The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1895-03-29
A SOUTHERN WONDER-SPOT
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN COMMANDS
a VIEW OF SEVEN STATES

+ NE of the most remarkable
| curios in Uncle Sam ) cabinet,
| writes Julian Ralph IN Har-
! perS Magazine, is Lookout
! Mountain, at Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The traveller expects such occasional
combinations Of mountain and plain
on the edges Of the Rockies. the Sell
kinks, and other great mountain
chains, and yet is doubtful whether
any other ~ beautiful is to be found.
For 1T has seldom happened that a tall
mountain rises abruptly to interrupt
and dominate n view so majestic and
of such varied features. Glistening
water, smiling farm land, forest, CITY,
hill and island, all lie upon the gor-
geous and gigantic canvas Of the Mas
ter Painter, who there invites man
kind to His studio to enjoy such views
as we had fancied only the stupid dem
liens of the air are privileged to DULY
scan.
To surfeit ones self with the won
drous changing, widening beauty OF
that splendid scene one does not have
to consider the martial records that
brave men wrote with their blood all
over the foreground of the prospect
But when it happens that the specta-
tor Is an American whose soul has
been stirred by the poor printed an.
nails of Chickamauga and Mission
Ridge, the feast spread before Look.
out Mountain ministers to the un.
dcrstandlng the while it ravishes the
eye.
In nothing is this wonder .snnt more
wonderful than i'll it's accessibility. 1t
is even more convenient to the tourist
than Niagara Falls-almost the soli
tary great natural curiosity in our
country for which one does not have
to travel far and labor hard In this
case the grand view is one of the
sights of Chattanooga, 1.-The Little
PlttsburS of the South. The city
enjoys it rs householder does his
garden, by merely travelling to back
window. rs it were, for the historic
mountain Is at the end Of five.cent
trolley line. During half the year
the tourist is even better served, for
the railroads haul the "s.eepers" ND
tho mountain siie in summer, and
discharge the passengers on the very
edge that divides terra frma and
eagles vision. Guided by Mr.. Mil
ton d. Ochs, of the Chattanooga
Times, who could have offered a very
WONDERFUL view OF ais own from the
towering pile in which that PAPER
is housed. | took the trolley line dur
ing what TIE Southern folk are pleased
to call winter time. The way led to
Just such looking railway as one
finds at Niagara Falls going down to
81 ~ = Ia. a -
up the thousand foot-high noun.
tainsde, and is famed among profess
sional engineers N remarkable crea.
ton. It was planned and built by
Co.onc! w. r. King, L. 5. A. 1t is
1900 feet in length, with au elevation
Of 100 feet. and grade Of nearly
one foot IN three at the steepest place.
The terminus is the Lookout Point
Hotel, which appears to stand upon
bowlder suspended over the remainder
Of creation, rs II mountain rising
out Of n plain had thrust out a finger
and men had put up IL building on the
hnger-uall The biblical word pic
ture which tells of our Saviour being
taken mp on high mountain and
shown the kingdoms of the earth con
veys the idea that the view from this
point suggests. One can but have an
idea Of it, aud it can only be expressed
or described with figure of speech
To be told that it commands 800 miles
of the carth's surface. and that the
most distant objects are parts Of
seven different States, ls too much for
the mind to master. What the eye
takes in is n checker board made mp OF
farms, roads, villages. woods, ridges
and mountain ranges. all in min.
inture. The Tennessee River glad
dons the scene. Though it is 400
feet wide, it looks like ribbon, and.
like ribbon thrown carelessly from
shC mountain top, 1t lies in many
curves Had convolutions, n dull green
band everywhere frlnged with thin
line of trees that wall III the farmers
fields. You may count ten Of its
curves, and three of them, lmmedi.
atelv below the mountain, form the
exact shape of an indian moccnsin,
! around the toe of which toy freight
| train crawls la2Ily with mu;,led gasp.
| ing ont Of all proportion to It's size.
! 4 brown and white mound Of smoke
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