.
HoMAs MOTT OSBORNE. ap,

THOMAS MOTT OSBORNE. apropos
u of the charges brought against
him as warden of Sing Sing, said at 4
dinner in New York:
The major charges answer them
selves. AS for the minor charges
well. they are so ungenerous and small
as to be ludicrous. \
They remind one in their ludicrous
smallness of Mrs. Henry Pick.
my husband has been deceiving me
again. this good lady snapped out at
the sewing circle.
"'Oh. how So? the other ladies ask
ed with eager interest.
why said Mrs Pick. here I've
been giving Henry 10 cents a day to
ride to and from the office for dear
knows how long. and I've just found
out that the deceitful wretch walks one
way and spends the nickel"
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stone villa. the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
r. :. Newman. When Isaac Feirce
built the mill he also built a large
and substantial frame dwelling. Tn.
Newman house occupies the site OF
the Isaac PIERCE house. The framing
was of hewn oak. 1t was pictur-
esque place. and perhaps many Wash
ingtonians will recall it. 1t was torn
down in 1873 by PIERCE Shoemaker.
who erected on the site A stone house.
and the Newman house is the Feirce
Shoemaker house remodeled, enlarg-
ed and brought up-to-date.
The stone ruins off the north side
of Tilden street. to which the Rambler
called attention. is the foundation OF
one of Isaac Peirces barns. which were
destroyed by fire. with thousands OF
bushels of rye and tons of rye straw.
The fire occurred a good many years
before the creation of Rock Creek Park
was thought of The old road which thu
Rambler followed from Tilden street
to the burial ground was one OF the
farm roads of the Isaac PIERCE tract.
Most of the threads of this story have
now been taken up but the matter OF the
Guilds has not been disposed OF HenrE
Ould was an Englishman who came to
Washington about 1915, according to the
Rambler's information, to inaugurate a
new system Of education. He conducted
large school 1t would seem that he mar
ried into the Cloud family. for he. his wife
and two children were laid to rest in
the PIERCE plot and one of the little Ould
girls buried there, was, according to her
tombstone. Elijah beth Jane Peirce Ould.
daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Cloud
Guild" The Guilds had three children who
reached maturity. They were Marion.
Perry and Caroline. Marion married a
Miss Swift. removed to Baltimore and
became prosperous and prominent man.
being a director in several banks and COLI
nected with other enterprises. They had
one child. Margaret Cloud Ould, who mar
ried A man named Swindell. and she is
now living at Roland Park. suburb OF
Baltimore. They have several childrea
Perry Ould became prosperous dentist
in Baltimore and his widow is still a resi-
dent of that city. Caroline Guild married
a man named Brawner of the Charles
county family of that name. She had
three children. one of whom, Abbie. lives
in Washington.
About a hundred yards north of tn
Pierce burying ground the trail after
passing through a pine thicket leads int"
a clearing where the sedge is tall and vel
low. There are two rough grave markers
there. but the Rambler knows that Their.
are many graves. II is the rest places
of the slaves of the Teirces and Shoemak-
erS.
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PEIRCE'S SPRINGHOTsE.

The next headstone is inscribed:
~ Sscren 10 !he memory OF fanllna 'ai,neI
0ud Rnsn s.n,enI,er mn" Iso nsed uar.h
81 1927 Aged I year q months and I DAYS
Suffer little children to come unto Me and
forbid them not for of such is the Kingdom Of
heaVen.
>,,r .bo ,r.,os ~ .ho,o ,i..,o uu,,
\a' '"e slaves VI 'he'e ii''ie gu 10
are TWO deep Impressions, and there the
remains of Henry Guild and his wife,
~ n,hNnh 49, 90 Ianatb ra,norad 70
RaitiTnnr>. NV tbair sons Marian and
o., tha rro,ar ,,,na Ia ,h;s
narrot;,. Ma p.nbiar rii1 tsll vb,+
10 Ennws 49, 10 o,Ids ,nd IL is
na,i Nv CO. 49,, 49, - 49, 10 nro'
no,noaa "G1d,. i'
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the sound. As the shrek Of the whistle
made the air vibrate mighty blocks be-
gan to drop from the glacier into the
sea. AS the whistle continued to blow
there was crash after crash, and at one
time mass as big New York office
building broke away and slid down into
the ocean 1t buried itself in the water
throwing a mighty spray almost to the
top Of the glacier. and causing great
pillows to roll out to the steamer. y
moment later il rose to the height OF
hundred feet above the surface, and
moved up and down on the surface
of the water. AS the mountain wall
fell ] spoke to the captain. giant OF
a man, who has commanded the Hum
boldt these many years. saying, hou
remind me of Joshua, who cofnmahden
the trumpets to blow when the walls
of Jericho fell The captain laughed
and lamely quoted:
And the seven priests bearing their
seven trumpets of rams horns, went
around Jericho, and they blew upon
their trumpets and the people shouted
with great shout, and the walls OF
Jericho fell"
The quotation is not exact. but it
tells the story.
The scenery of the glacier was so
beautiful as to be almost awe-inspir.
ing, and it brought out expressions OF
wonder from the crowd of touriNs
about me- l remember especially the
words of one woman who stood at my
elbow. She said:
MY. amt that grand. 1t reminds
me of the drop curtain of our opera
house. But there amt no polar bear
here.
AS the great ice mass fell into the
water, mamie may have been d
restaurant keeper-remarked:
Gee, what a lot of ice cream man
could make out of that bunch"
The ice as 1t comes from the glaciers
seems pure enough for ice cream or
even lemonade. The ships sometimes
fill their ice chests by lassoing the
smaller bergs and hosting them by
derricks on board. For long time
picking up this ice and selling it to
the mining camps and towns. Along
about fifty years ago it was shipped
from southern Alaska to San Fran
cisco at SIS per ton, and little later
contracts were made at $35 per ton. the
shipments amounting to thousand
tons and upward per annum.
It was not far from the glacier that
we saw large deer swimming about
in the water Our steamer passed
within zoo feet Of him. and a Texan on
board said that he could have lassoed
him from the deck The deer had mag
nificent antlers. Its horns and head
rose above the water. and it's body
could be seen close to the surface. It
was still swimming as we moved on
ward, and we saw some hunters near
the shore start out to catch 1t. They
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yond. Back of the grounds of the Holy
Cross Academy has been surveyed a
street called Yuma. Linnean avenue
and Yuma street, if built, would in
tersect at or very close to the little
cemetery. but before this is done all
that remains in that burial ground
Will be reverently removed.
Between the geophysical la boratory
and the Academy of the Holy Cross and
within the grounds of the latter is an
old gray house with a tower in the
middle. A drive leads in front of it,
and clumps of hemlock and cedar trees
grow in the ground. Under these trees
plain wooden benches have been placed.
The name of the old gray house was
DUN barton" One should not conclude
that this was the mansion of the land
patented under the name of Rock of
Dunn barton" to Ninian Beall, but for
aught the Rambler knows to the con-
trary the house stands on the original
Dumbarton tract.
The house was built about fifty years
ago by DIR. j. 3. kesbey, a prominent
surgeon in Washington during the
civil war period. He bought a parcel
out of the PIERCE tract from PIERCE
Shoemaker and built the house out of
rocks and cement The rocks he gath
cred up from the ground, which was so
strewn with them as to be untillable He
not only made for himself a big fine
house, but he cleared the land and set
out extensive vineyard, which flour
ished and bore fruit for many years.
The property passed through two or
three ownerships before being acquired
by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. The
Seophysical laboratory also stands on
land that belonged to Isaac PIERCE.
:. X
Isaac PIERCE, the pioneer of that fam
lily in the District of Columbia, was
born in Chester county, Pa, on April
., 1856. He son of Joshua and
Ann PIERCE. The family was English
and the proba bilty is that the parents
of Isaac PIERCE had immigrated to
PENIS colony from England. Isaac
came to what was later to be the Dis
trict of Columbia at about the time of
the American revolution. He was mar
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Rigi by the famous cog-railway; but
this was my first experience in shoot
ing through the moraine of glacier
in a gasoline car. ! Went as the suest
of Mr.. B. H. Behrsnds. the we'll known
banker of juneau, man VINO IN APP
pearance is the very spit of James
Whitcomb Riley, and who in good fei-
lowship is quite the equal of the sreat
Hoosier poet. We rode from Juneau
right into the woods. Trees from nifty
to a hundred feet high climbed the
steep walls about us. and elderherrF
bushes with trunks as big around as
my arm leaned over and brushed our
wheels as we passed. The sides OF the
road were lined with ferns of a dozen
varieties and by wild flowers. blue, red
and yellow. We passed through great
beds of fire-weed. CARRIED in crimson,
and rode over thousands of blue lupins
of the hue of the sky. There were ais"
wild carrots with lacelike blossoms of
white and davil-clubS whose flowers
were fuzzy yellow. In some places
the grass was high my waist. ana
the mountain slopes on both sides or
the road We're the greenest of green.
The vegetation was more like that of
the mountains of Java than what had
expected to find in icy Alaska.
Our way was over the path of the
glacier The valley through which we
went was once filled with its ice, but II
has slowly receded leaving the ground
covered with cobbles. and great bould-
ers ground round and smooth by their
long glacial rides. Nevertheless, the
flowers grew among the stones, their
red and blue blossoms scattered by
thousands over the landscape.
AS we came nearer the glacier the
size of the boulders increased. Some of
them weighed many tons. They were
Of white and black granite with here
and there boulders of slate. In the
windings of the valley we turned to
the right and all at once came in plain
sight Of the glacier. On each side of
it were mountains as high as the high
est of the Alleghenies, and it was the
the glacier half filled. bursting forth in
a precipitous ice wall which ran back
and gradually rose to the sky line,
where it seemed to fill the whole space
between the hills and was lost in the
clouds
The face Of the Mendenhall glacier is
a mile or more wide. 1t is a huge cor
rugated wall of blue and white ice
sloping upward into a great field Of ice
mountains, which in the distance seem
to be Of marble carved out by a sculptor
Coming closer we rode almost to the
foot of the glacier and there left the
car We then climbed over the rocks
of the moraine to the edge of the gla-
cial stream which flows along the foot
Of the wall. We were not more than
the width of a city street from the wall
itself. The MendenhaH glacier. where
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EIRCE MILL, in Rock Creek Park.
~ is far from the center of the
city. Yet it is one of the best
& known places in the District. 1t
is focal point and an important feature
of the park. Leading west from the
mill is a new road that is carefully
kept and is much Travelled by people
in machines and afoot. Its name is
Tilden street, and it follows in a gem
eral way as far Connecticut avenue
the course of what was the PIERCE Mill
road which led from the mill to the
Rockville road. Between Connecticut
avenue and Wisconsin avenue the an
cient way is still called the PIERCE Mill
road, and until the building of Tilden
street. three four years ago, that
part of the road between Connecticut
avenue and the mill kept its old-t time
name.
The road climbed from the valley of
the creek to the highlands on the west
by the easiest course which the contour
of the land allowed, but in the building
of Tilden street the drill. the blasting
charge and the steam shovel smiled
at the difficulties which had made the
old road turn aside. Yet for a part of
its way the new street rests on the bed
VI tHc hill ROAD. A snort StreCCn or
the road. nearly obliterated but still
traceab1e, lies between Tilden street
and Upton street, which is on higher
land to the north.
Within a few yards of the mill are
two stone barns. One is opposite the
mill; the other stands on the southerly
side of Tilden street. a few yards west
of the mill Still further to the west
and on the south and east hand, for
Tilden street there makes a bend. is
another gray or blue stone building
which Is considerably smaller than
those already indicated. This was the
sprnghouse Of the PIERCE homestead.
which stood nearby. The building of
'rilden street left the venerable SPRING
house below grade. the front of it's
second story being flush with the level
of the roadway. The cypress shingle
roof of the springhouse is almost COW
cred with patches of dark. thick moss
though IL is still a sturdy structure
and bears many marks of age
On the west wall of the springhouse