Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-21

Tennessee soldiers rode to King
Mountain, and the railroad people ar,
Incorporating with the Daughters o
the American Revolution to mark th
entire route followed by these sturd!
old frontiersmen. This route from
the Nollchucky gorge down to Rut''
erfordton, is practically the route o
the railroad.
AT the lower end of the gorge is 10
Gated the Unaka Springs hotel. Thi
is quite a famous watering place, tha
has long been patronized by the peo
pie of East Tennessee. The spring Il
lonly a hundred yards from the rail
road and flows a strong stream strong
ly impregnated with iron. On the way
out our party stopped at the sprint
only a few minutes; but on the way
back there was a stop of an hour anc
everybody got out and sampled the
water. They also purchased quanti
ties of postcards, showing the more
striking of the many remarkable fea
lures of the surrounding scenery, anc
posed for a group picture showing the
for background.
Native Joshes a Josher.
| The next stop before reaching John.
son City was at Erwin, a pretty little
court house town of about 1,2OO peo-
pie. We remained here for twenty
minutes replenishing the water sup
ply Of the Pullmans and to recharge
the gas reservoirs. There is nothing
Especially striking about Erwin except
that it boasts of the railroad shops
and the chief Of police pointed out and
explained to a little bunch of US no"
the boundary line between North Car
olina and Tennessee followed the tor
of Bald mountains, only a few miles
away and through which we had
come. And by the way quite laugh
able incident occurred here. About
half a dozen inquistive editors had
gotten around the chief of police and
| were pumping him for all the infor-
nation obtainable. He was man
who was not calculated to make very
striking impression at first sight; but
the quizzing process quickly develop
ed that he was anything but green
horn. Somehow he was led to explain
some scars on his neck and face with
| a story Of how some outlaws had
wounded him and killed his brother
| in-law. There was about the man
something that had inspired the edi-
| tors with respect. Presently a young
lawyer, who had been making lots OF
fun all day with keen and incisiVe
wit, came up and began guying the
policeman for the benefit of the 9TH
ers. His questions and remarks all
came from a straight, serious face, and
| it was his evident intention to make
fool of the mountaineer. The po-
liceman answered each serio-comic
jest as seriously as possible. The edl-
tors could not tell whether the fellow
had really sized up the situation or
not; but Editor Caldwell of the Ches-
ter Lantern, came to the policeman
defense with a remark like this:
Don't pay any attention to him; he's
one of these smart young lawyers who
are always trying to show how smart
they are. "Oh, l know their kind,
replied the policeman, II have not
only served as policeman; but also as
81, In
the retort with all the inference that
was suggested, was irresistible; and
the young lawyer was smart and gen
erous enough to acknowledge that the
apparently raw mountaineer mad
knocked him out. All had hearty
laugh over the situation. Later,
however, our young lawyer friend rep
resented to the proprietress Of noun
tain boarding house that he would
probably come up and spend few
weeks, and after he had mentioned
the fact that he had a house full of
Yankees wintering in his big hotel at
"Swansy," which Yankees would prob
ably be interested to spend the sum-
mer in the mountains, the good lacy
gave him to understand that it would
not cost him a cent to remain at her
place as long as he might find it pleas
ant. This time there was nobody to
expose the fake and the invitation
stands good.
The Arrival at johnson ;ity.