The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-12-19
NATIONAL NEWS
Larry O'Toole Opens the Old
Geyser Plung Baths for the
New Sanitarium.

The Basallsk's Death Dealing Bye
He'll Gate to be Closed Up and .
Golden Gate opened.
Mr.. Charles Hendricks is now costly
housed in. his new Office. It is situated
: at the foot of Capitol Hill near the
Arsenic spring. The lumber was sawed
by e. Lamartine at the National Park
saw mill, and was constructed in con.
formity with plan drawn by Engineer
Kingman. There are double walls, the
space between being filled with sawdust,
rendering it alike imperrious to winters
cold and summers heat. Mr.. Hendricks,
when not fully occupied with accounts
and official reports, falls back for society
on the inexhaustible treasures of ancient
andmodern literature. Being aphiloso-
pher and man ofthought he finds ample
food for reflection in the wonderful work
that nature is carrying on in the con.
struction of terraces at the Mammoth
Springs. Being man of feeling he
wears on his bosom, incameo, an anglic
face, . mothers perhaps, or, ah, well !!
Nature has her secrets hidden in human
hearts as marvellous and potent % the
boiling springs and their pulpit terraces.
Larry O'Toole has taken the contract
for the excavation of pit sixteen feet
wide and one hundred and thirty feet
long to be used for bathing purposes. It
is situated on the west end of the Nam
moth springs hotel and will be supplied
with hot water from the Bridal Bath
terraces near Liberty Cap. This bathing
pit is five feet IN depth and can be
entered from the hotel without exposure
to the cold. c. T. Hilbert intends in
this way to increase the bathing facilities
and has let the job to one Of the best
workmen at the springs Mr.. O'Toole
has found some difficulty in digging the
pit on accent of powerful gases that as-
cend through the crevices from the
cavern chambers that lie under the
plateau. ...
The postoffice building at the Springs
has a cellar under it in which there &C.
cumulates carbonic acid gas. A lighted
candle placed in it is instantly extin-
guished. Miss Lille Henderson some
time ago entered the celler and in stoop-
ing to pick up some articles from the
floor was rendered unconscious. Fortu-
nately she was missed and her life was
saved by being carried up into the fresh
air. The old superstition of basalisk
who haunted cellars and caused death by
one deadly glance of its eye, was nothing
more than this deadly gas now 80 well
known to science.
Next summer there will be new en-
trance into the Park on the east side of
the terraces, and up tile West Gardiner
river by the Falls. Engineer Kingman,
with the aid of his most efficient foreman,
Captain Oscar Swanson, looked up the
route and located it.
Tho new Swanson road is nearly COM
pleted for three miles south of Head
quarters. The last half mile is sebas-
tspool whose gate is buried by immense
masses of grey granite and white lime
stone. Captain Swanson is now at this
gate with his company of sapDers and
drillers, and by the aid of Swedish
muscle and giant powder he will storm
this rocky mountain fastness that blocks
the only good gate to Wonderland.
Kingman's Gate will be open to all
tourists, free of toll, before the LIST of June,
1884. He'll Gate and Snow Gate will be
closed forever. The new road will save
thousands of dollars to the travelling
public. There will be no more swearing
at the DEVILS Thumb, where teamsters
and teams were alike, helpless in the
hand Of the invisible demon who
grasped the wheels and manacled the
feet OF those who were unable to ascend
without stopping to breathe.
Swanson's road and Kingman's Gate
will be broad road and beautiful gate
and many shall 60 in thereat.
Blessed are they who make the rough
places smooth and easy for man and
beast for theirs is the Kingdom of
Heaven"
The battle is now raging, Every day
We hear the boom of Swanson's artillery
and know that the ''thick ribbed rocks"
are being hurled into the canyon below.
Inch by inch and foot by foot, they are
pressing onward and upward, nearer and
nearer, until the autocrat of the Lime
stone Cliffs shall be compelled to sur
render the key and open the golden gate
to the King-man and his indomitable
Captain.
When the Ides of March return we
expect to see Park Boulevard on the
present ruins of the limestone Hoodoos
and an open gate to this tourists heaven
and temple ofscenery's art.
DR.. John Hurtz intends to establish
sanitarium at the Mammoth Hot Springs
for the cure of chronic and inflamatory
rheumatism and all cutaneous diseases.
The doctor is a skiiini physician and
has given ample proof Of his pathological
skill in healing successfully many COM
plicated cases that came under his treat
ment last summer. He is of the old
school in medicine, a Jefferson Democrat
and most genial companion. He took
patient one moonlight night up to Diana's
bath tub, above the DEVILS Thumb to
begin the first of a series of rehovating
baths Both doctor and patient were
grasped by an invisible hand, there was
Thumb too, and plunged clear to the
bottom of the tub. Their cure was in
stantaneous, but both the gentlemen
needed dry linen as the hand waived
all ceremony in the matter Of undressing
them. I. S. Williamson was either par
ticinant snonsor Or witness at the han.