The daily Alaskan., 1916-03-01

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 great bergs into the sea, It is
 IraYeIiug dowUward aT the Fate
 ot eIgut or ten feet a day, and
 some oI the masses which sQrOQ ate
 as large as the sky-scrapers or our principal cities. only little dis
 tuuce away, so near that 1t can be
 pnoTUgr&pned- by Q swing of the
 camera, IS Q dead ElaeIer5 which
 SHOWS out on the other side ot the
 hill at the west. This is also aDOut
 q mue wlue, but it seems to end
 at the shore and no Icebergs~ come rom its great dusty wall.
 1t was at Q o'clock in the morn
 ing that l had my first sigRt of the
 taKu glacier. The sun was already
 two hours or more high, and Its rays caugnt the icebergs which IiUaIeo aUUut in the inlet and trueu luem to sapphires. There Were uUuureus of these blue ice masses, through which our steam CT pusLeu It's way to the face of the ice wall. The steamship was the Humboldt, with a crowd of tour iSts on board. It took us right up to within eco feet of the iea when we stopped.
 At this moment the sun struck 1t full and the great wall became one mass of silver frosted with dia- mOnds 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 it rises up in gigantic floating masses of aqua marine.
 As we anchored the wind came tO' Us oyer the glacier, It had been warm coming up to the inlet, but here the icy breath of Jack Frost sent chill to our bones. It was so cold that l could hardly write, and this cold continued during our stay.
 The face Of the glacier is ragged and its top has hundreda-I might say thousaDds-Of peaks, some of them as sharp as spires and Othera broken and shattered. It reminds one of the relief map of a rug ged mountain range The ice is melting, and now aud then with a noise like thunder, a great mass slides off into the water. The shooting of cannon would bring down hundreds of iceberEs, and the vibration Of the air caused by the blowing of our steam whistle, never fails to send an avalanche into the water.
 The captain of tha steamer gave a number of salutes to show the effect of the sound, As the shriek of lhe whistle made tha air ViBrate mighty blocks began to drop from the glacier into the sea. As the whistle continued to blow there was crash after crash, and at one time a mass as big as & New York office building broke away and slid down into the ocean. It buried it. self in the water, throwing q mighty spray almost to the top of the glacier, and causing great bil- lows to roll out to the steamer. 4 moment later it rose to the height of @ hundred feet above the surface, and moved uD and down on the surface of the water. As the mountain wall fell ] spoke toI tue captain, a giant of a man, who has commanded the Humboldt these many years, saying: You remind me of Joshua, who commanded the .rumpets to blow whent he walls o' Jericho fell" The captain and lamely quoted:
 And the seven priesta bearing their seven trumDots of rams horns, went around Jericho, and they blew upon their trumpeSs and the peo- pie shouted with a great shout, and the walls of Jericho fell"
 The quotation s not exact, but t tells the story.
 The scenery of the glacier was 50 beautiful as to be almost aye and 1t brOugR out ex- 9ressIons of wonder from the crowd 1f tourists about me.
 IL was not far from the glacier hat we saw a large deer swimming about in the water. Our steamer passed within 200 feet Of him. and