1904 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



507 



public weal in the park. The original 

 \vas sent me by Major Pitcher. It runs : 



"LAKE. 7-27-' 03. 

 Major PITCHER. Yellowstone: 



"As many as seventeen bears in -an 

 evening appear on my garbage dump. 

 Tonight eight or ten. Campers and 

 people not of my hotel throw things at 

 them to make them run away. I can 

 not. unless there personally, control this. 

 Do you think you could detail a trooper 

 to be there ever}- evening from say six 

 o'clock until dark, and make people re- 



kitchen. One completely terrorized a 

 Chinese cook. It would drive him off 

 and then feast upon whatever was left 

 behind. When a-big bear begins to act 

 in this way or to show surliness it is 

 sometimes necessary to shoot it. Other 

 bears are tamed until they will feed out 

 of the hand, and will come at once if 

 called. Xot only have some of the 

 soldiers and scouts tamed bears in this 

 fashion. but occasionally a chambermaid 

 or waiter girl at one of the hotels has 

 thus developed a bear as a pet. 



CHAMBERMAID AXD BEAR. 



main behind danger line laid out by 

 Warden Jones ? Otherwise I fear some 

 accident. The arrest of one or two of 

 these campers might help. My own 

 guests do pretty well as they are told. 

 JAMES BARTON KEY." 

 11 9 a. m." 



Major Pitcher issued the order as re- 

 quested. 



At times the bears get so bold that 

 they take to making inroads on the 



The accompanying photographs not 

 only show bears very close up, with men 

 standing by within a few yards of them, 

 but they also show one bear being fed 

 from the piazza by a cook, and another 

 standing beside a particular friend, a 

 chambermaid in one of the hotels. In 

 these photographs it will be seen that 

 some are grizzlies and some black bears. 



This whole episode of bear life in the 

 Yellowstone is so extraordinary that it 

 will be well worth while for any man 



