Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-19
RUSH WORK IN
THE YOSEMITE
Preparations on Big Scale For Ac-
commodation of Many Ex-
position Visitors
TEMPORARY CAMP FINISHED
Opening of the Tioga Road Now
Makes Accessible the Wonder
full Tuolumne Canyon

! Washington, D. c., July 19.-There
have been lively times in the Yosemite
! since the snow melted, making ready
| for the great crowds which exposition
travel is expected to bring with it dur
| ing July and August. Yosemite is so
| near San Francisco, only nights run,
that many whose vacations will not
permit a tour of several National
Parks this year are expected to spare
two or three days to visit this one at
least All the signs point to large
crowds. An extraordinary number of
| inquiries have reached the Depart
ment of the Interior daily since early
April. Individuals from many East
! ern and Southern States, parents,
school teachers in large numbers,
| clerks, businessmen, motorists con-
templating trans Atlantic flights, tour
ist agents anxious to make sure of
hotel reservations for enormously in
creased patronage, ministers forming
church parties. Sunday School super
intendents-these and many others
have been seking information about
ways and means for seeing the
, Yosemite along with the expositions.
Then there have been inquiries from
many who are planning personally
conducted parties either for the profit
in ii or merely for the purpose of saw
ing their own expenses. This years
westward flying has developed a brand
new hllu OF IOuTlSJ agent, lne anna
| teur who seeks only the chance to
visit the eXpositions and the national
parks without expense to himself.
New Business For Women
The scheme is to work up Coop
erative parties of greater or less size,
composed for the most part of friends
or acquaintances with the purpose of
planning out the most delightful COM
bination of places and securing, by
concerted action, the best accommo-
dations and lowest expenses possible.
OF course some one person must lead
such party, which means much study
and labor in advance of starting, and
a man-sized job every day enroute
1t is only fair that the person under
taking this role should be left out of
the count when the total expenses are
apportioned pro rata at the end of
the trip.
A good many women will lead such
parties this summer 1t is the ex-
perience of Enos Mills, the Rocky
Mountain sage and naturalist, that
women make, on the whole, better
mountain guides than men. Here is
an opportunity for their genius in
economy and management. Railroad
men say that many of the women who
will conduct such parties westward
this summer are school teachers.
With these signs written large in
the sky, Secretary Lane has taken ex-
traordinary measures to make Yo-
semitic ready. The difficulties in the
way were great. Only one railroad is
available to reach the valley. The SEN
tinel Hotel has small accommodations
at hest, and the several public camps
were little larger last year than the
minimum of normal travel required.
The response on the part of the con-
cessioners of the Secretary's appeal
was prompt. Camp Curry was in
c fn n IaNA
turists, Camp Lost Arrow was made
to Accommodate 500 The supervisor
reported, under date of May "a, the
capacity of the Yosemite as follows:
Sentinel Hotel ........ $50
Camp Curry 600
camp Lost Arrow ........... 500
Camp Ahwahnee ....,....... 200
Glacier Point Hotel En