Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-10-20
feY ONE OF rAe LEWIS PARTY

from where We stopped for the nishf II
! Is IS miles across.
! Shortly after We had registered as
from Honolulu. We we're tod that az.
other party from honolulu tad been
there a few weeks before. and We look
ed through the register end tourd II
was Mir and Mrs. A \. Campbell,
Cold Weather
. On August II. the temperature at
tire Wyiie Way hotel at a. m vas o.
degrees. We left the hotel about ?
O'Clock for the Grand Canyon. which IS
some forty miles away. We went dl-
rect TO the upper fails, and had beau
, tiful view from Artist point. and other
vantage points along the canyon. The
formation is lime and sulphur stone
and il is very picturesque. Returning
from the upper falls. We crossed the
stream again and climbed down the
steps and got to within few feet OF
the greatest waterfall of them all,
where the spray from the falling water
drenched us, and where the very best
view can be had OF the water and can
yon. As the rules of the park do not
permit the autos to return over the
same road until after p. m, We went
I'D to another hotel which is the prop
orty of the same company. and it prov
ed 10 be the largest hotel that we have
yet visited. Its Hobbies. OF which there
are two. are probably five times the
size of the lobby at the Young hotel.
The hotel is grandly furnished and
ltas $50 rooms Hayden valley is with
in the park area and Is very 0eautlihi,
There are l52 automobiles running
in the park, all painted yellow and
owned by ore company. and any one
meeting them has to give them the
right of way. They get their right
| from the government and have the
| first privilege to use the roads. forget
ting that every one that enters the
park gets permit from the authori-
ties, or they could not enter. Any
| way they have the right OF way. Their
machines cost them around $1So,OOO.
| Leave Park.
We passed out the east boundary
OF the park on our way to Cody, the
home of Buffalo Bill, at 3:20 p. M.
and surrendered the permit that had
been given US when we entered. the
official that took the permit was
rather officious, ii being Sunday aft
ernoon may have had something to
do with ii. In riding out of the park
we passed some very fine mountain
scenery and some great engineering
road work, loop the loop, etc. After
leaving the boundary of the park we
came to an immense lake on which the
| Interior Department had completed
improvements in January 1910, at a
cost OF something like S3.000,0OO.
| The surface OF the lake is ten square
miles and the height of the wall that
stops the water from going through
the canyon is 32S feet; the thickness
| of the wall at base is 10S feet and top
is ten feet. The Interior Department
seems to have left it to its fate, for
nothing has ever been done to get
the water out where the farmer could
| use it, Right around this dam is
| some of the most wonderful scenery
that we had ever seen--great noun
tains OF granite and marble forma-
tion-and with the water rushing
through the open gates of the dam it
is one of the grandest sights that any
one could wish to see. We arrived at
Cody about $50 o'clock. At the
Irma Hotel we found card posted in
our rooms, reading: Col. w. F. Cody,
Prop, or Buffalo Bills Hotel in the
Rockies, Wyoming" There we're nu-
merous Indian pictures hanging on
the walls and in the dining-room there
was one about nine feet long. AL
most every picture has the profile OF
/ Col. Cody in some part of 1t. The
colonel certainly believed in adver-
Using and he was posed usually on
his famous white horse.
We learned later that the hotel is
named after his daughter Irnla, who
is now managing the place. Her aged
mother is still living in the hotel.
Grand Scenery
i We passed through thirty miles OF
the park, but the fifty miles we
travelled outside the park limits was
| by far the finest scenery OF any on
our entire journey. We saw three
farms, and just below the dam men.
toned above, where the water rushes
out through the gates there were peo-
| pie fishing who pulled out a number
OF nice trout while We were standing
| there taking in the wonderful sight.
i am not using all of my notes, and
In looking over them l find one that
/ | think may be of interest.
In the morning, at the Ripley