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Show 500 TONS OF ROCK IX OLD FAITHFUL IXN FIREPLACE Yellowstone Park, Wyo., October Octo-ber 7. The gigantic fireplace in ; Old Faithful Inn contains 500 ;: tons of rock quarried from a hill- -side about five miles from the ; Inn. The fireplace is 85 feet from the floor to ridge and pro- '' jects 20 feet above the roof. The : giant clock and all the Inn hard'-1 ware are made from designs ham- ; mered out on the grounds. R. ,e. ;, Reamer, Seattle, was the archi- -' tect. He designed the original ' log building at O'ld Faithful and ' also designed and built the Can- ' yon Hotel in 1910, six years after af-ter the first part of Old Faithful Inn was built. The east wing of -Old Faithful Inn was built in ' 1913 and the west wing in 1928. '- |