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of people entering in private automobiles was 23,404; the total number of machine entrances, 5,029. The figures given in the last sentence above do not include the automobile-stage entrances, by which means 8,153 people entered, 3,652 having come to Ashford, on the Tacoma Eastern Railroad, thence to the park in automobile stage, the remaining 4,501 having come on automobile stages from Tacoma; 200 people entered in horse-drawn vehicles; 5,000 people came into the park for camping purposes. The average length of time each person remained in the park is estimated at three days. Visitors are not required to register on going out.

AUTOMOBILES AND MOTORCYCLES.

During the year ended September 30, 1915, there were issued 3,230 permits to owners of private automobiles to use the roads of the park for travel. These permits are good for repeated entrances until December 31 of the year of issue. For each of these permits a fee of $5 was exacted, making the revenue collections from this source $16,150, while public automobiles paid $1,900. Motorcycles to the number of 247 were licensed at $1 each.

ACCIDENTS.

Two fatal accidents occurred in the park during the month of August, 1915. On August 19 Mr. Gilbert Francis Ordway, a prominent attorney of Boston, Mass., while returning from the summit of Mount Rainier, was killed near Gibraltar in descending the cliffs of Cowlitz Cleaver, a rocky ridge that extends from Camp Muir to Gibraltar. The mountain-climbing party was composed of seven people and a guide. After walking along this cleaver for about a quarter of a mile the party started to leave it and go down to the trail in the snow below. When within 15 feet of the trail Mr. Ordway placed his Alpine staff directly in front of him, in order to make a step down of about 2 feet. Suddenly his staff slipped, precipitating him forward to the trail below, a drop of about 15 feet. He struck on his head, just back of the left ear, against a rock, rendering him unconscious, in which state he remained until his death. The accident happened at 4.20 p. m., but he lived until the rescue party reached him at 10 p. m.

On August 31 Mr. C. W. Ferguson, of Seattle, Wash., was killed by falling ice in the caves of Paradise Glacier. There were 17 people and a guide in the party. Disregarding the instructions of the guide, several people proceeded in advance and entered the caves. Two boys passed through, Mr. Ferguson, accompanied by his wife, followed, stopped inside and began picking at the ice overhead with his Alpine staff, when a large block of ice broke loose, killing him instantly.

Aside from these two no other accidents have occurred.

An arrangement was made with Dr. James R. Yocom, of Tacoma, for medical and hospital service to the men employed on construction work, for which the men contributed $1 per month. Two patients were removed to the hospital in Tacoma, one of whom died.

CONCESSIONS AND SPECIAL PERMITS.

Following is a list of special permits issued and amounts paid therefor for the season now closing:

Special permits issued during season of 1915.

HOTELS AND TENT CAMPS.

Tacoma Eastern Railroad, hotel at Longmire Springs (see also Tele-
phones).

John L. Reese, tent camp in Paradise Valley (see also Novelty sales stands)..
George B. Hall, tent camp in Indian Henry's Hunting Grounds (see also
Livery barns and pony trains)......

LIVERY BARNS AND PONY TRAINS.

Tacoma Taxicab & Baggage Transfer Co (see also Automobiles)..
George B. Hall (see also Hotels and tent camps)...

NOVELTY SALES STANDS.

National Park Hotel & Transportation Co., in lobby of National Park Inn,
Longmire Springs.

John L. Reese, at camp Paradise Park (see also Hotels and tent camps)...

Harry G. Greer.

Jules Stampfler..

H. A. Loss....

R. E. Williams (packer, 1 horse)..

GUIDES.

$500.00

577.50

75.00

65.00

200.00

50.00

15.00

25.00

25.00

20.00

1.00

AUTOMOBILES AND MOTORCYCLES.

Tacoma Auto Livery Co., five 7-passenger automobiles for hire..
Pacific Auto Transit Co., two 16-passenger automobiles for hire..

Mountain Transportation Co., four 12-passenger automobiles for hire.. Atherton's Bluebird Tours Co., three 7-passenger automobiles and two 24-passenger automobiles for hire......

Tacoma Taxicab & Baggage Transfer Co., five 12-passenger automobiles and two 20-passenger automobiles for hire (see also Livery barns and pony trains).

400.00

200.00

300.00

250.00

Mount Tacoma-Rainier Tours Co., two 7-passenger automobiles for hire...

Independent Touring Car Co., two 7-passenger automobiles for hire......
Burgon D. Mesler, one 5-passenger automobile for hire..

J. G. McCormick, one 7-passenger automobile for hire.
Conrad M. Hansen, one 7-passenger automobile for hire..
W. P. Geisenheyner, one 7-passenger automobile for hire..
D. J. Lindsay, one 7-passenger automobile for hire.
Frank Gill, one 7-passenger automobile for hire..
Edwin L. Davis, one 7-passenger automobile for hire.
R. H. Chantler, one 7-passenger automobile for hire.
Private automobiles, 3,230, at $5 each..
Motorcycles, 247, at $1 each.

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Tacoma Eastern Railroad (see also Hotels and tent camps)....

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MISCELLANEOUS.

Elcaine Longmire, ice cream, confectionery, and camp grocery.

$100.00

James G. Patterson, barber shop in Reese's camp..

5.00

Mount Rainier Mining Co., privileges on abandoned mining claims.

300.00

Mount Rainier Mining Co., for timber cut in park....

200.00

Eagle Peak Copper Mining Co., for use of water in Paradise River for generating electricity.

7.50

National Park Hotel & Transportation Co., fuel wood.

10.00

John L. Reese, fuel wood...

20.00

Thos. B. Elliott, ice cream, soft drink, and lunch stand near foot of Nisqually Glacier....

25.00

William Nish, telescopes for view purposes..

25.00

Tacoma Taxicab & Baggage Transfer Co., temporary garage in Paradise

Valley..

50.00

National Park Inn, fuel wood.

3.00

20, 746. 00

Total revenues..

HOTELS AND CAMP ACCOMMODATIONS.

The National Park Inn, at Longmire Springs, is the principal public stopping place within the park. The franchise to operate this hotel is held in the name of the Tacoma Eastern Railroad. The building is a frame structure, two and one-half stories in height, 125 feet long, and 32 feet wide. There are 36 guest rooms in the main building, and through the use of tents 250 guests may be accommodated. A very attractive clubhouse or assembly hall, built of pine logs, has been provided for the comfort and enjoyment of guests. Water is taken from the Nisqually River for the operation of an electric lighting and refrigerating plant.

A hotel and tent camp is operated on the patented lands at Longmire Springs by Mrs. Elcaine Longmire.

John L. Reese operates a tent camp in Paradise Valley, and George B. Hall operates a tent camp in Indian Henry's Hunting Grounds.

Very respectfully,

The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.

D. L. REABURN,

Supervisor.

APPENDIX.

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

General regulations of March 30, 1912.

Pursuant to the authority conferred by the acts of Congress ap proved March 2, 1899, and May 27, 1908, the following rules and regulations for the government of the Mount Rainier National Park, in the State of Washington, are hereby established and made public: 1. It is forbidden to injure or disturb in any manner any of the mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders on the Government lands within the park.

2. It is forbidden to cut or injure any timber growing on the park lands, or to deface or injure any Government property. Camping parties will be allowed to use dead or fallen timber for fuel.

3. Fires should be lighted only when necessary and completely extinguished when not longer required. The utmost care must be exercised at all times to avoid setting fire to the timber and grass.

4. Hunting or killing, wounding, or capturing any bird or wild animal on the park lands, except dangerous animals when necessary to prevent them from destroying life or inflicting an injury, is prohibited. The outfits, including guns, traps, teams, horses, or means of transportation used by persons engaged in hunting, killing, trapping, ensnaring, or capturing such birds or wild animals, or in possession of game killed on the park lands under other circumstances than prescribed above, will be taken up by the superintendent and held subject to the order of the Secretary of the Interior, except in cases where it is shown by satisfactory evidence that the outfit is not the property of the person or persons violating this regulation and the actual owner thereof was not a party to such violation. Firearms will only be permitted in the park on written permission from the superintendent thereof.

5. Fishing with nets, seines, traps, or by the use of drugs or explosives, or in any other way than with hook and line, is prohibited. Fishing for purposes of merchandise or profit is forbidden. Fishing may be prohibited by order of the superintendent in any of the waters of the park, or limited therein to any specified season of the year, until otherwise ordered by the Secretary of the Interior.

6. No person will be permitted to reside permanently, engage in any business, or erect buildings, etc., upon the Government lands in the park without permission, in writing, from the Secretary of the Interior. The superintendent may grant authority to competent persons to act as guides and revoke the same in his discretion. pack trains will be allowed in the park unless in charge of a duly registered guide.

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7. Owners of patented lands within the park limits are entitled to the full use and enjoyment thereof; the boundaries of such lands,

however, must be determined, and marked and defined, so that they may be readily distinguished from the park lands. While no limitations or conditions are imposed upon the use of such private lands so long as such use does not interfere with or injure the park, private owners must provide against trespass by their stock or cattle, or otherwise, upon the park lands, and all trespasses committed will be punished to the full extent of the law. Stock may be taken over the park lands to patented private lands with the written permission and under the supervision of the superintendent, but such permission and supervision are not required when access to such private lands is had wholly over roads or lands not owned or controlled by the United States.

8. Hereafter the location of mining claims under the mineral-land laws of the United States is prohibited within the park. Persons who have heretofore acquired in good faith rights to any mining location or locations shall not be permitted to injure, destroy, or interfere with the retention in their natural condition of any timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders within said park outside the boundaries of their respective mining claims duly located and held under the mineral-land laws.

9. Allowing the running at large, herding, or grazing of cattle or stock of any kind on the Government lands in the park, as well as the driving of such stock or cattle over same, is strictly forbidden, except where authority therefor has been granted by the superintendent. All cattle or stock found trespassing on the park lands will be impounded and disposed of as directed in regulations approved March 30, 1912.

10. No drinking saloon or barroom will be permitted upon Government lands in the park.

11. Private notices or advertisements shall not be posted or displayed on the Government lands within the reservation, except such as may be necessary for the convenience and guidance of the public.

12. Persons who render themselves obnoxious by disorderly conduct or bad behavior, or who violate any of the foregoing rules will be summarily removed from the park and will not be allowed to return without permission, in writing, from the Secretary of the Interior or the superintendent of the park.

No lessee or licensee shall retain in his employ any person whose presence in the park shall be deemed and declared by the superintendent to be subversive of the good order and management of the reservation.

13. The superintendent designated by the Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to remove all trespassers from the Government lands in the park and enforce these rules and regulations and all the provisions of the acts of Congress aforesaid.

Instructions of May 2, 1914.

1. Interference with, or molestation of, any bear or other wild animal in the park in any way by any person not authorized by the superintendent is prohibited.

2. The wanton destruction of wild flowers, plants, or shrubs growing on the park lands is forbidden.

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