Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-25

The patriarch of the collection is the Castle,
which has been depositIng geyserite for so
many centuries that 1t has built for itself n
castle shaped structure with n base 100
feet in diameter. This deposit is very
hard. as one OF our party. who climbed to the
orlfice of the cone and losing footing. slipped
down a silica toboggnn slide TO the bottom. can
feehngly testify There is little that IS reliable
III the printed statements concerning the in
tcrvals of eruption, height of column. &c. in
these geysers. The quantity OF water thrown
ont the height 10 which the column rises and
the length of the exhibit vary greatly in differ
ent eruptions OF the same GcySnr. Odd Faith
FIJI md few OF the minor gPvsers observe a
satisfactory regularity III their intervals of dis
play and their eruptions are the only ones seen
By mary visitors to the park. Ola Faith
full. which throws fine column of water
between 100 and 200 feet into the air at inter
walls Of about an hour stands near 10 the hotel,
and furnishes as good an opportunity for the
study OF geyscrs AID Geyscrite as any in the
world. But the greatest interest Is taken by
visitors IN the gevSers spoutlng a greater vol
ume Of water with longer and more irregular
intervals II they are lucky enough to get sight
OF these rarer eruption9
ERUPTION OF THE GIANT.
After dinner we had walked from the hotel
past Old Faithful, across the Firehoie river
and wore leisurely inspecting the cones and
craters and springa of ''geyder hill" a great
mass OF deposit covering over twenty acres,
where many Of the principal geySers are COL
lected. Suddenly SAW on the other side of
the river and some distance from Us a column
OF water rising high III the air. Then followed
GREATNESS race to the place of the eruption.
1t was the Giant Seyser, which 10 credited with
spouting higher than any other in the upper
BASIN, III full action. spectacle OF COMPARE
lively rare occurrence. We passed dozen
craters ard springs in our rush toward the
Giant. and one OF the gcysers-the OblonR-was
actually IN eruption; but we were not to be di-
verted from the more imposing spectacle.
From the Giants cone, which is
shaped like an immense tree stump de-
cayed and broken away mt one 81 lie.
column OF water spurted with q mingled
Kissing and roaring 200 feet i'll the air,
and. falling back, poured over the terrace OF
deposit which serves as platform for the
crater, and swelled and heated the Firehole
river. Clouds of steam sent out by the hot
water rose above the geysers column, until to
one looking from the foot of the geyser it
seemed to mingle with the clouds and fill the
SKY. Portions of tho column appeared to re-
ceIye Ill turn special impetus and shot out In
jets into the sunlight and fell i'll brilliant
spray OF sparkling, scaldng drops. The erup-
ton lasted for about hour.
On the side OF the great platform of
geyser deposit which farthest from
the river the spectators were collected
The number increased as the eruption pro-
crossed. Every few minutes there would be
fresh arrivals in a state OF high excitement. 1t
was on this occasion that l first fully appreci-
ated the omnipresence of the camera and the
kodak. Every other man, woman and child
seemed to be taking view series of views
of the eruption. Here veteran with a tripod
was ph:!osophically fixing the scene from the
best point of view. Here "a youngster. breath
less with running and excitement. was dancing
around the geyser, far around as he
could get, and swapping a kodak at short inter
walls. Nobody but the photographer who de-
velops his films will know exactly how many
views he placed upon the same film, or how
many snaps were made with the cap shutting
out the view altogether.
Kodak tiends revel in the park They
gather about the site of an expected eruption
and train their weapons upon 1t and lie in wait
for it just as the festive potato bug places
himself in position to grapple the plant as it
issues from the ground The most N odest and