Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-05-27

Father Bernard R. Hubbard, s.
T. famed "Glacier Priest" and for
mer Montana cowboy, lectured re-
Gently before graduating nurses OF
the St. James hospital school in
Butte, and expressed himself as
"very favorably impressed with
Montana and her people" Father
Hubbard, whose scientific expedi-
tons into Alaska and the far north
have crowded lifetime Of adventure
into Is years. visited in Butte on MS
way to Denver, where he will fill an
engagement in a lecture tour. His tour
win end May 30 when he will leave
Seattle for another scientific adVen-
ture in the far north.
I'm sort of an adopted son OF Mon
tana." disclosed the 51-year- priest,
who is head of the geology department
OF Santa Clar university IN California.
IT punched cattle on the old DL ranch
between Hardin and Billings for sew
eral years just before the 20s."
Father Hubbard arrived in Butte
from Havre, where he lectured previ-
ously.
INV experience in Havre proved to
me that Montana people are intensely
interested in cultural and scientlflc
problems" he said. II spoke for 10
hours there, IN four dliferent lectures,
and thousands attended. Some people
have the mistaken idea that western
ers aren't interested in cultural sub
iects. I'm going to tell my audiences
In the east that Montana people are
more interested in-and graSping for
culture than those in the east.
Going to Arctic
Father Hubbard will go from Denver
to Chicago. He will return through
Montana about May % on his way TO
Seattle, where he will board United
States coast guard cutter and Will
leave for the arctic on May 30.
Eddie Levin, my field manager, and
I will be gone for several months on
a geological archaeological exposition,
the priest said.
A veritable dynamo of a man. the
glacier priest" gave an impression OF
being somewhat out-of-place and III
at ease in the conventional dress OF a
Catholic clergyman. He is well over 8
feet in height and is sturdy of stature,
weighing more than 200 pounds. His
keen, dark eyes flash animatedly as
he speaks rapidly and to the point.
Since he started his explorations in
to Alaska, he has become known as one
of the worlds most intrepid explorers
and scientists During the last Is years
his workshop" has been the treacher-
Gus glaciers, ice-capped craters and
gas-ridden infernos in the frozen arc
tic wastes
His adventures. reading like the
stories of the celebrated Jack London, !
have caused him to be the subject for
many articles in national magazines.
He has, himself, written accounts of
his expeditions for publication in ma
tional magazines.
First to Ascend Peak
His conquests include the Valley Of
Ten Thousand Smokes, giant Aniak- |
chak. AklItan and towering Mount |
Shishaldin. Mount Shishaldin, forbid
ding Aleutian crater, was never
assembled before Father Hubbard and
his party scaled the dangerous peak to (
watch "Alaska's Fujiyama" belch Stag .
and hot ashes.
In 1882 the Glacier priests" party /
was trapped for hours inside Aniak-
chak's fiery pit during a gas explosion:
Father Hubbard's findings and .
scientists. He conceived a theory that
volcanoes erupt in periodic cycles and
that hurricanes and gales which lash
the North American continent, are
generated in the Aleutian islands.
The priests explorations have not
been confined to Alaska. He has
studied the geological marvels of Gla-
cier and Yellowstone national parks,
the Yosemite valley the Grand Can
yon, and has turned his attention to
Canada.
Before going to Alaska Father Hub
bard spent so many of his holidays
and seasonal vacations in the Austrian
Alps that natives called him "flet-
scher-p farrer," of which the English
equivalent is "the glacier priest
In Alaska the glacier priest" ira
vels by dog sled or airplanes, which,
ever best serves his purpose.
In climbing the Aghileen pinnacles
near the tip of the Alaskan peninsula,
the Hubbard party discovered a new
crater of the MOON" 80 miles in cir
conference.
Father Hubbard, when in the field,
dresses in rough, heavy and service
able clothing, including hobnail boots,
and occasionally wears football he'll
met while climbing rocky surfaces. The
helmet is to protect his head from fall
ing rocks on volcanic formations.
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