Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-16
THE YELLOWSTONE PARK TRIP.
D. W. Norris Tells Interestingly the Incidents of the Trip
Merits of TwoRo of Iravel Conparedtis
Would ServeW Guide to OteHs

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the transportation company's hotels
You lunch, dine and breakfast in tents
You sleep in tents, and it goes without
saying that you miss all the comforts
and luXuries of modern hotel life.
! heard from others complaints of soiled
| linen and unsatisfactory cuisine. and !
hardly see how it can be otherwise
They have some coaches but most of
their people go in three seated wagons
! drawn by two horses, and we passed
| such wagons carrying seven and some
times nine people. Two horses can not
| draw such load over mountains and
make time. One can not so travel with
| comfort.
| If You decide to cast your lot with the
| Yellowstone Transportion Company the
| $3.50 covers all necessary expenses and
/ If is only fair to the Wylie concern to
! state here, that SO far as l know their
| charge covers all necessary expenses
| for the six days. ana in addition TO this
| it includes a steamer trip from The
| Thumb across the Yellowstone Lake to
| the Lake Hotel, the wagons going that
| twenty miles empty, while if you take
| the transportation company's coaches,
| and desire TO cross the lake by steamer
| it will cost you SO extra. This is one of
the little steals that ought not to be
tolerated OF course you don't have to
take the steamer unless you want to-
The wagon road follows the shore of the
lake nearly all the way and the view to
the mountain on the south is unob-
stucted and just as fine as from the
water. To take the steamer relieves
the monotony of the ride and rests you,
and the transportation company ought
to include 1t, if desired, just as Wylie
does. And, the government ought to
limit the charge TO a reasonable one
Three dollars for q two hour ride with
a chance to see several elk and three or
four Buffalo corraled on an island, is
simply extortion No wonder the own
er of the steamer has already paid for
it out of the business and made fort
ane besides.
If now, you have decided to so with
the Yellowstone Transportation Com
pany, | will make a guide book wholly
unnecessary. First, l want to say,
that the hotels, Mammoth Springs, The
Fountain, The Lake and the Grand
Canyon are really first class. One can
not but wonder at the service and cui-
sine, when one considers that they are
all far from the base of supplies, the
Lake Hotel being about seventy miles
from Cinnabar the nearest railroad sta
ton. Every day, fresh meats and veg
etables must be transported in iced
wagons, to each point, sufficient for 100
to $50 people. Then again the season is
short At its close all leave except one
solitary Waterman. All the help, man
ayers, drivers, hostlers, telegraph OPP
orators, clerks, bell boys, cooks and
walters, must be gathered from al!
quarters for a three or four months
service. 1t is or was most gigantic
enterprise. and the men who have had
the courage, we might almost say au-
dacity to plan it and execute it, chal-
lenge our admiration. 1t is simply
marvellous. The transportation of the
lumber sufficient to erect one of those
structures over those rugged noun
tains, is task that wouid appall any
body but man bred in the west.
There is nothing of interest at Mann
derful, beautiful, artistic and many
colored dazzling formations formed by
the overflow of the sulphur waters.
After lunch you will be given an oppor-
tunity to pay 81 to ride to the terraces.
1t is a steal pure and simple. You can
see everything at Mammoth Springs in
o. fifteen-minute walk, and if you pay
81 the wagon takes you to point from
which you have to walk farther than the
terraces are from the hotel. III people
want to use the coach or If one is an IN
valid the 81 charge is not exorbitant, but
officials should be required to tell the
truth and no we'll man or woman would
paw 81 for such a service if he knew the
facts.
Tipping in the park is well nigh uni
yersal. all the more so by the transltorS
character of the service. Rail at 1t as
YOU will, it is there and there to stay, III
spite of my friend Henry Harrison
sprague" in McClure's, and you VIII be
a good deal happier in the evening ana
more cheerful inyhe morning If you VIII
drop some small coins as you go along.
The dining room service at the Fount-
ain and the Lake is performed by girls.
/. is excellent, and | saw no tipping
among them, but | am sure l got the
worth of my tips from the red-headed |
Irish girls at the lunch stations. AL
Mammoth Springs and the Canyon the
dining room service is performed by
.coons." and if you pinch the small coins
here you'll be sorry. The bell boy is all
Eight. but he'll come more quickly IL he
6a
he baggage boy your best friend and
absolutely reliable, while the driver, VINO
S a bright, intelligent fellow and en-
.irely respectful, will diVulge Whole
of of useful information about the park
md his experiences if you Will pass that
,ipar case up to the front occasionally
md remember that the ride has been a
,erv dusty one. when you reach the
,otel. incidentally, you are expected to
rive your driver 81, 81 or So at the END
Il the trip.
The ride from Cinnabar to Mammoth
springs. seven miles up the mountain, ls
tedious, especially IL the
Law is hot. 1t takes two hours, and the
nly relief is the beautiful, picturesque /,
Gardiner river as it runs down the
oountairs over the rocks. But a bath
t the Mammoth Springs Hotel and an
ycellent lunch have tendency to re-
tore ones good humor and you begin
G think that you were wise IN paying
he extra demand and taking the hotel
QUITE instead of the camp route Tor tor-
V miles a day up and down mountains Z,
nd thru dust lying sometimes four
nches deep in the roads can not be al
waited bv wash basin and cheer