Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-09-23

aul him in and cook him in the spring
ana eat him without moving out of his
tracks. Near Cinnabar this can be done
In the brook also. We drove To Fountain
Hotel, Lower Geyser Basin, for the night
Near Fountain hotel we went to see
Fountain Geyser at night and saw our
hrst real geyser exhibition. Fountain
geyser goes off every IL hours and plays
Tor about 40 minutes. The mouth of ii is
about 10 feet square and the wafer spouts
up from Is to so feet with an occasional
Jet going higher. The whole pool OF water
Is thrown bodily into the air in mighty
upheayal. with splash and dash. The
great pool all around it overfiows and o
good-sized brook carries off the surplus.
One splash and upheaval follows another
ana such connection and churning and
splashlng you can hardly imagine. A
good deal of steam escapes with the water.
sometimes completely enveloping the jet,
then Is carried off by the wind until the
column Of water stands almost exposed
We can hardly imagine what must e the
mighty power in motion down in the
bowels of the earth to force up and out
thus into the air this volume of water.
We wonder from what depths it comes.
4 We wonder what makes it so regular in its
displays. think this geyser was my ia
vorite of them all Night passed and the
nth day morning we drove to Upper Gey-
ser Basin, thro' which we had passed the
evening before. eight miles back, and
spent the day. We saw in all fully a dozen
| geysers in the course of the day in opera.
ton. The most popular OF them all is
Old Faithful. Old Faithful plays every
80 minutes as regular as clock work, win
ter and summer, day and night, and oper-
ates about four minutes. IL begins by
] Hoo re nd
mighty effort throws a column of water
and steam into the air $50 feet and holds
the column there for nearly four minutes,
I then gradually dies down and, except the
little stream that is constantly rising, Is
quiet again for another IS minutes, when
the same thing is repeated. The steam
/ from this one SO nearly hides the column
Of water that 1t was not so satisfactory to
me as was the Fountain. We saw this
I display four times. We saw from dis
lance the operation of Splendid three
times Splendid throws a fair sized jet
200 feet straight up and plays every few
hours and for ten minutes.
One of the prettiest exhibitions, though
on smaller scale, was little Economic.
I which plays every six minutes regularly,
throwing jet 30 feet high and holding It
there for 30 seconds. IL is named Eco
nomic because ii is funnel-shaped and the
/ water thrown into the air is all caught in
the funnel and swallowed up again, not
drop being lost. Other famous geysers in
this basin are Bee Hive, spouting ZOO teeti
I Giautess, spouting 1850 feet and playing
I about every ten days and for twelve hours
al time; Surprise, spouting 1870 feet at ir-
/ regular intervals. and Giant, spouting
250 feet every two to four days and play
ing 80 minutes.
Some OF the springs are fully as beauti'
( fu in their sphere and as wonderful as are
Naga uf4
I the beautiful coloring Of the formations,
! the great dept hs into which one looks
and the exquisite beluty Of the entire
makeup are all striking. Such was one
called the Morning Glory spring and
/ another hot-Water spring called the
Punch Bowl But we must stop we re-
turned to stey at Fountain hotel another
night, where we had rousing Christian
EndeaVor prayer and praise service. On
the morning OF the sixth day we left for
our last long drive OF forty or more miles.
We pissed again thro' Norris Basin and
arrived after a beautiful ride at Mammoth
Springs hotel for our final meal. The party
Just entering the park, with whom we ate
supper that night, were "beld up" IN tne
park near Grand Canon hotel ana rooDeo
OF 500. We escaped, though thif the
robbers would hardly have gotten 500 II
they had stopped us. Our ride on the
stages in and out was 40 miles.
Our party called Mrs. Morrow and my
! self INTO the picture room OF the NAM
moth Springs hotel that last evening and
after some good things said by eX-Con-
gresham Judge Warren z. Noble OF Til
fon, o., read and voted the following res
olution and then presented us with two
beautiful paintings in water colors, one
of the Grand Canon and the other OF the
Great Falls OF the Yellowstone, at an ex-
pense to them of SIC. We shall show
them to you when they come. we were
grateful for them and shall ever prize them
highly,
WHEREAS Rev. George w. Morrow
has so managed the "Morrow Party" So
called on its trip through the Yellowstone
National park as to secure TO each ana
every one OF said party the greatest COM
forts and the least possible trouble; rhere'
fore
RESOLVED, That we extend to him our
watmest thanks, and we commend him as
a competent and worthy manager OF any
visiting party. Voted. Warren L. Noble
for the party.
At night OF the sixth day all agreed that
il had been an experience never equaIieo
before in their lives. On our way East
we visited Minneapolis, with her famous
Minpehaha Falls, and st. Paul, the twin
cities of the West. We arrived again IN
Chicago after seven weeks OF constant
travel. We travelled altogether S,oOI
miles. more than 500 of which was by
coach or carriage. The expense OF the
] trim was not far from s275 apiece, bu'
money we'll spent. Goodbye,
GEORGE w. MORROW.
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