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"COMPARED WITH THESE PINNACLES ST. PAUL'S OR NOTRE DAME SEEMS INSIGNIFICANT." Looking south on Broadway, which is bordered with the world's highest buildings. -Park for Biggest Skyscraper. p. 174. YOU are invited to attend the greatest show in the world," read the card. "The stupendous spectacle of an empire in the making. Positively the Last Appearance on the Planet of the Anglo-Saxon Pioneer! The performance will last three weeks. Come one! Come all!" Before accepting an invitation so continental in its scope, the wise spectator will wish to make at least the casual acquaintance of the man who gives it. Thirty years ago, the Master Showman, then a tall, gaunt, young mining prospector, was accustomed to climb, hand over hand, up the steep, icy face of Silver Mountain in the Canadian Rockies, with the bosom of his blue flannel shirt stuffed with thawing sticks of dynamite. Today, though he rides through the deep, dim mountain canyons in a private car, there is still an ominous, explosive suggestion in the flashing of his black eyes when anything goes wrong about the only greatest show-be it one of the trained avalanches which has jumped the beaten track or a snow-storm scheduled to fall on the bald top of Mt. Sir Donald, during the afternoon performance, which has failed to keep its appointment. The whole vast wilderness of the Canadian West was the play-ground and battle-feld of his adventurous youth. Today he takes goggle-eyed tender-feet to view its marvels, secure in the knowledge that no corner of the white man's world offers thrills PHOTOS COPYRIGHT BY M. W. GLEASON, BOSTON so new and keen or contrasts so astounding. Thirty years ago the Master Showman and his fellows-every man a potential millionaire-were traveling on snow-shoes through the passes of the Rocky Mountains in far western Alberta. Half way down a deep draw they saw a column of smoke rising high into the air. Indians! They separated and each man keeping a thick fir-tree in front of him, crept down to reconnoitre. Presently the smoke turned to steam, rising from a three-foot hole in the granite. The hole gave entrance to a great empty dome-shaped cavern, at the bottom of which bubbled two feet of hot and sulphurous water. They had discovered a geyser-a tired, old geyser, easy to tame and to keep in captivity. Cutting a tall fir tree, they trimmed its branches close to the trunk and thrust this thirty foot ladder down into the geyser's throat. Undressing in the snow, they climbed down, one after the other, to take a Turkish bath, finishing off, ten minutes later, with a cold plunge in the vast snow drift which filled most of the draw. Today, this worn-out geyser, with a gangling Highland Scot for its attendant, occupies a tiny corner of the smallest side-show tent, along with the largest herd of bison in the world and a couple of agile rivers that do a perpetual plunge over twin precipices, to fall into each other's arms in the valley at the bottom. But to do justice to the Master Show Copyright, 1910, by Technical World Company 123 |