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CLOUD’S REST. BRIDAL VEIL FALLS AND MERCED RIVER, GRIZZLY GIANT, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK. 
YOSEJIITE NATIONAL PARK. 
Among these monsters the Merced sings 
its winding way. 
The falls are at their best in May and 
June, while the winter snows are melting. 
They are still fine in July, but after that 
decrease rapidly in volume. 
The Yosemite Valley, extraordinary 
though it is from both the scenic and the 
scientific points of view, is an exceedingly 
small part of the Yosemite National Park; 
but until the summer of 1915, when the 
Department of the Interior acquired pos- 
session of the old Tioga Road, the mag- 
nificent country north of the valley was 
known only to a few enthusiastic moun- 
taineers who went in yearly with camp 
outfits. The old Tioga Road was built in 
1881 to a mine soon after abandoned. Its 
recent repair by the government has opened 
to all one of the finest scenic sections in 
America, a country dotted with splendid 
snowy summits, grown with glorious for- 
ests, and watered with rushing trout 
streams. 
And thus is added to the amazing water 
spectacle for which the valley is famous 
still another kind of Yosemite waterfall 
destined to world-wide celebrity. The 
Toulumne River, descending sharply to the 
head of the Hetch Hetchy Valley, becomes, 
in John Muir’s phrase, “one wild, exulting, 
onrushing mass of snowy purple bloom 
spreading over glacial waves of granite 
without any definite channel, gliding in 
magnificent silver plumes, dashing and 
foaming through huge bowlder dams, leap- 
ing high in the air in wheel-like whirls, 
displaying glorious enthusiasm, tossing 
from side to side, doubling, glinting, sing- 
ing in exuberance of mountain energy.” 
The crowning feature of this mad spectacle 
are the water wheels which rise fifty feet 
or more in the air when the slanting river 
strikes obstructions. 
In addition to its many other attractions 
the Yosemite National Park contains three 
groves of sequoias, the celebrated “Big 
Trees of California.” One of these trees, 
the Grizzly Giant, has a diameter of 29.6 
feet and a height of 204 feet. 
EXPERIENCE WITH MOTOR TRUCKS 
Address at Norfolk Cemetery Convention by Edward 
G. Carter, Supt., Oakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, III. 
This article is intended to give a brief 
synopsis of five years’ experience in the 
use of motor trucks for the handling of 
draught problems in the cemetery and is 
intended to supplement the article read in 
1911 at the Philadelphia convention and 
appearing in the association’s report of that 
year. 
The method of handling the loads is by 
means of trailers, using the motor as a 
tractor only. Various forms of trailers have 
been adapted for the different classes of 
loads and these are dropped at the several 
points as required and hauled away when 
loaded. This method has two principal ad- 
vantages — viz., the motor, which is the e.x- 
pensive part of the equipment, is kept in 
constant service, that is, it does not stand 
idle for loading and it will draw much 
heavier loads than it will carry. There 
are many incidental advantages developed 
in practice. 
The purpose here is to give the results 
in costs and other statistics covering this 
experience, rather than to make compari- 
son with different methods of applying mo- 
tors. Some comparisons with horse-drawn 
vehicles are also given. 
It may be said in passing that the trailer 
method for general teaming appears to be 
taking hold, as witness the fact that sev- 
eral concerns are now engaged in building 
special vehicles for the purpose, and loads 
handled in this way are daily seen on city 
streets. Our own cemetery has had nearly 
six years’ experience in this direction, hav- 
ing started the method in 1911, and so far 
as we know was the first concern of any 
kind to adopt such a method of handling 
its general hauling. 
'I'he following figures are based on av- 
erages for five years’ operation of trucks 
of one-ton capacity. 
Our reports show an average of 221 days’ 
operation per year. This means that dur- 
