Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-24


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be overlooked entirely among SO many
| wonderful things If it were not for its
regularity 1t always plays once every
| two hours. Sometimes as often as once
an hour. sometimes at intervals of an
| hour and a half or an hour and three
quarters, but it never allows two hours to
pass without an explosion for three or
| four minutes.
| The Bee Hive and Baby.
| Several of the great geysers have ten
ders or indicators and some of them have
a relationship in their operations. For
example, the Bee Hive. which is one of
the most interesting of all the geysers,
has little baby fountain beside it which
always goes of five minutes before it be-
gins to work. throwing a tiny stream
til the Bee Hive commences action. The
Bee Hive plays at intervals Of from four
| teen to forty days. The Giantess, which
is one of the largest In the group, has
precisely the same intervals, and always
proceeds the Bee Hive day or SO. That
is, when the Giantess has an eruption
| the Bee Hive Is always sure to break out
within twenty-four hours, and sometimes
repeats the performance twelve to
ltwenty-four hours later. The Giantess
played day before yesterday: the Bee
Hive followed yesterday morning and
again this evening. and will now keep
quiet until the Giantess plays again, and
that may be month from now. The
| season, but she has played three times
| this season already. which is a great
qualification to the tourists.
There are three hot pools besides the
hn ShaI ho
Vault and the Tea Kettle. because of the
formation of their craters, and they are
| always filled to the brims with boiling
hot water except when the Giantess is in
eruption. When it has ceased, the r
craters are empty and dry as far as one
can see down into them. 1t takes them
two or three days to fill. and they remain
filled and continue to boil until the
Giantess wakes up again.
The Giant has three similar pools, al
though they are go yards distant and
across the Fire Hole river; but they are
always empty and dry after it has had
an eruption. which occurs from seven to
ten days, and lasts from sixty to ninety
| minutes. The Giant is now the largest of
all the active geysers, and throws its
stream highest, more than $50 feet high.
The Grand Geyser, which is next larg-
est, plays without any regularity, some
times every other day, and often not for
three weeks. 1t has tender in the Tur-
bine, which gets its name from the regu-
| lar motion of the water, which shoots out
from it's crater in different directions
| about ten minutes before and from TIVE We
to fourteen hours after the grand.
Then it lies still until the Grand is ready.
and gives ten minutes notice before it
begins. In the epring of the year the
Grand plays once in every two to six
days, which is supposed to be due to
snow and rain; in July. August and Sep
TENDER. when there are no rains it
plays every twenty days. After the Grand
| t,ne a1o xyiy, fyu-n hfcv
can be seen down deep in her crater.
which are supposed to be optical Illusions
caused by escaping gas. but there is no
way of determining the cause of that
strange phenomenon.
Roar and Whistle.
Some Of the geysers roar. The loudest |
sound is produced by 1.-THE Black Growl |
err in the Norris basin, not far from the |
lunch station, and it can be heard for |
long distance. The Whistler. near by, |
produces a continuous sound caused by |
the steam passing through narrow vent |
in the crater before 1t reaches the ar:
One Of the big geySerS near Old taltnfui /
is called the Lion because it roars four
or five times at intervals of few min
utes before it's regular eruptlons. which
occur two or three times daily, and can
be plainly heard for distance OF seVeral
hundred yards TheeBeehive, which has
a narrow throat like nozzle, always
makes loud noise as the water is forced
through it. The Castle also roars for the
same reason. =
The Lioness has two cubs near by. and
one of them always plays with 1t. Its
eruptions occur every two or three weeks,
and last for about ten mlnutes When II
throws steady stream OF water nun
dred feet high Sometimes one OF the
cubs plays at the same time. and some
times the other-never both. There is no
regularity about them. ;,
The most beautiful of all the geysers
is the Morning Glory. which gets it's
name from its shape and a wonderful
combination of shades of blue color winch
are very deep in the center, and gradu-
ally fade away to white at the cages.
The Butterfly has oeauufui iorina'.on'
ors. the head and eyes perfectly formed
and the tints exquisite.
These combinations of colors are found
in the lakes as well , as IN ia. ,ne geSsers
ample on the road. between Mammoth
Hot Springs and Norris. are only rev
feet apart. and are connected by a mar
row little stream. They are at the same
level, with the same surroundings, and ,
about the same size and depth, yet the
water Of one is as blue as a turquoise
foliage which half hides it from the road.
On the terraces at Mammoth Hot Springs
are three deep pools of hot water, side
by side. One is an intense blue; announcer
Is a DrlBnt green, anu Tie 5Ci- |
low. These effects are produced by the
chemicals In the walls of the craters
below the water The same phenomena
appear - many places where the color
Of the water varies in adjoining springs
in a manner that is always surprising.
Degrees of Temperature.
Some Of the geysers are hotter than
others. The Turbine is the hottest of all.
A thermometer dropped into it will show
100 degrees when drawn out. The Giant
ess Is the coolest, with an average tenn
perature- of 120 degrees.
In some of the geysers the water is
absolutely pure. In others 1t Is charged
with iron. magnesia, soda or sulphur.
Others show combinations of metals
which are indicated by the stains upon
the surface of the formation around
them. The water from some Of them