Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-09
l RICHMOND TRANSFER SECTION

on the Norfolk and Western Railway
eighty miles east OF Cincinnati. O.. offer
all the comforts and pleasures OF
| k.a stern resorts at one fourth the cost.
Here the beauties OF nature. every
where present, give one the sense of
| sweet repose and rest. The appetite is
| Quickened. the brain is at rest and the
nights sleep is thorough one. free
! from racking dreams and Nightmares.
brought on by thoughts of the city and
It's cares. The hotels possess all the
convenienceS OF modern hotels: spacious
rooms full OF comfort and cheer De-
licious old shioned Southern cooking.
fresh vegetables direct from the garden
chickens and fresh eggs. the richest
milk and cream Here you may breathe
pure air and drink pure water. AmuSe-
ments are plentiful; dancing. tennis,
croQuet. cards. bowling, billiards, over
land hikes. fruit gatherings, nutting
parties. horseback rides and automo-
bile excursions. everything the heart
could wish for. amid the most enrap-
tured and beautiful surroundings. The
water Is one OF the best for rheuma-
tism. govt. lumbago and disorders OF
the kidneys and bladder. Comfortable
vehicles are provided over the new
smooth pike from Mineral Springs Sta
ton to the hotels.
Stribling Springs is an old and popu-
lar resort in the Shenandoah Valley
which is reached via the Norfolk and
Western Railway. through Elkton. and
the Chesapeake Western Railway to
Stokesville. Guests will be met at
Stokesville upon application 10 the
manager, Mount Scion Post Office Au-
gusta County.
THE WONDERS OF LURAi
RIVAL THE VENUSBERG
In Page County one OF the wonders
Of the world the Luray Caverns may
he seen. The stalactitic display eX-
cceds that of any other cavern known
No human tongue can properly convey
to the mind OF the reader their beauty
no pen can do them justice-no photo
graph or painting can give but faint
Idea OF these marvellous caverns
They were discovered in 1873 by An
drew J. Campbell. near the village OF
Luray, in valley about ten miles
wide. between the Blue Ridge and
Massanutton Mountain. Cave Hill, as
1t was called, is 900 feet above sea
level. In order to render these mar
Vicious caverns accessible to visitors,
cement walks have been laid through
them, stairways, bridges and ratings
have been erected and the entire sub
terranean palace is brilliantly illurni-
mated by arc and incandescent electric
lights
Only the very briefcst mention can
he made OF some Of the wonders Of
l.uray, which realize the tabled beauty
are yellow, brown and red, while tho
new ones are usually as white as snow,
though often pink, blue or amber col
ored. The forms they take arc marvel
ous. The Hollow Column is forty feet
high and thirty feet in diameter and
is pierced by n tubular passage from
top 10 bottom. The Leading Column.
nearly as large tits like the ca:nDanile
ut Pisa. The Empress Column is rose
| Colored and thirty-iive feet high The
/ Ia ri 80 =
! pillards, side by side. one twenty five
feet high and the other sixty feet high,
n mass or snowy alabaster. Several
| Of the stalactites in Clan Hill exceed
! MY feet in length In the canopy
| above the Imperial Spring il is csti-
| The Cascades" are wonderful forma
lions like foaming cataracts caught in
mdair and transformed into milk white
and amber ala haster Brands Cascade
is forty feet high and thirty feet wide
and Is waN-like white, each ripple and
| braided rill seeming to have been
| polished The swords Of the Titans are
monstrous blades, drawn down To an
extremely thin edge and filling the
caverns with tones like tollins hell.
when struck heavily By the hand
There are scarfs. and blankets and
Grape shawls and shapes and forms
innumerable.
The water in the Luray Caverns i:
extremely pure. The temperature i:
uniformly ffty-four degrees. The al,
is sweet and pure.
People of every race and from every
cline visit these marvellous caverns
and Of them truly II can be said: 9TH,
half has never been told"
Resides the Luray Caverns there are
the famous Cirottoes OF the Shenandoah
valley The entrance 10 the Grottoe.
is only ten minutes walk from IN.
Grottoes Station on the Shenandoah
Division of the Norfolk and Western
Railway. y visit 10 these exquisite
caverns is we'll worth while. 1t is
indeed, Impossible 10 describe them
embracing, s they do, stalactitic anG
stalaGmitic formations. veritablt
forest. and objects OF more than ordi.
nary interest. Electric lighted and very
dry at all seasons.