The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-09
PARK Will HAVE
BIGGEST SEASON
Kammermeyer Says Yellowstone Will
Enjoy Biggest Traffic in History.
Here Trying Out Boys to
Drive Cars in Park.

According to F. E. Kammermeyer,
superintendent of transportation in
the Yellowstone park, the park will
experience the biggest year of its his
tory in 1928. Mr.. Kammermeyer has
been in Bozeman for the past two
days testing out college boys and 9TH
ers who desire jobs as drivers of the
yellow cars this summer. AS has been
the custom in past years, most of the
drivers for the park are taken from
BoZeman and the college, the park
people having found these boys, ex-
perienced in driving mountain roads,
the most satisfactory form of help.
Every year the transportation COM
papy sends a representative here to
try-out the prospective drivers and it
was this mission that brought Mr..
Kammermeyer to BoZeman.
From Bozeman, Nh. Kammermeyer
will go to Butte, Anaconda and Mis-
Soula, where he will remain for a half
day each in making further examina-
tons and tests of candidates in those
towns.
The examination in Bozeman is al
ways carried out at the college, where
the turns and i~nclines about the cam
pus are particularly adapted to test
ing out the abilities of a driver and
to watch his handling of a car.
The superintendent in testing, loads
the car with as many passengers as
are usually taken on trips through the
park. He selects a candidate and has
him drive around the loop, starting
from Eighth avenue, going east on
Cleveland and making the short turn
up the hill to the road which leads
past the administration building. Then
continuing along this one way road
and past the agricultural building and
again into Cleveland avenue. If the
candidate can make the short turn
from Cleveland avenue to the road
leading to the administrator building,
shift the gears smoothly and maintain
the careful speed required to insure
the safety of passengers, a large part
of his troubles are over, for this piece
Of road is said to be exceptionally bao
or rather, difficult to make.
There are other qualifications for g
driver, such as personality, cool heac
IN emergencies and observance of the
rules, all of which, together with the
ability to drive, enter into the selec
ton of candidates.
The park officials are preparing fol
enormous crowds this year. They ar,
after another record of attendance
Last year, the fiftieth anniversary O.
the Yellowstone park, an effort wa.
made to have 100000 visitors. Despit,
the disturbing feeling throughout tn,
summer months that the railroad
would have strike troubles, which fac
kept thousands of people from ventur
ing far from home, when the par
closed, about the middle of September
the records showed there were clos
to $4,000 people during the p~reviou
three months. Taking into accoun
the number of tourists who entered tn
park after the regular season closed
the 100 900 mark was made.
Last year there were 200 yello1
cars-the property of the Yellowston
transportation company. Expectin
greater traffic this year, there ha
been added to this number close to 5
more cars. Experienced drivers ar
needed TO handle the cars and care fo
the passengers, and because of tn
extra cars, and the increased tours
traffic, a greater number of driver
are necessary.
Besides the men selected on tn
trip, there are many old time driver
men who have been in the park fC
several years, who will return. s
it is safe to assume there will be clos
to l25 or 15O Bozeman young men an
college men, who will be driving
the park this summer.