The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-04

There is no more picturesque portion hsSamf hoosoat an Monntan sas s9SR WHICH towers Gadsden. len esesinsif X bustle Of activity is down in the valley, but up in the mountains ] n, too inaccessibIe for the ruthless hand Of industry and natures handwork Is un-
 The cliffs and boulders. the mountain brooks and the verdure of the oaks are left just as nature made them. save the building of winding roads up. and | tion of a fine hotel in the most beauti- ful spot, the artificality of man has not marred the beauties that God gave. ! extreme southern range, one may como and revel in rest and quiet. Here in this place. favosed by nature. the thir- ty-nfth annual meeting of the Alabama Press Association was. held, Here the newspaper men of the State passed two days of perfect pleasure last week. If those of the editors who went on the outing to Atlantic Beach had more solid comfort or more rest and enter tainment combined than they found at
 they must save dabbied fef in ihe storiea fountains of Florida which brought so much joy to the Spanish dons few centuries before our time.
 Selection of Bellevue.
 t was an accident, for which the edi- tors may thank the gods. that the an
 
 held at Bellevue, on the mountain. AL though. the Bellevue Hotel is in easy view of Gadsden and one may throw a pebble from the wide piazzas of the hotel almost inside the c1ty's walls. the circuitous road up the mountain makes the place good three miles away from the railway stations of Gadsden. So the committee of Gadsden men, which had set out to entertain the newspaper visitors. regarded Bellevue as an fm- possible place to take the editors until 1t was found that accommodations for such large party were notfto be had down town. This was two days before the meeting was scheduled to begin. There was ample accommodation at the Bellevue Hotel, but the Bellevue was inaccessibie and 1t was DO small un- to prepare in two days for 200 persons additional to its regular patrons Would hfoul Hart do It? This was the dues- its diiema. m put Ie to itseif. 'i Ioui Hart is is the proprietor of the Bellevue Hotel. He set the doubt of the committee at
 If youii hire ali of the vehicles fin Gadsden and give them to me for two days, I'll do the rest said Loui Hart
 The committeeman knew Loui Hari and they knew that with his sympa- shies enlisted, the entertainment of the editors could not be a failure. They knew too, that Loui Hart had ac- eepted a stupendous task. With his hotel isolated from the markets on the top of a mountain. 1t was neces- ssry for him to act quickly and to plan details hurriedly. But he did 1t end every newspaper man who left the Bellevue Hotel meant just what he said when he took the hand of Pro- prietor Hart and thanked him cordially for the courtesies shown the party.
 It was a novelty. this meeting of a large body of men and women so far away from the hum of business life. Every member of the Association was met at the Gadsden railway station by vehicles, and. accompanied by Gads- den committeeman. the visitors rode up the mountain to the Bellevue. At the hotel. carriages and buggies were kept in waiting night and day to take the newspaper men and women, without charge. down to Gadsden.
 Loui Hart. who is. a popular travel ling salesman in the winter and a more popular hotel man in the sum- mer, took personal charge of the party and its every want was supplied. So assiduous was he In his attentions to the newspaper men. that before their tions declaging that the temper Of MT Hart had not been ruffied during their stay at his hotel.
 The Mountain Scenery.
 There are inviting walks and drive ways about Bellevue, which Is a hand. some three story structure built oi grey stone and shingles. with wide piazzas and large comfortable rooms One-haH mile rom the notel dTe tue famous Noccalula Falls of Black Creek The fall of the water is about 100 ,,!,ss fes' ly picturesque. Alabamians must not go into rhaposdies about Yellowstone Park, the falls of Montmorency, and other places far from home. until they have stood on the precipice overlook. ing Noccalula and have watched the waters of Black Creek rushing through a gorge, filled or either side with green vines and brambles growing apparent ly out of the black rocks.
 Below these falls of Noccaluia and in a country where one would think a moccasln might lose his course. Emma Sansom showed the way" tto Nathan Bedford Forrest. that Wizard of the Southern Cavalry. on a stormy night when human lives, and a cause Tar greater than human lives, were, hang ing in the balance.
 It Is a credit to Alabama womanhood that the deed of this Alabama girl. used to the hills and used to their hard hard ways, is not forgotten in history or in song Even now the women ol Gadsden are about to raise a marble shaft to perpetuate the name and fame