The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-19
THOUSANDS SEE
The YELLOWSTONE
NATIONAL PARK NEVER HAD so
MANY VISITORS.
TRANSPORTATION and Hotel Company,
However, Had Prepared for the Rush
and Handled the Crowds Without
Causing Delays-New Facilities Are
Being Added Continually.

Thanks to the wonderful system, per-
sands of tourists are seeing the Vel
lowstone National park this season
without discomfort or delay. When it
is considered that the park business
involves the moving Of travellers over
long distances by such necessarily
crude methods as the stagecoach; that.
hotels must be pF pro l9 and
pletealy as any which can receive their
stores direct from the railroads, and
that all this must be done for a season
of little more than three months, the
formidable nature of the problem can
be appreciated. That it has been ade-
uuateiy met is due to the foresight and
liberality of the Yellowstone Park
Transportation company, which holds
the hotel privilege for the National
park and operates line Of stages De-
tween its various stopping places IN
the circuit of five days. travel.
A short time ago dispatches an
Nturned away from the Yellowstone.
AS a matter of fact, nothing could be
further from the truth-at least as re-
CARDS the transportation company's
business. The rush of sightseers may
have taxed the limited facilities Of
some of the camping companies, but
the company operating the hotels fur
nishes a heavy bond to the government
to care for all corners, and Superintend-
ent George Breck saw to it that there
was no penalty collected.
Record Breaking Year.
Early in the season it became appar-
ent that this year was to be record
breaker for the National park. The
Lewis and Clark exposition was a great
magnet to draw travel to the west
by taking the Northern Pacific, they
could make the Yellowstone tour on
the side, the demand opened brisk and
has been growing by leaps and bounds
as the season advanced. Yellowstone
travel in June this year exceeded that
Of last year by 1900. In July the ex-
cess over the corresponding month last
year was 1000. The total for July
was just about equal to the total of
| the entire season last year.
Inasmuch as August is always the
heaviest month, the transportation
company decided to enlarge it's equip.
ment, and superintendent Breck went
east late in July, where he purchased
seventy-fve two-horse wagons to sup
plement the big line of regulation park
stages Harness and horses to go with
|
the regular staff Of nearly three hun
dred drivers enlarged to serve the new
rigs. Harness and wagons were shipped
to the park on passenger trains. Aug.
l found the company prepared as never
before for grand rush.
Hotels Are Modern. .s.l
This explains why the stream of
travel thru the Yellowstone has been
kept moving on time. That the throngs
of travellers have been well cared Tor
at the hotels in the park is due to other
features Of the system perfected by MI;
Breck in his ten years, handling 5o %
what was for years considered an ~.
; accessible district, the hotels are as
modern and as well equipped as any w
, the country Dairy herds at each house
supply fresh milk and cream; system
of abattoirs and cooling houses thru
the park insures excellent anlmal-fooe
products, and a complete telephone, sys
tom enables the manager of each hote
to know well in advance exactly how
many newcomers to prepare for. II
! many respects the transportation com
= pany's system resembles that Of a rail
. road, inasmuch as the various stage
and the individual passengers are neye
. ture which is of as. much advantage t.
: the tourist as to the company.
August business is fully coming u
:: to expectations and the enlarged equip
> ment is proving a wise preeaution
Il Everything is moving sEao0thly an
~ every tourist that. comefg five ssfrwel
: cared for. e insurance.
, New One Goins.
AS result of this seasTifo Inh an,
the thousands Of deligHs shows yelef
who will go home to talle not had Ye
lowstone, a permanent lie the stats Ns
a. tional park travel is exngnaent tht tn
company is already. pre- Ia rin.,. Tor i
At Mammoth Hot Springs, the first ste
t tion in the park: new hotel is to
e built at once The present structure
n large one, but as it is the place wher
o the arriving and departing streams 9
IS travel meet, larger facilities are deeme
e necessary.
/, Work on the new structure will b,
IS CON ne e With the character an
d size Of the SICKNESS and the reputatio
e the transportation company has estal
O. lished for caring for it's guests.