The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-02
REV., HUBBARD
 TELLS ABOUT
 GLACIER FIND
Gives Lecture on Ash-Cov- cred Ice Sheet-Leaves
 on Way to California


 resume professional duties at the University of Santa Clara, Rev. B. R. Hubbard, S. J., priest, scientist and explorer, gave an interesting Illustrated lecture to an apprecia- tive audience of friends gathered as guests at the home of MT and Mrs L. H. Metzgar, yesterday eve hing In his typical humorous vein, the geologist spoke for two hours on the results of his summers work on the Alaska Peninsula and Ko- diak Island on both of which he covered unmapped regions for the first time, in company with his l companions, "Taku" Jack Koby and Rod Red" Chisholm.
 The outstanding feature was the announcement of the discovery of weird glacier formation, uni. que in it's kind. and bonnd to at tract the attention of the outside world. Following is part of the lecture which Father Hubbard gave yesterday:
 q was a bit wary about an- nouncing the discovery of such an uncanny thing as an advancing, huge. ash-covered glacier until felt sure of being able to substan- tiate my observations by photo- graphic records.
 Fine Pictures Taken
 "The courtesy of Messers Winter and Pond in allowing me to use their dark room enabled me to de- yelop a few hundred of the films taken on the, Alaska Peninsula, the outcome of which was in doubt owing to the fact our little party was wet continuously. My films always were wrapped in my shirt in the center of my sleeping bag roll, so they escaped with the least possible injury.
 "As we made. our way along the eastern side of Knkak bay, with my field glasses I noted a very peculiar shaped glacier which formed the source of one of the rivers entering Kukak, bay. It was more than ten miles away and impossible to reach, owing to the quicksands and swollen rivers that lay between.
 "A few days later. at the Hem- rich cannery, we borrowed dory. laid in a few provisions. and rowed to the head of the bay where we pitched camp. Starting out. we traver5ed a desolate waste of tidal flats, ash and sand bars and gravel beds, forded the deep, icy waters of several streams and al length arrived at our goal--the strange glacier.
 "It was more than one mile wide and extended some fifteen miles to a catchment basin Of snow The lower several milt {, consisted d huge pinnacles. sirri- lar in size and grandeur to the pinnacle ice falls of the. Menden- hall Glacier, and ended in an ice cliff more than 200 feet high. Covered With Ash
 But it was totally unlike any other glacier I have ever seen. Here and there blue ice showed up, but in general it was dark and gray as though some giant hand had scottered ashes over the whole expanse. Katmai erupted 16 years ago and scattered ashes over hundreds of square miles. These ashes covered snow field and glacier alike. The glacier, protected from the suns rays aild thereby prevented from custon.- ary melting, was able to advanc I, under the accumulated pressure!
 ''As crevasses formed, and hugo ice blocks lifted Themselves into detached pyramidal cones and sharp ridges, the ashes spread along the sides. We Investigated the glacier and found 1t had ad- vanced across its valley until it piled itself up against the mour- tain lying in front of it. Not tho least of It's wonders consisted in the largest ice cavern I ever saw. Four huge locomotives and trains could have entered it abreast. It was more than 80 feet high and 15O feet wide, it's blue, scintillating walls forming a perfectly rounded arch, and extending into dark llurplish haze in it's innermost re- cesses.
 "As wide as the cavern itself, Idashed violent, deep river from cut of it's depths. and falling ice blocks bobbed up and down as they floated along in the swift turbu- lent waters.
 | Climb Onto Glacier
 | We gazed spellbound at the lmajesty of it all and then ropine up, ice pick in hand. we climbed lover the top of the cavern onto the. ash covered pinnacles an.l lridges, taking a great number of still and moving pictures. Light land weather conditions were no; ideal and the dull ash covering made photography difficult. | Twas great satisfaction and re- lief to find that the good Graflex in spite of the summers rough abuse. registered the above des- cribed conditions.