Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-22

YELLOWSTONE National Park,
with its natural wonders. I'M
" paralleled beauty and scenic
highways, finally has been
opened to motorists, marking
the end of a long struggle to gain adj
mission to the famous national play
ground. The restriction against auto
mobiles was removed by Uncle Sam at
e o'clock July 81, when a party of gov
eminent and park officials passed
through the imposing lava arch at
Gardiner gateway, formally signifying
an official welcome to motordom
Instead of opening the park at mid
night, the earlier hour was chosen to
permit a great cavalcade of tourists
waiting in. their cars at the entrance
to make the first stage OF the trip to
Mammoth Not Springs Hotel during
daylight. The official White car. carry
ing Col. Lloyd NJ Brett. U. S. A. acting
superintendent of the park; Maj. Amos
A. Fries, L. S. A. chief of park engi-
neersT H. w. Child. president of the
Yellowstone Park Hotel and Transpor-
taTon companies. and Robert S. Yard
GS the Department of the Interior. led
1.-THE procession to the hotel. Col. Brett
for five years served as adjutant gen
eral of the District of Columbia mill
tia, and prior to that was stationed at
Fort Myer. Va.
Promptly at o'clock the next morn
ing the official party left Mammoth
Hotel for a complete cfrc-it OF the
park The road requires a sharp as
cent and soon overlooks the cleaning
white formation of the Mammoth Hot
Springs, 6,264 feet, which had appeared
as O. small mountain when viewed from
the porch of the hotel Passing Sill
yer Gate and the Hoodoos, Golden Gate,
Bunsen peak, Terrace mountain, Rustic
falls. Swan Lake. basin, Electric peak,
Quadrant mountain, Bannock peak, Ant
Ter peak the Dome, Trilobite point and
Mount Holmes. Apollinars spring, Obsfd-
ian cliff, Roaring mountain, Twin lakes.
. Frying pan, and crossing Gibbon river
the first soldier station was reached.
1t is only q half mile to Norris GeySer
BASIN where Norris Hotel is located
AS the official car pulled up to the
steps of the lunch station a great
crowd collected to see the first motor
car that had ever visited there.
The official car left Norris at 9:15
am, after a brief stop. The next hotel
stop is Fountain Hotel, twenty miles
farther into the park. The road from
Norris Hotel to Mountain Hotel passes
through Elk Park and Gibbon meadow.
Fountain Hotel was passed at ] I am,
and the party reached Upper Geyser
basin at II o'clock. and stopped two
and one-half hours for lunch at Old
Faithful Inn.
Leaving Old Faithful at 2:30. the Of
flcial car sped on and began the long
climb to the Continental divide. first
along the Fire Hole river and then up
Spring Creek canyon. The first ap-
proach to Yellowstone Lake is at the
Thumb lunch station. where tourists
who travel by stage stop for refresh,
. ment on the ride between Old Faithful
; Inn and the Lake Hotel.
Lake Hotel was reached at 6:15 pm,
and 1T seemed a pity that the schedule
! required the party to push on to Cam
I yon Hotel without much time to spend
enjoying the wonderful view across
Yellowstone lake from the veranda OF
the Lake Hotel.
Starting after dinner, the seventeen
miles Of road to Canyon Hotel were
covered in one and one-half hours, over
frequent turnings, scarcely warranted
the speed that was made. 1t had ralned
all of Saturday night and the car was
covered with mud. The night was
spent at Grand Canyon Hotel The
schedule required that the official car
he started on the last lap of its jour-
ney at am, Monday.
Beautiful sights were seen on the
morning run from the Canyon Hotel to
Tower falls by way of Dunraven pass,
:.e"o feet. There is a road that leads
to /. ;op of Mount Washburn. but
since the roads in this vicinity were
found particularly wet, narrow and
slippery, this route was avoided.
About half way around Mount Wash
burn, a brand-neW auto StdtloH DuiIl vi
logs has just been erected. on the out
side of the road. Soldiers are sta
toned here, as elsewhere through the
park, to check passing autos and make
sure that motor tourists are OBSERVING
the regulations.
Leaving Mount Washburn, the road
steadily descends to Tower creek, whose
altitude is 6.400 feet
After the long. descending road from
Mount Washburn another soldier station
is passed and. by turning off the main
road a half mile. the petrif1ed trees may
be reached. The sight is we'll worth the
slight detour. Returning to the main
road, there is three-mle climb to where
the road traverses Crescent gulch and
thence to the Blacktail deer divide. from
which point it is steady descent to
Gardiner river. A beautiful rolling
country greets the eye from this point
on to Mammoth Hot Springs. where the
tour of the park was completed.
Approaching the end of the trip, fine