The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-06-08
[From Louisville Co numerical 4th
The Press Excursion TO Mammoth
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From Louisville Co numerical 4th
The Press Excursion TO Mammoth
CRYe.
The members of the Kentucky
Press Association and the Western
Associated Press, with the bevy oil
fair ladies that accompanied them, re
turned In good order last night from
the Mammoth Cave, reaching the city
at ten o'clock. The excursion was,
from beginning to eud, a most pleas
ant one, not single incident occur
ring to mar the harmony or throw q
damper on the spirits of the party
aud even the spirits which mine host
of the Mammoth Cave Hotel provided
for the party were only dampencd to
suit the taste Of the Individual con
sumner, which were rather uudevel-
oped in that direction.
If Mark Tspley had been along be
would have moralized ia q melan-
eholy mood. There was really no
credit to be won by being Jolly" un
der such circumstances. Every body
who had undertaken to show courte-
sizes to the members of the Press, did
their level best all the way through.
The Nashville Road put the excur
sionists into elegant cars, and landed
them safely and on time at Cave City.
The proprietor of the Cave City Hotel
gave them one of his best dinners.
Mr.. Mccoy, of the "Old Reliable"
stage route, carried them safely and
as expeditiously as hundred individ
uals of such ponderous intellects and
respectable avoirdupois, could be
transported over roads on which ma
ny rains had lately fallen, to the
Mammoth Cave Hotel. On the route
over, the party stopped at Indian
Cave, to the beauties of which the
courteous proprietor. DIR. Young,
took all pains to introduce the party,
giving them an agreeable foretaste OF
the wonders to come.
Mr.. Proctor, of the Cave Hotel,
made excellent provision for the un-
usual influx of guests, cheering both
the inner and the outer man to the
perfection which old fashioned hos
pitality and the wonderful facilities
at his command made so easy Most
of the party went over the short route
the same evening, and early in the
morning some fifteen or twenty OF
those from the northwest returned by
the way of Glasgow Junction in order
to reach home this morning. Those
who remained. with undiminished
ardor explored in the morning the
wonders of the long route, facing
with an undaunted courage, which. 10
two or three instances. seemed ALSO
lutte recklessness. the perilous straits
of Fat Mans Misery and the sug-
gestive propinquity of the Bottomless
Pit and the river Styx.
After partaking of a bounteous
dinner, to which the labors of the
morning gave unneeded relish. the
party started o. their return to Glas.
Cow junction, stopping on the way to
explore the beautiful Proctor s
Cave"
Mr.. Proctor, careful Of his guests
to the last, and knowing the reluct
ance with which they would leave the
beauties of the curtained dome and
the other attractions of that enchant-
ed region, had provided a basket of
champagne to soften the paDgs Of
parting. The champagne speedily dis
appeared, and while regret remained,
new strength was given to struggle
with it, plea rable tint was thrown
over it, and what was left
WAS not akin to pain.
~ And reSem bled sorrow only
AS mist resembles the rain"
Nobody would have mistaken the
long line OF omnibuses for funeral
train.
So much time had been spent at
Proctor's Cave, that Diamond Cave,
on the same road, had to be passed
unexplored, much to the regret OF all.
Reaching Glasgow Junction about
an hour before the train for Louis
Vile was due, Major Proctor, of the
old Bells Tavern stand, took the
party in charge, and demonstrated
how little the fame of that old hos
telry was likely to suffer In his hands.
After a leisurely discussion of an ex-
cellent supper by all, and Of some
good cigars by the gentlemen, the
train came along, and entering the
same cars in which they had gone
down, the party was soon bowled
along at merry rate for Louisville.
1t Will be many a day before the
majestic avenues of Mammoth Cave
will be trOdden by its like.
= just before dinner yesterday, the
gentlemen of the party assembled in
the parlors of the Cave Hotel for the
purpose of making some formal ex-
preston of their appreciation of the
efforts that had been made for their
Hon. Erastus Brooks.
of the New York Enpress. was called
to the chair, and in an appropriate
speech. explained the object of the
On motion, a committee of
three was appointed to prepare suita-
Bile resolutions to be reported at the
liener table. Mr.. J. B. Mccullough,
IF the Cincinnati Enquirer. Mr.. Cole
man. of the st. Louis Rural World, |
md Col j. StoddaTd johnson, of the /
Frankfort Ye0mdn. were named as
he committee, and the meeting al /