The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-26

Norriss and greets each traveller with q
separate welcome and kindly inquiries as TO
health, station, family. reason for existence
One feels like a passport In his hands 1s, an nf
heart and soul: they are as safe as in the
| confessional, for on the return trip Larry,
With outstretched hands, unblushingly de-
mands answers to the identical questions
| which have been driven from his memory
by succeeding statements, as one fume
drives out another In the susceptibilities OF
! the geyser gazer
| Near this spot IL tract Of land covered
by the thousands white as snow, unearthly.
uncanny things, like petrifed ghosts. The
complexion OF the Wicked Person becomes
alkali .tinted and his watchword Reform
the geyser ftimes-the down timber In sue
cessive miles by the roadway, some OF II
charred by fire. some Of 1t left by the road
makers, are among the most striking Tea
After passing the Gibbon Canon, Gibbon
Falls. n feet high, and fording narrow
stream, the stage reaches the Fountain
Hotel. the nights resting place. The
voyager has travelled forty miles and Ia
still not too much fatigued to visit the bears
who come from the woods to the garbage
heap in the rear OF the hotel, and. Incl
dentaliy, furnish one Of the elements Of at
traction. Sometimes, there are eight or
ten Of these bears on the heap at once
tilcy uitcIoStiuk CIcdtuIcS, hhii "hos
half tame, and as one never knows where
the line Is drawn. one may easily become
too familiar. II is not straight line by any
means. IL is as crooked as the Devils Elbow.
mountains il called. That you have APP
preached them one day near enough 20 get
picture, does not mean that you can ap-
proach 80 near the next. by no means
The traveller gets plenty OF exercise
climbing up and down from the stage TO
look at geysers. hot springs, &c. There is
story. told. but OF course II is not true
that Is 20 often the fault Of good one
that one driver invariably gets his .passen-
gers out at the foot OF a particularly steep
them. breathless and disappointed, at the
extreme summit
The usual morning call. and the party
starts Oh In the same relative position.
for In this country, where change succeeds
change, each more marvellous than the last,
the seat on the coach. The morning ride
is through beautiful patches Of woodland.
tau sentinel pines. spruce. cedar. hem
lock and an occasional cottonwood. which
the "tenderfoot' persists In calling cot
tontail, balancing matters later on by
speaking Of cottonwood rabbits There
Is q whIrr Of ruffed grouse. the chatter OF
saucy squirrels; one Ia deceived occasionally
by the belief that a far-distant clump OF
1--WE " u neru ol GIN, LOT Wnen Oilc ftduDco !
that the last census paoes them at 1000. |
approximately. IL would seem that ahorn. !
at least. might be seen, but they are crafty |
creatures, and when the tourist comes |
they 80 whittier only the patience and skill |
The Upper Geyser Basin Is reached at |
noon, and the party 10 divided. two, four. |
six 70 a tent, FOR the night is to be spent |
In this fashion in the pine woods. There |
70. ~ tsrts - snanSsan. -,,L ~or,to-..Sis
beds and plenty Of canvas for seclusion;
only the pine odor. the rustic Of leaves,
the sl-pervading silence, the brillancy
Of the stars, marks the difference. One half 4
out Of the woods. but one never does.
From here you visit Old Faithful, one OF
the greatest Eeysers in the park. near
which are many others. Grand, Oblong.
Beautiful pools are scattered about in pro-
fuson, Che Morning Glory, Sunset Lake,
Black SSpd. tho Punch Bowl being the most
noted ~ common consent, the prize for
bssaty s ever given en-, wi, will be divided be
the names give but eight idea Of the beauty
Of coloring and conformation which marks
those natural wonders-they are merely
suggestive as descriptions must ever be.
FOURTH DAY.
About noon the next day one reaches
the border OF Yellowstone Lake, blue,
go BY way Of Kepplar's Cascade, along the
upper Firehole River. up Spring Creek
Cshon TO lisa Lake. the Continental Divide,
from which. like the peak OF q roof, the
waters aow. those on the east 10 the At
lantic, those on the west TO the Pacific;
then Shoehone Point, the Three Tetons
looming grandly In the distance, and again
the Divide u crossed. at an elevation OF
. ,3+5 fest
4 bot spring lie separated from the lake
BY only1a thin crust Of formation as the
sediments are called, and over