St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-04
Globe, Sept. II.

next morning the company passed
through ''Hill's Half-Acre" on their
way TO the Upper Geyser Basin. The
largest geySer in the park is located on
the Half-Acre, being the Excelsior,
which has an eruption only every four
years, these being of great force, often
hurting tons of rock into the Firehole
river, 500 feet distant, a large enough
quantity of water escaping to raise the
river several inches. Lunch time found
the party in camp at the Upper Geyser
Basin. witch contains
Geysers InnuInerabIe.
AS many Of these as possible were
visited, but after hours of tramping the
boys were all content to sit and wait for
"Oid Faithful" which never fails to 90
off every siXty-fve minutes.
Two O'Clock Saturday morning the
shrill blasts of the bugle sounded, and,
as the men turned out of their hunks,
covered with frost. only to find the
water in the canteenS frozen, a ludIc-
rouS sight was presented. Breakfast
was served. however, and at fifteen min
utes before 4 the company, proceeded
by dynamite Dick" a trooper who
the mountain, and thus gain three
miles, started tor Yellowstone lake.
For over two hours the boys tramped
around on the frost-covered mountain
in the darkness, striving to find the
road. but it was not be found, until the
roarof kepler's cascades in the distance
gave the wearied and discouraged sol
dier boys a ray of hope. The road was
now soon found, but proved a very hard
one, for almost the entire distance from
this point to the lake is up hill, with
sand almost knee-deep. 1t could hardly
be expected that the party could enjoy
any works of Nature under these cir
cumstanceS; but as the files slowly
reached the top of
The Continental Divide.
known as ''Shoshone Point,"a shout
went up at the grand sight presented by
Shoshone lake toying calmly at the
foot of the mountains, while the three
snOw-capped ''sentinels" of the Teton
mountains. fifty miles away, rear their
lofty peaks high above the surrounding
country.
BY - o'clock all difficulties were over.
for Company ID had reached that part
of Yellowstone lake known as the
Thumb" where a bounteous lunch,
prepared by the genial Larry Mathews,
was partaken Of. At l o'clock all en-
barked on the steamer Zillah for a fifty
mile ride around the lake, and landing
at the Lower Lake Motel, camp was
pitched until Monday morning.
The fishing in the lake and Vel
lOwst0ne river, which receives the
lakes contents here to convey them to
the Missouri river, is excellent, and nu-
merouS parties were made up who
brought back some very large catches,
the largest being made by Capt. William
Bronson Cnmnnnu Of GfilIu,ot,.,
Capt. Bean. Sergeant f. H. Haupt and
Corporal L. j. OLeary; George Taft,
George Eckles and E. Z. Schooley; Ii.
h. Palmer, the Associated Press cor
respondent. and John Ryder.
Sunday afternoon about 4 O'Clock, at
the invitation of Commodore E. T.. Wa
ters, manager of the Yellowstone Boat
club, the company went for a ride on
the Zillah to the Southeast Finger, re-
turning about s p. M. after q most en-
joyable and Interesting ride, from the
fact that this is the largest lake at such
an altitude in the world. Singing and
Speecli-making were freely INDUCED in,
the boys feeling very gay, having danced
late the night before with some very
pretty ladies at a banquet rendered bv
the manager of the hotel for Capt. Bean
aud his men.
The HOmeWard March
was begun at 5 o'clock Monday morn
ing. Grand Canon was reached about
noon, after an eighteen-mile walk, the
company laying over a day here to fish
and enjoy scenery that cannot be
equaled. Wednesday morning. as the
party slowly wendell its way along the
brink of the canon bound for Mount
Washburn. the universal opinion of all
was that the Grand Canon of the yell
l0wstone river is the grandest sight in
the Park.
At noon a lunch of bareback and
water was eaten on Mount Washburn, the
wagons having gone around to Yancy's
camp via Norris Basin, while the COM
pany crossed Mount Wasllburn. Here
the trail reaches all elevation of about
5000 feet, while the peak is 1910 feet
higher. After dinner a detachment
assembled to the summit aud registered