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FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1916
NEWTON’S NEWS
Here we are back with that style
of advertising the quality store, that
so many liked, that we take our type
writer on our lap and tell you a few
things wise and otherwise.
-N Q-
The editors had a big time in Cody
last week. They were entertained
royally by the local committee and
said the meeting was the best the
association had ever had.
—N Q
It sure pays to get out and take
care of the visitor. Cody is having
lots of good things said about it be
cause of the way the outsider is
looked after.
—N Q
The free camping place at the
school house is making a hit and the
tourists told the writer that “Cody
seemed glad to sec us.”
—N Q
The Cody Trading Company and
Henry Haid sent loads of kindling
wood up to the school house for camp
fires for the auto tourists. That
shows the right spirit.
—N Q
That man Bates up there is a
prince. He looks after the needs of
the uutoist campers and is doing the
town a great service.
—N Ce
lt's mighty nice to have the family
home again. The old man and Bozzy
enjoyed life about two days and the
six week's of lonesomeness dragged
out awfully long. The missus is
home now and the boss is in better
humor these days, say the clerks.
—N Q
Earl Lipscomb and his bride write
they are having a nice trip in Mich
igan but that it is tcrriffically hot.
Nothing like Wyoming for a honey
moon. The Earl of Mich showed bad
judgment in going east but he made
no mistake in the wife he took. i
-N Q-
Had a 2rist ask for shirt garters.
These hook onto the tail of your
shirt, you short grass rangers and
then onto your sock. I guess they
are all right but we don’t believe in
Park to Park Highway Association Organized to Build
4,000 Mile Road Connecting National Parks of West
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a seat in a stage-coach. This dis
crimination Secretary Lane quickly
recognized and steps were taken at
once to remedy the situation.
Opens Yoeemite to Autos
In the summer of 1913, the Secre
tary admitted automobiles to Yose
mite National Park; under strict reg
ulations, it must be admitted, but
these were necessary in view of the
privileges granted. From year to
year, these privileges have been ex
tended and enlarged, and this sum
mer, the motorist finds every road in
the Yosemite National Park open to
him, including all of the roads on the
floor of the famous valley.
This case is typical, because sub
sequent to the opening of Yosemite,
to motor-driven traffic, the roads in
the other parks were made accessi
ble to the motorist in quick succes
sion. ML Rainier’s beautiful road
which goes up past the mouth of the
Nisqually Glacier and around the
magnificient Ricksecker Point to
Paradise Valley was first opened as
a one way road, and later, under a
simple schedule with a few speed reg
ulations, was made a two-way road.
Last year 3238 automobiles went over
that road.
Crater Lake's roads were thrown
open about the same time that those
of ML Rainier were, and those of
Glacier and Sequoia under reason
able restrictions . Finally, last year
this great park was opened, and in
one month, the month of August,
958 cars, carrying 3,513 people travel
ed its roads.
Auto Travel Growing
In all of the parks last year it is
recorded that there were 12,579 auto
mobiles, as against 4,236 in 1914. This
year reports of the supervisors of the
various parks to and including the
20th of this month indicate that motor
travel haß been heavy. The figures
which have just reached me by wire
indicate the biggest crowds in the
history of the national park.
It has been my duty during the past
year and a half to study the use of
the park roads by the motorists, and
to make the rules and regulations
more or less stringent as this use
teemed to warrant. lam glad to say
that I have been able to make these
regulations less and less stringent,
•nd I believe that they are now im-
Poting no burden on the motorist in
park, with the possible exception
°f the regulation governing the fee
for touring the parks which is ex
scted by the automobile checker at
”"1 so trance. This regulation, I
*» ie coming to be better un
The gowns the pretty maidens wear
In this warm season of the year
To modest men like me appear
To be a trifle shocking:
They aren’t intended to conceal;
This fact, with others, they reveal—
They stop so far above the heel
They show just lots of stocking.
They’re built of gauze and net and things
So frail their aspect always brings
Fear that unlucky happenings
May rend them quite asunder:
While to mere man’s untutored eye—
Kept open as fair maids drift by—
There seems of clothes no great supply,
Such webbed creations under.
Os course, it’s no affair of mine,
So criticism I resign,
Content my interest to confine
To quite respectful glances;
And yet it does appear to me,
These pretty maidens that I see,
Garbed as they are, do certainly
Take some tremendous chances.
holdups, nohow,
j -N Q-
We worked the missus to se'.ct
some new dry goods while she was
in Omaha last week and we leave it
1 to your judgment whether she ought
to go hack there to stay or be sent
l ack again on another buying expe
dition. The goods came yesterday.
— N Q
The farmers on Monument hill re
port a dry time. We hope these ■ y
farmers will be able to pull thru \.,th
1 a good return on the year.
—N Q—
MUZZLED
1 Speaking of garters—have you
! heard of the Harvard students who
: spied a pair of silver clasps in a
Harvard Square show window, and
thinking to raise a smile, at least
. from the charmer at the counter.
I asked the price of the dog callar,
! pointing at the same time to the sil
iver clasped garter? She turned,
! looked sweetly at the young men, and
said: “We do not separate them for
; puppies, sir.”
I
derstood, and motorists are appreciat
ing more and more the necessity for
securing this revenue in order that
the roads, telephone lines, etcetera, in
the parks may be more extensively
improved than they could be under
present congressional appropriation.
Last year, the revenues from auto
mobile fees amounted to nearly $43,-
000. All of these revenues and more
will be put back into park improve
ments.
Parks All Open to Motorists
The parks, then, at the preset time,
are all open to motor-driven traffic,
with no red tape to worry the tourist
visiting them in his own car, with
regulations hardly more stringent
than those prescribed by the everage
municipiality, and every effort is be
ing made to increase the comforts
and facilities for the motorist in each
and every park.
In this park, where hotel and camp
facilities are adequate to accomodate
all who desire to avail themselves of
this type of service, we are turning
I our attention to the needs of motor
ists and others who desire only to
camp ouL using their own equipment
in this connection. There have al
ready been built, or are in the course
of construction, four automobile shelt
er camps. These are areas on which
I have been erected, sanitary toilets
|and shelters for the protection of
j automobiles from the ravages of sum
i mer showers. One of these camps is
located at Mammoth Hot Springs, an
other at Upper Basin, a third at the
Lake and a fourth in the vicinity of
this marvelous canyon. More will be
established as the necessity for them
appears.
In parks such as Yosemite and Mt.
Rainier, where hotel and camp facilit
ies have been inadequate, new hotels,
lodges and camps are being promot-
The Federal Government Gal TWO
ed. Also free parking areas are be
ing designated for the motorist. I
might also add that concessioners are
being urged to provide free parking
shelters wherein their patrons can
place their cars at their own risk,
these to be in addition to regular
garages operated by authorized con
cessioners who, of course, are permit
ted to make reasonable charges for
the care and protection of machines
entrusted to them.
These are the principal benefits
conferred upon motorists during the
past season or two, but they are not
all. I have not mentioned the pur
chase and improvement of the Tioga
Road through Yoeemite National
Park which made accessible the in
comparable high Sierra country above
and back of tts wonderful valley. I
NORTHERN WYOMING HERALD
Terrible droughts prevail in the
east this summer and feed is sure to
be scarce in Nebraska and Kansas.
Hay here is a short crop and will be
high. Probably our rancher friends
will get as good returns as thou they
sold twice as much.
-N Q
HOW IT HAPPENED
First he missed and then he kissed
her,
Her kid sister said, “Oh, Mister,
Ain’t you ’fraid there’ll be a blister
On my sister where you kissed her?”
Then the wicked kidlet’s sister
Grabbed her by the ear and hissed a
Warning to her to desist, or
She would give her ear a twister.
After which they both dismissed her,
And the man that kissed her sister
Looked, but couldn’t find a blister
Where he kissed her when he missed
her,
So, as he was some persister
And she was a poor resister
He just simply up and kissed her
Out of sight of that kid sister.
—Milwaukee Daily News.
have not spoken of the circulars of
information and automobile maps is
sued by the Department. I have not
brought to your attention our Her
culean efforts to acquaint the travel
ing public with their great national
recreational areas.
More Money Needed
But we have not consummated near
ly all of our plans yet. lam cherish
ing the hope that Congress will ap
propriate funds, and give us author
ity to build more and better roads in
all of our parks, and improve exist
ing roads where there is present or
impending necessity for improvement.
I want to see at least one highway
constructed through each park, and I
shall urge upon Congress the advisa
bility of adopting a policy of approp
riating funds to this end.
When I last appeared before the
House Committee on Appropriations,
I urged the Committee to appropriate
$45,000 to build the first link of a
highway across Gunsight Pass in
Glacier National Park, by construct
ing a road along the shore of Lake
McDonald. I also urged the approp
riation of $46,000 for the construc
tion of a road up the Carbon River
Valley in the northern part of Mt.
Rainier National Park, this road to
be a link in and a feeder to a road
completely encircling this greatest of
American mountains which should and
will ultimately be constructed.
Neither of these recommendations
were acted upon by the Committee.
However, they will again be submit
ted for consideration at the next ses
sion.
Road Plans for Future
Just a word further about our
future road plans for the national
parks. So far as this park is con
cerned, I will let Major Fries, the
Engineer Officer in charge of road
construction and improvement, tell
you of the plans for future road de
velopmenL And right here, I want
to say that Major Fries is devoting
himself so energetically and enthu
siastically to the performance of his
duties, and with marked success, as
to satisfy and gratify the officers
of both the War and Interior De
partmenL He is a man of action who
gets results.
But to return to our plans for road
extension in the parks. In Glacier
Park, besides a road over Gunsight
Pass, it is my hope that a highway to
the Canadian line, across the park
from the north to south may be built
in the future thus making our Rock
ies accessible from the more widely
advertised, bat less picturesque
Canadian Rockies which are now at
tracting so many thousands of our
[ people who have not yet seen their
i own beauty spots.
! Then in Mt. Rainier Park, a road
I should be constructed up the Carbon
i River, thence around the West side
jof the Mountain to the present sys
: tern on the south. Next a road from
the Yakima country should be built
. in from the East, and. thence through
the southeastern section of the park
to Paradise Park, where the new
hotel-camp is being established. A
I road has already been built from
| the northeastern section, up the
| White River to some miningproperties
These four feeders, the Nisqually
l road now in constant use, the Carbon
jroad. the Yakima road and the White
River road should ultimately be con
i nected by a road encircling the Moun-;
tain. No system of scenic roads in
| the world would ever surpass this
system when completed.
In Crater Lake Park a road pre
! senting beautiful vistas of Crater
Lake, is being constructed around the
I lake, and will be completed within
! a few years. When the road between
i Medford and the Park boundary is j
1 put in good condition this park will I
I be a veritable little Paradise for the |
motorist. He will then go in via j
! Medford and out via Klamath Falls,
j or make the trip in the reverse direc
i tion. I have made a motor trip in
| this reverse direction and I can vouch
for what it has to offer. No park-to
park traveler should miss it.
As to Yosemite National Park, im
provement of existing roads and
abolition of toll roads constitute our
! present betterment plans. The Tioga
jroad across the park weareparticular
l ly anxious to develop as a highway
i for transcontinental travel. If the
j Midland Trail, as marked by the
j National Highways Association is fol
lowed from Ely, Nevada, where it
leaves the Lincoln Highway, to the j
i east side of the Sierra Nevada Mount
! ains, thence along the base of these 1
j mountains to the Tioga road, thence i
j across the park and down to San
j Francisco, the motorist will find that \
jhe has followed the shortest route
between Utah and the Coast, and has
seen one of the greatest of the
national parks in the bargain,
j Sequoita National Park we hope to
j have enlarged to include the crest of
'• the Sierra Nevada on the East, and
i Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the
| United States. When, by legislation,
i thi? enlargement has been made, this
; park will be ready for extensive road
| development which will include auto
i mobile highways into the magnificient
i Kings and Kern River Canyons and to
! the summit of Mt. Whitney. It will
; not be difficult to built a road to the
top of this mountain. It is almost
practicable to ride a mule to the sum
mit now.
Coming back to the Rockies, and
to Rocky Mountain National Park,
' it is expected that the Fall River road
across this park will be completed
within a year or two. This will give
| the tourist an unparalled opportunity
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to see the Continental Divide and will
offer many side trips into now in
accessible country of unsurpassed
grandeur. Lateral roads will be built
from this main artery of travel as
money is available.
We have similar, but no less com
prehensive plans for the other parks,
including the Grand Canyon of the
Colorado when this is established as
a park. We hope this will be soon.
I have outlined now what we have
done in the parks to encourage motor
travel, what we are doing today, and
what we hope to do. Our work, as
you must appreciate, is cut out for
us a long distance ahead, and contin
uous effort must be made by us. in the
face of discouragement, if all our
plans for the parks, or the major por
tion of them, are to be crowned with
success.
Now this brings me to the park
to-park highway movement which we
are to consider, and it defines the
basis for the position which I and
other officers must take with refer
ence to its designation, improvement
and permanent establishment. !
Plans Park-to Park Road !
I was perhaps one of the first to j
suggest a complete park-to-park high
way. I was deeply interested a year
ago when the subject was first'
broached, and I am today more en- !
thusiastic over the idea than ever, ‘
because now I feel that it has reason- |
able promise of ultimate realization ,
as an important highway system. 1 1
am ready to pledge myself to assist j
in the development of the project as !
far as I can consistent with the per- j
formance of my duties. I will be |
ready always to offer suggestions as ;
to connections with park roads or 1
roads of other reservations under the l
jurisdiction of the Interior Depart-1
ment. I shall gladly give advice
when requested as to feasible and
practicable of side trips from the
park-to-park Highway. I shall be
: happy to consult with organizations
or individuals engaged in promoting
j this project, and give the benefit of ,
! my experience in park administration
! and the observations made during my
travels with reference to operation
and maintenance of municipal auto
mobile camps, automobile parks along
highways, improvements in camping
equipment and methods of caring for
travellers on the Park-to-Park high
way, etcetera. But I must make it
clear that I regard this highway as
a project to be handled by the various
national park states, and by counties
and municipalities therein. Unless
parts of this proposed system are
capable of improvement under the
j terms of the recently enacted Shaek
leford-Bankhead Federal-aid-to-good
roads law, I should not favor appeals
to Congress for funds to be expended
on it. Congress must improve and
extend intra-park roads, and requests
for funds to improve roads leading
to or joining parks would only result
in reducing appropriations for the
parks themselves.
! Federal aid to this highway system
• therefore, I believe, should not be
I counted upon. What the Yellowstone
. Highway association and Wyoming
: counties are doing to further this
project, other counties can do and
other organizations can do. What
, the National Parks Highway associa
i tion and the state of Washington can
: do toward connecting the northwest
ern parks, other associations and
i states can do without federal aid.
Cooperation Needed
I And right here, let me urge that
; the new organization that may be
■ perfected here cooperate with the
National Parks Highway association
: and similar organizations. Such
cooperation will eliminate duplica
cation of effort. The fact that the
National Parks Highway starts in
] Minnesota does not render such co
operation inadvisable. If the plans
: for the park-to-park highway are laid
; wisely, cooperation with all existing
motor organizations and state eom
, missions will quickly advance the pro
ject toward completion,
j This point I can not too strongly
'emphasize. In directing and eneour
j aging such cooperation. I shall also
. be glad to lend my assistance.
Advertise Side Trip
| Another point that deserves em
! phasis is this: Popular support and
local assistance can be counted upon,
\in many instances if side trips of
i peculiar merit are diplomatically tied
!to the new system. For instances,
j the interest and support of Portland.
Oregon, can be greatly strengthened
| if the Columbia Highway is officially
| recommended as a side trip from the
; National park-to-park Highway.
LAgain in California, if a side trip to
l Lake Tahoe with a connection with the
I Yosemite on the East side of the
Sierra should be recommended inter
est in California in the new system
would be increased. And so I might
go, suggesting projects that have oc
cured to me from time to time, but
these 1 can offer later if necessary.
Cody Hospitality Shown
This idea of establishing free public
camping places along the highway
is certainly a fine one. Towns that
provide for the tourists who cannot
■ stop at the hotels because of large
; families or because they prefer to
■ sleep and cook out of doors have a
■ service the traveler will not forget
t and he will sing aloud the praises of
; the community that shows its cor
s diality and welcome in this manner.
5 Up in Ashland, Oregon, they have
> bonded themselves to lay out a few
: of these camping places and have
:! equipped them with materials for
-1 fire, good water and everything is
I i most up-to-date. They also have a
;: good gas supply where, on depositing
I 25 cents the motorists may have all
I the gas they need for cooking while
; stopping there. Then too, they have
: private lockers, so the travelers can
. have their goods locked up properly
s and well taken care of. They have
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