The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-11-04

- ~ ereviee with strange, wondrous light n reve' 'raeers' Of
"e eN' .ntor curtains and beautiful a a dream cit
~ htsnered a 10 yearold girl to me A faring
"a or snirts revive. Everybody draws heavily on his
susv.s The Mammoth cave is n o fake. Nobody who yer
asannontea. nc natter how bass lis temperament Or curded his
heart. uu, au
If nothing more than this rotanda were shown +" ""' '' ;" one "
4o woodsr Of creation. But beyond the rotunda yu rnow me afr
49,. nouore ending night. seven miles are waiked-we had
thne hours Not nee did I hear any me speak OF being tired
r,ne .e longer routes, and many of then. Stay a week 4 hire a
/. vo are . descendant of the caye men. One mn met
,uuno+h wave botl had been there two weeks, had hired two
- tho dv and traversed $50 miles Of tptn"us passages. In
Ecvnt in the presence Of the pyramids Napoleon began maj famous
speech by saying: "sddiers twenty centuries look dow" P" YOU p'
in the Mammoth a one can say that N hun""u CENTURIES 'A "o"n
unon vou. The cave is there, but to mankind at large 1t IS n longer me
Of the wonders of the world. This is because the advertising man is lead
80 matter 10 good a thing s-how great, how excellent, how magniH-
cent nus be advertised. Humanity 50 far as mentality and spiritual
tv &c. still fingers in the age OF the "a la M swims x eyeiesS fish
in the dark waters of Echo river.
To reach the Mammoth cay you take the Louisville & Nashville rail
road, an institution that has N equipment o. ne passenger coach n a
dummy engine. This railroad belongs to the Mammoth "a estate n
the estate is so land poor and the heirs 50 greedy that the engineer told
re he had hard work to get grease for his cylinder.
1t takes us just me hour to make the nine miles 'You notice" said
the conductor "that We have u coweateher N the rear end 50 as to keep
the tows ot of the ladies' COACH He then explained: "why, a bull got
1uef US last ""h "' "
down grade"
Reaching Mammoth cave m is let down near the hotel, which, with
its barns and rambling Oubundings, is all there is of the terminus.
This great, wide stretching hotel with its 600 feet of piazza is worth tho
trp alone. 1t tells of stage coach times and days when slaves were
sold at auction from its broad piazzas, and 200 horses were in the stables
1t is southern luxury in ruins. There is the ancient bar, so feet long,
where the thirsty colonies befo' de wah named their pizen, and argued
politics in diferential phrase.
The doors of the hotel look lkethe gentle pillows of a summe sea.
The driveways are overgrown with grass, and there are three eolOred per
sons to wait on every guest.
Back of the hotel is a picketed garden that supplies the hotel tables
and a charming garden it is, with it's semi tropieal wealth of vans, butter
beans, melons, squash, potatoes, eabbages and climbing gcurds. Down
on the fiat we SAL a herd of mlch cows and the old spring house, with its
crooks of cream half submerged in the running water, reminded me of boy
hood days when churning was paid for N promises of penhs and eireuses
to come. The landlord of the Mammoth Cave hotel is a gentleman of the
old school a nd n pains are spared to put the guest at his ease The prize
es are very reasonable, and there is fried chicken morning, noon and
night; and if you wish you can go out into the garden and get the veg
etabes you like best, and a good old nanny will cook them a your
mother used to do. The marvel is that such a retired, rstful hosteny is
not full of bOarders the year round. But the estate is in chaneery, and the
case of Jandice VS. Jamdice saps the landlords aspiration and keeps am
bnion at low ebb.
The heirs grabbing at everything get handouts f empty air-just what
they deserve.
But death is the great benefaetor, and time, the adjuster, regulates all
things
The Mammoth " will soon go under the auctioneer's hammer, and /
prophesy that the Louisville & Nash Vile will buy it in and put the Nam
moth ave engine and passenger coa h in a museum Proper railway
facilities will be provided, the hotel will be rciuvenned and c. s. Stone,
GP. A, will name al advertising man, and the bats of the cav win
wing their way in panic and wmr in wild alarm to the cyeles fish the
news, echoed by the American Indians when they say the ships of coum.
bus" Alas, W e are discovered"