Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-05-02
PRESIDENT TAKES
The ROAD AGAIN
Laid Corner. Stone of the New
Gate at Entrance of yell
Iowstone Park.
is A WORLDS WONDER
National Park the Only Primevai Won.
derland on the Globe-Scenery
Is Especially Beautiful in
the Winter.

Gardiner, Mont, April 27.-Presidenl
Roosevelt yesterday afternoon resumed
his tour. Before going, however, he
participated in the laying Of the cor
nerstone of the new gate at the en-
trance to Yellowstone park. The cere-
mony was performed according To the
Masonic ritual, and was in charge of
the grand officers of the state lodge of
Montana. Special trains brought hun
dreds of people here, including a large
Body of Mascns, II as the weather was
perfect the scene was a very pretty one.
The president, on behalf of the Ma
sons of the state, was presented with n
Masonic charm, mounted on a nugget
OF Montana gold.
The president, in his address,
thanked the people for his enjoyable
two weeks holiday, and then spoke of
the natural wonders of the park.
THE Yellowstone park" he said, lis
something absolutely unique in this
world as far as l know. Nowhere
else in any civilized country is to be
found such q tract Of veritable wonder
land, made accessible to all visitors,
where at the same time not only the
scenery Of the wilderness, but the wild
creatures of the park, are ~scrupulously
preserved. The park was created, and
is now administered, for the benefit
and enjoyment of the people. The gov
eminent must continue to appropriate
for 1t, and especially in the direction
Of completing and preserving the eX-
cellent system of driveways.
Safeguard Is National Ownership.
"The only way the people as a who're
ear secure to themselves and their
children the enjoyment in perpetuity
Of what the Yellowstone park has TO
give is by assuming the ownership In
the name Of the nation, and by jealous
ly safeguarding and preserving the
scenery, the forests and the creatures.
At present it is rather singular that a
greater number of people come from
Europe to see 1t han conn from our
own eastern states to see it. The peo-
pie near by seem awake to it's beauties,
and l hope that more and more of our
people who dwell far off will appre-
ciate its really marvellous character.
incidentally, l should like to point out
that some people will awake to the
fact that the park has special beauties
TO be seen In winter, and any party
or man who can 60 through 1t in the
season on skis will enjoy himself as he
scarcely could elsewhere. l wish es-
pecially to congratulate the people OF
Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, and
notably you of Gardiner and Of Gin
nabar, and those on the outskirts of
the park, for the way in which you
heartily cooperate with the superin-
tendent TO prevent acts of vandalism
and destruction.
THE preservation Of the forests is, Of
course, the matter of prime Importance
In every public reserve of this charac-
ter. In his region of the Rocky noun
tains and the great plains the problem
Of the water supply os the most import
ant part of the homeseekers' office.
Congress has not Of recent years done
anything more important than passing
the irrigation bill, and nothing more es-
sential to the pr~eservar+Un of the water
supply Il they make In the preserva-
ton Of the forests.
At the conclusion Of the ceremonies
the presidents train pulled out for Liv-
.ngston. Here Mr.. Burroughs will leave
the party, and will spend a short time
at Spokane, Wash. and on a ranch in
Montana, after which he will return to
mis- home at Pcekskill, N. Y.