Alaska and the Panama canal . -ble that he would regain consciousness when he was thawedout. So, sustained by hope, the bride remained true to hismemory for forty years. Just as the long period of waitingwas ended the crevasse in the glacier reached the seashore,precisely as the professor had figured, and the cold-storagehusband came to light. Also, as the great man had predicted,the frozen man awoke to life when they thawed him out. Thewife was an old woman while the husband was, naturally, stilla young man. It looked like tragedy, but the writer of thestory was resourceful. The wife by pract
Alaska and the Panama canal . -ble that he would regain consciousness when he was thawedout. So, sustained by hope, the bride remained true to hismemory for forty years. Just as the long period of waitingwas ended the crevasse in the glacier reached the seashore,precisely as the professor had figured, and the cold-storagehusband came to light. Also, as the great man had predicted,the frozen man awoke to life when they thawed him out. Thewife was an old woman while the husband was, naturally, stilla young man. It looked like tragedy, but the writer of thestory was resourceful. The wife by practicing mental sugges-tion, New Thought, and a species of Christian Science, hadkept herself young and beautiful, and the strangely reunitedpair finished the wedding journey that had been interruptedforty years before, came home and went to keeping house,and lived happily ever after. Of course, the story was per-fectly easy to believe. However, standing there and lookingup at the cold and frowning face of the Childs Glacier, it. TOURIST PARTY AND A PORTION ALASKA 113 occurred to me that if the young cold-storage husband hadbeen released from the sort of grinding and crashing crevassesthat were yawning above the Copper River, he would hardlyhave been worth thawing out. But to be serious. The moving glaciers of Alaska are notonly beautiful and amazing, they are sometimes a menace. Aninstance is that of the railroad bridge over the Copper is the largest and most expensive bridge in Alaska. It is1,500 feet long and cost $1,500,000. It is located between theChilds and Miles glaciers, and was erected in the winter, thework being carried forward upon the ice. The contractorsnarrowly escaped failure, as they succeeded in getting the lastspan of the bridge in position only an hour before the ice wentout of the river. When the bridge was located at this pointthe Childs Glacier was nearly three-quarters of a mile it is only 1,200 feet away and is creeping nearer with
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