The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1891-09-25

10 the ceiling and not 10 the sides
o! :he room. These boxes ara Of
5fown.sh calcareons Substance,
and of various sizes and depths
from one or two inches to FIVE OF
six. This room is about sixty-hve
feet long by thirty wide. We push
on, and soon come to Roes Misery.
Formerly this was a low narrow
passage through which the ven
turesome sight-seer must wiggle
his way, in a PROSTATE position, as
best he could. 1t was about thirty
feet in length. 1t was named from
the fact that c. +. Roe, the man
who as guide first attempted to
pilot a party through, when we'll
into the passage became fast and
unable to get either way. One of
the party that he was plotting
through, returned to the entrance
and secured a rope which was
hitched to Roe's feet and by aid of
which with lusty hands at the other
end he was extricated, not however
until the most of his clothing had
been left on the projecting rocks
on the sides of the cavern
This passage has been en-
larged so that now it can be ira
versed with reasonable ease. After
passing Roe's Misery we came to
"Red Hall" so named because the
walls of this room are of red min
eral paint. Leaving Red Hall we
reach and scrabble up and over
Hard Scrabble which is what its
nameindicates we come to Partition
a thin partition rock about twelve
or fourteen feet high and thirty
long, which separate the passage
way. We can take either way
we chose, but our guide takes the
one to the left and we follow him.
Along the side of this partition we
squeeze with our faces close to and
facing the wall, for the passage is
not wide enough to admit of our
walking with our faces "in front OF
u.s."
We soon reach the"Devil's Look
OUT, a chamber one hundred and
seventy-five feet in height into the
uppermost recesses of which our
candles will scarcely send even a
ray of light.
"Milton's Study" is the next
room reached. This is a large room
decorated with boxwork formation
of larger pattern than that pre-
viously een and of a blueish color.
The edges Of the boxes are trim
med with a creamy colored lime
formation. Taken together it is
a beautiful room. Our guide sug-
gested that it was here that Milton
wrote Paradise Lost; one of our
party secuted the idea and con-
tended that in so beautiful place he
must have been inspired to write
Paradise Regained. From here
we have a hard downward climb
for some distance, and the next
large chamber we find is SIMPSONS
Palace. Here the water has trickled
down the sides of the room for ages
leaving its lime deposits until now
the walls glinting and glistening in
the light from our candles resem-
bic ice.
From Samsons Palace we turn
to the right and soon reach a large
room with high ragged walls, the
rocks tumbled against and over
each other, which presents the APP
pearance of some ragged mountain
side, the full impression we get as
we hold our candles high over our
heads. This is called "Swiss
Scenery" The "Drawing Room"
is next reached, so.called for the
elegance Of its furnishings. From
the Drawing Room we reach the
"Methodist Church" This room
was so named at the special re-
quest of a party of Methodist
preachers that visited the cave; a
high rock at one end might be
taken for the pulpit and numerous
rocks conveniently near would fur
nish seats for a large congregation.
This party sang some songs and
the echo and re-echo of the music
as it filled the large cavern was very
pleasant to the ear.
The next chamber entered is the
Dining Room, "a room ten feet high
and fifty feet long with a long fiat
rock raised up in the centre like a
dining table. This room is gor.
goeusly decorated. Its floor is
level, its sides even and regular
and the ceiling though low is o.
solid smooth rock. From here we
have to climb up almost precipit-
ouslv into the "Giants Causeway,'
a room about five hundred feet
long and high. Here immense
rocks are piled Unfortunately in
the bottom, and while we have
plenty of room at the top and sides
it is with difficulty that we clam
Der over the immense piles of
stone. Perhaps the giants with
great strides, could span the dis
lance from rock top to rock top,
but we could not.
a large room, the largest in fact
being seven hundred or eight hun
dred feet long by forty high and
fifty wide. is the one we next enter.