Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-13

hills of the mountain
all virgin forest and unbroken wilderness.
Were withdrawn from Entry a year ago. and
by presidential proclamation constituted the
racine forest reserve. There is now a de-
mand that this forest reserve shall be de-
ciared national park and by the same
means anf under the same MANAGEMENT as
the Yellowstone National Park opened I'D
TO travel. its points of interest made Access
sioie by roads and trails. hotels built. guides.
conveyances and horses provided, the tract
patroiled.and the game protected by govern
ment troops during the summer outing sea-
son.
The real movement to this end was insti-
tuted within the National Geographic So
ciety OF this city, which has a special COM
fhlttee delegated to secure the establish
ment Of this new national park in the in
terest of science. With them are associated
committees of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science of the Geolog-
ical society of America, and of the Sierra
CLUB OF San Francisco. Boards of trade
chambers OF commerce. clubs and all SINH
Iar Iocai associations In the state of Wash
ihstoh are zealously at work with the scien-
tsts' ana the Washington representatives
~ the senate and House are pushing" with
their might and main. The committees held
JOINT meeting last month to inaugurate
'iie sood wo-k, and enlist the enthusiasm of
'nose chosen to carry out the project.
Committees Interested
me committee OF the American Associa-
tlon for the Advancement of Science in
Guides Maj. j: W. Powell. Prof. Joseph lie
Conte' Prof. Israel c. Russell. Prof. b. f
Fernow. Or. c. Hart Merriam.
The Geological Society Of America NAM
Sd Ilr ~
ca Dr- DaVid L. Day. Mr.. Bailey Willis and
Mr. Samuel F. Emmons.
me National Geographic Society enlisted
MT Gardner g. Hubbard, Senator watson
~ squire Mr.. John w. Thompson. Miss r..
X. scidmore. Miss Mary +. Waite.
The Sierra Club of San Francisco has as
committee Prof John Muir, President
E1sVd Starr Jordan. Mr. Robert Under
"ooi Johnson. Mr.. George b. Bayley and
MT F. B. Van Trump
senate bill 1870. drawn IN bv Mai Pow
eli. was introduced by Senator Squire in
december. and referred TO the committee
on pubic lands. provides for the setting
arr OF certain lands. now known as the
acme forest reserve. as a public park to
Park
Those concerned in this work have every
reason to believe that Congress will heed
t1e scientists and the citizens PRAYERS
ana that the opening and improving of the
pdTh VIII provide such pleasure ground
anu study ground as could not be afforded
elsewhere The geologist and the botanist
the naturalist and the fisherman find the
tract onering them world of new delight,
and the mountain climbers have a peak
matching the giants of the Alps, testing
the most experienced Swiss climbers and
soon to serve as a goal to draw around il
such a summer community as makes the
Alpine Clubs Zermatt famous the world
around The success of the Yellowstone
Park shows the way in which to make this
wilderness minister to the pleasures of civ
iiiZation, and furnish recreation and in
struction 10 the residents of cities and
plains.
VT. Rainier Described.
Mt. Rainier. or Mt. Tacoma as it Is
often called. is a pyramidal peak slopins
sereneIy from the very beaches of Puget
sound to d point in air 14.4+4 feet above the
still inland sea in which its image is re-
Elected. The mountain itself is fifty-fve
miles from the sounds edge. the level for
81 land and the ridged foot hills serving
as an admirably composed" foreground
u the magnificent white mass, the high
altar to heaven. Forests denser than any
thing the eastern mind can picture somber
WllderneSSes APPLY compared TO the forests
OF the carbOnferJus age. shroud the lower
slopes, and the giant peak snakes his rocky
shoulders free. only TO be met by The covvI
OF eternal snow that rests upon his brow.
Mt Rainier is as certainly he" as the
Japanese nj ~ anna, the more gentIv-sloD-
ing. purely -perfect volcanic peak ON the op-
pOsite side of the Pacific is she" The
white giant is a beacon and landmark from
the entrance of Puget sound. IL is seen
from the plains one hundred miles to east
ward, and it IS king in all the group of ex-
tinct volcanoes past which rolls the Ore
gon.' the Columbia of the maps.
Indian traditions are hazy at best. and
generally few and thin. but they have null
tIpHed amazingly and betrayed a richness
OF FANCY since The merry war began about
the mountains name. Never did supply
spring more plentifully to the demand
than these legends and interpretations to
bolster both sides of the Rainier-Tacoma
controversy. Scientists at a casual glance
can give US the history better, and tell us
tnat this mountain was built up from with
IN; that the fires have but lately died down
anu that the streams of ice now flow down
where streams of lava rolled before. To
them. the record is plainly written and
they know that it smoked within historic
times, If Fremont had not reported Mt
ReSnIer as smoking spendidly when he
saw its cone from the Columbia in 1872
theodore Winthrop in his Canoe and Sad
dle preserves (and embroiders) several
merry legends heard when he skirted its
slopes ia 1888. Winthrop was the most
sympathetic and poetic interpreter the great
peak has found, although followed thirty
years later by Helen Hunt who bewailed
with him the substitution of Rainier for
the native name. Mount Regnier ,,hr1s
tians have dubbed it in stupid nomencIa-
ture, perpetuating the name of soueboIy
or nobody More melodiously the Siwasbes
call II Tacoma wrote Winthrop
Early Spanish Surveyors
The early Spanish surveyors from the