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By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN LACIER NATIONAL PARK, up next W to the Canadian line In Montana and W a public playground of the first class, had Its most successful seatTRJvJTa son I** 1023 and will doubtless set (WjnLy) a new record this year. Glacier will \ttaj FA'' come to Its own In the matter of at>MI IPs tendance with the completion of Its \ AmA_r Transmountain Road across the Continental Divide, over U»gan Pass, ■ow In the third year of construction by the national park service. Already the service is planning fur substantial extensions to present accommodation* for visitors, which will then be necessary. Says Stephen T. Mather, director national park service. In his 1023 annual report to the secretary of the Interior: In common with the majority of the other national park* Glacier experienced her most successful season, eajoyin* more patronage than In any previous year. 33,33* visitors having registered in the park as compared with 33.333 visitors In 1333. This Is only a forerunner of a tremendous Increase in travel that Is certain to take place on the completion of the Transmountain Road, now la Its third year of construction. Motorists traveling the n orthern highways to Glacier nevy have had a direct rout, across Divide, this barrier requiring a detour of several hundred miles to the south. The Tranamountain Road, crossing •the Continental Divide through Logan Pasa. will, aside from furnishing a direct means of traversingff the mountains attract thousands of motorists by 1 Its unsurpassed scenic qualities. This is good as far as It goes, but the situation may be made plainer by a more detailed explanation of Glacier's hard luck tn the matter of autotu »blle highways. An attendance of only 33.1 KS for a first-class national park like Glacier Is a joke—end a bad one. But the reasons for this comparatively small attendance are easily found. A few years ago the bulk of the tourist travel to the national parks was by railroad. Now the bulk of It Is by private car. The per cent varies. Contrasting examples: Rocky Mountain, tn 1923, hnd 51.800 private cars In which probably mitre than 90 per cent of Its 218.000 visitors traveleil Glacier bad 5.509 private cars; not more than 50 per cent of Its 33,988 visitors arrived by private car. This fells part of the story. Rocky .Mountain Is of no higher class than Glacier and la only about c.ne quarter as large—4oo square miles In the one and 1..W0 In the other—but Rocky Mountain I* the most easily accessible by automobile from the geographical and population center of the country of *be W national parks. Another factor the attendance comparison be. tweett Rocky Mountain and Glacier la this: Each park has an independent east and west entrance on either aide of the Continental Divide, each en-trance-taking care of separate and distinct liners of automobile tourist travel. In Rocky Mountain the east and west entrances are Rates Park and Grand take. In Glacier lh?y are Glacier Park and Belton. In Rocky Mountain the Fall River Road rni'S>-s the Continental Divide, connects Estes Pnrk r.nd Grand take and makes possible through traffic, which otherwise would be impossible. In Glacier nntomoblle tourist travel from both the east and west halts at the Continental Divide. The Great Northern, which serws Glacier and runs along the south line of the park, ameliorates the situation by maintaining daily shipments of motor ears between the two entrances. Unless motorists take advantage of 4hl» rail shipment they have to make a wide detour, either through Montana-as tar south as Helena—or through Canada. ~ What the Fall River Road does for Rocky Mountain the Transmountaln Road will do for Glacier. Here Is what the 1923 reports says of the progress of the work: Work on the second section of the Tranemoun3«!n Read on the west side waa begun and about atx mil* a extending from the end of the first sec.’m -t hr hrsd of Lake McDonald. «F Mcponsld ~ - « AvaWn>-s» will be finishes
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thfs tall Also a contract nos been let for the construction of elrht or nine miles, on the east , side, including the construction of a bridge across the St Mary River, extending from St. Mary Chalet along the north shore of St. Mary I-ake toward Go-Ing-to-the-Sun Chalet. With construction under
way on both sides of the Continental Divide, the Transmountaln Road can be pushed with more speed to completion. And here is a glimpse Into the future that promises all kinds of things for Glacier: It will be oaly a short time before the Babb-lnternutlonal Boundary Road is Improved. This road runs through the Blackfeet Indian reservation adjoining Glacier on the east and will connect with the Canadian National parks highway system. The National Park-to-Park Highway, which connects all the western national*parks. Is In full operation and getting better every season.. The Banff-)' inderinere Highway across the Canadlaa Rockies, opened last year, makes direct connection wlih the National Park-to-Park Highway at Spokane. Wash. With the Rabb-International Boundary Road and the Transmountaln Road completed. Glacier will offer much to automobile tourists. Any enr owner in the United States or Canada ran easily reach GiaHer, either to star or go on. The entire Scenic West. American and Canadian, will be open to him. When Glacier comes to Its own. its attendance will Jump up amazingly. And what It gains It will keep, for Its visitors have a habit of going bnck year after year. Glacier has its devotees. Just as have Rocky Mountain Li Colorado and Yosemite in California. Yellowstone, oldest, biggest anti most famous of all our HI national parks. Ims been lacking in this to date. Take Mary Roberts Rinehart—nature lovt". outdoor woman, novelist and nature writer —she’s an example. She has been much In Glacier. And here Is the wny Glacier got her. Her enthusin--’n Induced her to write an •’Appreciation of Glacier’ for publicity purposes. And here’s wjiat sb? says. In part: There are no "Keep Off the Graw” signs In Glacier National Park It U the wildest part of America ... It la perhaps the most unique ot all our parka, as It la undoubtedly the most magnificent . . Here the Rocky Mountains run northwest and southeast, and In the glacier-earved basins are great spaces; cool, shadowy depth* in which He blue lakes; mountain-sides threaded with white, where, from some hidden lake or glacier far above, the overflow falls a thousand feet or more and over all the great silence of the Rockies. . . . Here is the last home of a vanishing raee —•the Blackfeet Indiana Here Is the last stand of the Rocky Mountain sheep and the Rocky Mountain goat; here are elk. deer black and grtsxly bears and mountain lions. Here are trails that follow the old game trails along the mountain side; here are meadows of June roses, forget-me-not. larkspur, and Indian paintbrush growing beside glaciers, snowfields and trails of a beauty to make you gaap. . . . But there Is no voice in all the world so Insistent to. me as the wordless call of these mountains I shall go back. Those who go once always hope to go back. Tbe lure ot the grant free spaces is in their blood. One can Imagine without the slightesrf difficulty a throng of devotees of other national parks surrounding Mrs. Rinehart, bawi’ng her tut —In perfectly polite language, of course—ami asking In unison: "How do you get that way. Mary?” And she b.ii cl. sifted out. Interpreted and reduced to prosaic utterance, would contain these statements: There’s nothing in Glacier wilder than are areas In other parka. Glacier Isn’t "perhaps the most unique." nor Is It "undoubtedly the most magnificent." Other narks have "glriWer-carved basins." bikes, glaciers, falls, wild animals and flowers. Yellowstone beats all the parks—except possibly Mount McKinley—for wild animal life. Rocky Mountain probably has more mountain sheep tl nn Glacier. Mount Rainier Is the champion "Wild Flower Park.* The Biackfeet are a liability rather than an asset, inasmuch as they slaughter relentlessly the park game that arrays into their reservation; the big game on the east side of the Continental Divide Is gradually being wiped out. Glacier's highest rbountain. Mount Cleveland. Is only 10,433 feet; Rocky Mountain baa 43 between 10.000 and 14.255 feet. Getting down to rhe really uniqi>» f“atnr»fl of the ■- *
LEARNED ASTRONOMY BY ; MAKING OWN TELESCOPES • " r “ -
1 Row a group of mechanics, living In Springfield. VL, learned the science of astronomy by making their own telescopes at home. Is related In Popu- ; tar Astronomy by Russell W. Porter. Several of these machinists had their » own small workshops, located usually i In the cellars of their homes. "Interest did not atop with the com-
pletion of the telescopes." says Mr. Porter. “The telescope makers found i an old station on Hawks mountain. Just outside of the township, occupied years ago tn the government triangulation of New England. They camped on the mountain, built a substantial tower and signal over the station. "Ou another occasion they spent the ' . .
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carved and colored, is one of the natural wonders of the world. Curiously enough, Mrs. Rinehart omitted mention of the one feature that, tn the opinion of many, does entitle Glacier to a place among the unique national parks—its “Lewis Overthrust" and the gorgeous coloration of its mountains. Zion National Park in Utah, Bryce Canyon In Utah, likely to be made the Utah National Park, and Grand Canyon probably surpass Glacier In coloration, but their colors are down In the depths, while Glacier’s are flung up into the sky. Now, don’t be scared by the Lewis Overthrust. Here’s briefly what the geologists mean by the term: The rock nearest the center of the earth is called Archean and the geologists know very little about it. The next oldest strata are the Algonklan, which were laid as an ocean bottom sedl I inent something like 80.000,000 years ago. It is ; this Algonkian group that are exposed in Glacier; | nowhere In the world are they displayed in such area, profusion and variety and in such magnifl cence of coloring. These Algonkian rocks lie In four dlfferently-cot ored strata, all of which the Glacier visitor may see for hintself. The lowest is the Altyn limestone, about 1,600 feet thick. It weathers a pale buff. There are whole yellow mountains of this on the eastern edge of Glacier. Next above lies a stratum of Appekunny argillite, or green shale, about 3,400 feet thick. It weathers every possibb shade of dull green. Next above that lie about 2.200 fret of Grinnell argillite or red shale. It weathers every possible shade of deep red and purple. On top is about 4.<K ' feet of Slyeh limestone gray and running in pla sto yellow. Horizontnliy througli the middle of tills limestone is a broad dark hand called the diorite intrusion. Now. when these brilliantly colored strata were thrust up from the bottom of the sea. they were practlcallj level. Then there earne a gigantic squeeze. The strata yielded In long irregular, wave-like folds. Finally they crackeu and then broke. One broken edge, the western, was thrust upward and over ’he other. This western edge was thousands of feet thick. It overlapped the eastern edge ten to fifteen miles. This Is th* Lewis (Range) Overthrust. It Is this overthrust that accounts for the Inconceivably tumbled character of. the vast rocky masses. There is a sag where the park lies. A horizontal line drawn straight across Glacier would pass through' the bottom of the Altyn limestone on the east and< west boundaries and in the middle of the park through the top r.f the Slyeh limestone. It would cut diagonally tnmugh the green and red shales on both sides of the Continental Divide. The uninformed tourist doubtless says to him self, as he heads the flivver west. “Three fine national parks in a row—Rocky Mountain. Yellow stone hod Glacier. . All three in the Rockies and on, the Continental Divide. Proha hi y all much alike. See one and I’ve seen them all." That shows tbe necessity of rhe campaign of education that the federal government and the Na tional Parks association and many out-of-door or ganizatiems are waging to get the American people to see their national parks with. understand Ing. as well as emotionally. * For Rocky Mountain. Yellowstone and Glacier are essentially different. Rocky Mountain is solid granite, a most astonishing aggregation of lofty pefiKs and beautiful valleys perched on she fop of the Continental Divide. Yellowstone is volcanic, with volcanic activities everywhere In evidence. Glacier Is sedimentary rock, twisted and Jumbled and gorgeously co)ored. Congress has just passed an act authorising the making of a budget for mad building purposes In the national parks, carrying a total of 37X1.600 over three years. If funds are appropriated. Glacier's tentative allotment is $1,000,000. This would doubtless hurry the Transmountaln Road t»» com plerjan. Speed the rfctv •
night on the summit of Mount Ephraim, the highest point in the township. This gathering. I believe, is unique In the annals of astronomy. "Throughout that night, from the appearance of the first star until dawn, these men were exploring the heavens. It proved to be good seeing notwithstanding a stiff wind. The light from a roaring campfire revealed a circle of animated face* listening Intently to some celestial fac* Just brought out at the eye-piece o one of the instruments.”
National park aystam, thia la what we And: The Yellowstoje contains more and (treater geyaers thnn all the rest of the whrld together. Mount Rainier’s single-peak system with 28 living glaciers has no equal. Crater Lake occupies the holo left after a large volcano had slipped back into earth’s interior through Its own rim: It Is the deepest and bluest lake In the world. The Sequoia coa tains more than a mil Hon “Big Trees.’’ 12. 000 of which are more than 10 /eel in dlmn eter; some are more than 80 feet In dlam eter and are the largest and oldest living things of earth. Hawaii National Park contains the larg est living volcano tn the world. Mauna Loa; and Kilauea, continuously active for a century, with Its Lake of Fire, which draws visitors from all the world. Mount McKinley Is scenlcally the world s loftiest mountain since It rises more than 20.000 feet above sea level and 17.000 feet above its surrounding valleys. Mesa Verde contains the most not able and best preserved prehistoric cliff dwellings In the United States, if not in the world. Grand Canyon, earth’s largest and noblest example of erosion, gorgeously
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Porto Rico Wants to Elect a Governor
WASHINGTON. — Porto Rico will have almost complete control over Its affairs if a bill now before the house is enacted. The bill would permit the Island territory to elect its governor In 1928. Governor Towner and leading men of Porto Rico appeared In Washington recently to argue in Its favor. They impressed congressional committees with the belief that the granting of more autonomy was justified by conditions. and that it would lead to a better feeling among the people of the island, who In 1917 became citizens of the United States and enrolled 400,000 men for the World war. In 1917 the people were intrusted with the power to make their own laws, and the only evidence of American rule tn the Island today is that the governor and the members of the Supreme court are appointed by the President of the United States. “In my judgment the Porto Ricans are entitled to the proposed extension of self-government.” Governor Towner. He has presided over the
The Smithsonian Institution Field Work
THE Smithsonian institution at Washington has Issued an illustrated booklet describing the explorations and field work conducted by members of its staff or in co-operation with other organizations during 1923. Besides many localities in the United States, the regions visited include the Canadian Rockies, the Yangtze valley, China; several islands of the West Indies; Panama and Central America; Labrador, and various countries in Europe. The branches of science represented include geology, paleontology, astrophysics, zoology, botany, anthropology and ethnology. Secretary Charles D. Walcott continued his geological research In the j Canadian Rocky mountains, working especially on the pre-Devonlan strata from the Clearwater river southeast j to the Bow valley and along the east- | era side of the Columbia river valley, j Much new information was obtained regarding the formations themselves and large collections of fossils were shipped back to Washington C. G. Gilmore of the National museum, conducted a very different piece
To Save the Upper Mississippi Bottoms
THE whole country is apparently interested in the passage of the bill tn congress to make a government reservation of the river bottoms along the upper Mississippi for the preservation of game fish. Os , this area Representative Harry B. Hawes of Missouri said in a house address: “This area Is famous for producing all types of fresh-water food flsh and all types of fresh-water game flsh, such as perch, croppie, drum, rock bass. pike, pickerel and muskellunge. : and it is especially famous for black bass. Scientists declare this area repj resents the last stand of black bass in the Mississippi valley, and. some declare. In the whole United States. These scientists state that the yearly toll of black bass in this country is so | great compared with the yearly hatch that this greatest of American game flsh Is certain to become extinct within ten years unless extraordinary effort is made to protect their natural spawning beds. “From the area covered by this bill it is estimated that $400,000 worth of pelts are yearly taken from muskrats, skunk, raccoon and fresh-water otters, and if these are taken over by the national government and put under the direction of the biological survey, it is
Motorists Should Reform Road Habits
AN APPEAL to tourists to refrain from carelessness in road habits has been issued by Thomas P. Henry, president of the American Automobile association. It embraces these requests: “When yo’ come to a beauty spot that has been wrecked by an earlier I picnic party don’t complain. See that. you don’t leave a similar sight for the motor tourist who follows you. “A wildflower on the bush is worth ten in the tonneau, withered and trampled. Leave the flowers where you ran enjoy them most. If motorists are to strip America of her foliage ■ motoring will be stripped of one of its fundamental assets. "Debris is dangerous. The careless I smoker plus the littered picnic spot result in the forest fires that wreck the countryside, literally and figuratively. Bare hills encourage swollen streams and floods. “There are many roadways thflt will never be attractive again, and the I number of beauty spots in America la decreasing. Tbe tourist always selects
I How Caetani Blew Up the Col di Lana
I pi ■ing HE expert use of the Brunton I transit, the Invention of a Denver man, and the skilled work of Telluride (Colo.) miners : enabled Prince Gelasio Caetani. Italian ambassador to the United States, to blow up Col di Lma. mountain stronghold of the Austrians in the World war. The dynamiting of Col dl Lana, a cone-shaped mountain in the Dolo- > mttic Alps, Is regarded as one of the outstanding feats of the war. 1 In telling the story of the campaign I against the Austrian stronghold, the prince gives credit to Colorado men for making the feat possible. It was, he said, through the expert use of the Brunton transit, the invention of David W. Brunton of Denver, a widely known mining engineer, that this brilliant exploit was successfully carried out. Prince Caetani is a graduate of Columbia university and member of an Italian royal family, the ancestry of which Is traced back for over two thousand years. He graduated in civil engineering from the Royal University
affairs of the island for a year, and before that he was chairman of the house committee on insular affairs. “Personally I think that the island will in time become a state In the Union. They are not asking for Independence. They want to continue as part of our territory; so their desire for extension of self-government is not for the purpose of becoming an independent republic. That is not in their minds. “Education in Porto Rico has been a difficult task. But let It be remembered that In the last twenty years Illiteracy has been reduced from 90 per cent to 50 per cent; that now there are about 2.000 buildings for school purposes, with about 200,000 pupils enrolled and 3.000 teachers employed, and that the government spends annually $4,000,000, or about 37 per cent of its budget, for educational purpt ses. “In sanitary progress Porto Rico has made great strides. The total mortality rate in 1898 was 41 per 1,000. This has been reduced to 18.6. Better conditions and better methods will undoubtedly result in still greater reduction.”
of excavating in the Dinosaur national monument, Utah, for the purnose of securing for exhibition in the museum a mountable skeleton of one of the large sauropodous dinosaurs. The” often fragile bones of these gigantic extinct reptiles are found imbedded tn a thick sandstone of variable hardness that is tilted up at an angle of 60 degrees, and the work of quarrying them out without doing irreparable damage is a slow and tedious operation involving the skill of both the stonecutter and the miner. The boxing and transportation of the immense blocks of rocks inclosing the t>ones, the largest of which weighed 6,000 pounds, involved the most arduous labor. Mr. Gilmore also obtained Interesting evidence of the presence of dinosaurs in Virginia, in the form of a slab of red Triassic shale bearing the Imprints of a three-toed dinosaur, taken from a farm near Aldie in Loudoun county. This slab, now on exhibition, shows that the animal had a stride of 56 inches.
I estimated that under the protection of this commission five times this amount would be raised.” Denver is an example of this nation* wide activity. The Denver chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America is receiving the heartiest co-opera-tion and backing from the Colorado Federation of Women’s Clubs and from the Outdoor League of Colorado. The purpose of the Outdoor league Is “to Arotect and preserve nature in the state* of Colorado and to maintain and preserve our scenic and recreational areas in a natural and attractive condition. In furtherance of this purpose, the following organizations affiliate as the Outdoor League of Colorado: Colorado Mountain club, Garden club of Denver, Colorado State Forestry association, State Historical and Natural History Society of Colorado, Denver Society of Ornamental Horticulture. United States forest service, Denver Mountain parks, national par'- service, Colorado Fish and Game Protective association. Boy Scouts of America. Olinger Highlanders, Denver ParentTeacher association, Denver Woman’s club. Young Women’s Christian association. Camp Fire Girls, women’s legislative council of Federated Women’s Clubs.
the cream of countryside beauty, and ■ if each motor party leaves behind it a | trail of ruin It will not be long before old-timers will be talking of the countryside that used to be. “This is what will happen if tourists fall to appreciate the fact that the problem is a matter of personal duty. It requires only a few broken bottles, some tin cans, a defunct tire and a few discarded newspapers to make an ideal spot the last word in unsightliness. * "Just one tourist party can put out of business a spot that might otherwise t>e of unending delight to hundreds of other people who take pride tn the country. ’•When you are tempted to wreck some Ideal location you have selected for your evening rest or your noonday luncheon, just keep in mind the fact that you’ll probably come back again some day and taste of your own selfishness. The country Is n °t so large that 15,000,000 tourists can wreck each beauty spot they chance upon and never return to it again.”
of Rome, and in 1903 entered the Columbia University School of Mines, from which he graduated. In search of practical experience he went west and sought employment in the mines. His first opportunity to a practical way came as a “slag pusher” to the Daly West mine at Park City, Utah. The prince-engineer did not take long to come into his own. After a period of apprenticeship to the mines of Utah, Idaho and California, he organised a firm of consulting engineers at San Francisco and was progressing rapidly when the World war broke out. Col di Lana, a cone-shaped moun tain, 9,000 feet high, extended into the heart of the Italian line. It was the eye of the Austrian army that spier) every road. The Italian army just had to blind that “eye” In the attempt to scale that bare and precipf tous peak of the Alps, 10,000 plucky Italian soldiers had met death. Pure chance sent Lieutenant Caetani to th a: sector to replace an officer whs had fallen. *
ESP Daddy’s ■Bpd Ever\ir\p, Fdiiy Tale dyZVRY<3RAHAM BQWR >i. t» vutuh Htmwu ukiq». ■ THE LOST BUNNY He was a little bit of a bunny rabbit—at least be looked and felt very
small and he was lost. He did not know what had happened to his mother nor to any of the others of his family. His mother had been the last to leave him and not come back. Dreadful things had happened to the others. And from the way he had seen his dear mother protect him and risk danger ber-
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self he knew she had not deserted him. Something had happened to her and that was what made him feel so very sad and so very small and so very hopeless and helpless. Oh, he knew only too well that Mother Bunny Rabbit had never left him alone of her own accord. Something had happened to her. And now be was alone in the world. All. all alone. He didn’t quite know what to do. He had had a few Rabbit lessons and he knew his mother's signals and how to obey her and all such things. But how could he get along with- ’ out his mother’s help? It was a dreadful world —big and frightful and enormous. And it seemed as though the whole world would be too big and too busy to be able to pay any attention to a poor lonely, lost little bunny. He felt cold and frightened and he trembled and his little heart went very, very fast. But he stayed quite still. What was he to do? How would he be able to keep warm and get his food and how could he sleep away from his mother's dear, soft, fuzzy, rabbit body? Oh, what would he do? He wandered and wandered and wandered. At times he hurried for shelter and remembered his mother’s lesson to “lie low” when there was danger. And yet he scarcely knew why he did all this when he was only a little lonely rabbit, and perhaps the sooner it was all over the better it would be. But something made him take care of himself. Something made him remember her lessons. And then, after he had wandered, until he felt he could go no further, he heard great enormous steps and a voice which said: "Didn’t I see a bunny Just then?” He was frightened, and yet there had been something nice about the voice. But he must He low. Then he thought he would take a peep. And then came the voice again, “Yes. I did see a bunny, a darling, darling little bunny." He didn’t believe he need be afraid. He went forth and sat not far from
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the little girl, though to the bunny she seemed very enormous. “You seem to be lost," "the little girl said, “but if you have no home I ~!U take care of you. Td give anything for a little pet bunny.” Perhaps that was what the bunny had been [ waiting for—perhaps he knew that a beautiful home was ahead of him. Anyway be had
the happiest of homes. Oh, such a pet as he was. And how his mistress loved him. And many a nap be had curled up in her lap and how often she kissed his soft fur and said to him in a voice so sweet: “My dear little bunny pet, oh. Pm so glad I found you.” - » When Mother Meant It Dorothy was playing out to the yard and having a glorious time with her dog when her mother called her. She went on serenely playing and a neigh* bor who was passing said: “Dorothy, don't you hear your mother calling you T' "Yes.” answered the child, “but I only answer after she calls three times.” Made That Much Noite "Oh, mamma I” exclaimed little Charles as be rushed into the house. "There are 200 dbgs in our back yard!” “Are you sure there are that many?" asked bls mother. “Well,” replied Charles, “there is our dog and another one anyway.” Bright Child Mother—Alice, it Is bedtime. All the little chickens have gone to bed. Alice —Yes, mamma, and so has the hen. Much Longer Willie—Pa? Father-Yes. Willie. Willie —Pa, how is It that my hair has grown longer than yours when yours has grown longer than mine?— Progressive Grocer. Old Partnert Messenger—Who’s that swell ye wux talkin’ to. Jimmie? Newsboy—Ah I Him an’ me’s worked together for years. He’s been editor o’ one o’ my papers.