Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-08

lakers very congenial and we gave
him up without reluctance
We leave the Fountain Hotel and tn.
bears about 8 o'clock in the morn.
ing and arrive at Upper Basin abou
1890 a. m. Here we lunch and spent
the day, leaving there the following
morning. This long stay at Upper
Basin is made necessary because there
are so many things here to be seen
Within a radius of 21s miles, you viii
Iprobably see more strange and beauti-
full sights than in any similar area OF
the globe. Looking down the Basir
in early morning, before the morning
mists have fully lifted, one can moi
get rid of the impression that he is
looking over a great manufacturing
city, whose chimneys are Just getting
ready for the day. 1t is a delusion OF
course, but 1T is very real.
Between the fountain and the Upper
| Basin the coaches all stop in the banks
| of the tirehole river for a half hour
lor longer if desired to enable the tour
lists to look at one of the most hideous
and dreadful sights that can be seen
anywhere this side of the Internal re-
gions. This is Firehole and Hells Halt
! Acre, no wonder that the scout who
was sent out at an early day, returned
to camp and with blanched face told
bhis commanding officer he had found
ia place only q half mile from hell
All around you on the level, white
formation you first see the beautiful
things. Turquoise Pool, most beau
tiful robbins egg blue. then Sapphire
| Spring, Emerald Lake and Sunset Lake,
the latter a rich brown in the center,
shading off In a dark orange, then a
| lighter shade and then a lemon shade,
until 1t Its circumference q rich, dazZ1-
ing. glowing sunset. How nature re-
wells in opposites. Here side by side
these still, placid little pools, small,
shallow and then few steps away the
dreadful Fire Hole and Hell's hideous
Halt Acre. The water in these pools
is as clear as crystal, it is the color
of the formation in the shallow bottoms
that gives seeming color to the water
AS we look down into the dreadful
Fire Hole and see its black and turbid
reminded of the old fashioned preach
er's description of the lake of brim-
stone and fire that used to be the por-
ton of the bad man, but Talmage with
all his word painting and opera bouffe,
never made a picture of the old fash
toned hell as vivid as this. Nature
in the Yellowstone Park beat him.
AT the lower side Of this Fire Hole
as the ground slopes to the
river, the restless and turgid waters
flow out and boil and sizzle over an
area of several acres, and finally drop
into the river. This is Helrs Half Acre.
1t is not my purpose to undertake to
name the 1000 pools and springs, nor
the 100 geysers to be found in the park.
shall only mention those that, in my
Judgment. surpassed all others in beau
ty, terror and strange phenomena. OF
all the many interesting and wonderful
things to be seen there the Fire Hole
and Hell's Half Acre were to me the
most dreadful, the Boiler or Growler
being close second, tho on a much
smaller scale. Morning Glory Spring
is the most artistic; the Devils Punch
Bowl the most unique: the Great Gey-
sers the most majestic; the Yellow
stone lake and river and the great
to the south the grandest;
the Gtbben river the most picturesque;
the Little or Upper Falls of the Yellow
stone the most enhancing, bewitching-
ly beautiful, and the Grand Canon and
Great Falls the most awe-inspiring,
while the lake and the Lake hotel and
the great primeval forest rising behind
it, the stillest and most restful spot in
the world. 1t is bad case of insom-
MIA that this delicious air. at height
of 400 feet, and the sweet smell of the
pines won't cure. You Will sleep in
spite of yourself. You can't help 1T. |
You can't set enough, and when morn
ing comes you feel as if you have wings
and want to fly. 1t is fact that ladies
who can not walk down town at home |
without fatigue, can tramp for hours
in the park and not be tired. But if you
II you are in doubt about your heart, |
there is no surer test than visit to the
park. In all of our party of about forty
only one person. stout lady, expert
enced any discomfort. Only last sum-
ner a gentleman arrived at Mammoth
Springs from Cinnabar gasping for
breath and bleeding at the nose. The
hotel physician Immediately ordered a
'oach and he was taken down the
on run. All Cinnabar he
vas fuily recovered. Inc year before
/ gentleman made the trip. On arriv-
ng at Mammoth Springs he didn't
light. He sat on the back seat of the
,oach dead, and his seat companion
lidn't know 1t. After all. if you have
weak heart, how peaceful, how pain
ess and in what lovely surrounds :
ngs is such death. Crossing the
'irehole river on rustic bridge, we
zee on our right the Mortar" and on
,ur left Rainbow Geyser. and the driver
ellis us that after dinner we shall have
view of Rainbow Geyser worth the
ost of the whole trip. We We're not
disappointed. In few minutes we
lighted at the lunch station and found
hat the Rainbow" was due to play at
(: 80 D. M, and in my next letter we will
,egin with the Rainbow.
D. w. NORRIS.
Grinnell, Iowa.