Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-04-27

| very comfortable and cozy. as experi.
enced military people so well know
how to do.
me Seventh cavalry maintains its
reputation 1t has always been one
OF the crack regiments of the army
ana has seen more hard service than
any other, Not one officer or man
now connected with the regiment.
however. dates back to Clusters time.
The senior captain joined in 1873 and
the Oldest enlisted man came into the
| regiment in 1879, while the Custer
massacre occurred in 1876. All the
survivors of tnat terrible catastrophe
| have either been promoted and trans.
| ferred to other regiments or placed on
the retired list, or have Joined the
| great Host OF the Hereafter. Memo
| ries of the achievements of the regi-
| ment. however are as keenly alive as
ever, and its traditions have been
passed down from company to com
pany and continue to be regarded with
great reverence. Lieutenant J. C.
hhea is preparing regimental his
| tory OF the Seventh cavalry, and would
lie glad to receive contributions from
those who have been associated with
IL in the string of events in which 1t
has been engaged.
Camp life even in these piping days
OF peace is very active. There are
schools of instruction here which re-
celye great deal OF attention and re-
quire great deal of study and labor.
and when the officers and men are not
engaged in drills and other military
duties they are attending school and
learning the art of war
The view from the summit of Look
out Mountain is one of the grandest
in the world. | do not know of any
other that compares with II, although
We have not been able to confirm the
interesting information we find in the
guide book that seven different states
are visible to the naked eye We can
see Tennessee, of course. which is one. |
and Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, |
which is four. The man who wrote
the guide book was able to identity
three more states, but he does not
name them. 1t is possible, however, |
that his vision was so superior to that |
OF ordinary men that it could take in |
New Jersey. North Carolina and Texas |
in its comprehensive sweep. Howey- |
er, 1t is true, as the guide book says. |
that the view from its lofty summit is |
one of emotional grandeur and extent" |
and mo effort of the Imagination can |
picture the magniticence of the grand |
panorama outspread before one at this |
elevation"
The summit of Lookout Mountain is |
800 feet above the level of the sea. |
and the hotel is LOO feet above the |
City of Chattanooga. The situation is |
similar to that of the famous Sparrow |
Hills. overlooking Moscow, which ex- |
perienced travellers declare commands |
the grandest spectacle in all the world |
but the altitude of the Sparrow Hills |
is only about 700 feet above the city |
while that of Lookout Mountain is |
three times as great. The Volga river
winds around the City of Moscow very |
much as the Tennessee embraces
Chattanooga, but in the former case |
the habitations OF 1,0O0,00O people |
built of picturesque oriental archltec-
ture and adorned with dazzling colors
from the center of the panorama, and |
If one has the patience he can count
$50 gilded domes. The fortresses, the |
palaces and the cathedrals of Mos
COW are lacking here, but instead we
have groups of gloomy-looking factor
les, from which tall clouds of smoke |
arise; bright strips of steel, crossing
each other at sharp angles, show
where the railways run; groups of
homelike cottages surrounded by gar
dens and shaded lawns light up the
landscape, and beyond and surround
ing them on the north are the blue !
outlines of the Cumberland mountains, |
to the east the historic scenes of Mis- |
sionary Ridge. with the Great Smokes |
in the background, and on the western
side, the lower peaks of the Raccoon
Mountains, where twilight a.ways |
seems to dwell.
There is a hotel on the top of Look |
out Mountain, which is reached by |
trolley and cable arrangement that |
hoists car up an almost perpendicu- |
lar incline. There is also a trolley |
road around the summit of the mount |
ain for the accommodation of tourists |
but the cars look quite dilapidated and |
the rails are very rusty. Here the |
Chattanooga people come in the sum
mer and find grateful relief from the |
heated city. The mean temperature at F!
the summit of Lookout Mountain is |
said to be twelve degrees lower than |
at its base.
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