Evening journal., 1889-08-02
NATURES WONDERS IN THE WEST
Joseph Pyle's Interesting Lecture on the
Yellowstone Park.

Yellowstone Park.
A large audience was attracted to st.
Paul's NJ. <. Church last evening to lis
ten to another of Joseph Pyle's descrip-
tive lectures Of his trip through the
West. The speaker began his lecture by
starting at San Francisco, going thence
to Portland, and from there to Sacra-
mento City. His description Of his ascent
Of Mt. Shasta made a person long for
cooling draught, when he told his audi
ence that first class soda water can be
dipped up from springs in the mountain
side, Mr.. Pyle's description OF the hotel
fare at Portland was not very inviting.
From Portland the audience was led in
imagination to Tacoma, the terminus of
the North Atlantic and Pacific Railways.
From Tacoma the speaker iourneyed to
Puget Sound. There being no accomoda-
tion for ladies there, on account of re-
cent fire, Mr.. Pyle left his wife at
Tacoma until his return. Puget Sound he
described as one Of the most beautiful
bodies of water in the world. There is a
little town there Of about l6, 600 inhabi-
tants. In journeying from Tacoma to
Yellowstone Park the traveller passes
the famons Devils Slide. This is a
rock slide, the sides being 200 feet wide
1t slants down the mountains for 900
feet. Beginning at the top in a width Of
$50 feet and gradually widening until at
the bottom of the slide it is $50 feet
wide
The speaker next brought his audience
to the Yellowstone Park, which he de-
scribed in detail. In 1872, Congress set
apart the park as national park forever
It is sixty-five miles long, by fifty five
miles wide. The principal attractions in
Yellowstone Park are Yellowstone Lake,
twenty-five miles long by fifteen wide,
225 feet deep and TITS feet above the
level of the sea. This beautiful lake is
noted for its abundance Of trout. They
can be caught with a hook and
line and without moving from the spot,
the fisherman can haul out fish, throw IL
into hot spring. while yet on the hook.
and have it cooked. Two notable noun
tain peaks In the park are the Wash
Worm at the north, 10, 346 feet high, and
the Red Range at the south, 10. 1886 feet
high. The lecturer had profound atten-
tion while he was describing the famous
Geysers of the park. One hundred and
seventy acres are covered with boiling
springs of all sizes, some of them as
large as thirty feet in diameter.
lie EitpnhuJ > DdCh hlbihClc muCu
attention. II is groove in rock ex
tending about as far as from Market
street to Shipley street, and this groove
is constantly full of boiling water. The
speaker next described stage journey
over the mountains. Here is what is
known as the "Glass Road, the only one
of its kind in the world. 1t was built by
Colonel Norris by heating glass and then
throwing water upon it and shattering it
to atoms. 1t is now solid glass road.
The celebrated Geyser "Old Faithful, =
deserves mention it operates once every
hour, night and day. There are in Yel-
lowstone Park seventy-one geysers and
5000 boiling springs.
After interesting his audience for one
hour with his descriptions. the speaker
left Yellowstone Park, iourneyed to st.
Paul, and thence home to Wilmington.
The schooner FANNIE d was launched
from MDore's ship railway to-day,