The Republican journal., 1915-08-12
Through the Yellowstone Park.
An ENJOYABLE Camping Trip.

Since early in the spring, when it was
decided that trip through the Yellow
stone Park be substituted for home visit
this year, the question of how we should
go had been almost daily discussed. The
merits of the 1.-THE Wylie Way" and the
''Shaw and Powell Way" were weighed
and balanced by the aid of their attrac-
tive circulars, but just as we were
about to make a final decision and write
for reservations-aV very necessary pre-
caution this Exposition year-a third al
tentative presented itself and was ac
copied. The Montana Agricultural Col
!ege summer school was to have its Sec
ond annual EXCURSION through the Park.
and this time was to go with ''real"
camping company-Roseborough and
Grant-and was to have an eight day
trip instead of the 5 1-2 and 6 day trips
of the permanent camping companies
The party was to leave Livingstone for
Gardiner over the Park line on Monday
morning, July 10th, at O'Clock, and so
the family. including ''SamAp," left
home Sunday afternoon for the pleasant
hours ride over the divide to Living
stone. AS is quite usual with trains in this
part of the west No. was late, but we
arrived in Livingstone in time for good
dinner at the Park hotel, where other
members of the party were CHARTERED for
the night A call for 6. Is the next morn
ing was left at the desk, but the clerks
voice over the room phone found us al
ready up and getting into camp regalia.
Billie was in especially good spirits, and
announced, as he ran down the hall
ahead of US, that he was going to ''beat
daddy and order his own breakwist-
fried 'tatoes, an peanuts, an candy an
ice cream!" Shades of DR.. Holt!
Breakfast was rather hurried meal,
and we reached the station just in time
to get place on the open observation
car, from which a fine view of the
mountains may be obtained. We passed
both Chico and Corwin Hot Springs, ia
vorite resorts for people from all over
the State, who enjoy stays of varying
lengths at the home-like hotels, with
their hugh plunges in connection. At
Corwin, our next door neighbor in 6oze-
man Mr.. and Mrs. C. S. Tabor, boarded
the train and surprised US. Mr.. Tabor,
the efficient money order clerk in the
postofice, is the Maine man and school,
mate of T. B. Dinsmore at Oak Grove
Seminary who has been mentioned in pre-
vious letters, and with his wife was
spending part of his vacation at the
Springs. They were going as far into
the Park as Monument Hot Springs,
pleasant days trip.
At Gardiner, after the two hours run
through the mountains, "the dudes," as
all the Park tourists are called who go
in with per manent camping companies,
quickly assorted themselves into groups
and were assisted on board the waiting
vehicles of the different companies by
uniformed attendants and taken to the
companies hotel for lunch.
The stout mountain wagon of Rose
borough and Grant soon deposited US at
the door of the Shaw & Powell hotel,
where we had dinner. While waiting
for the rigs to appear for the real start
of our trip shopping tour was in order
and Moor's curio store was the objective
place of many of our party. There,
guide books, colored glasses, big straw
shade hats, hair nets, and variety of
things, including post cards, were
bought in preparation for eight days out
of touch with shops. We saw our first
game while waiting, as inside the wire
fence bordering the road opposite the
hotel two antelope were peacefully feed
ing. In the winter the inclosed park is
a favorite feeding ground, where hum
dreds come down from the hills to feed |
on the hay and alfalfa doled out by the
''Swatties, 'as for some reason unknown
to the writer all the soldiers stationed I
in the Park are called.
Squeals of joy from Billie and Theo-
dora, his new found friend, the only
other child in the party of forty-five, an
nounced the appearance of the rigs, and
soon the party was comfortably disposed
in the seven carriages. The party in
cluded, beside number of the summer
school students, who are for the most |
part young Montana teachers, number
Of the college and summer school faculty,
botanist and geologist, DR.. /
Pleadwell, a naval surgeon, his wife and
little daughter from Washington, D. c.,
and two gentlemen, Mr.. Charles Schwarz
of Fairbault, Mimi, and his son, Mr.. B.
M. Schwarz, a jeweller from Minneapo-
lis, nurse from the Deaconess hospital,
and others. Several small groups were
already made up, and when all were ar
ranged to their satisfaction we found
ourselves comfortably situated in the
only four-horse rig, an eleven passenger
coach, with Prof. and Mrs. R. A. Barnes
of Bozeman, the Messrs. Schwarz, Miss
Williams and Miss Nickel, two young
ladies' from Butte, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Scott Fries, also of Butte, where Mr..
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