Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-24
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PART II.

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names will be called in the morning ex-
actly in the order they are registered.
If you are the first to register you VIII
get choice OF seats in the front coach.
You do not have to take any body s
dust, and if there is any game to be
seen. deer. or antelope or elk. you will
get the benefit of the first sight Our
first coach sighted a herd of about 100
elk, but when the rear coach came UP.
they had all disappeared. AS they
crossed our path, in the open country
about 100 rods ahead of us, 1t made a
very beautiful and stately sight. Again,
by registering early. you are able to ar
range your party. IL party of four
or six desire to go together you will be
seated in one coach, and your coach
not only maintains it's position in the
line during the entire five days you
are on the road, but you must stick to
the coach you start In. The rules are
rigid. but they are not unreasonable
and experience has shown that they are
necessary.
Promptly at o'clock in the morning,
the coaches necessary to carry the
party of that day, drive up in line in
front of the great plaza of the Mann
moth Springs, and we are off with a
ride ahead Of us of lao miles over the
most magnificent road ever built by
man. There Is but one road, and you
couldn't get lost if you wanted to. as
you cannot travel at all except by this
road that has been cut thru and around
the brow of the mountains. The road
is like kite and its tail, from Mann
moth Springs to Norris Basin, and here
the loop begins. From Norris Basin,
you go in a circle to Lower Basin, Up
per Basin, the Thumb, the Lake, Grand
canyon to Norris Basin again, and then
back over the same road to Mammoth
Springs. Every morning the party ar
irving by hail the day before leaves
the Mammoth Springs hotel, and every
evening the party that left the hotel
five days before, arrives. So, you see,
there is a continuous procession on the
road. The shouts of Tuesdays tour
lists have scarcely died away. when the
shouts of Wednesdays tourists are
heard in the distance. And your Larry
at the Upper Basin, king of the chefs
and prince of good fellows, his jokes and
gibes must be repeated day after day.
They are new to the tourist, but chest
nuts to his companions. When Mark
Hanna's coach drove up Larry said,
And watch me now,' AS mark alighted
Larry bowed obsequiously and then adj
varcing with extended hand, said: And
how are yes Mark, and hows the wife
and childer." Mark saw the joke and
shook Larrys hand right heartily.
Such service requires nearly 100
coaches and surries, and about ESQ
horses. And they are good horses, ma
tive Montana horses, well bred fellows
too, branded, weighing from LOO to
1000. They use no cayuses such as the
horse sold in Iowa known as a broncho
The broncho is a curse to that coun-
try, considered of no value whatever,
until some enterprising exporter found
suckers in Iowa to buy them, then they
went up to SIS apiece. Had we not re-
lieved that country of that miserable
product the people would have been
compelled to slaughter them in order TO
eXterminate them. Instead, they sent
them to Iowa, to slaughter us. When
the drivers found the writer was from
Iowa they had many hearty laugh
over this deal in horse flesh.
The doctors preceded us about thirty
days. There were 250 of them. This
body sorely tried the capacities of the
transportation company, but they arose
to the emergency. Wagons were hired,
borrowed, stolen, sand extra horses
We're brought ninety miles for this oc-
casion. The company lost money on
the doctors, but it made for itself
splendid reputation.
One thing more l want to speak of as
we are climbing the hill past the sui
phur springs. You must stay by your
coach, and your coach must stay by it's
position, but this can and may be
changed for cause by Special dis
pensation" from the clerks office at the
Mammoth Springs. While the trip
within the park takes five days, you
may make 1t as long as you like. You
may drop out of your party at any no.
tel and catch on the next day, or the
next. You are then charged extra 81
per day, but If you tarry week, then
it is SO a day. So you see, the rates
are not at all eXhorbitant. You will pay
SO day at many city hotel, where
the accommodations are not so good.
AT Mammoth Springs, If you are
wise you will provide yourself with
linen ulster. This will cost you dol
lar for the trip. If you are wiser, you
will take along a macintosh and save
the dollar. 1t answers the same pur-
pose as dust protector and you Will
appreciate 1t every day, and often two
or three times daily. The sun may be
shining brightly and within five min
utes you may be riding thru a chilly
rain storm. This may continue five,
ten or fifteen minutes, then sunshine
again. Besides, the macintosh is
very comfortable addition to clothing
as the evening grows cold. No special
dress is necessary. Wear medium un-
and take your old clothes
along. No one expects you to wear
anything else. Wear ck-soled shoes
and a crush hat. Colored glasses are
wholly unnecessary If your eyes are
strong A field glass is useful, and II
you can work kodak you can get
great assortment of views. The Kodak
fiends, however, try the patience OF
those who go simply to see.
The altitude at Mammoth Springs is
6,2l5 feet or 1896 feet above Cinnabar,
the railway terminus.
From Mammoth Springs our way Is
up up Soon we find ourselves SKIRT
ing Terrace mountain, with Bunsen
Peak to our left, lifting its head to the