The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-30
SUFFERING IN THE WEST
ALASKA.YUKON- EXPOSITION
THE MAGNET.

ALASKA.YUKON- EXPOSITION
THE MAGNET.
Remarkably Low Rates This Year Put
the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific
Njthfn Reach OF Those VINO Have
Been Content With Coney Island
Manifold Charms OF the West and
Railroads That Make Them Possible
The Z Alaska Yukon-Pacifc exposition
at Seattle this summerhas caused g great
reduction in railroad rates to the far West.
Hundreds Of thousands OF Fasteners
will tske advantage Of the opportunity
to 60 not only to the exposition. which
will be amply worth while. but will take
the many side trips to points between the
Grand Cshon Of the Arizona and the yell
lowstone Park and from the lake country
Of Wisconsin to the scenic wonders along
the new Los Angeles. San Pedro and Salt
Lake. q
The Eastern railroads have gladly met
the reductions Of the great Western sys-
TENS, and whether the trip to the North
west or Southwest is made by the Laoka-
wanna. New York Central. Lehigh Valley
or Pennsylvania the connections at Chi
Caso and points further west are all that
a be desired.
The second stage Of the journey begins
in Chicago with the stations Of the Chicago.
Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Chicago and
Northwestern. the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific and tho Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy. At Omaha and Kansas
City hSDnion Pacific picks up the trav-
eller, while the Great Northern awaits
him at st. Paul and Minneapolis. At
Salt LakeCity the new salt Lake Route
the San Pedro. Los Angeles and Salt Lake,
meets the tenderfoot and carries him
through the mountain regions Of Nevada,
Wyoming, and California down to Los
Angeles and Pasadena in the country Of
noters.
The Raymond d whitcomb Company
ANNOUNCES . series Of tours which include
any Of the points Of interest along these
railroads that the traveller wishes to
visit.
Tickets can be purchased to Yellow
stohe Park over nearly all these roads.
The season opens there On June is this
yeSr, and the excursion tickets are 40
cordingty available for the opening.
Yellowstone Park is like no other place.
There are other geysers in foreign ooun-
ties and other hot springs. other cahous
and waterfalls. volcanic and glacial re-
mains. but in no other single place in all
tbe earth is there SO great q variety Of
natural phenomena gathered together.
The park might well be called natures
cuyiosity shop.
The boundaries Of the park include
$50 square miles. an area about two
thirds the size Of the State Of Rhode
Island. The plateau. the elevation Of
which ID about 1900 feet above sea level.
Is surrounded on north, east and south
by mountain ranges, whose highest peaks
reach an altitude Of from 10000 to IL, 1000
fest above the level of the sea. The
region in which the park lies was once
the bed Of an ocean.
In addition to the geysers. hot springs.
cations, waterfalls and lakes there are
peculiar geological formations. such as
the obsidian u. natural glass cliff. the
cobred terraces, paint pots, fossil forests
and numerous other phenomena.
The United States Government has
spent a million dollars in improvements
In the park. Ailarge portion Of this
has been expended in road construction,
it being the purpose to do everything
possible, for the comfort Of tourists.
The roads are now kept free from dust
by sprinkling,
The coaching trip in the park has moth
ing comparable to it in this country.
1t is as marked a feature OF the park as
the geysers and wild animals. For about
40 miles the tourist is carried convenient
distances daily over the finest Of roads
through the most remarkable scenery
10 the world.
A handsome new hotel, Old Faithful
Inn. has recently been constructed at
Upper Geyeer Basin. where a fine hotel
has long been needed. Constructed in
rustic yet artistic style. Of logs, boulders
and materials found In the locality 1t
is not only the largest but the most
unique, unconventional structure of its
sort in the world. There are more than
200 rooms, many Of them with bath and
hot and cold water and all lighted by
electric lights. AL the accommodations
Of a modern metropolitan hoetelry are
to'be found here in the secluded heart Of
the mountains.
The Colonial Hotel at Yellowstone Lake
Is fully. UP to the high standard OF Old
Faithful Inn. 1t is a splendid structure.
homelike, restful, very stately and is
located on the shore Of Yellowstone Lake
which with the mountains about it COM
pleteay overlooks.
Nearly all the railroad sell tickets
to Colorado, the seat Of some Of the most
magnificent scenery in the world. Great
chasms and .cshons. beautiful waterfalls,
petrihed forests. caverns. glens and snowy
ranges Of mountain peaks fascinate the
beholder in Colorado. Snowborn streams
dash over rocky beds to Join the great
river systems that rise In the natural
parks for which the State Ia noted, and
dainty mountain lakes lie hidden in the
Businesses Of this most beautiful star in
the nations galaxy of Statehood.
The chief gateway of the State Ia
Denver. loo ated in the valley Of the
South Platte twelve miles from the foot
hills of the Rockies, at an altitude Of
1000 feet above the sea. The view Of the
mountains from Capitol Hill, Denver.
was pronounced by Bayard Taylor the
finest mountain view in all the world,
The distant ranges and plains are visible
for 200 miles-Pike's Peak on the south.
Mount Evans and Longs Peak on the
west and the Laramie Plains on the north,
Colorado Springs and Manitou are eey-
enty-eight miles south OF Denver. and the
Journey 70 these cities is usually one OF
the first taken by the visitor after a short
play at Denver. They are situated at the
base Of the Rampant Range and the centre
Of a group OF the most notable natural
'Sonders Of the world. including pixies
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