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Show Mayor Tells of Trip Through Yellowstone Park; Meets Ogdenites "Wherever you go In tho Yellow - stone park, you moet people from Og-iden Og-iden who are enjoying the summer vacation va-cation In that wonderland of the west,' said Mayor Frank Francis, on his return from the National park. "They are at Yellowstone entrance, uld Faithful, Lake. Grand Canyon, Roosevelt and Mammoth, and all seem to be thoroughly pleased with their ' surroundings. "As o entered the park, -we m 1 1 Professor Tanner, who is to marry i. i Ogden girl He is in the office f the Yellowstone Park Camp company com-pany Several Ogden boys were on the platform serving as 'red caps' and they proved to be most obliging and ' accommodating RKNFW ACQUAINTANCE "At Bake, I renewed an old acquaintance ac-quaintance with Howard H. Hays, who 1 1 presented tho Wiley Way In ugden thirteen years ago. fcincc then Mr. Hays has rapidly advanced until now he Is president of the Yellowstone Park Camps company, successor to the Wile Way, and an organization of considerable financial strength with a plant representing an investment ofi not less than $200,000. "Mr Hays extended many courtesies and wo were his guests at Roosevelt, a new camp between Grand Canyon, and Mammoth, where Theodore Roosevelt Roos-evelt and John Burroughs camped III 1&03 on tehlr trip through geyser land "Miss "ra M Cupps, former mem ber of the ugden high school faculty, Is hostess at Camp Roosevelt, and a delightful hostess she is "Mrs Ivatherlne Sprague Is in charge of the kitchen at Roosevelt HAVE TROUT BREAKFAST 1 Henry Lambert and wife were at the camp and they, with Miss Cupp, conspired to place before us a trout breakfast which was as pleasing as it, was surprising. Those traveling through the park should not overlook Camp Roosevelt,, ,as it Is the most restful place in all, Ithat region of primitive wealth of nature na-ture A. G Whitney Is the manager under Mr. Hays and he Is deeply interested in-terested In the piuns for a school to bo devoted to boys, the buildings of which aie to be erected on a terrace, to tho south of the present hotel now being finished The school win be a, community affair, governed by boye under the guidance of Mr Whitney, Who Is from tho department of forest SOOlOg) of the New Vork btate college! of forestry, Syracuse. New York. "At Camp Roosevelt we saw bear, and across the foothills antelope were! ranging, and down a small stream! beaver were at work on a series of darn Douglas fir here In part displaces dis-places the lodgcpole pine which covers much of tho face of the earth within th boundaries of the park TYPICAL FKONTlEJtyiAN. 'Henry' Bambcrt, to whom referonce has been made, llvei near Livingston, .Montana, a few miles north of tho northern entrance of tho park. He is j t, ; years of age He settled in Paradise Para-dise Valley, at tho baso of the Snowy Range. 36 years ago, and has a reputa-tion reputa-tion as a fisherman and big gamo hunter. 11 . Is a ty pical frontiersman I and finds more real Joy In the wilds I of the pines than n city life Ho drove j an ox team from Springfield, Ohio, to tho Black Hills before the Custer massacre mas-sacre and slnco then has been on tho, outskirts of civilization, hunting, cattle cat-tle raising and farming. He and h3 wife v.h was reading a late copy of the LiterafJ Digest wiu-n approached, have reared a family and have accumulated ac-cumulated a competency and now aro taking life easy. Tho ox team has given giv-en way to a large, powerful auto which Mr. Lambert drives, and this man today to-day Is playing his part in the transition transi-tion from the slowlj moving ox team to the speeding motor car a chance so great as to have been beyond the Wildest dreams of tho men and worn-1 en who came west while the west was an almost unknown v liud ness. "Mr. Lambert tdated that, in his i younger day3, ho could run down any' animal in a day's chase, and. as he, left us. he bont over and struck a' stride on the trail leading off in the direction of the Yellowstone which proved to me that even In his old ; age he would be a hard guide to fol- j low on a trip in the hills. OGDEN WOMAN THERE. ' At Grand Canyon, Miss Beulah I Brown until lately a teacher In Ogden high school, takes the tourists out over1 the cliffs and down the great flight of stairs and gives to them a view of the (any on, with Its rich coloring, and mighty falls, which is awo-lnsplr-lng and thrilling. She Is a remarkable remark-able girl in that she is as much at heme on the brink of the gorge where i misstep would launch one Into cter-1 nitv. as she Is In a class room leach-1 lng oral expression. . "One of the teachers at the Pingrcc) school Is at Grand Canyon and the : manager is b professor iir mathematics mathe-matics In our schools, "At Mammoth the hostess is Mrs.' Mary Hutton, one of our leading music teachers a most amiable lady The venlng we were there. Mrs. Hutton was in charge of the entertainment, which Included a musical program .mil u danco, and Harold Hutton. her son. sang and was heartily tncorod. "Miss Marian Loomls, a prepossessing prepossess-ing young lady from Ogden, is nurso . a'. Grand Canyon. "The employee of the camps aro known as savages. They are savage, in nothing except name for they in- v'urlably are polite, courteous, affable and attentive This may be account-1 ed for by the fact that nearly ever one of them Is from college and all have tho refinement of good homes. I They are ono of tho real sourc. s Of pleasure In the park, and leac lasting last-ing impression of civility It is worth going to the park, if ror no other purpose pur-pose than to bo greeted by tho sav- ages "While at Lake I had tho good for-1 tune vo be Introduced to Brigadier; General John A. Johnston, at present a retired army officer and the finest type of tho American military school , Quiet and imaSSUmlngi you do not be-1 glu to appreciate the depth of the man1 until he uniolds himself In conversa-; Hon Ho W'as in command of the Thirty-fourth division which went over to Prance and his tribute to the American Amer-ican hoy was an eulogy from which I nothing w us omitted. He hud been on I a trip to the sodth boundary of the purk, having employed a pack train tc get Into unbeaten paths away from the flow of tourist travel He said he had been on an unnamed peak where the panorama was beyond description, de-scription, lie had with hin. 0 nephew from Washington, a young fellow who: was having the time of ius career, n i lng everything to be seen and making mak-ing himself popular with his newly-made newly-made friends By the Way, the nephew j confided to his uncle, while they were i n th. Pnrlr.r on rniKo . Ihr, V,1. lowstone. that Ogden had tho prettiest, pret-tiest, comellest girls he had ever seen. He did not say so. but the prospects ere the boy will place Ogden on his itinerary homeward bound BREATHING SPOT. 'The Yellowstone, with its endless natural phenomena and its arers un-marred un-marred by the artifice of man. is i breathing spot for America which Will grow in popularity as the years go hv and while the wild life the wild life of the pioneer west is no longer to bu encountered any other place Within With-in tho limits of th United States." oo |