points of interest. The Park itself, so far as travelers are concerned, has been far from fully explored. Some of its lakes, indeed, lie along the regular routes and are easily reached, while others can be approached only by tortuous and difficult trails. All are in the midst of magnificent scenery, and our Government is now making detailed observations regarding their depth and their fish life. A few of these lakes are circular in form, but the typical lake of this region is long and narrow. The settings of almost all are sublime. Giant pines fringe their edges, and bleak and bare mountains rise precipitously from their shores. One lake, known as Iceberg Lake, which can be reached from Many Glacier Camp, in the McDermott region, is the only lake of its kind to be found on the continent of North America. At one end is a small glacier, and during the warm days of summer this mass of ice moves out over the edge of the solid wall that holds it, and great chunks as big as the Flatiron Building in New York City go plunging down into the water. The elevation at this point is so high that the lake never becomes warm enough to melt the ice entirely. There are always several huge icebergs floating on its surface. Iceberg Lake was thought by the Indians to be the home of lost souls and troubled spirits. Avalanche Lake, in Avalanche Basin, at the head of Lake Macdonald, is another beauty that is well worth a day's jaunt to reach. It is the favorite with persons unaccustomed to horseback, for the trail is an easy one through pine forests until, as the rider suddenly emerges at what seems a hole in the Rockies, the lake bursts upon the traveler, a gem often seen through a halo of purple mist. This lake is two miles long, with a border of green. Its chief charms are four waterfalls tumbling down from the surrounding hill. In the distance these great falls seem like ribbons flung from the crags, to end in milky foam below.

Glacier Park was the spirit land of the Piegans or Blackfeet Indians, now unfortunately diminishing in number. Their chiefs tell many tales of romance connected with these lakes and mountains. Lake Macdonald they have, for reasons of their own, always shunned. Of Lake McDermott they have been particularly fond. Two Medicine Lake was named after an ancient ceremony.

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the story goes, there was a famine in the land. Even the buffalo had left, and there was nothing to eat but berries. The Blackfeet are plains Indians, and this loss of game meant to them virtual starvation. So the wise men of the tribe came up into the mountains and built two medicine lodges on the shore of this lake to worship the Great Spirit and to pray that they might be relieved from the famine. When the Great Spirit heard them, he directed that some of their oldest men should go to Chief Mountain, where the Wind God held sway. The old men were afraid to approach the Wind God, and so the Great Spirit directed that the medicine men send their youngest and bravest warriors. These young men, when they reached Chief Mountain and saw the Wind God, were also afraid; but they drew nearer and nearer to him, and finally dared to touch the skins he was wearing. They made their prayer, and he listened. Stretching one wing far over the plains, he told them in this way to go back there and they would find the buffalo. 'The warriors descended to the valley and brought the good news to their people. They found that the buffalo had already come back and that the famine was broken.

There is, of course, no hunting, killing, wounding, or capturing of birds or wild animals allowed in the National Park. The white goat and bear, deer, and members of the feathered tribe are as bold here as they are everywhere when a truce of God exists between man and beast. In the midst, too, of all this stupendous scenery there are found all the quieter pleasures and beauties of the wilderness. The traveler sinks his feet deep in ferns and mosses, rests himself on fallen tree-trunks covered with green lichen, picks wild berries that are strange and beautiful and at whose name he can only guess. The air is pure and still, and over it all is the charm of a wild and unspoiled land. Are we to wonder if within the confines of this Park the American traveler feels a thrill of pride? For all this grandeur, all this intimate beauty, is not in some far and distant land. It is not Africa, Europe, or Asia. is part of our United States, and it belongs to our people as a matchless and inalienable heritage.

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eral purposes, approached Mr. Julius Rosenwald for a subscription. He inquired whether the objects for which the million-dollar fund provided included a building for colored men, and, on being informed that it did not, stated that as soon as the Association was ready to undertake such a project he would contribute $25,000.

Later, encouraged by Mr. Rosenwald's offer, under the leadership of Dr. George C. Hall, the well-known colored surgeon, the Chicago Association undertook to raise a fund of $100,000 for a building for colored men. More than this amount was raised, and there has been constructed a modern, well-equipped building, costing, with land and equipment, nearly $200,000.

Shortly after the successful conclusion of the Chicago canvass Dr. J. E. Moorland, one of the colored International Secretaries of the Young Men's Christian Association, who with Dr. Hall had directed the canvass of the Chicago Association for subscriptions among colored people, in company with Mr. Messer and Mr.' Parker, of the Chicago Association, called on Mr. Rosenwald to explain the successful conduct of the campaign. During the course of the luncheon Mr. Rosenwald made careful inquiry regarding the progress of Association work among colored men elsewhere in the country, and, on learning that the work was of small volume owing largely to inadequate equip ment, he, in the most matter-of-fact way, stated that he would duplicate his Chicago offer to any city in America-that is to say, during a period of five years he would contribute $25,000 to any city that raised $75,000 toward a Young Men's Christian Association building for its colored men.

That, as I have heard the story, is the way in which the first announcement was made of Mr. Rosenwald's offer of $25,000 to any city in the United States that could provide the remaining $75,000 toward a $100,000 building for the colored Young Men's Christian Association. This gift has proved to be

edge. In fact, I doubt if there is any single gift to any public institution that has brought a greater return to the community than this one single benefaction, which is all the more interesting because it is the gift of a Jew to a Christian religious institution.

Since that time four buildings, each costing $100,000 or more, have been erected. The one in Washington, D. C., was dedicated in May, 1912. Then followed the buildings in Chicago, Indianapolis, and Philadelphia. In addition to these, funds have already been subscribed for buildings costing upwards of $100,000 each at Los Angeles, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Baltimore, Maryland; Kansas City, Missouri; Cincinnati, Ohio; and New York City. There are to be two Association buildings in the Eastern metropolis, the second being for colored women. In Nashville, Tennessee, the colored people have subscribed $3,000 more than their allotment

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$33,000, instead of $30,000-and the campaign ended one day ahead of time! The campaign is, as I write, under way among the white people of Nashville to subscribe $45,000 allotted to them..

Mr. Rosenwald has paid out $100,000 already; $175,000 more will be paid at the proper time in the construction period, and, if Nashville completes its fund, $25,000 more will be available there. Facing such

a proposition, Mr. Rosenwald's only source of disappointment has been, as Dr. Moorland tells me, that the demands upon him were not more frequent.

First and foremost among the ways in which this gift has helped the Young Men's Christian Association and the colored people has been the giving them an opportunity to help themselves. Since January, 1911, in response to Mr. Rosenwald's offer, not less than $411,500 has been subscribed by the colored people in the eleven cities I have named. In addition to this sum, $53,513.33 has been raised by colored people for the Young Men's Christian Association organizations in smaller towns. This means that, altogether,