"The famous glaciers of the Rhone have shrunk 3,000 feet in the last 2 years, or about 110 feet a year A number of the well known glaciers approximate this diminution, and the scientific fact is established that these reminders of the great glacier periods are surely disappearing..."
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ARCHIVE: Archive.orgEDITORS NOTE: This article is mentioned online frequently, but no one links to verifiable source. After putting in some considerable research I was able to find it. This was a syndicated column and was published in dozens of newspapers across the country from February 1902 through August 1902. I have reproduced the text from the image below.
Disappearing Glaciers
Hotel keepers in the Alps have a new trouble, and are complaining at the loss of patrons, who are moving away from the glaciers. Yes, the attractive glaciers are actually passing from the landscape, and as they recede the hotels along their borders find that their registers are shortening.
These glaciers are not running away, by any means, but they are deteriorating slowly, with a persistency that means their final annihilation. Hotels that a few years ago stood very near to a great river of slowly moving ice now find themselves a considerable distance away, and the attractiveness of the site is lessened.
The famous glaciers of the Rhone have shrunk 3,000 feet in the last 2 years, or about 110 feet a year. A number of the well known glaciers approximate this diminution, and the scfentiiic fact is established that these reminders of the great glacier periods are surely disappearing.