A miracle in hotel building : being the story of the building of the new Canyon Hotel in Yellowstone Park / by Raftery . and four tons apiece could carry only 2,500 pounds or downed in the drifts, loads overturned, sleds broken, harnesstorn apart, snow-slides and sudden blizzards increased the hardships,the hindrances and the perils of the gigantic task. In our compara-tively easy journey through this strange and rigorous scene, we passedsnow-covered piles of freight that had been set beside the trail fromoverloaded sleighs, waiting to be hauled almost piecemeal over milesof ne
A miracle in hotel building : being the story of the building of the new Canyon Hotel in Yellowstone Park / by Raftery . and four tons apiece could carry only 2,500 pounds or downed in the drifts, loads overturned, sleds broken, harnesstorn apart, snow-slides and sudden blizzards increased the hardships,the hindrances and the perils of the gigantic task. In our compara-tively easy journey through this strange and rigorous scene, we passedsnow-covered piles of freight that had been set beside the trail fromoverloaded sleighs, waiting to be hauled almost piecemeal over milesof nearly insurmountable difficulty. To Make a Summer Holiday. The two regiments of men who spent the winter of 1910-11building this marvelous mountain hotel have been practically isolatedfrom the world for months. They have worked always seven days ofthe week; they had no saloon or club or theater to beguile their timeor bemuse their faculties, and even for the younger, pleasure-lovingworkers there was no diversion, except the fierce thrill of gliding andcoasting on skis over the glacier-like slopes of the desolate amphi-. NEAR CRYSTAL SPRINGS YELLOWSTONE PARK theatre which surrounded them. There is probably no other like•example of hotel-building in history, and the structure which is theresult, the scene which it civilizes without desecrating, the strangeregion which it adorns without vulgarizing are all in keeping and insingular symmetry. A Unique Hotel. Unity without harshness, great size without ostentation, strikethe beholder with his first view of the new Canyon Hotel. Withoutyielding anything of its own well-contained individuality, its sur-render to the vast nobility of the scene in which it is placed, is com-plete, natural and captivating. Not of great height, of uniformlywarm, bright color, never in ornate competition with the landscape;about it, expressive of repose and strength, innocent of fantastic pre-tense or ornate frivolity, the new hotel by the Yellowstone in
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