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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1906.
NEW RATE LAW IN FORCE.
Under the authority conferred by
the new interstate commerce act, com
monly spoken of as the rate law,
which went into effect August 28, the
entire interstate commerce of the
United States, passed, at least nomi
nally, into the hands of the recreated
Interstate commerce commission.
The chief features of this impor
tant measure are the prohibition of
rebates or any kind of discriminations;
the abolition of the free pass, the pow
er to fix rates when existing ones are
shown to be unjust, and clothing of
the commission's orders with the force
of law and placing all the burden of
appeal on the carrier. Heavy penal
ties of imprisonment and fine for vio
lations are provided. The commission
has had 50,000 copies of the new law
printed, together with the Elkins and
other trade regulating acts, and these
have been distributed to business
men interested. On the same day, by
concerted action, the principal trunk
lines posted reduced freight rates and
passenger schedules. The provisions
as to passes, and the transportation
of commodities produced by the rail
roads do not go into effect until later.
The membership of the enlarged
commission is now as follows: Martin
A. Knapp, chairman; Judson C. Clem
ents of Georgia, Charles A. Prouty of
Vermont, Francis M. Cockrell of Mis
souri, Franklin K. Lane of Califor
nia, E. E. Clark of Iowa and James S.
Harlan of Illinois.
On the day the law went into effect,
thirty-four railroad men, representing
trunk lines east and west, met and
made vigorous protests against the
applications of the new law, but the
committee announced that it would
give no opinions in advance on hypo
thetical cases, and that if shippers did
not obey the law in all respects they
would have to take their chances of
paying the penalty.
The first ruling under the new law
was handed down August 30, being an
order to permit the Boston and Maine
railroad to change its ice shipment
rates on five days' notice. It is ap
parent that the shippers intend to take
advantage of the law from the number
of complaints pouring in, most of
these being old cases. In one case the
Wells-Fargo express company was
made defendant.
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ITS USEFUL SIDE.
Spelling reformers have claimed for
years that if the English language was
spelled fonetically, it would reduce the
time a child needs to spend in the pri
mary and intermediate school grades
at least one year. It is a fact, the
English is about the only language
that a pupil needs to "learn" to spell.
There are no German, French or Span
ish spelling books. Letters and com
lunations of letters in languages other
than English are always pronounced
one way only, and a certain sound is
always represented by the same letter
or combination of letters. Consequent
ly a German, French or Spanish child
acquires spelling and pronunciation of
words at the same time and almost
unconsciously.
Looked at in that light spelling re
form is not so foolish as some of the
saw-dust brained paragraphers who
are attempting to make fun of it.
The fact, and it is a fact, that not
one sensible reason is put forward
against spelling reform, should be re
membered by would-be prophets who
aeciare the new spelling will never
come into vogue. Of course thru and
tho look uncouth and we old fellows
shy at their strange apearance, but
we will quickly become accustomed to
them as horses did to bicycles and
automobiles.
An incident to the adoption of phon
etic would be the passing of the time
honored spelling matches on Friday
afternoons in district schools. This is
a matter of regret in one way, as those
matches were the bright spot in a
week's study, but they will occur no
more when spelling reforms are ac
complished facts for the simple reason
that every pupil will be perfect in
spelling.
reformed spelling favored by the sim
plified spelling board, it was announc
ed the Rev. Dr. Walter W. Skeat, the
noted Anglo-Saxon scholar of Cam
bridge, England, and Dr. James A.
Murray, editor of the Oxford English
dictionary, had joined the ranks of
spelling reform. Andrew Carnegie,
whose money endowed the work of
the board, expressed "delight, but not
surprise" at the president's attitude
and thought that this would settle the
adoption of spelling reform by the ma
jority of the English-speaking race.
The spelling board has received a
great mass of inquiries for lists and
primers of the new spelling rules.
Nevertheless the press of England
and largely of this country has ridicul
ed unmercifully the president's action.
President Elliot of Harvard said the
new style did not appeal to him and he
thought it.would be a long time before
it would become popular. John Wana-
maker has adopted the new spelling
for his advertising and likewise S
Plaut & Co., of Newark, and the edi
tors of a number of trade papers. Prof.
Matthews calls attention to the fact
that the board does not attempt such
radical changes as newspaper articles
would imply, as they have gone no fur
ther than the 300 words listed. Also
to the fact that Editors Smith of the
Century Dictionary, Editor Funk of
the Standard and the editor of Web
ster's are all members of the simpli
fied spelling board.
England is indignant because the
President of the United States is in
terfering with the spelling of the
English language. The idea of that
country is that the language is mere
ly loaned to this country and that we
are violating the proprieties by try
ing to make it over. England is not
fully acquainted with Theodore Roose
velt even if it has met his daughter.
and it has yet to learn that if he
should decide that Magna Charta
needed to be changed he would not
hesitate to reconstruct the venerable
document.
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A New York Professor has estimat
ed that the reformed spelling will in
six years save over forty millions of
dollars in New York city alone. It is
estimated that two years time in
teaching spelling will be saved to each
pupil and this saving in money Is val
ued at about eight dollars. Professor
Harris, the recent venerable Chief of
the Bureau of Education in Washing
ton agrees with him in this calcula
tion. Multiply 500,000 pupils by $80
and we have $40,000,000.
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When Representative Longworth
married Alice Roosevelt he was con
sidered a good amateur violinist.
Since then he has also learned to play
second fiddle.
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When the farmers speak of their
full cribs" one does not know wheth
er this is the result of a Republican
administration or anti-race-suicide doc
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Notwithstanding earthquakes Secre
tary Root is convinced that Chili is
some shakes."
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CLACKAMASITY TELLS
OF YELLOWSTONE PARK
(Continued from page 1.)
SIMPLIFIED SPELLING BOOM.
Close on the heels of President
Roosevelt's official indorsement of the
elk, mountain sheep and goats keep
back and can only be seen by going
back into the higher mountains. Our
first camp in the park was, as some
said, where we would have company;
with a large bright camp fire burning.
One of the boys, who had never seen
a bear that could come so near doing
as he pleased, was not asleep about
11 o'clock when ffriendly fellow
came close to our camp. He let out
a whoop that scarred us nearly as
bad as the bear, for we were lying
close to the scared lad, so on waking
all we could see was the lumbering
big fellow hitting the high places
about 100 feet away, not to appear
again that night, neither did any of
us sleep. You will understand we
had all good things to eat for none of
us were cooks by name or occupation
and had hany things that bears liked
as well. Very little sleep did we get
on the trip. One of our party had a
very badly swollen jaw. soon after en
tering the park, sufficient to say that
many believed a bear had given him
an extra hard box on the starboard
quarter.
Without exaggeration, the bears are
a nuisance and while chasing one
away from our provisions is supposed
to be the way one of the party had
such a badly swollen face. It was
only one round, for the bear proved
to be the best knocker and runner.
To put food in a strong tight box is
the safest. Even then one morning
a party's provision box was rolled
about 100 feet from the camp, but
food was safe from Mr. Bruin. In
order to make our Eastern boy think
the bears came very close, one night,
I made some tracks like .a huge bear
not two feet from his head and on by
into the brush, the tracks were
enough and he insisted on sleeping
in the middle after that, that is, try
ing to sleep.
Before reaching Norris Geyser basin
we pass the Obsidian Cliff, a black
volcanic glass that is prefered to
flint for arrow heads by the Indians.
The road is at the base of this cliff
between that and Beaver lake, where
huge blocks of black glass had to be
removed to build the road, which is
said to be the only piece of glass road
in the world. Blasting powder was out
of the question, so fires were built
around these glass boulders and when
heated cold water was dashed on
them, causing them to break to pieces.
Soon the Geyser basin is seen in
the distance, looking like a manufao
turing city by the immense quantities
of steam. Soon a roar is heard from
the black growler that is constantly
belching forth quantities of water and
steam; at night this steam gage can
be heard for miles. In this basin is
said by scientistc to be the thinnest
surface of any place In the park, there
fore great care must be taken In walk
ing about over the formations about
the mauy springs.
The Congress is a very deep basin,
40 feet across, perfectly round. It is
rapidly nearing a geyser. The hot
water is all the time in a jumping mo
tion, before this basin of boiling hot
water appeared in 1893, a steam vent
was always blowing. When that ceas
ed and the congress appeared, a great
eruption took place filling the road
way with rock and masses of forma
tion. The steam has whitened the
pine trees and all are dead in the vi
cinity, showing conclusively that the
Norris geyser basin is of recent ori
gin, in fact, none of the geysers are
large and the best of Wonderland is
yet to be seen.
Emerald pool in this basin is most
beautiful. The sulphur lined basin,
with coral walls, pretty to the eye,
can be seen to an appalling depth, the
water quite still with a temperature
of 186 degrees at the edge.
After a very interesting hour here,
we drive on and soon enter Elk park
and continue down Gibbon river, soon
entering the canyon where two choco
late colored cones shoot forth hot
water near the water's edge. They
are unlike any other springs in the
park.
Aii aiong tms river can be seen
steam vents. One that startles the
horses is Beryl, a spring so close by
the road. The hot water runs across
and down into the Gibbon river. The
road has been made so as to see the
best all along. Soon we view the falls
with a drop of 80 feet. Tired from
sight-seeing, we pass thro a fine pine
forest, soon to reach the Firehole
river, well named, as the later des
cription will show. For the next two
days we are along its banks in the
Lower Geyser basin and upper basin.
Where the Fountain hotel is located
are Geysers to marvel at; the Foun
tain geyser has a basin 30 feet across.
When still, the water subsides and the
comely shapes of the interior can be
seen. It plays at intervals of two
to four hours and continues wih great
force for 15 minutes, volumes of
water being forced" to a height of 60
feet. The deposits from the over
flow of this geyser cover several
acres.
ued during the spring of 1888 which
resulted in enlarging the crater fully
100 feet. The intervals of eruption
were about every hour. Immediately
preceding an eruption, a voilent up
heaval occurred, raising the entire
volume of water in the crater 50 feet
then instantly one, and sometimes
three terrific explosions would occur.
Shooting upwards, columns of water
would follow oftentimes masses of
the rocky formation to a height of
200 feet. The great acivity of the
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tivity of two of the largest geysers i - .
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Tiring of seeing geysers; close at
hand are the mammoth pain pots.
Here is a mass of boiling mud resemb
ling a boiling pot of paint, with many
points of ebullition, continually bub
bling up of "plop-plop," pink and red
mud cones close by. White and gray
cones, to the number of 40, are in
the basin, which is fenced and isabout
100 feet across. The great Fountain
geyser is two miles farther and is a
large hole of boiling water. The
white geyser eggs around the rim of
this are the pretty part of this forma
tion, the geyser plays about every 12
hours and lasts 30 minutes. The
water recedes in this hole a long ways
soon to be thrown up 80 feet very sud
denly, causing the too venturesome to
hustle back in a hurry a good place
to see some people get a move on for
once.
Near by are many interesting
springs, the White Dome, Surprise, j
Fire Hole Spring, Mushroom, and Buf
falo Spring, where there is a pine
pole 10 feet long. One can force that
down not near touching bottom soon
to shoot up with many large bubbles
following, showing the confinement
of hot air many feet below this scald
ing hot water. Fire hole lake, some
distance up next to the hill where
many do not see this devil's boiling
pot way down in the clear blue water,
may be seen red flames apparently
shooting up from some great heat be
neath. Down by the river is a huge
hole 33x200 feet flowing 10,000 gal
lons of water into the Firehole river.
The water is of a deep blue tint and
i3 intensely agitated all the time;
dense clouds of steam constantly as
cending from it. It is only when the
breeze wafts this aside that the sur
face of the water, which is 20 feet
below the level surrounding can be
seen.
Visited by thousands annually, this
section became known as "Hell's Half;
Acre." It retained this name until I
1881, when it was discovered by Col.
P. W. Norris to be a geyser of great
force. By him it was named "Excel
sior. Eruptions of great force contin-
in the upper basin nine miles south.
This geyser impresses upon the sight
seers the immense force of the steam
generated.
Prismatic lake, above and close to
Excelsior, is a pretty sheet of water
250 by 400 feet. It is considered the
most beautiful coloring of water any
where known, in fact, a much more
lengthy discription or the artist's pic
ture would not correctly convey the
fine coloring in and surrounding this
lake.
Nine miles south, continuing up the
Fire Hole river, we reach the upper
basin where the best geysers are to
be viewed. A whole day can be- en
joyed here. First we will mention Old
Faithful geyser, of which one sees
so many photos. It plays every sixty
minutes with very little variation, 70
feet or more, for about 5 minutes
duration. This geyser is always to
be seen and sends up more water dur
ing a year than any other. No one
visits the park without seeing Old
Faithful play one or more times
Soon after making camp we are told
Riverside geyser is due to play. Sev
eral hundred people gather on the
opposite bank of the Fire Hole river
to see this marvel. About ten feet
above the river is an irregular shap
ed cone, ' when soon the water spouts
out over the river diagonal to a height
of 80 feet, and lasts for 20 minutes.
By the time this is over, the Grotto
near by is in action. This is a small
one, peculiar on account of the round
ing shaped formation surounding the
openings where the water pours out
with great force. Being quiet for a
few seconds then with a rush the
water shoots in all directions. There
are hundreds of geysers that play
irregularly, all are worth a visit even
if they are not In action for nearly
all are of a different formation.
The Giant, which shoots 250 feet
straight up for an hour is well worth
losing some time to wait and see.
The Bee Hive, a little dome, four
feet high, with an opening of one foot
in the tip, is a singular geyser of
great force. When it plays, the water
is in sight there at the top, continu
ally boiling away. This has played
only once this season, in July, when
it threw a steady stream 250 feet for ;
for fully 30 minutes.
The Sponge, Lion, Lioness and Cubs ,
are all in a class by themselves. Saw
mill, Grand, and Turban, Oblong, Fan
and Mortar are splendid. The Punch
Bowl. Morning Glory and Castle are
all significant for their beauty as the
names imply. Biscuit Basin is odd.
Jewel Geyser is full of jewels but you
can't get them the water is too hot.
The upper basin extends for two
miles along the Fire Hole river and
here we have spent the entire day
walking and seeing the marvels of
nature. The white lime stone with
bright sunshine is hard on the eyes.
Many wear colored glasses.
As we are about to leave this basin,
one is tired, but still has a desire to
linger and see some of the high gey
sers play again in fact, go to all
these pretty colored places that na
ture has formed for mankind to view. !
ivow w leave um aitnrui geyser
and Inn, a comely hotel, built entirely
of pine logs with four immense fire
places that are very cheerful. A large
search-light is on top of the hotel
which commands a fine view of all
the principal geysers. To see Old
Faithful by night is fine with the
strong search-light on the steam and
water.
Three miles on we see the last
geyser play. Lone Star geyser, which
is on the main stage line, many do not
see at all. The cone is some twelve
feet high and just as we came in sight
the water was spouting, rushing up
and we secured a fine view with the
kodak. The chief beauty of this
singular geyser is in the cone, which
is striped vertically with bands of
white, lavander and brown, inter
mixed with varying shades of yellow
and is completely covered with an al
most endless variety of elegant pearl
like beads.
Soon we are climbing an even easy
grade up close to the continental di
vide, a twc-ocean pond the one on
the west running water towards the
Atlantic, the East pond into the Pa
cific. It seemed that the directions
are wrong, still that is not the case as
the lay of the country makes that a
study of the way will make clear. The
altitude here is 8465 feet. Down we
go to Yellowstone lake, which is some
15 miles wide by 25 miles long, with
many arms and is the largest lake in
the world at this high altitude. Fol
lowing along the shore is a fine drive.
Nearby and in the water is a small
hot water cone where one can catch
trout and boil them in the spring.
There is not ten feet difference from
the cold to the hot springs, in fact,
the drive all along the lake to where
the river is the outlet of this great res
ervoir, is interesting and the bear
plentiful. Following down the river
we see a whole mountain of sulphur
and we still are reminded that we are
in the land of brimstone and hot
water for near by is a small geyser
belching forth hot mud of a very rank
odor.
By noon we are at the falls of the
Yellowstone river where the water
runs thro the narrow gorge and sud
denly leaps 140 feet into a gorge, still
deeper. The best view is one -fourth
mile further down the gorge where
still in a narrower channel, scarcely
100 feet wide, the great volume of
the summit, 10,385 feet, is well worth
the time as a good wagon road is built
to the top. There one sees snow
capped peaks on all sides, some as
far as 150 miles away. With the glass
es, one views the lake, geysers, basin,
the falls of the Yellowstone. Driving
down the north slope is an inspiring
scene. At a rapid gait we pass herds
of elk and antelope grazing, apparent
ly knowing they were safe, for of
course we had no guns.
Tower falls and petrified trees are
soon reached by the great Yellowstone
canyon again. These petrified trees
are standing, the largest being at
least four feet in diameter, badly brok
en, while lots of pieces lie scattered
on the hill side.
Being tired of sight-seeing, we pro
ceeded to Blacktail deer creek to
water drops into the most beautifully 1 catch the choicest of the finny tribe.
colored walls of a canyon 360 feet
below, to wind its way north thro
the yellowest of earth on all sides,
hence the name of Yellowstone.
As the sun shines on the many hued
walls 1500 feet high, all colors are
presented that no pen has described.
This must be seen to be appreciated.
To go below these falls to the bottom
of the Grand Canyon of the Yellow
stone is a newly constructed stairs
that makes the descent very easy.
Near the spray down in this depth is
a little shiny cone scarcely four feet
high, out of the apex of which shoots
hot water constantly.
From artist's point, this magnificent
view point is the commanding point
to see all of the canyon at one time.
While we are at a good height all the
time in the park, still the desire to
ascend the loftiest peak is the ambi
tion of all, that of Mt. Washburn. The
half day's trip from Canyon hotel to
There one can catch them as fast as
he has hooks on the line, two and
three at a time.
One more day and we leave those
splendid roads, grassy hills and below
Mammoth hot spring near the main
stage road are 60 Buffalo enclosed
with strong high wire fence. They
are fed and cared for the year around.
In the evening they were bunched near
the fence, not paying any attention to
the noisy people eager to get close to
them.
Glad to get where we could sleep
without the bears' company, still more
than pleased that we had the privi
lege to view so much of nature's won
ders contained in the Park. See
America first must be kept before the
eyes of our tourists. There is not to
be found anywhere the equal of the
Wonderland of America, the Yellow
stone National Park.
A. C. NEWELL.
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