The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-03

The London Tmes, of the 18th
inst, gives more than three columns
to the subject of the Yellowstone
Park, fully half of which is devoted
to the rather arduous task OF telling
how to get there. Having informed
its readers that the Park is as large
as the counties of Devon and Dorset
combined, and situated in the North
west corner of Wyoming Territory,
il confesses to an embarrassment as
to how it shall convey to them an
idea of the exact locality OF this
hitherto unheard of country. Hav.
ing told them that Wyoming Terri.
tory was South of Montana and
East cf Idaho, it gives over the effort
to locate the Park by reference to It's
equally unfamiliar surroundings
and patiently describes each stel
necessary to be taken by English
tourists in order to reach the Park
by way of Liverpool, Quebec, the
Great Lakes and Duluth.
The wonders of the Yellowstone
have heretofore had much great at
traction for Englishmen than fol
Americans. 1t is said that until
this Summer 80 per cent OF the vlsl'
tors to the Park have been English
gentlemen Now, however, that rail
roads have made the Park more ac'
cessible, President Arthur has made
it fashionable, and Uncle Rufus
hatch's Hotel and Improvement
Company are about to make 1t com
Portable for visitors, the number o.
Americans who will do the NBtiona
Park each Summer will be mul
tiplied many fold. Probably In
few years the trip to the Yellow
stone will be as familiar an Ameri'
can experience as the trip to Eu'
rope.
The National Park is not only a:
large as two English counties, 1t i:
as large or even larger, than two
American States, viz: Rhode Island
and Delaware, and it lacks but little
of being Just half the size of the
State of New Jersey. 1t is 5000 fee
above the level of the sea at its low
est elevation, and its mountain
peaks ascend TO 10000 and l2,00(
feet. Presidents party even now
find frost greeting them every morn
ing, with the thermometer some
times uncomfortably near to zero
The August sun shining through th'
rare atmosphere soon dissipate th'
frost where it can get at it, and 1t II
not unusual in this month for th'
Thermometer to register NINETY
degrees at midday, but even thi
temperature in this dry atmospher'
brings with it no sensation of NOR
than ordinary warmth.
The hot springs and the grea
canyons of the Yellowstone have
been made familiar to the publ,
through repeated descriptions anC
magazine illustrations. A written II
the Cincinnati Commercial Gdzett
found there, in addition to the othe
peculiar features, an epitome OF al
American scenery. at has, h
says, ''the bold, snow. streake'
peaks of the Rockies, the rounded
and wooded ranges ofthe Alleghenys
bluffs like those of Wisconsin palli
sade, like those of the Hudson
savannahs such as can be found il
in the Southern States, prairies re
sembling those of Illinois. meadow
and uplands such as may be seen il
New England" 1t is difficult t
picture all these conjunction, coup
led, too, with spouting geysers, tn
alkaline soil of the American deser
and the countless natural curlositie
which have made the Yellowston
region famous on both sides of tn
Atlantic.
Not the least satisfying featur
about this Park is that it is Nation
al Park, set apart for the use ant
enjoyment of the American peopl'
for all time Itwas happy though
to dedicate this region to the public
and one which, while the country i
yet young, can well bear to be man,
times philadelphia Pres