The record-union., 1894-01-27
vANDALs IN YELLOWSTONE PARF
sure of Arrest by Vfgilant Guards
Some Cases Last Summer.

sure of Arrest by Vigilant Guards
some Cases Last Summer.
1.-The Yellowstone Park guards told me
this summer how sharp they had to
watch would be vandals and how they
had handled a few real ones," said
Scranton tourist to a New ork Sun man.
"When you enter the park you have to
deposit your firearms and other weapons,
so that you cannot fire at anything, ii
YOU are so foolish as to have such de-
sire to break the rules. You get a re-
ceipt for your weapons and II you are
laW-abiding citizen you are glad TO help
enforce the rules. The vandals, however,
don't need any weapons but their hands
10 get themselves into scrapes, and the
guards are on the aIere lor Inem at ali
| times.
lone morning high railroad magnate
of the Northwest, accompanied by two
/ United States Senators, guard told me,
! ordered the driver to take his party
through a section Of the park the driving
| through which was prohibited by the
rules. The driver told the railroad mag
! nate what the rules were, and also that II
/ he were to drive through there the whole
party would undou btedly be arrested.
/ The magnate and the Senators assured
/ the driver that no guard would dare to
arrest them, and that they would see to
/ it that no harm came to him. SO the
driver obeyed the great mems command
/ to break the rules, and the almost 1mme-
diate outcome of it was that the entire
party was arrested and put into the guard
house. The high officials told the COM
mandant who they were, and they also
lied to him by pleading ignorance of the
rules, but the testimony of the driver was
against them, and they had to stay in the
guardhouse all night. Owing to their
| eminent stations they got off with a light
| punishment. and they promised never to
| ignore the rules again.
Another story they told me was about
a pompous Methodist minister from the
East, who was caught in the act of break
inc off a piece OF natural formation near
one of the geysers. He had been eau
toned by a visitor in his party not to do
so hut he said ne wanted to take the
| beautiful formation to his family as a
souvenir, and he guessed no one would
see him snatch it. So he broke it off and
mt il into his pocket, and in less than
half 4 minute guard collared him. He
begged like good fellow to be let off,
they said, telling him that he was min
lister of the gospel and would pay for all
the damages. The evidence of his van
dalism was found on his person, and
begoing to be released did him no good.
Two guards marched him forty miles
through the park between them, not
oivin0 him chance to eat on the way,
and when they reached the boundary OF
the park they told him to go and never to
return. They were anxious to learn,
thew told me. whether the parson had
ever preached sermon on the subject OF
vandalism.
"A garrulous woman was nabbed one
dav inst after she had broken off stalac-
tite to take home. She was indignant be-
cause the guard had arrested her, and she
was also saucy and impudent. and even
though she declared she was the chief ex-
ecntive officer of Woman's Christian
Temperance Union in her town as well
as a teacher in the local Sunday school.
Her friends pleaded in her behalf, but
she herself wasn't a bit penitent, and
when the guards undertook to march hei
ont of the park she wouldn't walk a step
and they had TO carry her out on
stretcher. five or six miles. She leere0
them all the way they told me, and the
members of her party marched in the
rear and made unkind remarks. Wher
thew put her down outside OF the park
she gave the guards such tongue lashlng
that thew put their fingers into their ear:
and got away as fast as possible"