The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1912-09-07
BEAUTIFUL ROAM
MOUNTAIN, Tenn.
Prof. T. L. Trawick Writes
To The Echo About One
of Natures Paradises,
ROAM MOUNTAIN
HISTORICAL SPOT.
Although the Locality Beg
gars Description Here is
a Gem for Scrapbook.

a Gem for Scrapbook.
Roam Mountain, Tenn, Sept. 3, 1912
This range of mountains-the divid-
ing line between North Carolina and
Tennessee-takes its name from an cpl
sode in the life of Daniel Boone, the
first white man to cross their bold sum-
mits. He made the attempt through
one of the steepest gaps on horseback,
but disabled his steed, whom, in pity,
he left behind to Craze on the rich grass
the broad plateau furnished, and to die,
as he thought, but, on his homeward
journey, three years later, he found her
hale and hearty, and so he called the
mount the Roam Mare Mountain.
On the summit Of this mountain, gill
feet high, Daniel Boone is said to have
paused, looking to the west, and to have
fingered. One of his companions asked
him why he tarried. He said, 81 am
listening to the happy footballs of the
teeming millions of contented people,
who, anon, will inhabit the yet untrod-
den wastes that lie far beyond me to
the west."
On the summit of the highest one OF
these peaks, General Wilder, a quarter
of century ago, built pantheon of a
hotel, containing, it is said, 365 rooms
For over decade this was the most
fashionable summer resort in this coun-
try and yearly numbered among it'
thousands of guests men of national re-
nown, as Gov. Francis T. Mich oils
Chief Justice White, Judge Stanle!
Matthews, George Vanderbilt, Judg'
Whipple, Asa Grey, the botanist, Judg
Lurton, BENZ. F. Butler, Baron Loudon
A. P. Nicholson. of Kew Gardens
Prof. Lockhart, of Edinburg; AM
many more equally noted. The hotel
the highest habitation east of til
Rockies, still stands disused now, sine
the opening of the North Carolina re
sorts, which, though more greatly ad
yertised and exploited, lack, in m,
Judgment, many of the attractive fea
lures of this side of the mountain.
| The village of Roam Mountain, just
miles to the east of the summit of clou
land, rejoices in census of 400 people
The elevation of the station is nearl
5000 feet, an ideal relief in itself, an
is happy in the fact that it lies just q
the conveyance of many streams
boldly dashing and glinting frol
archaic rock in cataracts and brid;
, wells, to form the Doe river, which emp
ties its waters into the Wautauga.
These limpid streams - the Heator
the Schell, the Hampton-and many ao
juncts and affluents converging. arise c
the SUBMITS of as many mountain
, where the temperature, few feet bs
, low the surface. is near zero, and, fal
ing into this most contented mountai
valley, singing of happiness and cor
tentment, have, with the frownine
| browed mountains around, made this
/ most beautiful microcosm In itsel
where everybody is happy and col
tented. The very inaccessibility of Il
place to automobile, or stage, or 9th
: vehicle, is preserving many natur
: features and keeping the people near
) nature and more guileless and less fasl
ionable than some of the less desirab
, resorts beyond the mountain. He
} you meet people just as they are: trutl
full, honest, obliging, neighboriy, d
void absolutely of any social conve
tionalities or tergiversations, al
though few, if any, of the tillers OF t
I !, soil have any bank account of mu
: value, still you can see that they a
I contented and carefree and happy. I
q nervous twitch of forehead; no par
lytic strokes; no gaunt figures;
withered hands; no locomotor-a -ataxi
no glaring eyeballs resulting from ne
vous overstrain-here. have Sc
: many women here seventy years &
without gray hair in their heads.
8 walked recently two miles up a neig
boring road with nonogenarian, W
was over ninety -four years old, who
J, hearing was just as acute, whose visi
: was as clear, and whose step was
> elastic as Toms, who accompanied I
+ The story goes that traveller W
Is passing here some years ago and fou
child ninety years old crying. T
!. ninety year old child, between his sol
r said: 81 am crying because "da'
whipped me for insulting my gres
II grandfather"
>, One observer has recently said to I
!. that he believed that when the gre
crowded metropolises, with their ueei
). ing myriads of neurotic denizens, shi
have become effete, anaemic and sh;
= have perisned through their nerve-rac
i, inr methods Of competition and lack
,f daisical life, we will have to come ba
!, To the SUBMITS of these mountains
restock The world.
= This particular locality, apart frf
= Daniel Boone, mentioned before, b