The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1914-12-03
YELLOWSTONE PARK
is A WONDERLAND
Third InstaIIment.

playing Tor the amusement ahu inter
est Of ell lookers-on, throwing boiling
water into the air from rs TO $50 feet.
at regular intervals OF 65 TO 20 min
utes, and as stood near its old shabby
side and carefully studied its character
| thought that il the human race were
each as faithful TO the other as that
great wonder of nature is to the many
thousands who ggze upon.its coBstancy
that this would be-a better world.
We next visited the butterfly pool, SO
named for the reason that its shape re-
sembles the out-spresd wings OF a but
teriy, but ten thousand times larger.
and with colors more gorgeous than
most butterflies.
Our next place of interest was at the
Bee Hive. which is nearly six feet IN
diameter at the base and slopes 10
nearly three feet at the top, with
crater opening OF about Is inches. The
cone very much resembles in shape the
old bee hives in the days Of our fore
fathers. Its play is spasmodic, and
when in action the water is thrown up
200 TO $50 feet in the air. The cone is
four feet high and it requires the space
of 80 years to build one inch in height.
At that ratio, il must have started to
build 1918 years before America was
discovered.
The Sponge cone looks just like an
enormous sponge with thousands OF
tiny cells, etc. IL is a dark grayish
color and the formation is very pretty.
The Lion, Lioness and two cubs are
practically grouped together, with one
-. .,ak n;do % tk.f ltnpaaQ anH nar-
haps ten feet away, while the Lion Is
20 feet away and directly IN front or
the Lioness. And il is said that when
the Lioness plays then one Of the cubs
will take part, and then the other cub
will play at such time as the Lion.
A strange natural wonder.
We have passed so many other places
of interest that it would require the
writing of a large book to tell about
them. But while we were pausing for
a moment looking down into the depths
of China geyser, we we're told by our
guide without vouching for the verac-
ity of the story that Chinaman at
one time started a laundry in tent
which he pitched directly over the pool
of hot water and one day he accidently
let drop box Of soap into the water,
and instantly the action of the water
began rising higher and higher and
eventually carried the tent, Chlnaman
and all, up into the air thousand feet,
and strange as II may seem, the China
man never missed a rub going up or
coming down. But 1t is fact that
when soap is thrown into pool the
actien of the water Immediately starts.
and one of the rules of the park is not
TO throw soap into the pools of hot
water.
We have spent the afternoon In view
ing the many different places, all of
which were intensely interesting, and
have returned TO our camp, and while
we are resting under towering pines we
again watch the display Of Old Faith
full. After dinner has been served we
accompany our guide to the Old Faith
ful Inn, where we are shown by one of
the porters the most unique building
Of its kind in the world. The building
is five story structure built entirely
of pine logs with the bark on, just as
they were brought from the forest.
The stairways are made from split logs
with the fiat side up. and the banisters
and ratings are made of twisted.
knotted, gnarled and crooked natural
timbers. The ceilings are covered with
split lodge poles joined closely to-
gether. The fire place in the main
lobby is ii feet square, and stands
nearly in center with large opening
on each side, and then at each Of the
corners there is smaller fire place,
which makes eight in all. The stone
structure continues on up through the
places are less after the first or second
floors. On one side of the stone chin
neys was attached great steel clock
with dial four feet across, and the
hands nearly two feet long, The clock
runs by means of weights which hang
down beside the wall and the steel
pendulum hangs down nearly 10 feet
and makes the time for both the Dudes
and Sayages.
The great wide portico in front of
the building is supported hyscribs built
with the natural logs, which rest on
undressed stones most of which are
ornamented with lichen and other
moss. Much of the furniture is as old
as the building itself, and everything
generally is in keeping with the eccen-
trlcity of the great structure. The
doors are hung with long strap iron
hinges, bolted securely, while the latch
is long heavy iron, and altogether
the doors reminded me Of the doors in
some Of the old feudal castles in Eu-
rope.
We climbed the stairs one after an
other, viewing different apartments on
our way, until we came out on top of
that great structure where we found
standing and sitting room for hun
dred or more people, and from there
we had splendid view over that great
basin containing so many phenomena.
II was the Fourth of July when we
were there and flags of many nations
were floating in the breeze of that de-
lightful summer evening. And never
shall forget the beauty of Old Glory as
she, without a peer, tloated in the
breeze nearly 5000 feet above those
that waved peacefully on the broad
Pacific.
After detour of that most wonder
ful building, our guide led the way to
Haynes Studio, where a lecture by MIR.
Haynes was given on the geysers
formation, etc.
He said in part, according to the
Bunsen theory, which is taken for
authority, that sometime in the dim
past, very deep basin or crater must
have existed within the borders of high
mountains which almost surrounded il
and some of which belched forth in
unknown quantities motion lava, which
cooled and crusted on the surface, and
later vegetation covered the surface.
The lava naturally in cooling contract
ed more or less so that more or less
tissures and suhterranean caverns were
formed, by which water eventually
found its way down to the yet molten
lava, and as the water heated the steam
naturally had TO find a means of es-
cape. consequently the many vents in
the way of springs, pools, and geysers,
and to form the geysers the hot steam
and water must be forced up through
cavity pipes, something like or on the
same principle, that we force water
through the nozzle of a garden hose.
Il a.