The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-07-23
CAYCE SPRINGS.
A Visit TO this Popular Resort
and an Inspection of Cayce's
Spring Power.


B. W. Thompson, known 20 our readers
~ the former proprietor of the Tennes-
see House, in this city, who adds to his
knowledge Of how to keep a hotel an
ever-inereasing spirit OF accommoda-
ton. The cabins and main building are
! filed with renters and boarlers, inva-
lids and persons blessed with health, the
one seeking in the water a paBacea for
disease and the other experiencing IN
the delightful shades and refreshing
waters a sensation of delightful content
meHt- This place is emphatieaIly the
place for ehildren-abOut forty being
numbered among the visitors when we
We're there. The bracing atmosphere
and healthful water adds vigOr to their
natural glee and frivolity, and they
make the mountain from which bursts
the healing waters resound with epoTtive
shouts and playful laughter. The guess
hail from all quarters-abOut seventeen
being from our own town of Pulaski,
and applications are continually coming
in for quarters and board The table
kept up by Mr.. Thompson would com
pare fsyOrably with a city hotel where
marketing Facilities are much superior,
and the price Of board is absolutely
cheaper than person can live at home.
1t is his business to say how he can af-
ford it, not ours-and other peoples bus
mess to take advantage OF bis Iberality
This place is not the resort Of people OF
fashion particularly, and the person who
visits it is released from all restraints
and not tied down by amy little absurd
rules of etiquette, so called. Inter
course is free, soeiable, friendly, and
uninterrupted by any vain show Of
fashions glittering shams. It is not al
together without amusements, though
there is no public place of the kind.
Croquet and kindred games of all kinds
are freely INDUCED in, though nothing
carried to excess. The first visible eff
feet of the waters upon a visitor is a
sudden increase of appetite that almost
amounts to vOraeity, and it is amusing
to witness the maneuvers and hear the
excuses of delicate ladies or gentlemen
when detected taking the seventh bis
cult or commencing on a new chicken.
We think that our Pulaski delegation
could come near paying expenses by ia
king care of their chicken bones. The
more sensitive lady manages to have
child sit next door to her and if she
can't slip her bones on the child's plate
she win put the chiId's on her own, and
then say that they all belonged to the
little innocent fellow. It is astonishing
how the pieces of chicken that contain
no bones are favored and sought, and
equally astonishing to notice how
quickly dish of hash viii disappear if
you wink. It's false that tables ever
groan, but their table fairly squeaks un-
der the load of edibles spread for each
meal. and when the crowd files down
the stairway after eating, q telescope
could perhaps discover crumbs on the
cloth, and the scene presents the appear
ance of the track of asimoon. We hope
our readers will gather from this that
the water is an appetizer, and not that
our people didn't have anything to eat
at home before they went there.
We must not forget to mention here
that visitors to the springs can command
the very best medical advice when nee
essary. DR.. John Steele, an able ply
stefan and clever gentleman, visits the
hotel each morning and administers pro
fessional aid to all who desire it. He Is /
a man who believes in wholesome, tenn /
perate living, gives more advice than
strong medicine, charges nothing for it,
and generally cures his patient. Upon
the premises in a eommodiOus workshop
is now being manufactured test apa-
ratus of the celebrated
CAYCE's SPRING POWER GAS,
under the personal supervision of that
distinguished inventor himself, Jno. NJ.
Cayce, Esq. The machine now being
erected is an improvement upon those
in use in Franklin, Nashville, New
York and elsewhere made by that gen.
tIeman, and was patented only the 18th
of May last. He designs lighting Hp
the whole premises with one ma
chine and make test to graduate the
power of his carbureters before putting
them upon the market. Mr.. Cayee is no
enthusiast, neither is he crazy, but on
the other hand, besides being extraordi-
narily intelligent upon all subjects, he
has developed knowledge and skill in
mechanics that places him in the van of
modern inventors, and even causes the
names of Morse, Fulton, Franklin, and
others of the great dead to tFemble lest
thei~ glory is eclipsed. We never before
understood, or investigated the merits of
Mr.. Cayce's inventions, but we are now
a thorough convert to his views, after
hearing a minute detail and analysis OF
their construction and operation. The
principle by which he utilities air for his
purposes has been conceived before but
never manipulated, but his combination
spring power is an invention of his own
great genius, and the two combined and
perfected constitute an invention that
will revolutioaize the world. His gas
light is absolutely almost as cheap as
daylight, especially if you make very
costly windows to your house. One gas
jet is equal to fifteen star candles and
will cost one-fourth as much as one,
burning the same length of time. A
carbureter will contain material TO fur
nish light for months, and all that Is
necessary to do is to wind the machine
up at night and light the jet, and you
have beautiful, soft, strong light. Mr..
Cayce expects to put up one of his ma
chimes in the CITIZEN building this fall,
when our people can witness its opera
tons and judge of its advantages
The crops in that portion of William
son county are very inferior, they hav-
ing suffered like ours for rain. The vi
cinity has been visited recently by show
ers, but most TOO late for the corn crop.
The people seem to be willing TO abide
the decision of the lock-bOx election
just over. 1t is the universal opinion,
however, that the system is very defect
i've, and ali are opposed TO anything else
but conventions in future The report