Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-08-29

throughout the park to protect the |
ReyHers from tourists, aud incidentally, |
the tourists from aey sers, and the wild |
beasts from poaohers; also, to prevent |
the spreading OF camp and forest fires. |
The regulations are very strict and any |
ono caught in administering bars OF
soap to geyser to make it sick al its
stomach and thus hasten and increase
its vomiting power, or indulginR in the
inane desire. common to most tourists,
to chuck stones down boiling crater,
or to breas oif and carry away bits of
the formation is run in" TO the mill
tary court room, courtmartin'et,
heavily fined and Imprisoned in the
Jail, whose closely barred windows
looked formidable. The coachman,
however, limited that douoeur, judo
iously Administered, might Induce the
ordinary soldier to Turn his back. The
hotel, rs a emi-government station, is
ablaze with bunting and lined with
flags, and tho army officers aud to the
gayety In Its great hall, where all the
guests gather. Awakened next morning
by tho reyielle at tn fort We again
mounted tho ooaches The next mani
fesiaton Of this outlandish Iark was
'"The Hoodoos, square mile con-
most grotesque shapes, as IL nature had
porpetrated hugo practical joke, A
scene of beauty came close upon this
| fantastic place, the Golden Gate, u
rugged pass between two cliffs, whose
yellow surface shone golden in the sun
| light. Far and near the scene from the
roadway is OF great beauty. Beside it
b DOM crimson paint brushes, blue
harebells, monks hood and blue gen.
tians in masses. Green meadows altar
mute with forests that have never known
an axe, but over which fires and storms
have swept and the Eleaehed trunks OF
dead trees lie whore they fell. In lake
were beaver houses, but we looked la
vain for their builders. Purple in the
| distance rose Electric Peak, vi hose large
j deposit OF minerals SO inierieres with
tho surveyors transit as 10 make Its
| use Impossible on the mountain. The
next marvel was a roadside cliff of
| obsiiiHn, or natural glass, glittering in
the sunlight, then group Of geysers,
inconsiderable compared with those to
follow, but marvellous enough. From
pool Of crystal olesrness the Minute
Man" sends up every 60 seconds jet
of water 40 feet in the air, The Black
Growler emits sulphurous fumes from
its inBy crater, the Emerald Pool gently
bubbles 10 its sulphur lined basin with
coral walls down which We looked
through dark green water to appalling
depths. From roadside pools acalding
water overhowed the road. At Fountain
Hotel several big bears came down out
Of the woods to make their supper at
the garbage pile which the proIrietors
keep we'll supplied, for the bears are
not ouly one OF the attractions to
visitors, buta we'll fed bear Is not likely
to attack the COWS and horses coralled
nearby. They are so tame one may go
close to them, though o mother bear
with two young cubs ordered them up
tree at our approach, whence they
pseped down at US through the
branches. Although most of the bears
have learned that tho easiest way to gel
their living is to board at the hotels.
all inhabitants of the park gather al
!; night into hotsls or camps and do not
venture forth after nightfall for fear oil
stopping into q boiling spring, since
these are frequent When walking in
the woods tiny thread OF rising steams
, or low Sigh from the ground warns
one OF danger, and driving at night IL
, unsafe, as a bear might come out Of
} the woods and brighten the horses. In
, front of Fountain Hotel gsyser sends
, up at intervals column OF BOILING
water for 60 feet that falls like shower
OF STANDARDIZATION the sun striker
through it. Near by are mammoth mud
J cauldrons, like watts OF Stacking lime
whore mud, white and pink, bubbles
up in cones, rings and Jets with
| hoarsely whispered "plop-plop Tn,
subterranean forces have Cracked thu
, surface in another spot and from tn,
]. CHASTITY scam oamo sounds Of tn,
/ grumblna and muttering OF deep gut
) teral voices, coucucting some wioket
/ plot. perhaps to squirt out and over
o whelm a prying tourist, followed b!
/. beilowing cursos and splteiul spit o
steam. Further on is "Hell's Hal
, Acre, (" plain, CHASTITY white, blistereS
y and scanned, g the abomination Of desc
!. lation," with bottomless pit holes
q burned out urnters, yet in this arit
! plain lieI Prismatic Lake. whose grea
: terIaced basin slopes to unknown depth
in the centre, whore the dark blu
i water changes to green, then to raj
a yellow, deepening to orange. its beade
!, rim is brilliant red shading to purrl
n aud blue in vivid bands. Boiling in tn
n middle the water flows In every direc
i tion with wayelike quotations and th
:, rising etenm forms rainbows Of intiniI
2 richness of ooloring. A. S.
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