The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-05-07

get in step with the times, Child
posed of all the company's hors
and bought $50 11-passenger aui'
mobiles. Last summer his organic.
ton handled 1900 people every d
on an average through the season
Altogether last season $4,000 pc
pie visited Yellowstone park betwe,
June 20 and September 20, inclut
ing IL, 900 private automobiles frol
every state in the union.
Child is today devoting a consider'
able share of his energy and niue.
money to turning the tourist It'd,
away from Europe and toward Mon
tana's two great scenic national parks
as well as toward other western at
fractions. Last year the Is national
parks and monuments were visited by
more than $4,000 people, and this
year the number will be tremendous
ly increased.
ChiId's Annual Camping Trip
Child loves outdoor life, himself
Robert H. Davis, writer and sports
man, and managing editor of Nun
ssy's publications, gives the follow
ing account of Child's annual camp
ing trip, which starts in Yellowstone
Park: Every year this man out in
Helena, Harry Child, has the same
yearning to go camping that letter
carrier has to take walk. He is a
little more elaborate in his methods,
however. He never starts until the
hotels in the park system are about
to close-somewhere about the last
of September. His first step is to get
three of the largest trucks on the sys-
tenn and go from hotel to hotel on
a closingzup expedition. He gener-
ally starts at Mammoth Springs,
where he takes on four or five tons
of food. Then he goes up to Norris,
where-he grabs a couple of cooks; at
Old Faithful he sweeps up half-a-
dozen walters; at the Geyser he grabs
not less than ten tons of ice; and
at the Lake he cleans out all the
and fruit and delicacies
that have not been devoured by the
tourists from the east. In his trium- /
plant march, he grabs all the good |
horses and tents and portable ranges |
that are fit for service. Won linden |
burg going through Belgium was
compared with Harry Child |
raiding his hotel system for camp
ing paraphernalia.
I'm 1910 he took Sam Blythe and
Will Loeb and myself with him. The
cavalcade that crossed the Gibbon
and the Fire Hole and went On down
INTO the Madison looked like mob
If land stampeders piling into virgin
territory. The first stop we made
vas at Grayling, beautiful little
suburban postoffice which has since
been taken over by the Montana
Power Company and now lies under
fifty. feet of water. We pitched our
ents in Red Canyon, three miles dis
ant from the town site. We had
hirty-one horses, five wranglers,
wo cooks, six Japanese walters, and
enough grub to feed Coxey's army
,oing and coming. Harry, known on
he frontier as Harry Hardup' for !
he reason that he owns only one !
hundred and fifty thousand acres of :
and and twenty thousand head of !
took, ordered up a pitcher of lem
made and superintended the laying +
ut of the camp site. AS soon as :
light falls, Harry eats three trout,
ouple of elk steaks, drinks another
uart of lemonade, smokes another
OK of cigars and climbs into the hay.I
the fishing is good and there is a 4
ind behind him, he trots down to
ne river, makes a dozen casts (the
igher the wind the better), picks I
p a few fish and comes back to his S
anvas chair. c
GAS soon as we got comfortable in v
ed Canyon, Harry unrolled large q
Jap of the state of Montana and sug
ested thirty or forty other places
lat he thought were better. His E
hole idea of camp life is to get away v
ON the spot where he happens to "
D. When Harry Hardup is finally a
lcked away into the mould and t.
rye marble slab is erected overshim, n
voice will roll forth exclaiming, Il tt
now a better place; let's novel ST