Evening star., 1909-08-21

the Union Pacific railway and Oregon
Short Line via Salt Lake City to mt
tie station at the western gateway called
Yellowstone. There the trains are met
by the stages of the My, which means
the Monida and Yellowstone Transporta-
ton Company. The Oregon Short Line
tracks were extended TO the park IN l9o'
and during the last two seasons that COM
pany has been running up long trains OF
Pullman cars which land one set OF pas
sengers at the gateway every morning
and take another set away every nlght.
During the last few weeks the cars nave
been so crowded that the ticket agents
at Salt Lake City nave been compelled
to suspend business OH several OCCASIONS
but the facilities have been increased SO
that there is no limit to the number OF
passengers that can now be handled
Successful in Two Lines.
The MY stages are managed by Mr..
f. Jay Haynes of st. Paul. who IS bet
ter known as a photographer than
transportation man. although he mas peeh
equally successful in both lines of bus
ness. Mr.. Haynes came into the PARK
to make views soon after its wonders
were discovered. and has been the, Off
cial government photographer tor many
years Nobody knows the park as Wen
as he, for he has photographeu eNsay
object of interest In its winter as Wen
as it's summer sarb he spen. IVY W., "i; III
ters going about on snowshoes WIN ms
camera on his back. and all OF the hofth-
ern half of the Rocky mountains is quite
as familiar to him. =.
When the oregon Short Lire built its
track northward from Salt Lake City to
Butte In 1883 it's officials arranged with
Mr. HAYNES to start a stage line from
Monida the nearest station. Sixty mlleS
west of the western entrance or the
park The town received its Spanish
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border line half in Montana and half
in Idaho. The names of the two states
were abbreviated and united In one
Mon-Ida
Mr.. Haynes started with twelve coaches
and. by relays of horses every fifteen
miles was able to make the siXty-mile
journey In eight hours. AS business m
creased he added to his equipment, until
he now has 103 stages and other pas
senger vehicles and 900 horses. The first
year he carried a705. This year he had
already carried 2.S31 up to the 1st of
August. and will handle between 5000
and 5000 before the end of the season.
He has hauled as many as 2lS passen-
gers in day.
The Cody Route.
The third way of entering the park is
from the town of Cody. Wyo.. on the
Burlington railway a distance of ninety
four miles to the Yellowstone lake,
where connection is made with the regu-
lar stage lines. Very few people come
that way, however. because the northern
and western entrances are so much more
convenient; but for campers 1t mas many
attractions, and hunting parties who
have been down through the forest re-
serve can get into the park more easily
by that route.
There is also a southern entrance from
Jackson's hole through the Yellowstone
forest reserve, which offers some of the
most sublime mountain scenery In the
world That route Is used by camping
parties, which are becoming more and
more numerous every year. Several gen
tlemen make a business of organizing
them in the east and conducting them
from a central rendezvous for an ex-
cursion of five or six weeks. furnishing
horses. camp equipment and every neces-
sary for stated price.
/ wrote you about party OF boys that
was going out from Fort Washakie with
man. Mrs. Moore takes out parties OF
young women and girls in a similar man.
ner. There is a party of boys from
Culver Military Academy. Indiana In
the park this season. and several un-
tanned herds Of students are going about
dressed like cowboys. shrieking their col
lege yells and singing college songs.
They are having a glorious time. but
the Outlandish costumes they wear are
to frighten all the catamounts
out of the reserve.
Most Popular Form.
The most popular form of outdoor life
i'm the park seems to be found in the
Wylie permanent camps, which are sit
uated, six of them. near the greatest
places of interest and are conducted upon
an elaborate plan. They are villages of
large tents with canvas dining rooms
sitting rooms and all of the equipment
outfit of ninety-five stages and 300 horses
to handle it's own passengers. meets
them at the railway station at Gardiner
and conducts them through the park
precisely like the other transportation
Up to the 31st of July this
year it bad handled 3.S77 passengers and
will probably handle as many more be-
fore the season Is over.
This system is intended for people of
limited means, who are willing to sleep
under canvas and put up with a few
as a matter of economy,
the difference in price is COM
paratively small. By the Northern Pa
cific route you can spend fye and half
days In the park. with the very best OF
hotel accommodations, transportation in
under the care of the Yellow
stone Transportation Company. for $3.50.
You can have the same thing for five
days by the Oregon Short Line route
in the care of the Monida- Y ellowstone
Stage Company for SAG: and by the
Wylie permanent camp outfit for $40.
That Is the cost of the round trip, but a
passenger can stop over at any point on
the route as long as he pleases and re-
sumo his journey by the same line when
ever he is ready by paying s. a day
extra at the regular hotels and $3.50 a
day extra at the Wylie Camps. Through
tickets are sold at all of the principal
railway stations In the United States
over both of the regular stage lines.
System Of Movable Camps.
Next there are movable camps con-
due ed by persons licensed to do the busi-
ness. Shaw & Powell have thirty wag-
ons. and u dozen other people have five
wagons each. Their business is con-
Quoted similar to that of the Wylie COM
pany, except that they take down their
tents every morning and put them up
every night. and travel usually with two
or three wagons. conveying seven or
eight passengers each followed by a
freight wagon loaded with camp equip
age and ''chuck wagon" with the food
supplies and cooking utensils. The cost
of making a journey through the park
with one OF these outfits is $50, and their
patrops get good deal of experience as
we'll as good deal Of fun for the money.
Then come the -brushers," asI
they are called-private camping parties
who hire their outfits at Livingston, Gar
diner and other places. or bring their
own and camp as long as they please
wherever it is permitted. At intervals
Good camping here or mo camping
here" Camping places have been Sc
lected by the military guard in the park
where the water Is pure and fuel Is
plenty and no harm is likely to occur
from the fires or other causes of dam
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