New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-06-16
DOWN TURNER'S POINT.
By WINTHROP BURROUGHS.

BIZ WINTHROP BURROUGHS.
"H you will look out OF the window
on your right, when the train gets
through the cut, you will have a fine
view OF the Grand Chasm,' says the
polite conductor, lifting his gilt-lettered
cap.
THANK you very much" returns
the quiet little lady in dark blue, quick
~ raising her eyes from the pages of
her guide-book.
80, Aunt Tina," says shrlil, ex-
cited voice at her elbow, s'let US 60 out
on the platform, do! I'll be just as
careful and hold on to the brake as
Tight"
'.Don't think of such thing for a
moment" in quick, decided tones,
while her alert eyes are upon each
movement of the restless bit of hui
manity at her side.
She is quiet looking little lady no
longer.
The train is approaching Tallulah,
Tallulah the Terrible, Georgia S great
est and most famous wonder, and the
passengers are in fever ofimpatience
to catch the first glympse of the ire
mendous canyon along the dizzy edge
Of which the railroad makes it's way
None more SO than the wide-awake bit
of humanity referred to, who, boylike,
cannot understand why it is that his
twelve years Of life do not entitle him
to a greater show of privilege s-like
that-for instance, OF standing on the
platform as the other men are doing.
He thinks his Auntie unnecessarily
cautious and particular, yet he
doesn't get ugly about it at all. He
has never been very headstrong nor
a very disobedient boy, only a some
what willful one at times, with strange
ideas OF his own, the expression OF
which, after fashion peculiar to him.
self has gained for him among his
mates the title OF f:the queer fellow"
There is nothing in the bare sides of
the cut through which they are now
passing, nor in the monotonous
stretches OF the pine barrens left be-
hind to give even a hint of the grand
eur of the scene that now bursts upon
their vision.
Down through gorge /, 800 feet in
depth, and over 1000 feet in width at
it's narrowest point, dashes the Tai
lulah River, over ruggedly massed
boulders, in foamtossed cascades that
throw their spray in air nearly hun
dred feet.
On either side rise sheer walls of
solid granite, worn smooth as polished
silver in many places by the floods of
centuries, and like silver glittering in
the suns rays.
'That is Turner's Point" says the
conductor, pointing just to the right
OF them to a stupendous mass OF
rugged gran1ce shelves, soil covered in
! many places that jut off more promi-
nently than the Others into the dizzy
gorge. ''With but one exception"
continued the conductor, cit is the
highest point on the chasm, and is full
nine hundred feet above the bed otthe
river"
ga tremendous fall thatv' exclaims
a nervous little gentleman behind him,
provided any one wanted to try it. !"
"Shouldn't think they'd particular
ly want to try it," returns the con-
ductor dryly, :'yet some of them do"
"Good gracious!" cries the nervous
little gentleman again, ''you don't
mean to say that some one has fallen
down there?"
"Oh, no, not that; only that some
Of the more adventurous have tried to
climb down by means of the clumps
of stunted verdure you see."
"And did they succeed?"
"Only so far as a partial descent;
about one-third of the Way, I be-
lieve."
Arrived at Young's Hotel about the
first person whose acquaintance is
sought by our restless bit OF humani-
ty, otherwise, Aunt Tina's nephew,
Swain Connor, is Monk, the veteran
guide.
II say, Mr.. Monk" Swain breaks
forth Immediately that he has that
worthy securely penned in an out-of
the-way corner OF the varanda, 81
want you to take me down Turner's
Point"
s'Phew!" whistles Monk, thinking
this the queerest one he has ever had
to deal with yet. Then apparently
determining to treat it all as huge
joke
eyes. certainly, and isn't there
something else on the same order that
you would like, a pleasure ride for
instance, over the Hurricane2'
eyes, if you please"
ssBut, good gracious don't pleaseW
cries the excited little guide, losing
control of himself at once. stThe
thing either way is not to be thought
Of for moment unless you are ex-
tremely anxious to quit this world
for another"
"But the conductor said some OF
EN- went down Turner's Point"
"Some one or two foolhardy ones
have, to a certain distance, but they
were glad enough to get back, can
tell you. AS to going down that way
to the bottom Of the gorge-well, if
you are extremely anxious to get rid
Of yourself, the quickest way would be
to try the Hurricane"
"The very terror spot OF the whole
river" says Mr.. Monk the next morn
ing when exhibiting the awe-inspiring
spectacle, known as. Hurricane Falls,