Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-11-08
Of the national parks-Hot Springs
only last year. ~ -
Oldest National Park,

OIdest National Park.
incidentally. the monograph set
ties the old dispute Of whether Hot
Springs~or the Yellowstone is the old
est OF the national parks. Hot Springs
was set aside as a reservation in 1882,
and it was 40 years later that the yell
lowstone National Park was created
was the first true national park in.
the sense that it was to be a region
developed for the pleasure of the
public. Hot Springs was merely re-
served to prevent the medicinal wa
tiers from being exploited by private
ownership. e
The establishing, of Yellowstone
National Park was a-romantic cpl
sode. The marveIs of, that region
were discovered in 1907 by John Col
ter, a hunter who had been attached.
to the Lewis and Clark expedition.
1t was the fate of Golfer and the
other white men who weht into the
Yellowstone district during the next
Ii century to be disbelieved When,
they told their stories of the spoutng
water and mud from the geysers, In
fact, h region was at first derisive-
ly called Golfers He'll,
In 1853 a reliable expedition of
M~ontanans explored the Yellowstone,
verified the preceding reports of it,
and published the discoveries. This
was followed the next year by the
exploration made by the IWashburn-
Doane expedition, which took in a
military escort, detailed by the war
department. This expedition brought
about the creation of the park, and
gave birth to the national park idea
which has since worked out in the
national park system as we know it
today.
When the members Of the Wash
burn-Doane expedition saw the won
ders of the Yellowstone, they dis
cussed among themselves the ugges-
ton that it would be profitable to
pick up ownership to the land sur
rounding the geyserS and other .phe-
nomena and exploit the place as. a
commercial venture. Such an act
would not have been regarded so re-
prehensible then Jas It would now. But
n Of the members Of the party ex-
pressed the opinion that such a won
derland ought never to be allowed
to pass into private, ownership at all
the whole population. The others
agreed to this at once, and the mem
bers Of the expedition later took the
lead in the movement which resulted
in the creation OF the Yellowstone
National Park in 1872.
No.other parks were. added to the
system until 1~890Swhen the Yosemite,
sequoia, and General Grant parks in
California were .taken. over by the
government Then followed he Gre
ation Of the Mount Rainer Park in
1899. Since the year 1900 the gov
eminent has created IA national
parks, so: that the total number of
them is now 10. The parks did not
attain great popularity with the tray-
pin public until after the outbreak
of war IN Europe. That fact.
shutting on ocean travel, added. to tho
development Of automobile roads in
the west, and turned a flood of tour.
lists INTO the parks. Whereas before
1915 only about 100000 persons visit
ed the parks each year, last wear
the tourists numbered over 900 00O |
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS,
sFA. According to books on cos-
tunes OF the past centuries high heels
were worn by women during tho
lreigp OF Charles II in the fourteenth
century: They seem to have attained
their greatest height and popular;tv
In n reign of Louis XIV and Louis
~, ol france. During the latter pe-
Rod dress accessories We're greatly
exaggerated, the headdress belny
somettmes several feet in height and
the width of the dresses and the !
height of3the heels of shoes exaepars q
fated accordingly, It is probable that f., ,
Inc 1erml "Louis' chung to the high A
est French heel for this season. 0
g. What is the correct p,ura, of ~
~teaspoonful? e. Nice. ~
A. The plural of teaspoonful 10 p
teaspoonfuls. The word teaspoonsf,I 81
lsuggess different thought. Fonr III
~teaspoonsful means four different ,ea- is
spoons filled with flour, whereas 81
l1our teaspoonfuls indicates that one in
teaspoon has been filled four, ljr'as
Q. Is Ice cream salt put on ice n f ne
cause II TO melt or to keen n ~ 10
melting? A. L.. NUN Gu
A.: Salt is rnt with ice when max
ing ice cream In order to melt Tho ino a.,