The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-26
The early days Of June are the commence
x,nanf davs and the Last DAYS In Senfemher

The early days OF June are the commence
ment days and the last days in September
are the closing days in Yellowstone Park;
after them the first snowfakes come Then
the final tourist leaves; the hotels close.
tho transportation company ceases to run
the big. comfortable stages; the tender
foot campers pack their outfits, and the
park is left to the guardian soldiers. the
watchers at the hotels, the solitary pedes-
TRANS. the campers who disdan calendars
or rising and falling temperatures. the
big game that come back cautiously from
oyer the far ranges, and the furtive chip
monk which no longer darts from the
road. trembling. into the hole of some
fallen tree, as II the only object of the big
numbering stages with parties Of merry
voyagers was to trample out its little.
helpless life
The silence and gloom OF winter begin
early here, the Christmas cold comes in
October and to all intents and purposes,
over the great reservation known as Yell
lowstone Park. the curtain drops until
the spring Then will begin another and
still longer procession of pilgrims. for with
each season the books OF the transporta-
ton company show an increasing number
OF tourists who come into tLis wonderland
"a VIC SOhehicb'' w u itW ddysr olic
is brought face TO face with nature in all
It's varying moods from the serenity OF
land-locked lakes to the awful wrath OF
its cafon. the threat OF its bubbling gey-
sers and the rugged strength Of its great
hills, rising on the continental divide to
an altitude Of over s.354 feet About 10000
people visited the park this year, one rail-
way alone bringing more than e,OO0. From
hAaa AZ tatt<
OF its popularity and possibilities as a sum-
mer resort.
The trip through the park takes Ave and
. half days. but this is followed only by [!
the few who arc travelling on the .on |
again, OF again, gone again Finnegan'
style of transit; the majority stay over a
day here. week there. a fortnight at the !
Canon, Lake. Upper Geyser OF Hot Springs |
as time and inclination permit.
The five and half days may be outlined |
thus.
THE YIRsg tAY
The train stops at Livingstone, a typical |
Western town. that is. a level ending In !
hills, the level holding the hotel. saloon,
frame houses OF one and a half or two stories.
store for curios and the station. Here |
the car for the park is separated from the
western Limited and after a run Of fifty
ono miles stops at Cinnabar where the |
stages are waiting.
Al Livingstone the tourists on a certain
date were treated TO their first view OF the
hospitality Of the West. when two young
women. hosting themselves hurriedly on
to the moving section Of the train, found
themselves en- route to Portland. while their
original destination had been the park,
The train had run a couple OF miles before
the mistake was discovered. then il was
stopped They were gently lifted to the
ground by Gordon Of Pullman porters.
guards. conductors and train hands. the
passengers forming a sympathetic back.
ground.
They were afraid that their own train
would leave them-but not 90. Hall Law.
iqfstone came to meet and escort them
back; onsNmight have thought il a national
holiday. The pioneer Of the procession