Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-05
THE YELLOWSTONE.
There is No Park Like it in the
World.
A Few Tips on the Best Way to See
its Wonders. ~
Where the Wild Animals are at Home
and Man is Intruder.


Yellowstone Park in this world, how
ever the next world may be. The siZ-
zle and sulphur and fire and birthstone
and general connection have to be un-
der your feet, about your ears, and be-
fore your eyes in order to be APP
preciated One of the simplest ways to
drop small change overheard is to buy
descriptions of this amazing place. For
IS cents you can get fine writing" by
the yard, adjectives by the gallon,
quart or pint. and superlatives on
superlatives of the sort that the ignor-
ant old woman said she did like 70
hear, not that she understood them but
they sounded SO splendid. But out OF
them all you get no adequate notion of
the mystery, the novelty or the beauty
of this wonderful spot. The only way
Is to see it for yourself. and fortunately
that is now done with comparative
ease.
The natural route is by the Northern
Pacific railroad, which runs it's through
Pullmans direct to and from the park
in both directions of it's great system.
east as far as st. Paul and west as far
as Seattle, Tacoma and Portland. The
date roads with electric lights in it's
sleepers, fine dining-cars which, beside
their wide outlook, have barber SHOP,
bath room and the other conveniences
OF frst-ciass hotel The road runs
through miles after miles of fertile
prairies with endless fields of wheat
. on each side of the rack, and through
the famous bad Lands" which are
very beautiful and often fertile and not
all bad in the accepted%sense: TheN]
were named by the early French wh01
found them dad" to travel ID becausej
1t was so easy to lose ones way among
them. They are filled With innumer
able bluffs. apparently of clay, having
all sorts of odd and fantastic shapes
and the same one is never alike FROM
any two points of view. There are vast
areas of grazing land among these
lands and immense herds roam there.
We We're told of Frenchman, who
went out that way poor not so very
long ago and now has 900 head OF
cattle worth, say, $40 each. He could
afford to live in town, butt the same
source of information remarked that
after n fellow makes sure of his sue
cess out in the boundless West i you
can't drag him east again. Further
west beyond the bad landSafe.theg great
mining districts about .Sf9kane land
Helena and Butte, and hX thesAd
the Pacific slope. The VIII fnEfs M
teresting, not less, so by2rea Of fhe
long rows of heavy fS01kt ms sthnt
wait on all the sidins MI egests that
business is DOING TR line passes
through several Indian reservations
ana there you see the real thing so far
as he exists today. From the car win
dow we saw many braves riding across
country on their horses, and they
dressed. rode, looked and acted pre-
cisely like their lmtamed brethren who
represent them in Buffalo Bills moral
show at so much per. You almost felt
they would waylay the Overland stage
before your train had run out of sight
But all this is only incidental and
preliminary. The thing to do is to see
the Yellowstone Park. Cars run to
Gardiner and there in a x-horse tally
no you cross the park boundary and
ride five miles to the Mammoth Springs
Hotel which is the starting point for
the stages that go the round 1t Is a
fine large building capable of holding
several hundred people. and those who
go no further get the benefit of the
great elevation and see much that is of
surprising interest close at hand. 1t is
here. close by the hotel that the Won
derful formation exists of which the
familiar colored photographs are so
abundant, where the water pours down
over graceful pulpits and lofty terraces
which ite itself built up by It's lie
: rositssoF llfae and iron and sulphur and
!, so on. BY common usage this one spot
n called "the formation" as if the
word didn't apply to every acre in the
park or out. How do they account
for all this? 2" casually asked the guide
who was taking us about. and he was
ready Evidently he'd been asked be-
fore and his reasons came promptly:
well, you see, the water comes out
and formates and that gives us the
formation" 1t was conclusive. The
water In the larger polls is so hot you
cannot put your hand in it. Over acres
and acres it bubbles up here and there.
stopping at this point today and
breaking out at that point tomorrow,
changing all the while.
There trickle down the front Of the
. big, which in the aggregate make q
large volume of water that is used to
provide the electric light for the hotel.
Every tirne you pass you see dozens of
blackbirds. sand pipers and other birds
standing on the face of the decline so
that the warm water shall battle their
feet and warm them up. Theis salts
faction Is very evident.
At the Mammoth Springs Hotel you
plan your campaign. There you book"
for the round trip, which is paid for
clear around at the start. there you
engage your Pullman quarters for the
journey home. and there you return
after the trip is made to find rooms
ready for you with your trunks in
them and couple of hours in which to
get rid of your dusty clothes before
starting for the cars. The journey
through the park is made by flotilla
of coaches. No coach is allowed to pass
another. Each maintains it's, place in
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