Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-10-09

not spring ana ls Just about the
right temperature for "A swim. I
should think it was about one thous-
and feet higher than the hotel, so
that tits quite climb to make when
one wants TO take bath.
The next morning at O'Clock we
left Mammoth for Norris Basin. a dis
tance of 20 miles. 1t took eight
coaches TO carry the party and each
person had a place assigned in some
coach and was expected to ride In the
same coach all the way. There were
eight people in our coach, four ladies
and four gentlemen, besides one gen.
tleman who stopped off at Norris.
was not acquainted with any of
them at first, but soon became con-
siderably acquainted After leaving
the hotel we passed the terrace, get
ting fine view of them from below.
Toi thc hiSb louT OT HNe HiIeS tHe
road, a very fine one, runs steadily
up hill, winding and twisting about
to reduce the grade, which Is quite
steep. Three miles from Mammoth
we come to the Silver Gate, the road
taking "A sudden turn between perpen-
dicular limestone cliffs probably forty
or fifty feet high. Round about, on
both sides of the road, are the Hoo
docs, silver gray rocks or boulders in
varying forms, sometimes angular,
sometimes rounding or conelike, plant
ed together about as thick as they
culiar appearance. 1t would be very
hard walking over them and | doubt
If horse could get through at all.
Perhaps a mile farther on We came
to the Golden Gate, which forms a
fine view. On both sides are high
rock walls covered with patches of
yellow; hence the name. At the
farther extremity we come to the
very pretty Rustic Falls. Still little
farther on we come to Swan Valley
and Swan Lake, and from here to the
north we had a fine view of Electric
Peak over II 900 feet high, and to the
west of Quadrant mountain with its
four peaks, also Mount Holmes and
Bell Peak. About ten miles from
Mammoth We came to Apollinaris
Spring. a spring of natural mineral
water. About two miles farther on
we came to Obsidian Cliff, cliff Of
natural glass with glass road at its
foot. Opposite is Beaver Lake with
one long beaver dam and some shorter
ones. Farther on are Twin Lakes and
then the Devils Frying Pan, a small
body Of water which sputters contin-
ually, like lard in frying pan over
hot fire.
A little before we reached Norris.
we saw Roaring mountain, which now
simply steams, but l am told used to
roar. We reached Norris about noon
and were welcomed by Larry Mat
thews, who is in charge of the lunch
station, jolly Irishman, and one Of
the characters of the park. He surely
is "all right" and very lively. We
found him in tent, but new hotel
has been built and when we came
back we found Larry in charge.
After lunch we went out to visit the
geysers. We passed several steam
vents and hot pools without names,
and learned that over the whole hot
springs district, most of them have
no names as yet Soon we came to
Constant Geyser, not very large, but
playing beautifully about once in two
minutes, the eruption lasting about
fifteen or twenty seconds. 1t plays
to a height of ten or fifteen feet
When we came to the Boiler, which
sends up column of steam that looks
to be enough to run several good
sized engines. Close by Is the Blacl
Growler that makes rumbling noise
and sends forth considerable steam
If seemed rather quiet at that time
but on our return l saw 1t again ant
thought it had fired up considerably
At some istance farther on, and across
the road, we found several objects OF
interest, among them the New Crater
which tore up the earth terribly when
| it opened up few years ago; the
Vixen, which plays spitefully to a
height of four or five feet; the Elec
trio Spring, the bottom of which looks
very much like an incandescent elec'
tric light as you look into it; the
Churn, so named from the noise II
makes; the crater of Monarch Geyser,
and the Minute Man, which used to
play every minute, but now can not be
| depended on to play oftener than