The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-07-29
DOWN TURNER'S POINT.

IF 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" returned
the quiet little lady in dark blue, quick
ly raising her eyes from the pages OF
oh, Aunt Tina" says a shrill, ex-
cited voice at her elbow, ''let me 60 out
on the platform, do! I'll be just as
careful and hold on to the brake just as
tightr'
Don't think of such a thing for
momentr in quick, decided tones,
while her alert eyes are upon each
movement Of the restless bit of humanity
at her side.
She is a quiet looking little lady no
longer.
The train is approaching Tallulah,
Tallulah the Terrible, GeOrgia's greatest
and most famous wonder, and the
passengers are in fever of impatience
to catch the first glimpse of the tremen-
dous canon along the dizzy edges of
which the railroad makes its way. No
more so than the wide-awake bit of
humanity referred to, who, boylike, cam
not IL: derstand why it is that his twelve
years of life do not entitle him TO a
greater show of privilege-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 very dis
obedient boy, only a somewhat willful
one at times, with strange ideas of his
own, the expression of which, after q
fashion peculiar to himself, has gained
for him among his mates the title Of
''the queer little fellow
There is nothing in the bare side of
the cut through which they are now
passing, nor in the monotonous stretches
of pine barrens left behind, to give even
a hint of the grandeur of the scene that
now bursts upon their vision.
Down through a gorge 1.300 feet in
depth, and over one thousand feet in
width at it's narrowest point, dashes the
Tallulah river, over ruggedly massed
powders, in foam-tOssed cascades that
throw their spray ia 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 sun 5 rays.
That is Turner's Point" says the
conductor, pointing just to the right OF
them to a stupendous mass of rugged
granite shelves, soil covered in many
places that jut out more prominently
than the others into the dizzy gorge.
with but one exception" continues
the conductor, 'it is the highest point
Of the chasm, and is full 900 feet above
the bed of the river"
"A tremendous fall thatr' exclaimed
a nervous little gentleman behind him,
provided any one wanted to try it.
shouldn't think they'd particularly
| want to try it, returns the conductor
| dryly; yet some of them dc"
''Good gracious!' cried the nervous
| little gentleman again; you don't
mean to say that some one has fallen
| down tnere?"
"Oh, no, not that; only that some OF
| the more adventurous have tried tc
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, l believe. )
Arrived at Young's Hotel about the
! first person whose acquaintance i;
sought by our restless bit of humanity
otherwise Aunt Tina's nephew, Swain
| = Il,
Il say, Mr.. Monk" Swain breaks
forth Immediately that he has tha
worthy securely penned in an out O.
the way corner of the veranda, g
want you to take me down Turner
! Point"
''Pshaw," whistled Monk, thinking
this the gueerest one he has had to dea
with yet. Then apparently determining
to treat it all as huge joke:
Yes, certainly; and isn't there some
thing else on the same order that yol
would hke-a pleasure ride, for in
stance, over the Hurricane?'
Yes, if you please"
But, good gracious! Idon't pleased
cries the eXcitable little guide, losing
control of himself at once. The thing
either way is not to be thought OF for
moment, unless you are extremely anX
ious to quit this world for another
But the conductor said some of 'en
went down Turner's Point"
''Some one or two foolhardy one:
have, to certain distance, but the,
were glad enough to get back, | tel
you. As to going down that way to tn
bottom of the gorge-wen. if you ar
extremely anxious 20 get rid of yourself
the quickest way would be to try tn
| Hurricane.
The very terror spot of the Who'll
RIVER" says Mr.. Monk the next morn
ing, when exhibiting the awe-inspirin,
spectacle, known as the Hurrican
Falls, to Aunt Tina and her attendant
Swain.
They have been afraid to leave tn
. hotel at first because of the threatening
appearance of the sky, but as Aun
Tina's time is limited she has finall
decided to venture. After that luc
seems to favor her, for, with the excep
ton of few drops while at the Indian
Arrow Rapids, there has been no furthe
l fall of rain.
'Oh, what a beautiful little rainbow,
cries Swain, as from the rock on whic
they are now standing he catches SIGH
: of the exquisite arch, whose prismati
: hues sparkle brilliantly between hir
and the dashing foam of the cascade.
e Yes, but yonder is a much NOR
, beautiful one" says MIR. Monk, pointin