GUM BUY GLACIERS
GETTING SMALLER
All glaciers in Glacier Bay are
receding, some having gone back
10 miles and at least one having
entirely disappeared in the last 41
years. Dr. Harry Fielding Reid
says so. He knows. As the head
cf two expeditions — one in 1890
and the other in 1892—to Glacier
Bay in Southeastern Alaska, he
named most of its great natuial
wonders. He has just completed
a re-examination. of them as a
member of a party in charge of
Charles W. Wright, assistant di
rector of the Bureau of Mines, who
recently made a geological study of
the Glacier Bay region.
Taku Glacier was also inspected.
It has come forward, instead of
receding. Mendenhall has not yet
been visited, but it has receded,
Doctor Reid has been informed.
•‘Causes of glacial recession are
• soeculative, said Doctor Reid.
•‘Glaciers do not respond quickly
to changed conditions. Perhaps
the causes of present effects were
initiated 700 years ago. Such
causes may have been meteorolo
gical. For instance, snowfalls,
chief factors in glacial formation,
may have changed from a heavier
to a lighter degree many centur
ies ago, and this change may have
resulted from a shift in the pre
vailing wind.
“One theory in regard to Glacier
Bay is that when the glaciers
were advancing there was a bar
across the bay which prevented the
warmer tidal flow from making
headway into the colder’water near
shore; that this bar having been
removed by erosion permitted the
warmer water eventually to reach
the shore line to the detriment
of the glaciers.
“Glacial recessions have also
been attributed to warmer tem
peratures in comparatively recent
years. George Vancouver, the
great English navigator, was in this
part of Alaska in 1790. Tempera
tures here have not changed
much, if at all since his visit.”
GOOD MEDICINE
C. W. Compton. ,M. D„ of Ocean
Beach. Calif., who at one time was
a subscriber to The Weekly, writes
that he misses the mining news
so much that he desires a renewal
of his subscription. Dr. Compton
stated that he wanted to keep
in touch with everything that was
being done in this community,
particularly minnig. and is one of
The Gateways most ardent boost
ers.
The Chitina Herald is the au-1
thority for this humorous analogy:
“Billy Tibbs was showing his fox
'farm to some tourists a few days
ago. He is still wondering why
one of them asked if, when he
skinned one of the foxes, if that
was the end of it, or if it would
be skinned repeatedly like human
beings.”
The Northern Commercial Com
pany of Fairbanks has purchased
the Malone grocery stock, accord
ing to the Fairbanks News-Miner.
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Seward Fraternal Orders
SEWARD CHAPTER NO 10
ORDER OF EASTERN STAR
Meets the second and fourth
Monday s of each montl
in McMullen s Building, at
8 p. ns. \ isiting members
alway welcome Airs. Jose
phene Sheldon, \V. M.; Mrs.
Miriam Painter, See re
PIONEERS OF ALASKA—IGl 00 NO
Cal M. Brosius, Secretary and Treasurer
Seward Lodge No. 1I2>
L. O O M.
Meets on every
first and third Fri
days of each month
8 p. m. at I.
°. O. F. Hall. All
welcome. Peter N.
Anderson, Director,
oL A. Horner, Sec
retarv.
SEWARD REBEKAH LODGE
No. 6-A. I O. O. 1
Meets the first and
third Mondays of each
month in ! O. O F.
Hall at 8 p. m. Visit
members lre always
welcome. M aude E.
Larsson, N. G.; Ludvig
Larsson, Secretary
Resurrection Lodge No A-7
I O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at 8 p.
m. in Odd Felows’ Hall Visit
ing brothers welcome. Walter
L. Corliss, N. G.; Ludvig Larsson, Secretary.
THE AMERICAN LEGION
Seward Post No 5
Meets first and third Wed
nesday at 8 p. m. in the
Harriman Bank Building
Post Commander Leonard
Hopkins; Adjutant L. J.
Chilberg
Seward Lodge No. 219.
F. & A. M.
Stated communications first
and third T a e s d ays each
month. Visiting brethem wel
come. Chas. Sheldon, W. M
Harold Painter, Sec.
MBYLAND RESIDENT
LIKES ALASKA REST
Philip W. Knefeley, of Baltimore, j
a new subscriber to The Weekly |
Gateway, has a great affection
for Alaska, as may be noted from
a part of his recent letter, as fol
lows:
“Saying that I am interested in
Alaska puts it mildly; my wife
and self had the pleasure of visit
ing your city several years ago;
went up as far as Fairbanks and
returned over the Richardson
Trail.
“Since then we have returned
from a world cruise—China, Japan
and the Far East; but to our;
minds, nothing compares to a trip
through Alaska. Anyhow, we hope ;
to visit your city again next year.” !
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