The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-15


 has provided music for the visitors
 Hanging to the wall is n peculiar box
 formation which gives out clear sound
 like bells when struck. The scale car
 be run by striking those of different
 sizes One of the guides played "The
 Bells of Shandon' and My Country
 'ris of Thee" by striking them with a
 candle
 | Bishops Gaze" is another point
 which Is lighted for visitors. One may
 look up distance of one hundred feet
 into the solid rock and see every e Tor of the rainbow. The guide who climbed
 up into this opening found shorter
 passage through rooms beyond. aui by clambering over rocks and crawling
 through holes shortened the distance
 materially. Few visitors cared 10 fol-
 low him, however.
 Fallen Flats" is the name given to a
 room Ave hundred feet under ground
 and ir the sixth tier of chambers from
 the toL. This room is two hundred feet
 long by eighty wide, and the ceiling is as smooth as that of an ordinary house. | When the'reporter for the Tribune vis- ited 1t the chief guide invited those in | the party to extinguish their candles | and then snuff them and to hide cigars. This was done and total darkness fol- | lowed. There was not a sound 10 freak the perfect stiffness. Five hundred feet below the entrance to tho cave and probably d thousand feet to the top of the hill overhead. and two miles of rar- row. winding passages between the vis- itor and freedom gave him an uncarny feeling. which was broken by member of the party starting to sing Down in a Gold Mine. Underneath the Ground"
 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union has a room dedicated to 1t In Wind Cave. There is a natural altar in one end of the room. on which is planted small silk flag with w. C. T. U. streamer. This room was dedica- ted by prayer to the uses of the union by Mrs. Kramer. president of the socie- ty in South Dakota. It always Is light ed for visitors. It is one of the prsttiest rooms in the series
 Climbing up narrow passageway from this room one finds small lake of pure water Just above it is the 'to- began slide" almost perpendi: liar, and wet and slippery from water which sweeps through from above and fur nishes the supply for the lake. At the top of the slide, almost hidden away, there is ribbon formation which has all the colors of the rainbow. These ribbons curve outward and look when lighted up like the window display of fashionable candy store.
 The Garden of Eden" is the crown ing glory of one route into the cave. It is the last place visited by those who prefer the shorter way into and out of the place. Nature has been Drodl.sal with this chamber, frescoing its walls and ceilings with strange and beauti- full formations. To appreciate its won- ders one must not only visit 1t, but he must spend hours in seeing it. Snow flakes examined under the microscope show that no two are exactly alike. So it is with the 'Garden of Eden" and its formations. They appear in all the va ried shapes of the snowflake, though they are there in enduring rock. In upon which to base conclusions as to when and how it was formed. There are crystallizations in pure white and popcorn snowfiakes which look as if they had just fallen on the brown stone. There are stalactites and sta lagmites which nearly touch, and there is quartz which glitters like polished di- amonds. Candles are lighted and placed about the chamber so as to show off to best advantage the chief treas ures which it contains, but every fcot of space, save for the floor alone, con- tains some new and beautiful thing to study and admire.
 The rooms and chambers mentioned are only those on short route which runs three miles into the earth. There is another and even more interesting route eight miles long. opening into larger rooms and more extended pas Sages.
 The Fair Grounds" is located tn the latter route. It has floor space mere than three acres in extent. It is shaped something like the Fisheries building ct the Worlds Fair, with a central room one thousand feet long and smaller room opening off at either end. The main room opens into 8 central dome one hundred feet high, which Is covered with white stucco work. There is blue grotto, which is covered completely with box work. The room is one hun dred and twenty by four hundred feet in size, and is of a peculiar bluish color which marks walls and ceiling.
 The Concert Chamber Is one Of the noted rooms of the cave. It is eighty feet square and has q perfectly sE1ooth floor Adjoining it is smaller room almost square, and with an opening as true as a door. This is 10 be put to a novel use soon. Chairs are % be placed in it, curtain put up over the opening to the adjoining chamber, and a local lodge of Masons will confer de- gree upon a member five hundred feet 
 The Tabernacle" is four hundred by eighty feet in size, with ceiling fifty feet high and every inch of floor space is covered by the boxwork formation. The "Pearly Gates" is the name sven to room on the longer route. Two huge pillars support a top p-piece and On either side there appears to be single gate, which, if turned, would close the opening. The gates, with the walls of the adjoining room, are novered with pearls as white as snow, and ranging in size from 8 pea to a marble. This is four and one-half miles from the en- trance.
 The work of exploration of the cave Is still in its infancy. The property un- der which the passages arg located :s held under squatters rights. and, until 1 the title is clear, the owners will not